This spell is a part of the Frightful Touch spell chain and is found in the Frightful Touch rune stone.
Every timoramancer remembers the first time they understood what their touch could do. Not a spell, not an intentional casting — just contact, skin to skin or hand to armor, and the sudden widening of the other person's eyes. The flinch. The step back. Something in them recognizing, without words, that what just touched them carried something they did not want to be carrying.
Frightful Touch is that first instinct made deliberate. The timoramancer reaches through Dread - a force they have lived with but are only now getting to know - and channels the quietest possible expression of fear through direct contact. This is not enough to incapacitate nor is it enough to overwhelm. This is just enough to leave a mark. The target's Mental Balance is penalized by 1 plus the timoramancer's Arcana as Dread settles into them through the point of contact, making the walls a little thinner, the resistance a little weaker, every subsequent fear a little harder to push back against. It does not feel like much. It is only a simple touch, a slight warmth of contact - one that can break down walls.
Weapon Effect: Frightful Touch
Critical Hit applies -1 penalty to Mental Balance for 1d4 rounds, stacking.Â