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Description and lore
A desperate instant becomes the focus of an abjurer's strongest intervention.
Aegis is the shield in the story remembered afterward: the gesture that met a harm already arriving.
The flash draws every nearby eye to the point where harm was about to land.
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A desperate instant becomes the focus of an abjurer's strongest intervention.
Techniques and Spells · Alpha v44 reference
Requires: Casting Skill: Ward. Affinity: Spirit. Requirements: Spirit d12; Ward d12. one learned slot.
Use: Reaction, when a visible creature would lose Resolve from one source · 30 feet · one creature, including the caster · Instant · 4 Mana
Effect - Resolution: none.
Effect - Defense: apply the source’s ordinary defenses first.
Effect: Prevent up to 12 Resolve loss remaining from that one source. If less than 12 remains, the unused prevention expires.
Duration: instant.
Ending or recovery: one Aegis per source event; no stacking on the same loss.
Critical: none.
Exception: Declare after defenses and before Resolve is reduced; cannot reverse a resolved death.
A sudden flare of protection catches the approaching catastrophe.
Light flares where the blow was about to finish its work.