Memories Returned

This spell is a part of the Lost Memories spell chain and is found in the Lost Memories rune stone.

The praeteriamancer has a particular relationship with forgetting that most people do not. Where others accept the fading of memory as natural and inevitable, the praeteriamancer finds it quietly intolerable - a loss of something that should not be lost, a gap in the record that Memory insists on filling. They have spent their craft learning to read the past, to uncover what time has obscured, and they apply that same insistence to the mind itself when it fails to hold what it should.

When this spell is cast the praeteriamancer reaches through Memory toward whatever has been forgotten, whether it be by themselves or by the target, and simply returns it. Not reconstructed or approximated but returned, exactly as it was, Memory's record being more precise and more permanent than any mortal mind's ability to hold or lose information. Any status effect that has caused forgetfulness or confusion is immediately lifted, the fog cleared, the target's mind restored to what it was before something reached in and took what it had no right to take.

For those willing to reach further by spending an additional 3 Soul per generation they wish to access - Memory's reach extends beyond the individual into the bloodline itself. The memories of ancestors, people the praeteriamancer never met, experiences from lives lived decades or centuries before their own, become available as clearly as if they were personal recollections. The praeteriamancer may not have lived these moments. But Memory held them, and Memory gives them back.