Netherblight Ritual

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The Effect of this Casting comes in the form of a Preternatural blight and disease which decimates all livestock, crops, and vegetation within the Ritual's area of effect There are three stages to this Ritual:

First, in 1D3 hours after completion of the Casting, a dark low-lying fag begins to form at the center of the Area of Casting Effect. After about an hour in which it thickens and blackens, this cloud oozes outward at a rate of about 100 yards per hour. Within the unnatural, fuliginous fog, sunlight is dimmed to a paleness barely visible, and all vegetation hangs limp. Animals are listless. Sound is muted and discordant. All colors appear in sickly shades of their normal hue.

Second, within I D6 days, all fruit and flowers on the vegetation wither and die, and the leaves of plants and trees begin to tum brown at the edges and drop off. Animals weaken and sicken due to lack of food. for they will not eat.

Finally, after 13 days Time, the full Effect of the Ritual is complete. All flora and fauna in the region, even humans who stayed within the suffocating fog, are dead. Then the fog dissipates. but the land is stark and ashen in color.

Of course, the Casting can be stopped at anytime by its caster. Usually, for a sufficient sum, this will occur prior to the completion of Ritual Effect. Naturally, this Casting can be negated through countering heka, but a Dis-junction, for example, mu.. cast upon the exact center of the Netherblight to effectively stop it. This feat is "Very Difficult," so the extortion is frequently paid.