This spell is a part of the Trepidatious Bracing spell chain and is found in the Trepidatious Bracing rune stone.
The fear of the unknown is the most ancient of all fears. It is perhaps the catalyst of all fears. What is the fear of death exactly? The fear of what cannot be known about it. Presence has always warned of what lies beyond the known. This is its oldest purpose - the feeling that past a certain point there are things that should not be approached, places that should not be entered, questions that should not be answered. The Unknown's Pull is Presence taking that warning and inverting it entirely. Not warning the target away from the unknown. Pulling them toward it. Sometimes a warning is not sufficient. Sometimes they must be shown why to fear.
For two rounds the target feels it - the draw, inexorable and deepening, Presence reaching through the timoramancer and finding the thread that connects every living thing to the vast unnamed darkness beyond what can be known, and pulling on it. The target can act, can fight, can try anything they wish during those rounds, but the pull does not respond to resistance. It simply continues, 10d10 fear damage each round as the terror of what is coming compounds with the helplessness of being unable to stop it. Fear of the unknown, weaponized by the symbol that has always known it was there.
On the third round the pull completes. The target is taken, not to any place that has a name or a description, but to the unknown itself. What happens there cannot be recounted because the mind has no framework to process it. They return at the end of the round in whatever shape they remain in - 10d12 fear damage from having briefly touched something that nothing was ever meant to touch. Some return changed in ways they cannot articulate. All return afraid. All return ready to head the warning. Presence did not create the unknown. It has simply always known it was there, waiting, at the edge of every warning it has ever given. Maybe now Presence will be heeded.
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