This spell is a part of the Deconstruction spell chain and can be found in the Deconstruction rune stone.
Sleep is supposed to restore. This is one of the oldest and most fundamental truths of living things; that the body repairs itself in sleep, that what was spent during the waking hours comes back during the quiet ones, that rest is the mechanism by which the living replenish what existence costs them. Every creature that has ever drawn breath has known this truth in their bones. Rest and be restored. Close your eyes and wake up less diminished than you were. The Fade finds this arrangement interesting. It has a different suggestion.
When the seniumancer casts The Fade's Gentle Sleep they reach through The Fade and a stillness settles in the 4x4 space area around them feeling like a softening of the air itself. There is nothing alarming about it. Nothing that announces itself as a threat. The area simply becomes quieter. Heavier. The particular quality of the air in a place where things are winding down. Every target within the area must make a Hard Arcana check or find their eyes growing heavy in a way that has nothing to do with exhaustion and everything to do with The Fade finding them and deciding they should rest.
Those who fail slip into sleep. This is not the sleep of a body that needs rest, but the sleep of something The Fade has decided to hold for a while. And while they sleep The Fade does what it always does. Each round the sleeping target loses their Rest Gen Dice worth of Vitality, Soul, and Power, the very dice that sleep was meant to restore, now running in reverse, The Fade quietly taking back what the body would otherwise be gaining. Waking is not simple. The Fade does not release its hold easily. Each round a sleeping target may attempt a Hard Stamina check to wake, the difficulty reflecting how deeply The Fade has settled into them. For each ally actively attempting to rouse the sleeping target, they receive a +1 to their Stamina check, symbolizing The Fade's patience eventually giving way to the combined insistence of those who refuse to let it have what it found. The Fade is not offended by this. It simply notes that the target will sleep again someday. And next time there may be no one nearby to help them wake.
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