Without Pity, Without Scorn

Cost: 18m
Target: Fetters

Ghosts' Fetters provide them with some measure of strength. In addition to helping them resist the call of Lethe, they also give ghosts small amounts of Essence. In order to claim this Essence, a ghost must hold her Fetters close. As things of Creation, she keeps them close by wearing or bearing their tokens.copies of the objects themselves, or iconic representations of larger Fetters.

The caster channels the black Essence of Oblivion into a sphere of coruscating power. He then casts it to the ground at his feet, where it shatters and looses a wave of energy that stirs even the deadened dust of the Underworld as it rushes outward 25 yards. As the crest, crackling with purple lightning, passes a ghost, the tokens that ghost bears are rendered inert. They no longer provide her with Essence, and she can no longer feel a tie to her Fetters. Weakened thus, ghosts are more susceptible to the unequal pulls of Lethe and the Void. The tokens remain inert for a number of weeks equal to the caster's Essence.

Alternatively, the character may cast the sphere at a specific ghost within 15 yards as a (Dexterity + Occult) attack. If it hits, bands of glaring necrotic energy pulse around the victim. When the energy fades, it permanently severs the connection between the ghost and any Fetters it carries or whose token it carries. Fetters whose tokens the ghost had hidden elsewhere are safe.