Flesh-Sloughing Wave

Cost: 16m
Target: Area

Although Flesh-Sloughing Wave was designed as a utility spell for cleaning the rotted meat from bones for constructing temples or war machines for the Deathlords, the spell can be lethal in the world of the living. The caster shapes an ivory ball of Essence in her hands, then hurls it to the ground. It shatters there and releases a translucent ivory wave out to a range of (Essence x 5) yards. As the dome expands, it washes flesh away from the bones it passes. Flesh from any corpse is torn away, as is any dead flesh on a living creature. The living suffer a brief moment of pain as the wave tries to peel away their skin, muscle and fat from the bones beneath.

Living creatures caught in the radius of the spell, excepting the caster, suffer ([[[Essence]] + Occult] x 2) dice of lethal damage. This effect can be dodged, but not parried. Fair Folk caught within this blast suffer double damage before soak, and those killed by the spell die in a rainbow flash as their thin veneer of order is torn away.