Memory's Protection

This spell is a part of the Lost Memories spell chain and is found in the Lost Memories rune stone.

There is something that the praeteriamancer understands about their ancestors that those who do not study the past rarely appreciate. The dead do not stop caring. They carried their loves and their loyalties and their protective instincts into whatever they became after life, and Memory, which holds all of them exactly as they were, knows this better than anyone. The ancestors who answered in Ancestral Blessings did not leave when their strength and wisdom were no longer needed. They stayed. They are always staying. And when something threatens the one they came to aid, Memory does not need to call them twice. 

When this spell is cast the praeteriamancer reaches deeper into Memory's connection with their lineage and asks the ancestors not just to empower but to protect. The response is immediate. Their spiritual energy wraps around the praeteriamancer like something that was always there waiting to be invoked, fortifying every aspect of endurance and resilience. All Fortitude traits double as the collective toughness of every ancestor who ever survived what they had no business surviving flows into the praeteriamancer's body. 

And should anything dare to strike the one they are protecting, the ancestors do not wait for instruction. They rush forth across the battlefield with the particular fury of those who have crossed from one world to another specifically to stand between their descendant and harm, striking the attacker for double the praeteriamancer's Runic Power as a counter attack. This is the automatic, immediate, and carrying the weight of every generation that came before. Memory remembers those who try to harm its own. It does not forgive them easily.