Curtain of Quartz

Cost: 10m Target: Template:Creatures near caster

Essence and the Crystal Rune evoke a globe of shimmering quartz fragments around the sorcerer. These crystal shards float about the sorcerer for the rest of the scene, capturing light and reflecting it back as dazzling and distracting beams and spots. All characters within a three-yard radius of the sorcerer (but not the sorcerer herself) suffer a -2 external penalty to their DVs and to all rolls. The effects of the Curtain of Quartz do not affect characters who cannot see.

Immaterial ranged attacks against the sorcerer (such as Phantom Arrow Technique) suffer an external penalty equal to the caster's permanent Essence. The quartz fragments bleed off the attacks' ambient Essence as beautiful light displays.