Smoothing the Crease-Worn Mind

Cost: 20 motes
Target: One creature

Nephwracks and other mad servants of the Void hear the whispers of Oblivion in their minds. It drives them beyond sanity and inspires their horrifying schemes. With a soft caress of silver-bright Essence, the necromancer can protect a ghost from this torment. The creature affected by this spell can no longer hear the maddening murmurs, and most targets even revert to the sanity they knew before. The silence lasts for a number of days equal to the caster's Essence. A successful Willpower roll enables affected nephwracks and other spectres to act for a while like the ghosts they once were. They cannot fail this roll on purpose. Spectres so affected do not forget what they learned while mad, though, which makes this spell a potential source of guides through the Labyrinth. Spirits who never knew sanity simply become quiescent. Humans and other living creatures can also occasionally attune themselves to the unvoiced thoughts of the Neverborn. This spell temporarily silences the babbling voices that comfort and guide them or drive them mad. Used on Abyssal Exalted or other characters with the Whispers Background, Smoothing the Crease-Worn Mind reduces the target's Whispers rating to 0 for its duration. Targets may reduce the duration of this effect by one day per point of Willpower spent for that purpose.

This spell cannot be part of a Martial Arts attack. If the spell's target resists or is not bound, levy a -1 external penalty to the spell attack.