Culpa Potens

Culpa Potens was an ancient corvician torture chamber created during the Tristis-Coronus war by Gaius Incubo. Created with a powerful combination of illusion and divination magic, the chamber assaults the imprisoned with a barrage of illusions that draw upon their own detected guilt. As the illusions draw upon guilt rather than belief, they cannot be dispelled through disbelief; they will persist as long as guilt is detected.
Culpa Potens was eventually put out of commission due to ethical concerns; the chamber's prisoners had a high fatality rate due to the high amount of emotional stress. Some took their own lives, while others were said to have simply... given up and died of indeterminate causes. After the war's conclusion, from the first draft the peace treaty contained a promise that such technology would never be used again. This agreement has carried on through the ages, with even the AVL incorporating it into their code of interplanetary war ethics.
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