Atrophy

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

This spell causes the target to suffer a decrease in strength that is your Runic Power as the target's muscles decay. Each round that the battle lasts from the casting of this spell the target will lose that amount of Strength, negatively affecting the target's Power and other strength related stats. All Strength Traits also reduce by 1 each round. The decrease will end when the battle ends, however the target will be stuck with this new strength stat, but could increase it by normal means. This is a curse effect and not an ongoing spell so normal means of ending spells or status effects do not work to remove this. Instead you have to use a special means such as the spell Purge, which would undo the curse and restore the target's strength back to normal, but it must be used during battle while the curse is taking effect.