Seeing Is Blindness

Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious, Shaping, Sorcerous
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Witness to Darkness

The Ebon Dragon takes the sight of others to enhance his glory. This Charm may enhance any physical attack, causing it to trail eddies of liquid darkness as it strikes. Roll the Infernal's (Manipulation + Presence). Any target who is hit by the attack and has a (higher of Perception and Awareness) rating less than the number of successes rolled suffers complete blindness for the rest of the scene. The eyes of victims blinded this way darken to pure black without whites or irises, through which they see the Ebon Dragon in all his dark majesty and nothing else.

If the Infernal has Essence 4+, imposed blindness takes the form of a Desecration effect that simultaneously bestows the Creature of Darkness deformity (if needed) and the Blindness debility. Emerald Circle Countermagic can still remove blindness imposed this way, though the Creature of Darkness deformity remains.