Curse

Art Statistics
Focus:	Resilience (Major)
Cost:	10
Orbit Required:	40
Affected:	Target

Duration

1 Minute.

Description

Places a curse on the target, decreasing the success rate of their evocations.

Plateau Effect

Duration increases by 1 minute. Decreased evoke time.

Art History

Head down, Sundain was lost in thought as he walked along. He was thinking back on his last trip into the Chaos, and what had occurred. Not only had his arts starting failing on him at a greater than normal rate, but they seemed to take forever to evoke--and, his blade seemed to be made of rubber, not steel! He had been lucky to come out of that alive! What was it about Chaos that had caused those effects, and was it possible to use that to create a weapon that could effectively be used in times of need? Pondering, he returned to his laboratory, and began a series of experiments. He tried combining poison and random and, to his amazement, created an art that did not sap DreamSoul but, instead, created the same effects he had experimented in the Chaos!

Sundain taught this new art to his apprentice, Machelle, with the instructions that she teach the art to all the other SoulMasters. Unbeknownst to him, Machelle was an extreme pacifist, and the new art appalled her. She was rather narrow-minded, and didn't understand that the art could be an effective weapon of defense--she only saw the offensive nature of the art. She, too, did her own experiments, and twisted the new art just a tad so that it really did absolutely nothing. THIS was the art she taught the other SoulMasters, while Sundain, unaware of her betrayal, continued to be immersed in his studies.

Eons passed, and a young DreamWright named Fokar happened to come across the notes of Sundain. He compared these notes to the actual physics of the art known as Curse, and quickly realized what was wrong--the random effect of Chaos had been removed. It only took Fokar moments to correct the art and, in the dark of one night during the last Chaos Eclipse, he imbued the true art on all who possessed it. Currently, Fokar is continuing his work on Curse, and the art of Identify Curse, so different curses and effects can be given, and Identify Curse can identify exactly WHAT kind of curse is present on an avatar.

Researched by Minuette

Alternate History

The art of Curse was created by Crystal. But in her dream she wasn't worried about gaining power thru hunting or gaining power In a house, She just liked to explore the dream and learn it's history and what every thing in the dream meant. Well one day a dreamer know as Qwerty was walking by her and out of know where collapsed her. Having several self drawn maps of the dream she quickly found a sanctuary where she could Restore her coherence. She wasn't interested in collapsing the attacker, she only wished to teach him a lesson. She thought how she could weaken him and stop him from evoking all these arts on everyone. So she sat in the sanctuary and all she thought of was how she could weaken him. After she had an Idea she quickly woke only to comeback the next day. the next day she spoke with several high sphere dreamers and asked there help to create a new art, a new art which later was called Curse.

Others liked this Idea she had and helped her develop this art. Around a month of studying and researching she had found completed this new art. The next day she was exploring again when you know who came up and started to attack her. She quickly evoked the art of Curse and quickly the attacker fell to his knees having lost most of his strength, he would not give up and started to slowly evoke his flame. Crystal pushed him to the ground. Totally embarrassed he ran out of the room never to dream again.

Researched by Magnet

Notes

Has no effect on targets protected by Protection or Sable Shield.

Effect can be removed by Purify.

References

• http://www.angelfire.com/ab7/dranak/Arts/arts-sm.htm#Curse
• https://web.archive.org/web/20021031215513/http://members.cox.net/radiance/arts_curse.html