Barren Womb [Death, Evil]
  • Prerequisites: Female only; any evil alignment.
  • Key Skill: Craft (woodcarving).
  • Time: 4 hours.
  • Ritual: Fertility is a fickle & risky part of life, & with little more than time & spite, you can ruin a creature’s reproductive capabilities, rendering them infertile. With hatred in your heart, carve a tiny wooden effigy of the intended target. This requires four hours, a sharp knife, a block of wood weighing one pound, & a successful Craft (woodcarving) check (DC25). The intended target must be a specific creature that you have personally met before. If successful, the resulting carving is of sufficient quality that you may use it for this ritual. Once the figure is finished, all that is needed to complete the ritual is to whisper your hatred of the target into the effigy’s ear, & then cast it into a fire. Once the carving burns, the intended target much make a successful Fortitude save (DC25)
  • Effects: Upon a failed save, the target becomes sterile for one full year, completely unable to reproduce. If the target is pregnant at the time of this effect becoming active, then the mother can make a second Fortitude save (DC25) to keep her child; otherwise, it is lost in a miscarriage.
  • Untrained: Possible; your target gets a +5 bonus on their Fortitude save, & your Craft check’s DC goes up by +5. Knowledge (Nature) to learn.
  • Failure: If you fail during the carving, then all that is lost is time & the wooden block. But if your target makes their Will save, then you take 1d4+2 points of Wisdom damage.
  • Special: The carving could be made by a person other than yourself, but the less-intimate connection between you & the figure grants the intended target a +5 bonus on their Fortitude save.
  • Removal: GR, LW, MW.