Stop

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

The Fade, the so-called positive symbol of decay magic, is not about rot. That is the province of The Worm. Instead, The Fade is the final dimming. The eraser of all that once was. The fading away from all existence and consciousness.  The Fade is what lies beyond the end, beyond death and even rot itself. What comes after The Fade is nothingness. 

When the seniumancer casts Stop they reach through The Fade and find the target's motion, not their body exactly, but the principle of motion itself as it exists in the target, the ongoing process of a living thing moving through the world. They ask The Fade to pause it. The Fade obliges with the quiet efficiency of something that has been waiting to do exactly this since before the target was born. The Fade brings to nothingness the target's motion, diminishes their propulsion, and utterly cancels their actions. The target stops. Not slowly, not gradually, not with any dramatic visible effect. They simply stop, whether it be mid-step, mid-swing, mid-breath, wherever they happen to be in that moment frozen in place as The Fade holds everything that was moving perfectly, absolutely still. They cannot move. They cannot act. They exist in the particular suspension of something that has been shown the end of its own motion and cannot yet find the way back to beginning again. For 1d6 rounds The Fade holds them there. Then it releases, and motion returns, and the target finds themselves exactly where they were, the world having continued without them and entirely indifferent to their absence from it. The target has felt the nothingness after the dimming of their life, and now they must live with that knowledge.