Future Injury

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

The future is full of wounds. This is not a pessimistic observation. It is simply an accurate one. Every living thing that moves through time accumulates damage along the way, the ordinary cost of existing in a world that pushes back. The posteramancer who has learned to read the future knows this better than most. They have seen enough of what lies ahead to understand that injury is not an exception to the story. It is part of it.

Future Injury is the posteramancer taking that part of the story and moving it forward. When this spell is cast a temporal distortion materializes above the target's body . It is not dramatic, not lingering, just present for the moment it needs to be. The posteramancer reaches into the target's future, finds the wound that was waiting there, and pulls it into now. The distortion collapses inward and the injury arrives. The injury is deep, immediate, and entirely real despite having been borrowed from a moment that has not yet occurred. The damage is 4d10, the wound as genuine as any blade could make it. The distortion disappears as quickly as it came. The wound does not. The target is left with something that belongs to their future now living in their present, the timeline adjusted by one injury that arrived considerably earlier than scheduled. The posteramancer watches them absorb it with clinical interest. They already saw this happening. They simply decided when.