Baleful Utterance

A single forbidden word that yearns to unmake whatever your voice can reach.

Category: Minor

Hidden from the sun, in a ring of runes, a word floats in the air, squiggling and wriggling, yearning to be free and whispering promises of power. But the runes surrounding it fill you with dread, and for good reason: this is one of the dread words of the Things Below, a syllable of pure unmaking that destroys whatever object your voice names. Speaking it costs the speaker dearly and risks corrupting the very ground beneath them.

To unlock it

master your fear, forcing yourself to grasp it and take it inside of you.
hold tight as it wracks your body and soul, attempting to unmake you (2d6 damage, messy, ignores armor).
spend weeks in isolation, wrapping your mind around the dread word that now lives in your head.
risk corrupting your locale and destroying your possessions or anything else nearby as you practice speaking the dread word

Unlocked power