WeepingStar/AkumaSorcery

This page is basically just going to be filled up with Sorcery that my Ex-Twilight Akuma Mordicanthe has learned from the Yozis. Need work, cleanup, and rewording to be less confusing. Help is always appreciated.

Blighted Corruption of the Hallowed Implements

Circle:: Terrestrial
Cost: 20+ motes, 1 health level
Target: An Artifact of the Four Magical Materials (not Soulsteel)

After a relatively short but painful period of meditation, during which the caster's body is marred by tracks of sickly green liquid slowly pulsing beneath the skin as he draws his Essence inward, the Sorcerer, in a painful and unsettling display of heaving, vomits forth a slimy, liquid stream of sticky, yellow-green Essence, known as blight. He then spits, drools, or otherwise applies the blight to an Artifact with a commitment cost made principally of one or more of the Four Magical Materials of Creation, at which time the substance will slowly sink into the material of the Artifact, and disappear, forging a connection between the caster and the device that cannot be easily broken, a connection that will mar the Artifact in greater and more disturbing ways the longer it remains invoked. Cosmetically, this may take the form of an unsettling patina of verdigris or tarnish, an uncontrolled spread of creeping, foul-smelling, dimly-glowing fungus, or even the slow growth of strange, pulsating flesh, teeth, and eyes over the artifact in question.

When casting this spell, the Sorcerer reflexively expends a number of Motes equal to the Artifact's base commitment cost, as well a number of Motes equal to the amount of Essence currently committed to the Artifact by any others. At the conclusion of the spell, any prior attunements to the Artifact are violently broken, causing a number of health levels of damage, soakable normally, equal to the number of Motes committed. In addition, the Artifact is forever warped by the influx of Infernal Essence, becoming twisted in ways anathematic to Creation. As a result, the Artifact can from that point on be attuned at it's base cost only by Akuma or other Infernal creatures capable of attuning Artifacts, while all other creatures capable of doing so must do so at the out-of-type Costs.

There is a more powerful, Celestial-level version of this Spell, known as Malefic Contamination of the Tools of War, used on Artifact Weapons and Armor, that in addition to the previously noted effects, can also be used to warp the very nature of the weapon itself, twisting Magical Material Bonuses and powers inherent to the Artifact toward an Infernal bent.

Comments

Seems overly powerful to me. This can easily and quickly not only destroy level 5 artifacts, it does so while doing mucho damage to the person committed to it. Due to the 'vomitous' nature of the spell, it also does so in such a fashion that it can be used in combat, on an opponent's weapon. And then it turns the thing into the Akuma's magical material, not only breaking a commitment, but essentially stealing the artifact as well - granting more power to the user. I'd say such effects are Celestial, and even then, require some sort of opposition to those committed to the artifact, not just more motes. Perhaps an opposed Willpower+Essence roll? -- GreenLantern

• Yeah, thinking about it that way, this does seem a little too powerful. I like the idea of having an opposed WP+Essence roll, and after I think of a good way of wording that, will add it. I'm also considering the possibility of making the spell something you wouldn't really be able to effectively do in combat, maybe by claiming that the blight dissipates quickly in Creation. Thematically, I never really intended it to be something you could run up and wipe on someone's daiklave. I'll have to think about it a little, and reword it a bit. Thanks! ~ WeepingStar

Utterly off topic, but when do we get a version that works on people!
-- Darloth contemplates a truly icky infernal

• That's actually a pretty awesome idea. Fills me with the sudden urge to put together a whole set of "Ganking Other People's Backgrounds" spells. Subtly warping people's Contacts and Allies would be wicked. I'll get to work on that. ~ WeepingStar