Deadly Scare

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

The phrase exists in every language, in every culture, across every corner of Nor'Ova. Scared to death. Most who say it do not mean it literally. The timoramancer who has learned Deadly Scare means nothing else. They have learned the true cost of dread, and through Dread they have learned how to weaponize it - not to spread terror, but to stop those who misuse fear.

This is not a spell of prolonged suffering or accumulated dread. It is a single, precise, catastrophic delivery of fear - Dread finding the exact frequency of terror that a specific target cannot survive and striking it without hesitation. The heart, which has carried that person through every moment of their life, receives a shock it was never built to withstand. In most cases it protests violently, the target staggering from the force of what just hit them, taking d12 damage - the number of d12's rolled dependent upon what is rolled on the 1d6 - as their body recoils from the nearest thing to death it has ever experienced. In some cases, when Dread finds its mark with perfect accuracy, the heart simply stops. No drama. No drawn out ending. Just the sudden, irrevocable absence of a heartbeat where one had been a moment before.

Roll a 1d6. On a 6, the target is dead. Scared to death. Exactly as the saying goes. Any other number rolled is how many d12's are rolled for magic damage.