The Seal

Effect

Touch a major Veil breach or Thin Place. After the initial Channeling roll, sustain Channeling for 1 hour. On completion, you permanently seal the breach. This is not patching; this is rebuilding the wall from the foundation:

• The breach closes. Reality reasserts itself with a physical shockwave (all creatures within Near range are Knocked Prone).
• Veil-Born creatures within Near range of the breach are expelled back through the Veil. They cannot return through this point, ever.
• The Tension Pool is emptied entirely.
• For 1 month, the sealed area radiates stability: no Thin Places can form within Far range, environmental Erosion does not apply, and the Hum is silenced.

Special

The Cost Beyond Memory: You burn a Memory and take 2d6 Strain. Additionally, your ECHO is permanently reduced by 1: you have given a piece of your connection to the Current to reinforce the barrier. If this reduces your ECHO to 0, you lose all Psionic abilities permanently. But the Seal holds.

This is the Bastion Soul’s purpose: the reason the discipline exists. Every Bastion Soul dreams of finding a breach large enough to seal, and fears the cost. A Bastion Soul who has performed The Seal is revered by the Circle, respected by the Ironbrands, and even grudgingly acknowledged by the Redeemers.