Time Slow

This spell is a part of the Time Distortion spell chain and is found in the Time Distortion rune stone.

The posteramancer does not yet have the power to stop time. That is a common misconception about what time magic can do at its earlier stages - the assumption that any practitioner of temporamancy must be capable of the dramatic, the total, the absolute. Time Slow is more precise than that and in many ways more useful. The posteramancer reaches into the time that flows through and around a single target and simply reduces its rate. Not stops it. Slows it.

The effect is immediate and visible. The target moves as if pushing through something that isn't there, every step taking slightly longer than it should, every dodge arriving slightly too late, every spell building toward completion at half the pace the target's own mind expects. Movement rates and evasion are halved as the target's body operates in time that is running slower than everyone else's. Spell casting speeds double, each cast taking twice as long to complete as the sluggish temporal flow makes every runic connection feel like it is traveling through something thick and resistant. The target is not in pain. They are simply elsewhere in time - still present, still aware, just running at a different speed than the world around them.