This spell is a part of the Flashback spell chain and is found in the Flashback rune stone.
Every body keeps its own record. Not in Memory, but in the quieter, more physical language of scar tissue and healed bone, the particular way a joint moves around an old injury, the small involuntary flinch that belongs to something that happened years ago and never entirely stopped happening. The body remembers what it survived. It keeps that knowledge close, encoded in the places where it had to rebuild itself. Rumination knows where to look.
When this spell is cast the praeteriamancer reaches through Rumination into the target's physical past and finds one of those places - an old wound, a healed injury, a scar that the target long ago stopped thinking about. Rumination takes it and makes it present again. Not a memory of the pain, not a simulation or an echo - the actual wound, reopened, the damage that was once done returning to the body with full force as if it had never healed at all. The target takes 2d10 magical damage as the past asserts itself into the present. The wound that arrives is specific and real. It is old scars flaring, healed fractures reawakening, something the target's body had long since filed away under survived suddenly reclassified under happening now. Rumination does not create this pain. It simply refuses to allow it to stay in the past where the target put it. That is, the praeteriamancer has come to understand, entirely typical of Rumination.
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