✦ Paradox of the Forgotten Self✦

Duration: Permanent

Restriction: Only those who have willingly broken an oath may cast this spell. The spell refuses all others.

⟡ Effect

You speak the target’s name into a picture or a reflection of the creature. The reflection withers or the picture becomes old and unreconizable, as the curse binds itself to the target’s timeline, not their body.

The target must make a Charisma saving throw. On a failure, the curse takes hold:

✦ The Three Wounds of Denunciation ✦

1. The Wound of Reputation

Every creature who hears the target’s name feels a subtle distrust.

• They have disadvantage on Persuasion checks.

• Enemies have advantage on Insight and Persuasion checks against them.

• Written accounts of their deeds slowly distort, always in the least flattering direction.

2. The Wound of Memory

The target’s past begins to rewrite itself in small, cruel ways. Once per long rest, the DM alters one detail of the target’s history— a relationship, a triumph, a failure— and the world adjusts to match the new version.

The target remembers both versions. No one else does.

3. The Wound of Fate

Whenever the target rolls a natural 20, it becomes a 19 instead. Whenever they roll a natural 1, it becomes a 0—a catastrophic failure beyond normal rules.

⟡ The Curse’s Hunger

Every time the target attempts to break the curse, the spell lashes back:

• They take 4d10 psychic damage.

• One memory of someone they love becomes foggy, blurred, or incomplete.

This backlash cannot kill them, but it can hollow them.

⟡ Ending the Curse

There are only three known methods:

• 1. The Caster’s Mercy

The original caster must willingly speak the target’s name into the same picture or where the caster saw a reflection, now withered. The photo repairs and the reflection returns, ending the curse.

• 2. The Pathion Purification

The target must go before a deity and be purified

If cast as a Ritual

The ritual needs 5 minutes, and if the creature is present and bleeding, the curse immediately attaches; otherwise, the creature must bleed or agree to be cursed by accepting an object from the caster.