This spell is a part of the Frightful Touch spell chain and is found in the Frightful Touch rune stone.
Presence has never wanted to frighten anyone. This is perhaps the most misunderstood thing about the light symbol of timoramancy - that a symbol born from fear would seek, at its fullest expression, to end it. But that is precisely what Presence has always been. Not the fear itself. The warning before it. The clarity that fear, at its best, is supposed to produce.
Phobia's Bane is Presence given complete expression across the entire battlefield. That expression is not a warning this time, not a nudge toward caution, but a full and absolute declaration that the fear is done. Every status effect rooted in fear, every dread, every anxiety, every phobia, every berserk rage - all of it stripped away instantly as Presence simply decides, with the quiet authority it has always possessed, that none of this is necessary anymore. The battlefield does not go silent. The combatants do not freeze. They simply find themselves, perhaps for the first time in this fight, entirely clear.
And in that clarity, Presence asks the only question that has ever mattered. Every target must make a Hard Insight check - not to resist anything, not to survive anything, but to honestly answer whether this fight is worth continuing. Those who fail find themselves unable to locate a sufficient reason, the fear and rage that was carrying them having dissolved, leaving nothing underneath strong enough to sustain the violence. They lay down their weapons, or they flee, or they simply stop. Those who succeed find something real beneath the fear, a conviction that holds even without the adrenaline, and fight on, perhaps for the first time, for an actual reason. Presence does not end battles. It reveals which ones should have ended already.
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