Granted to Thuja by lingering in a zone of the END Abyss long after even echoes fall quiet.
Aspects of the Abyss:
You lingered after the echoes fell silent and were changed by the pressure of the Abyss.
Aspect: Iron Locus:
- You gain advantage on Wisdom and Intelligence saving throws against charm, fear, and psychic effects. Your mind has learned to ground itself amid psychic gale.
Drawback:
- Each dawn, make a DC 15 Wisdom save. On a failure you suffer 1 level of exhaustion as the residual psychic static denies true rest.
Aspect: Echo Reservoir:
- When you take psychic damage, you may reduce it by your proficiency bonus x half your level (no action). The siphoned pain is stored as shimmering motes only you can see.
Drawback:
- The next time you make an attack or cast a spell that deals damage, those motes discharge as backlash: you take half of the damage you deal (cannot be reduced).
Aspect: Threshold Listener:
- Once per long rest, you may spend 1 minute in quiet meditation to ask the DM one yes/no question about current dangers in the Abyss. The answer arrives as a faint, emotionless thought.
Drawback:
- For the next hour after using this ability, you have disadvantage on Insight and Persuasion checks—your speech carries an unsettling echo that others instinctively distrust.
Role-playing Notes
- Ambient whispers now accompany moments of solitude; sometimes they warn, other times they merely reminisce in voices that aren’t yours.
- Mirrors and polished metal occasionally show a delayed reflection, as if part of you hasn’t kept up.
- Prolonged silence feels heavier; loud taverns feel merciful. Yet you know, deep down, the Abyss can still find you in a crowd.
FROM THE MIND OF ADAM LUCAS
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