Dukhamarana Moksa ("Release of Agonizing Death")

( • • • • Entropy, • • • Life)                                Tradition Book: Euthanatos, Revised Ed.  67
This form of the Good Death is used on particularly sinful or destructive candidates.  Some Euthanatoi believe that sometimes the Good Death alone isn't enough to dissuade an evildoer; his death must be a lesson in of itself.  The intense pain that Dukhamarana Moksa creates as it kills is said to discourage a victim from committing evil acts in his next life.  Since the spell corrodes victims to dust, it also counters the unnatural hardiness of some supernatural creatures.

By chanting the Dukhamarana mantra and declaring the victim's sins; the Euthanatoi concentrates all of the target's destructive karma and channels it into his body.  The dark karma takes form as spontaneous lesions, rotting, and disintegration.

System:  After spending a success to affect the target and a success to collect his tainted karma, each success inflicts 2 unsoakable aggravated wounds.  Furthermore, any injuries created by this rote will not heal without special intervention; the target's ability to replenish its Pattern with Quintessence has been destroyed.  A Prime 3 Effect will allow the target to heal naturally for as long as its duration lasts, and a vulgar Life 3/ Prime 3 conjunctional Effect will heal a target just like a standard healing rote.  Finally, anyone killed with Dukhamarana Moksa is turned into lifeless dust.  The victim's body cannot be recreated by any means short of the resurrection power of a mummy or by using the dust's Resonance as a blueprint to create life out of nothingness (requiring  Mastery of Life and Prime).  Creatures normally immune to Life Pattern magic are similarly unaffected by this rote, though variations that affect them might exist.

If the Euthanatos uses this rote to kill a victim, she automatically gains one Trait of Entropic Resonance.  Thus, most death mages use this rote to wound a particularly evil supernatural target and mundane means to finish it off.

MET: Adept Entropy, Disciple Life.  You chant a mantra (a repetitive phrase)  and declare one of your target's sins.  His body begins to rot to dust, inflicting one level of aggravated damage.  This damage cannot be healed with time unless the target is enchanted with Disciple-level Prime while any normal or magical healing takes place.  If this rote kills the target, only Mastery of Life and Prime can restore the body.  Grades of Success:  Each grade of success inflicts an additional level of aggravated damage or affects an additional target.