Blotting

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

Fear does things to the body that most people never think to examine. The racing heart, the shallow breath - these are well known. Less discussed is what fear does to vision. The floaters that drift across the eye under stress, dark shapes with no source drifting at the edges of sight. The tunnel that closes in when the body decides that only what is directly ahead matters. The blotches, the darkening, the sudden certainty that something is moving in the periphery that isn't there.

The timoramancer does not conjure these effects. They simply find the thread of Dread already present in the target and pull, gently, on the part of it that lives behind the eyes. What follows is not imagined. The target genuinely sees it, the shadows drifting across their vision, the edges of the world going dark and uncertain. Their ability to perceive clearly is compromised, requiring Normal Perceive checks to move or attack accurately, as Dread reminds them that they cannot entirely trust what they see. It is a small thing. A first thing. But Dread begins where it can, and for now being unable to trust their own vision, the target surely feels dread.