Spirit's Mercy

This spell is a part of the Spiritual Link spell chain and is found in the Spiritual Link rune stone.

There are moments in battle where no amount of skill or determination is enough. Where an ally has taken more than any living being should have to bear; poisoned, cursed, broken, overwhelmed - and the animancer looks at them and feels something that goes beyond strategy or tactics. They feel it the way only an animancer can, deep in their runic soul where the Spirit of Life quietly resides. And the Spirit feels it too.

The animancer does not command the Spirit here. They do not even fully cast this spell so much as they reach inward with a single, desperate plea - please - and the Spirit answers without hesitation. It reaches out to the suffering target with something that can only be described as tenderness, sweeping away every ailment, every curse, every status that has been laid upon them as though brushing dust from something precious. Every negative status effect is lifted completely. Then the Spirit lingers, pouring warmth into the target's Vitality equal to double the animancer's Arcana. Should the target be below 25% of their maximum Vitality, the Spirit does not measure, it simply gives more, doubling that restoration entirely. It has seen enough suffering today. The Spirit asks nothing in return. It never does. The Spirit returns quietly to the animancer's runic soul, where it waits for the next time the animancer will need their power.