This spell is a part of the Frightful Touch spell chain and is found in the Frightful Touch rune stone.
A warding is not a shield. A shield absorbs, deflects, takes the blow on behalf of what it protects. A warding refuses. It establishes a boundary that certain things are not permitted to cross, and when they attempt to cross it anyway they find themselves turned back the way they came, carrying everything they brought with them.
Warding of the Night does not protect against the night itself nor against darkness, against the literal absence of light. Those things are not what the night represents. What the night represents is what hides within it, what might be coming, what cannot yet be seen or known. It is the fear that darkness has always carried not in itself but in what it conceals. That fear Presence understands completely. And what Presence understands completely, Presence can ward against absolutely.
Any fear-based status effect directed at the protected target - any attempt to inflict Fear, Anxiety, Dread, Restlessness, Psychogenic Fever, or any other effect rooted in fear - finds the warding waiting for it. Presence examines it, recognizes it for exactly what it is, and sends it back. The one who attempted to place it receives it instead, their own fear-working returned to its source by a symbol that has spent its entire existence learning the nature of fear and has no patience for it being used against someone it has chosen to protect.
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