Deconstruction

This spell is a part of the Deconstruction spell chain and can be found in the Deconstruction rune stone.

The seniumancer is new to this. They do not yet fully understand what stirs within their runic soul, only that something does and it is something patient and hungry and utterly without mercy. They have not yet put a name to it. They only know that when they reach inward, something reaches back, and what it offers is not fire or force but something quieter and in its own way far more unsettling. What it offers is rot.

When the seniumancer first casts Deconstruction they are not entirely in control of what happens. They reach, and The Worm responds. The Worm's power of rot extrudes outward from the neophyte seniumancer, like a rolling, putrid cloud, extending outwards in all directions.   For any caught within the cloud, it does not burn in any way that can be felt. It simply begins to work, the way that water works on stone. The target's armor, whatever it might be, is decomposed quickly by this fog, having its Physical Armor decreased by the seniumancer's Arcana all at once. The Worm's fog cares not who is within, be it friend or foe they all will receive this rot to their armor. The seniumancer however is spared simply because The Worm wishes not to feel the rot itself, at least not yet. The seniumancer watches this with quiet curiosity, not yet sure what to make of the power they have just used. They do not know yet what The Worm is. They only know that it is hungry, and that it listened.