Spector's Judgment

This spell is a part of the Mourning Bell spell chain and can be found in the Mourning Bell rune stone.

Spector does not hate. He does not hunger, does not delight, does not take pleasure in what he does. He is perhaps the most purely neutral force in all of Nor'Ova. Spector is the God of Death. He does not act as destroyer but as arbiter, the one who shepherds souls from what they were to whatever comes next. He is just. He is indiscriminate. He does not care about your race or your religion or what you meant to do with the time you were given. He cares only about one thing: whether your time is finished. 

Most necromancers follow Spector, or at least regard him with the deep and particular reverence of those who spend their lives in close proximity to his domain. They have sat with death long enough to understand that Spector is not their enemy. He is simply the one who decides. When the necromancer casts Spector's Judgment, they are not attacking their target. They are making a request; quiet, serious, and delivered with the full weight of the necromancer's relationship with death behind it. They reach through Serenity, past the veil that separates the living world from Spector's domain, and they ask the God of Death to turn his gaze upon this one target. To look at them, and decide.

Nothing visible happens. No light, no darkness, no dramatic display. The target simply feels it, a presence, vast and ancient and absolutely indifferent, settling its attention upon them with the weight of everything they have ever done and everything they have not. Every stat the target possesses crashes to 5 as their body and will respond to being seen by Spector, Vitality, Soul, and Power alike dropping to 5 and unable to be restored beyond that threshold until they can find a way to absolve their runic souls of Spector's judgment. Every check they attempt becomes an Impossible check, their very capacity to act diminished by the enormity of standing condemned. Only skills and spells remain within their grasp for Spector grants even the judged the right to make one last effort. The target is not dead. Not yet. They are simply standing where all things eventually stand, before the one who decides. The necromancer can only make the introduction. What Spector does with it is entirely his own.