This spell is a part of the Blotting spell chain and is found in the Blotting rune stone.
Dread, when it has found its mark, does not need much encouragement. Dread's Assassin is the timoramancer channeling that truth through an ally - reaching through Dread and letting it ride along with every strike the empowered ally makes, giving each attack a weight that goes beyond the physical.
Every hit carries Fear with it, Dread's presence bleeding from the weapon into the target with each impact, the accumulating certainty that something about this fight has been decided and not in their favor. Critical hits carry more, Anxiety settling in on top of Fear as Dread presses closer, the target's ability to function under that weight beginning to fracture. And on every attack, the ally rolls a 1d20. On a 20, Dread finds what it was looking for - the precise frequency of terror that this particular target cannot survive - and the target dies. Not from the wound. From what the wound carried. It does not happen often. Dread is patient and particular. But the target knows, from the first hit, that it could happen on any of them. That knowledge is itself a weapon.
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