This spell is a part of the Trepidatious Bracing spell chain and found in the Trepidatious Bracing rune stone.
Not everyone who faces fear breaks under it. Some do something perhaps more quietly damaging, they reason it away. They explain it. They construct a rational framework around the irrational thing pressing against them and hold that framework up like a shield, telling themselves that what they feel is manageable, explainable, survivable. And for a time, it works. The timoramancer understands this, they had done this themselves until they began to work with Dread and are now understanding differently.
Bracing Sanity is the timoramancer taking this defense mechanism and making it deliberate. They reach through Dread and help the target construct those walls - fortifying the rational mind against fear's intrusion, strengthening Mental Balance by 1d6 as logic and reason build their barricades. But the walls have to come from somewhere. What the rational mind gains, the spirit gives. The same 1d6 is subtracted from Spiritual Balance as the target closes off the parts of themselves that fear was touching - which, unfortunately, are also the parts that feel everything else. The target is more protected. They are also, in some way they may not immediately notice, a little less whole. Dread accepts this arrangement. It is patient.
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