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Description and lore
A decisive spiritual strike confronts the presence itself rather than its host.
Severance gives a haunting a visible point of confrontation: a living person, a spirit, and the separating force.
The host remains at the center of the struggle, someone whose existing wounds and fears still need care.
At a glance
A decisive spiritual strike confronts the presence itself rather than its host.
Techniques and Spells · Alpha v44 reference
Requires: Casting Skill: Invoke. Affinity: Spirit. Requirements: Spirit d12; Invoke d12. one learned slot.
Use: Action · 30 feet · one visible spirit or spirit possessing a host · Instant · 4 Mana
Effect - Resolution: Spirit + one channeling die capped at d12 (use the Focus damage rule for actual size); use the shared damaging-spell rule for any paid additions.
Effect - Defense: the targeted spirit rolls Ward + Spirit; the host does not take this pool.
Effect: Deal Rend damage to the spirit after Ward + Spirit. If this reduces the spirit to 0 Resolve, it is expelled from the host or dispersed from the scene; the host remains and resolves its own existing injuries.
Duration: instant.
Ending or recovery: one Severance per spirit per scene.
Exception: Does not destroy a soul permanently, kill the host, or cure unrelated possession aftermath.
A focused surge strikes at the spirit’s hold upon the world.
The spiritual presence strains away from the host as the caster's working meets it.