Ancient Bough’s Lignan Touch

• Ritual Type: Curse (Personal)
• Ritual Power: 25
• Casting Time: 5 minutes
• Ritual Lists: Druathan Maledicta

You place a curse upon a target character. This conveys the following effects upon them:

• The target cannot make Calls against enemies; they can still use abilities that allow them to make calls upon themselves or allies.
• The target cannot benefit from Potions.
• The target cannot be healed by characters using the Battlefield Healer or Physick abilities, and cannot benefit from the use of Poultices. (Physicks can still treat any Traumatic Wounds afflicting the target as normal, however.)
• The target’s maximum Hit Points are increased by +4.
• The target’s Bleed Timer is increased by +12 minutes.

The effects of this ritual last until the next sunrise, until you choose to remove it, or until the curse is broken.

You can overcharge this ritual; for every +20 additional Ritual Power you use when you perform the ritual, it can affect +1 additional target.

Roleplaying Effects

The target feels incredibly stiff, as if their joints just don’t want to move properly and need significant amounts of limbering up for even the most minor of movements. They can still function mostly normally, but often complain of their stiffened joints and engage in stretches and joint-popping that never actually relieve the curse’s effects.