https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Hungry_Grasp_of_Despair 2026-05-15T11:30:11Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.39.6 https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/index.php?title=Hungry_Grasp_of_Despair&diff=124367&oldid=prev 2025-07-15T13:44:12Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:44, 15 July 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l20">Line 20:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 20:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Ritual Substitution|beggar&#039;s lye|measures}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Ritual Substitution|beggar&#039;s lye|measures}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Description==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Description==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the power of this [[enchantment]], a magician can curse, demoralize, and disempower an elite band of foes or an enemy coven. It is at its most useful when the ritualists are supported by (or are themselves) battlemages and warriors who can take advantage of the confusion that comes from being denied the use of potent techniques. It is also useful for disrupting magical workings - weakened magicians are unable to contribute to rituals for example swiftly ensuring that an enemy working will fail quickly and efficiently.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the power of this [[enchantment]], a magician can curse, demoralize, and disempower an elite band of foes or an enemy coven. It is at its most useful when the ritualists are supported by (or are themselves) battlemages and warriors who can take advantage of the confusion that comes from being denied the use of potent techniques. It is also useful for disrupting magical workings - weakened magicians are unable to contribute to rituals for example<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>swiftly ensuring that an enemy working will fail quickly and efficiently.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ritual is also surprisingly effective when dealing with husks - dead bodies possessed and animated by spirits of the realms or by angry ghosts. These malignant creatures tend to possess supernatural vitality, and can prove particularly resistant to being destroyed. Sapping their strength removes their ability to rise again, and has the added advantage that it will prevent them from using any supernatural attacks they may possess.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ritual is also surprisingly effective when dealing with husks - dead bodies possessed and animated by spirits of the realms or by angry ghosts. These malignant creatures tend to possess supernatural vitality, and can prove particularly resistant to being destroyed. Sapping their strength removes their ability to rise again, and has the added advantage that it will prevent them from using any supernatural attacks they may possess.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Several [[eternal|eternals]] of the Winter realm are known to offer boons related to this ritual, and to the weakness curse as a whole. [[Kaela]] in particular may offer a boon that makes this enchantment easier to cast, or allows the power to be drawn on more <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">possible</del>. The lesson this ritual teaches - that strength is transitory and that it will eventually fade - appeals particularly to her grim sensibilities. [[The_Thrice-cursed_Court#Tharim|Tharim]] of [[the Thrice-cursed Court]] by contrast appreciates the way that magicians who master this ritual can punish their subordinates <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at </del>a whim, removing the power of their thralls as they wish. He is said to have provided magical [[:Category:Foci|foci]] to make it easier to perform the ritual, which also allow even more weakness to be bestowed by those under its effects.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Several [[eternal|eternals]] of the Winter realm are known to offer boons related to this ritual, and to the weakness curse as a whole. [[Kaela]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>in particular<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>may offer a boon that makes this enchantment easier to cast, or allows the power to be drawn on more <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">readily</ins>. The lesson this ritual teaches - that strength is transitory and that it will eventually fade - appeals particularly to her grim sensibilities. [[The_Thrice-cursed_Court#Tharim|Tharim]] of [[the Thrice-cursed Court]] by contrast appreciates the way that magicians who master this ritual can punish their subordinates <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on </ins>a whim, removing the power of their thralls as they wish. He is said to have provided magical [[:Category:Foci|foci]] to make it easier to perform the ritual, which also allow even more weakness to be bestowed by those under its effects.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Similar to [[Unending Cascade of Blood&#039;s Fire]], the Hungry Grasp of Despair creates an enduring curse on those subjected to its power - one that it is not necessarily within the power of the magician to remove. Magical weakness does not fade over time, and those brought low by this magic usually require treatment by a [[Surgical_skills#Physick|physick]], the aid of a magician versed in [[purify|more wholesome lore]], or an [[Surgical_skills#Apothecary|apothecary]]-brewed [[potion]] before they can restore their strength. This treatment can often prove tricky to find on a battlefield, of course.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Similar to [[Unending Cascade of Blood&#039;s Fire]], the Hungry Grasp of Despair creates an enduring curse on those subjected to its power - one that it is not necessarily within the power of the magician to remove. Magical weakness does not fade over time, and those brought low by this magic usually require treatment by a [[Surgical_skills#Physick|physick]], the aid of a magician versed in [[purify|more wholesome lore]], or an [[Surgical_skills#Apothecary|apothecary]]-brewed [[potion]] before they can restore their strength. This treatment can often prove tricky to find on a battlefield, of course.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l33">Line 33:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 33:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When performing this ritual, the coven often invokes forces of despair, fear and hunger. Oppressive music or thundering rhythms that begin fast and become slower and slower, symbolic of the way power ebbs from those affected by this curse, are common; so are frenzied dances that reach a climax with the performers collapsing as if from exhaustion.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When performing this ritual, the coven often invokes forces of despair, fear and hunger. Oppressive music or thundering rhythms that begin fast and become slower and slower, symbolic of the way power ebbs from those affected by this curse, are common; so are frenzied dances that reach a climax with the performers collapsing as if from exhaustion.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Other elements might include the runes [[Kyrop]] or [[Naeve]], or a [[dramaturgy|dramaturgical]] scene in which [[the Bishop]] slowly succumbs to weakness and frailty (often in [[the Tomb]]. An [[astronomancy|astronomancer]] might invoke the power of [[the Drowned Man]] constellation, while a practitioner of [[aspect_magic#Heraldic_Magic|heraldic magic]] might call on the spirit of the insidious [[Legendary beasts#Sphinxes and Manticores|manticore]] or the echoing roar of the terrible [[Legendary beasts#Chimera|chimera]]. A [[aspect_magic#Goetia|goeticist]] will find the names of [[Sorin]] and especially [[Kaela]] resonate well with this ritual, although in Varushka [[Wise Rangara]] is also popular especially when the ritual focuses around the need for the wise to control the powers of the foolish.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Other elements might include the runes [[Kyrop]] or [[Naeve]], or a [[dramaturgy|dramaturgical]] scene in which [[the Bishop]] slowly succumbs to weakness and frailty (often in [[the Tomb]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</ins>. An [[astronomancy|astronomancer]] might invoke the power of [[the Drowned Man]] constellation, while a practitioner of [[aspect_magic#Heraldic_Magic|heraldic magic]] might call on the spirit of the insidious [[Legendary beasts#Sphinxes and Manticores|manticore]] or the echoing roar of the terrible [[Legendary beasts#Chimera|chimera]]. A [[aspect_magic#Goetia|goeticist]] will find the names of [[Sorin]] and especially [[Kaela]] resonate well with this ritual, although in Varushka [[Wise Rangara]] is also popular especially when the ritual focuses around the need for the wise to control the powers of the foolish.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Winter Ritual]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Winter Ritual]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Rituals]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Rituals]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:12, 29 September 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2">Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Season|Winter|14}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Season|Winter|14}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Performing the Ritual===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Performing the Ritual===</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Casting time|2}} </del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">===Effects===</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Casting time|2}} {{Target Character}} The target character must have the [[Magical skills#Magician|magician]] skill.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Casting time|2}} {{Target Character}} The target character must have the [[Magical skills#Magician|magician]] skill.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l25">Line 25:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 22:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the power of this [[enchantment]], a magician can curse, demoralize, and disempower an elite band of foes or an enemy coven. It is at its most useful when the ritualists are supported by (or are themselves) battlemages and warriors who can take advantage of the confusion that comes from being denied the use of potent techniques. It is also useful for disrupting magical workings - weakened magicians are unable to contribute to rituals for example swiftly ensuring that an enemy working will fail quickly and efficiently.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With the power of this [[enchantment]], a magician can curse, demoralize, and disempower an elite band of foes or an enemy coven. It is at its most useful when the ritualists are supported by (or are themselves) battlemages and warriors who can take advantage of the confusion that comes from being denied the use of potent techniques. It is also useful for disrupting magical workings - weakened magicians are unable to contribute to rituals for example swiftly ensuring that an enemy working will fail quickly and efficiently.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ritual is also surprisingly effective when dealing with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</del>husks<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </del>- dead bodies possessed and animated by spirits of the realms or by angry ghosts. These malignant creatures tend to possess supernatural vitality, and can prove particularly resistant to being destroyed. Sapping their strength removes their ability to rise again, and has the added advantage that it will prevent them from using any supernatural attacks they may possess.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ritual is also surprisingly effective when dealing with husks - dead bodies possessed and animated by spirits of the realms or by angry ghosts. These malignant creatures tend to possess supernatural vitality, and can prove particularly resistant to being destroyed. Sapping their strength removes their ability to rise again, and has the added advantage that it will prevent them from using any supernatural attacks they may possess.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Several [[eternal|eternals]] of the Winter realm are known to offer boons related to this ritual, and to the weakness curse as a whole. [[Kaela]] in particular may offer a boon that makes this enchantment easier to cast, or allows the power to be drawn on more possible. The lesson this ritual teaches - that strength is transitory and that it will eventually fade - appeals particularly to her grim sensibilities. [[The_Thrice-cursed_Court#Tharim|Tharim]] of [[the Thrice-cursed Court]] by contrast appreciates the way that magicians who master this ritual can punish their subordinates at a whim, removing the power of their thralls as they wish. He is said to have provided magical [[:Category:Foci|foci]] to make it easier to perform the ritual, which also allow even more weakness to be bestowed by those under its effects.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Several [[eternal|eternals]] of the Winter realm are known to offer boons related to this ritual, and to the weakness curse as a whole. [[Kaela]] in particular may offer a boon that makes this enchantment easier to cast, or allows the power to be drawn on more possible. The lesson this ritual teaches - that strength is transitory and that it will eventually fade - appeals particularly to her grim sensibilities. [[The_Thrice-cursed_Court#Tharim|Tharim]] of [[the Thrice-cursed Court]] by contrast appreciates the way that magicians who master this ritual can punish their subordinates at a whim, removing the power of their thralls as they wish. He is said to have provided magical [[:Category:Foci|foci]] to make it easier to perform the ritual, which also allow even more weakness to be bestowed by those under its effects.</div></td></tr> </table>

Hailmur https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/index.php?title=Hungry_Grasp_of_Despair&diff=107667&oldid=prev 2024-02-16T14:24:31Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 14:24, 16 February 2024</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l36">Line 36:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 36:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When performing this ritual, the coven often invokes forces of despair, fear and hunger. Oppressive music or thundering rhythms that begin fast and become slower and slower, symbolic of the way power ebbs from those affected by this curse, are common; so are frenzied dances that reach a climax with the performers collapsing as if from exhaustion.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When performing this ritual, the coven often invokes forces of despair, fear and hunger. Oppressive music or thundering rhythms that begin fast and become slower and slower, symbolic of the way power ebbs from those affected by this curse, are common; so are frenzied dances that reach a climax with the performers collapsing as if from exhaustion.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Other elements might include the runes [[Kyrop]] or [[Naeve]], or a [[dramaturgy|dramaturgical]] scene in which [[the Bishop]] slowly succumbs to weakness and frailty (often in [[the Tomb]]. An [[astronomancy|astronomancer]] might invoke the power of [[the Drowned Man]] constellation, while a practitioner of [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Totem_magic</del>#Heraldic_Magic|heraldic magic]] might call on the spirit of the insidious [[Legendary beasts#Sphinxes and Manticores|manticore]] or the echoing roar of the terrible [[Legendary beasts#Chimera|chimera]]. A [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Totem_magic</del>#Goetia|goeticist]] will find the names of [[Sorin]] and especially [[Kaela]] resonate well with this ritual, although in Varushka [[Wise Rangara]] is also popular especially when the ritual focuses around the need for the wise to control the powers of the foolish.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Other elements might include the runes [[Kyrop]] or [[Naeve]], or a [[dramaturgy|dramaturgical]] scene in which [[the Bishop]] slowly succumbs to weakness and frailty (often in [[the Tomb]]. An [[astronomancy|astronomancer]] might invoke the power of [[the Drowned Man]] constellation, while a practitioner of [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">aspect_magic</ins>#Heraldic_Magic|heraldic magic]] might call on the spirit of the insidious [[Legendary beasts#Sphinxes and Manticores|manticore]] or the echoing roar of the terrible [[Legendary beasts#Chimera|chimera]]. A [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">aspect_magic</ins>#Goetia|goeticist]] will find the names of [[Sorin]] and especially [[Kaela]] resonate well with this ritual, although in Varushka [[Wise Rangara]] is also popular especially when the ritual focuses around the need for the wise to control the powers of the foolish.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Winter Ritual]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Winter Ritual]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Rituals]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Rituals]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Dre https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/index.php?title=Hungry_Grasp_of_Despair&diff=104267&oldid=prev 2023-08-03T23:12:41Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:12, 3 August 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l34">Line 34:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 34:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Common Elements==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Common Elements==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When performing this ritual, the coven often invokes forces of despair, fear and hunger. Oppressive music or thundering rhythms that begin fast and become slower and slower, symbolic of the way power ebbs from those <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">effected </del>by this curse, are common; so are frenzied dances that reach a climax with the performers collapsing as if from exhaustion.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When performing this ritual, the coven often invokes forces of despair, fear and hunger. Oppressive music or thundering rhythms that begin fast and become slower and slower, symbolic of the way power ebbs from those <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">affected </ins>by this curse, are common; so are frenzied dances that reach a climax with the performers collapsing as if from exhaustion.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Other elements might include the runes [[Kyrop]] or [[Naeve]], or a [[dramaturgy|dramaturgical]] scene in which [[the Bishop]] slowly succumbs to weakness and frailty (often in [[the Tomb]]. An [[astronomancy|astronomancer]] might invoke the power of [[the Drowned Man]] constellation, while a practitioner of [[Totem_magic#Heraldic_Magic|heraldic magic]] might call on the spirit of the insidious [[Legendary beasts#Sphinxes and Manticores|manticore]] or the echoing roar of the terrible [[Legendary beasts#Chimera|chimera]]. A [[Totem_magic#Goetia|goeticist]] will find the names of [[Sorin]] and especially [[Kaela]] resonate well with this ritual, although in Varushka [[Wise Rangara]] is also popular especially when the ritual focuses around the need for the wise to control the powers of the foolish.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Other elements might include the runes [[Kyrop]] or [[Naeve]], or a [[dramaturgy|dramaturgical]] scene in which [[the Bishop]] slowly succumbs to weakness and frailty (often in [[the Tomb]]. An [[astronomancy|astronomancer]] might invoke the power of [[the Drowned Man]] constellation, while a practitioner of [[Totem_magic#Heraldic_Magic|heraldic magic]] might call on the spirit of the insidious [[Legendary beasts#Sphinxes and Manticores|manticore]] or the echoing roar of the terrible [[Legendary beasts#Chimera|chimera]]. A [[Totem_magic#Goetia|goeticist]] will find the names of [[Sorin]] and especially [[Kaela]] resonate well with this ritual, although in Varushka [[Wise Rangara]] is also popular especially when the ritual focuses around the need for the wise to control the powers of the foolish.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Winter Ritual]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Winter Ritual]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Rituals]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Rituals]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Dre https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/index.php?title=Hungry_Grasp_of_Despair&diff=90151&oldid=prev 2022-05-12T20:14:47Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:14, 12 May 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l13">Line 13:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 13:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They also experience a [[roleplaying effect]]: &#039;&#039;You feel powerful and deserving of respect. You experience an urge to punish people who disrespect you or your authority.&#039;&#039;  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They also experience a [[roleplaying effect]]: &#039;&#039;You feel powerful and deserving of respect. You experience an urge to punish people who disrespect you or your authority.&#039;&#039;  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{regain power<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|WEAKNESS</del>}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{regain power}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Season Duration}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Season Duration}}</div></td></tr> </table>

Beeswax https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/index.php?title=Hungry_Grasp_of_Despair&diff=90038&oldid=prev 2022-05-12T14:08:44Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 14:08, 12 May 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l13">Line 13:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 13:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They also experience a [[roleplaying effect]]: &#039;&#039;You feel powerful and deserving of respect. You experience an urge to punish people who disrespect you or your authority.&#039;&#039;  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They also experience a [[roleplaying effect]]: &#039;&#039;You feel powerful and deserving of respect. You experience an urge to punish people who disrespect you or your authority.&#039;&#039;  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">If the target regains all spent personal mana by resting in a magical aura such as that provided by [[the Chamber of Delights]], or drinks an [[Philtres_of_the_High_Peaks#The_Elixir_of_Empyrean_Art</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elixir of Empyrean Art]], they &#039;&#039;also&#039;&#039; regain all spent uses of this ability at the same time. Other methods of restoring personal mana do not restore the ability cast weakness.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{regain power</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">WEAKNESS}}</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Season Duration}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Season Duration}}</div></td></tr> </table>

Rafferty https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/index.php?title=Hungry_Grasp_of_Despair&diff=69838&oldid=prev 2018-11-11T16:49:30Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:49, 11 November 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l27">Line 27:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 27:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ritual is also surprisingly effective when dealing with [[husks]] - dead bodies possessed and animated by spirits of the realms or by angry ghosts. These malignant creatures tend to possess supernatural vitality, and can prove particularly resistant to being destroyed. Sapping their strength removes their ability to rise again, and has the added advantage that it will prevent them from using any supernatural attacks they may possess.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The ritual is also surprisingly effective when dealing with [[husks]] - dead bodies possessed and animated by spirits of the realms or by angry ghosts. These malignant creatures tend to possess supernatural vitality, and can prove particularly resistant to being destroyed. Sapping their strength removes their ability to rise again, and has the added advantage that it will prevent them from using any supernatural attacks they may possess.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Several [[eternals]] of the Winter realm are known to offer boons related to this ritual, and to the weakness curse as a whole. [[Kaela]] in particular may offer a boon that makes this enchantment easier to cast, or allows the power to be drawn on more possible. The lesson this ritual teaches - that strength is transitory and that it will eventually fade - appeals particularly to her grim sensibilities. [[The_Thrice-cursed_Court#Tharim|Tharim]] of [[the Thrice-cursed Court]] by contrast appreciates the way that magicians who master this ritual can punish their subordinates at a whim, removing the power of their thralls as they wish. He is said to have provided magical [[:Category:Foci|foci]] to make it easier to perform the ritual, which also allow even more weakness to be bestowed by those under its effects.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Several [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">eternal|</ins>eternals]] of the Winter realm are known to offer boons related to this ritual, and to the weakness curse as a whole. [[Kaela]] in particular may offer a boon that makes this enchantment easier to cast, or allows the power to be drawn on more possible. The lesson this ritual teaches - that strength is transitory and that it will eventually fade - appeals particularly to her grim sensibilities. [[The_Thrice-cursed_Court#Tharim|Tharim]] of [[the Thrice-cursed Court]] by contrast appreciates the way that magicians who master this ritual can punish their subordinates at a whim, removing the power of their thralls as they wish. He is said to have provided magical [[:Category:Foci|foci]] to make it easier to perform the ritual, which also allow even more weakness to be bestowed by those under its effects.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Similar to [[Unending Cascade of Blood&#039;s Fire]], the Hungry Grasp of Despair creates an enduring curse on those subjected to its power - one that it is not necessarily within the power of the magician to remove. Magical weakness does not fade over time, and those brought low by this magic usually require treatment by a [[Surgical_skills#Physick|physick]], the aid of a magician versed in [[purify|more wholesome lore]], or an [[Surgical_skills#Apothecary|apothecary]]-brewed [[potion]] before they can restore their strength. This treatment can often prove tricky to find on a battlefield, of course.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Similar to [[Unending Cascade of Blood&#039;s Fire]], the Hungry Grasp of Despair creates an enduring curse on those subjected to its power - one that it is not necessarily within the power of the magician to remove. Magical weakness does not fade over time, and those brought low by this magic usually require treatment by a [[Surgical_skills#Physick|physick]], the aid of a magician versed in [[purify|more wholesome lore]], or an [[Surgical_skills#Apothecary|apothecary]]-brewed [[potion]] before they can restore their strength. This treatment can often prove tricky to find on a battlefield, of course.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:24, 11 January 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l36">Line 36:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 36:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When performing this ritual, the coven often invokes forces of despair, fear and hunger. Oppressive music or thundering rhythms that begin fast and become slower and slower, symbolic of the way power ebbs from those effected by this curse, are common; so are frenzied dances that reach a climax with the performers collapsing as if from exhaustion.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When performing this ritual, the coven often invokes forces of despair, fear and hunger. Oppressive music or thundering rhythms that begin fast and become slower and slower, symbolic of the way power ebbs from those effected by this curse, are common; so are frenzied dances that reach a climax with the performers collapsing as if from exhaustion.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Other elements might include the runes [[Kyrop]] or [[Naeve]], or a [[dramaturgy|dramaturgical]] scene in which [[the Bishop]] slowly succumbs to weakness and frailty (often in [[the Tomb]]. An [[astronomancy|astronomancer]] might invoke the power of [[the Drowned Man]] constellation, while a practitioner of [[Totem_magic#Heraldic_Magic|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">heraldric </del>magic<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">| </del>might call on the spirit of the insidious [[Legendary beasts#Sphinxes and Manticores|manticore]] or the echoing roar of the terrible [[Legendary beasts#Chimera|chimera]]. A [[Totem_magic#Goetia|goeticist]] will find the names of [[Sorin]] and especially [[Kaela]] resonate well with this ritual, although in Varushka [[Wise Rangara]] is also popular especially when the ritual focuses around the need for the wise to control the powers of the foolish.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Other elements might include the runes [[Kyrop]] or [[Naeve]], or a [[dramaturgy|dramaturgical]] scene in which [[the Bishop]] slowly succumbs to weakness and frailty (often in [[the Tomb]]. An [[astronomancy|astronomancer]] might invoke the power of [[the Drowned Man]] constellation, while a practitioner of [[Totem_magic#Heraldic_Magic|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">heraldic </ins>magic<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>might call on the spirit of the insidious [[Legendary beasts#Sphinxes and Manticores|manticore]] or the echoing roar of the terrible [[Legendary beasts#Chimera|chimera]]. A [[Totem_magic#Goetia|goeticist]] will find the names of [[Sorin]] and especially [[Kaela]] resonate well with this ritual, although in Varushka [[Wise Rangara]] is also popular especially when the ritual focuses around the need for the wise to control the powers of the foolish.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Winter Ritual]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Winter Ritual]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Rituals]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Rituals]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Effects</span></span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 12:59, 11 January 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l11">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The target gains the ability to cast the [[weakness]] spell four times each day as if they know it without spending any mana.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The target gains the ability to cast the [[weakness]] spell four times each day as if they know it without spending any mana.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They also experience a [[roleplaying effect]]: <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they </del>feel <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a strong desire </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">use magical weakness against anyone </del>who <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">irritates </del>or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">annoys them</del>.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They also experience a [[roleplaying effect]]: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&#039;&#039;You </ins>feel <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">powerful and deserving of respect. You experience an urge </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">punish people </ins>who <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">disrespect you </ins>or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">your authority</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&#039;&#039; </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>If the target regains all spent personal mana by resting in a magical aura such as that provided by [[the Chamber of Delights]], or drinks an [[Philtres_of_the_High_Peaks#The_Elixir_of_Empyrean_Art|Elixir of Empyrean Art]], they &#039;&#039;also&#039;&#039; regain all spent uses of this ability at the same time. Other methods of restoring personal mana do not restore the ability cast weakness.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>If the target regains all spent personal mana by resting in a magical aura such as that provided by [[the Chamber of Delights]], or drinks an [[Philtres_of_the_High_Peaks#The_Elixir_of_Empyrean_Art|Elixir of Empyrean Art]], they &#039;&#039;also&#039;&#039; regain all spent uses of this ability at the same time. Other methods of restoring personal mana do not restore the ability cast weakness.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Updated as part of removing coven rituals</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 12:51, 11 January 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l28">Line 28:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 28:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Several [[eternals]] of the Winter realm are known to offer boons related to this ritual, and to the weakness curse as a whole. [[Kaela]] in particular may offer a boon that makes this enchantment easier to cast, or allows the power to be drawn on more possible. The lesson this ritual teaches - that strength is transitory and that it will eventually fade - appeals particularly to her grim sensibilities. [[The_Thrice-cursed_Court#Tharim|Tharim]] of [[the Thrice-cursed Court]] by contrast appreciates the way that magicians who master this ritual can punish their subordinates at a whim, removing the power of their thralls as they wish. He is said to have provided magical [[:Category:Foci|foci]] to make it easier to perform the ritual, which also allow even more weakness to be bestowed by those under its effects.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Several [[eternals]] of the Winter realm are known to offer boons related to this ritual, and to the weakness curse as a whole. [[Kaela]] in particular may offer a boon that makes this enchantment easier to cast, or allows the power to be drawn on more possible. The lesson this ritual teaches - that strength is transitory and that it will eventually fade - appeals particularly to her grim sensibilities. [[The_Thrice-cursed_Court#Tharim|Tharim]] of [[the Thrice-cursed Court]] by contrast appreciates the way that magicians who master this ritual can punish their subordinates at a whim, removing the power of their thralls as they wish. He is said to have provided magical [[:Category:Foci|foci]] to make it easier to perform the ritual, which also allow even more weakness to be bestowed by those under its effects.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Similar to [[Unending Cascade of Blood's Fire]], the Hungry Grasp of Despair creates an enduring curse on those subjected to its power - one that it is not necessarily within the power of the magician to remove. Magical weakness does not fade over time, and those brought low by this magic usually require treatment by a [[Surgical_skills#Physick|physick]], the aid of a magician versed in [[purify|more wholesome lore]], or an [[Surgical_skills#Apothecary|apothecary]]-brewed [[potion]] before they can restore their strength. This treatment can often prove tricky to find on a battlefield, of course.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This ritual has existed in one form or another since the earliest records, and it is possible that the [[weakness]] incantation itself began as a refinement of the power it grants. Among some [[The League|League]] [[Mountebank|mountebanks]] and more cynical [[Troupe|troupes]] it is called &#039;&#039;Fear for the Mighty&#039;&#039;. This references the idea that it is the powerful who have the most to lose from the effect of this ritual. In [[Wintermark]] it is sometimes called &#039;&#039;Kyrop&#039;s Balance&#039;&#039;; in [[The Marches]] it is &#039;&#039;Levelling the Playing Field&#039;&#039;. In some parts of [[Dawn]] it is scurrilously called &#039;&#039;Humble the Errant Knights&#039;&#039;; a name with multiple meanings depending on who is performing the ritual. A number of [[Varushka|Varushkan]] [[Varushka_magical_traditions#Cabalists|cabalists]] refer to it as the &#039;&#039;Scourge of the Foolish&#039;&#039; and several stories recount how it has been used to prevent apprentice magicians with more power than sense from harming themselves and others.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This ritual has existed in one form or another since the earliest records, and it is possible that the [[weakness]] incantation itself began as a refinement of the power it grants. Among some [[The League|League]] [[Mountebank|mountebanks]] and more cynical [[Troupe|troupes]] it is called &#039;&#039;Fear for the Mighty&#039;&#039;. This references the idea that it is the powerful who have the most to lose from the effect of this ritual. In [[Wintermark]] it is sometimes called &#039;&#039;Kyrop&#039;s Balance&#039;&#039;; in [[The Marches]] it is &#039;&#039;Levelling the Playing Field&#039;&#039;. In some parts of [[Dawn]] it is scurrilously called &#039;&#039;Humble the Errant Knights&#039;&#039;; a name with multiple meanings depending on who is performing the ritual. A number of [[Varushka|Varushkan]] [[Varushka_magical_traditions#Cabalists|cabalists]] refer to it as the &#039;&#039;Scourge of the Foolish&#039;&#039; and several stories recount how it has been used to prevent apprentice magicians with more power than sense from harming themselves and others.</div></td></tr> </table>

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