This spell is a part of the Frightful Touch spell chain and is found in the Frightful Touch rune stone.
Throughout Nor'Ovan history, to be marked has always meant to be forsakened - cut off from the rest of the world, distrusted, reviled, maybe even hated. From scarlet letters to plague bells and even famously the Mark of the Eternal Flame, those marked have always found themselves cast-out from society. Dread has known this, and had fed this fear since long before Nor'Ovans runic souls awakened. Dread has developed its own mark. To be marked by Dread is to be claimed by it. Not destroyed, not yet, but set apart in a way that everyone nearby can feel without being able to explain. Something about the marked target registers as wrong to every instinct in every person around them. Not dangerous. Not an enemy. Simply forsaken. And no one wants to stand near something that Dread has already decided belongs to it.
The timoramancer reaches through Dread and places its symbol upon a single target. The symbol is invisible to the eye but felt by everyone in the vicinity with bone-deep certainty. The target's allies will not approach them. They cannot bring themselves to. The mark reads as a warning that supersedes loyalty, friendship, and even orders - the marked target loses all allied assistance for the duration, no ally willing to aid, heal, or protect them. Should an ally find themselves within 2 spaces of the marked target they must make a Hard Mental Balance check or turn on the marked target instinctively and attack them with all of their might, Dread's claim on them too loud to ignore. The marked target is not hated. They are simply alone in the way that only Dread can arrange - surrounded by people who will not reach for them, in a fight they must now face entirely by themselves.
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