This spell is a part of the Frightful Touch spell chain and found in the Frightful Touch rune stone.
Dread has been patient. It has watched. It has waited through every justification, every rationalization, every careful story the target has told themselves about who they are and why the things they have done were necessary or forgivable or simply unavoidable. Dread kept notes. Dread never forgot. And now, at the timoramancer's invitation, Dread shows the target everything it has been holding.
Not a monster from outside. Not a threat that can be fought or fled. The demon that Demon Unmasked reveals has the target's own face, speaks with the target's own voice, and is built entirely from things the target actually did. The compromises. The cruelties. The moments they swore they would never become something and then became it anyway and found reasons not to look too closely afterward. Dread removes every reason. Every pretty lie. Every comfortable distance between the target and the truth of what they have allowed themselves to be.
What remains, when the mask comes fully off, is a person standing face to face with their own worst self - with no fiction left to soften it and no distance left to maintain. The target must make a Hard Spiritual Balance check at -2 against the weight of what they are seeing. Those who fail cannot bear what Dread has shown them, and turn that unbearable knowledge against themselves, taking their own life. Those who pass carry it - changed, perhaps broken in some way that doesn't immediately show, but standing. They are not left unfazed. They must still come to terms with what they have saw, and will be stunned for one round to do so. Following the one round stun they have Loss of Self for the remainder of the battle, their very soul shaken by the truth Dread showed. Dread did not lie. That is the worst part. Everything it showed them was true.
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