By your words and magics, the prosperity of an entire Region is stolen and gifted to a single person. The rivers of silver and gold slowly churn, tarnished and turbid, their flow choked by the clutching hands of avarice.
You target one Region with this ritual. You must deliver the Curse Card for this ritual to an Envoy of the Nation containing that Region or to a Veilwalker whose Enterprise is located within the Province that contains the targeted Region for it to have an effect.
The targeted Region takes -20 Economy damage at the end of the next Round of Downtime.
After you have delivered the Curse Card, you can grant one character whose Enterprise is located within the same Province as the targeted Region +6 Levels to their Enterprise for the next Round of Downtime. This effect counts as an Enterprise Sorcery, and ends prematurely if the Curse upon the Region is broken.
Merchants and government officials within the Region become notably more open to corruption and graft, and businesses find it easier to rationalize prioritizing short-term profit over all other concerns.
You can overcharge this ritual; for every additional +10 Ritual Power you add to the ritual, you can target +1 additional Region that is contiguous with at least one other targeted Region, and grant the Curse’s benefit to +1 additional target character whose Enterprise is within the same Province as the newly-targeted Region.
If this ritual is performed outside of Veilguard, its required Ritual Power is quadrupled.