L2 Chaon and its cursing limitations.

[Annalisa Marin]

Howdy there all. I figured I've been wondering this for a bit so I'm openly asking it on the forums.

Now I've normally had Anna use Chaon very sparingly, laying one curse here and another there. Nothing major, temporary blindness, paranoia, that sort of thing. However now that she is L2 level her curses have much more impact and last for potentially seasons with conditions added to them. With this in mind I'd like a solid answer on what a curse might be limited to.

When I say that I'm talking like the number of times a person could be cursed at one time. Like say Anna really wants to ruin the life of a particular merchant, and she opts to lay a couple of curses on him. In the course of one meeting could she curse him with blindness with so and so condition attached, and then curse him a minute later with deafness with an entirely different condition?

Also, the curses are said to be stronger. How strong? Like being able to cause muscle atrophy with a condition attached to lengthen it out? Causing arrhythmia in someone when a certain event occurs, like shaking someone's hand until so and so happens.

Also, onto mental effects. L1 is said to be able to cause a form of paranoia in someone with a touch. What are the extent of these mental effects? Like could someone cause severe hallucinations of someone's dead wife? Cause someone to hear voices in their heads telling them to do horrible things? Cause anger or rage in a person? Do conditions have to be verbally spoken aloud or can they just be thought of and transmitted through touch?

Thanks for any answers one might bring to this. Just want to make sure I don't screw up with this. If I did it might screw over another person's PC unnecessarily and that would be unacceptable.

[Gillar]

When I say that I'm talking like the number of times a person could be cursed at one time. Like say Anna really wants to ruin the life of a particular merchant, and she opts to lay a couple of curses on him. In the course of one meeting could she curse him with blindness with so and so condition attached, and then curse him a minute later with deafness with an entirely different condition? For the sake of balance, I'm going to say one curse at a time. One curse should be more than enough to ruin someone's life. Remember, Rhysol isn't one who enjoys ending someone quickly and multiple curses can be overwhelming and cause the overall experience to be too short. So, at any level really, one curse at a time. Also, the curses are said to be stronger. How strong? Like being able to cause muscle atrophy with a condition attached to lengthen it out? Causing arrhythmia in someone when a certain event occurs, like shaking someone's hand until so and so happens. Strength of a curse is defined by the end result. The greater the end result, the longer it will take to happen and the longer a curse takes the stronger the end effect. If a simpler, L1 curse is preferred (maybe you don't want to destroy one's life, just make it suck), you simply touch them or speak to them and lay down the curse. Unless you do this often, the curse's effects will fade. So you want to keep contact with the person and find new ways of re-energizing the same curse. Effects are minor as mentioned in the lore; hair loss, bad odor, really minor, mostly cosmetic or annoying things meant to harden one's life, alienate them and cause difficulty. The idea is to plant the seed and nurture it through regular cursing. When you get the second mark, these L1 curses can be a bit more effective and focused. You could for example cause someones teeth to fall out over the course of a few days or make it so everything they touch seems to break or fail. Maybe they become so distasteful to others that they are banished from the city or accused of crimes they were no where near being involved in. Again, the end severity depends on the length of time spent renewing the curses but the limits are increased beyond simple cosmetic, annoying things. They become more life altering. L2 curses gain actual form at least in the eyes of the cursed. If a person fears their father who may or may not be dead, they might be cursed to see their father when he doesn't exist. Think paranoid schizophrenia. (It is not surprising that The Voice is the Alvina of Mental Disorders). They would hear things and see things that aren't there and act accordingly. Of course, Rhysol, being The Defiler, would warp these experiences. So if made to see one's father who is feared, they may see a darker version, more sinister and depraved than he may have otherwise been. Unlike L1, L2 causes the cursed to become more immersed in the curse itself. They start to see the curse elements as being physical, real things when they don't exist outside the person's mind. Again, these are things that should be maintained over a course of time in order to achieve the greatest results and they should be things that lead the cursed to feeling betrayed, defiled and/or broken completely in the end. Also, onto mental effects. L1 is said to be able to cause a form of paranoia in someone with a touch. What are the extent of these mental effects? Like could someone cause severe hallucinations of someone's dead wife? Cause someone to hear voices in their heads telling them to do horrible things? Cause anger or rage in a person? Do conditions have to be verbally spoken aloud or can they just be thought of and transmitted through touch? The hallucinations come with L2. L1 paranoia would be more like feeling everyone is looking at them or that the looks others have toward them make them feel guilty even though they didn't do anything. The cursed may think they themselves smell horrible or even think others smell horrible when it's all in their mind. Hearing the voices in the head at L1 would be something simple. Maybe the cursed thinks that someone their talking to called them a fool when the person actually only said, "Thank you". It wouldn't actually directly cause rage or anger but it may cause someone to become enraged or angered when they are unable to understand why others don't experience what they are experiencing. The curses need to be verbal and transmitted through touch because it facilitates the Chaon being close to the target with a greater potential for feelings of betrayal in the end. Hope that helps.