Rotwood Cantrip

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This Canitrip's Effect is to cause wood to decay rapidly and crumble into dry bits. Where flat and relatively thin surfaces are concerned, the Effect Area is easily measured by square feet. Smaller subjects will be turned Into heaps of powdery stuff thus, while larger ones will possibly retain their form and seeming soundness while being rotten and weak, ready to collapse at the pressure of use. (Careful visual examination will reveal a certain dry roughness and graying, but there is little else to discover the Rotwood's dweomer in these cases.) Weapon hafts and shafts are destroyed by such touch, ruining the subject. Such structures as stairs. ladders, bridge planking, floors, and the like can be particularly dangerous if a witchcræfter has subjected such to such wicked ministrations as a trap for the unwary.