This spell is a part of the Trepidatious Bracing spell chain and is found in the Trepidatious Bracing rune stone.
Fear has a purpose. This is what Presence has always understood and what the timoramancer learns through working with it - that fear is not merely a feeling but a function. It exists to protect. To stop. To make a body drop everything it is holding and respond to the threat that matters most. Presence's Purpose is simply that function, delivered with complete conviction to a single target.
The timoramancer reaches through Presence and triggers the target's fear response absolutely, This is not a gradual building of dread but the full immediate overwhelming certainty of mortal danger. The target drops their weapon. Their hands come up. Their body does what bodies have always done when Presence speaks loudly enough - it stops. The target is stunned for 1 round, and must spend a movement to recover themselves and a support action to retrieve what they dropped.
But fear, once that acute, does not stay contained in a single body. It radiates. Everyone standing near the target feels the shockwave of that raw instinctual panic - Presence's purpose bleeding outward and striking those nearby for 6d10 damage as fear fulfills its oldest function, clearing space, pushing back threat, protecting by force what it could not protect by warning. Everyone affected has Fear for 1 round. Presence did what it was made to do. That some of those pushed back were allies is simply the cost of fear that does not choose sides.
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