Sanctified Ground
"Where you pray, the darkness hesitates."
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- Ritual (10 minutes)
- Steps
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- Resist
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Effect
Resource cost: 1 Salt Pouch use + 10 minutes of ritual.
Consecrate a small area (one room, one campsite, one crossroads). For 24 hours, the area gains the following properties:
- Veil-Born creatures entering the area suffer −2 dice (Pool Penalty) to all actions.
- The Tension Pool cannot increase from events inside the area (violence, psionics, fumbles inside the space do not add dice).
- Characters inside gain +1 to all Fear resistance checks.
Special
The consecration is visible in the supernatural spectrum — Psionics and Veil-Born can see the ward as a faint luminescence. Destroying the salt circle breaks the consecration.