Sphere of Vitium

## **Sphere of Vitium - The Corruptor**

The divination of her genesis, the Corruptor. The Sphere of Vitium is entirely oriented towards Corruption. It’s blight, it’s manipulation, and the mental anguish it induces to people. Thaumaturges plagued by the Corruption have their godly connection to the pantheon severed, supplemented by the Corruptor becoming their monothestic deity. Those Corrupted not Thaumaturges before, too, are imbued with the aptitude to seize their zeal and become Thaumaturges of the Sphere of Vitium.

### Disciple

**Malignant Transmutation**:

The Corruption is your instrument of power. A Sphere of Vitium can manipulate the organic presence of Corruption, wielding the environment for a myriad of purposes on par to an intermediate terramancer.

**Her Unholy Presence**:

Behold the corruption as you were apart of it. Employing Her Unholy Presence permits the user to gaze and travel upon environments tainted by the Corruption as they would see through it. The 'eye' that this appears as is a purple mist, and may be dispelled.

**Mordant Mist:**

Wield the taint, harnessing the contaminated spores from mushrooms throughout the Corruption. Inhaling the airborne proxies both impedes vision as much as it induces sensations of nausea and discomfort

* *A Vitium Druid imparts a restorative aspect to the spores, only effective for corrupted. When ingested by corrupted individuals, a restoration of vitor and stamina will come.*

**Absolve Divinity:**

Blot what had brought her such a dismal reality. A Vitium Thaumaturge may disrupt or outright counterspell a Thaumaturges invocations, furthermore detect the vague whereabouts of them when within the corruption.

**Her Retribution:**

Let her palpable emotion reverberate within your core. Thaumaturges of this invocation may imbue their weapons - alternatively hands - with effects similar to the smite ability of counterpart spheres. Consecutive use of this is liable to fracturing and outright breaking weapons, alternatively wounding your fists.

* *Vitium Druid, upon striking a Corrupted entity, instead results in immediate restorative effects upon them. Disciples can heal small cuts and burns, and gashes/impalations/scalds with a large vitor strain. Heralds can heal slashes and impaling wounds, and burns fairly easily. Prophets can reattach small extremities to corrupted beings. (Fingers, toes, ears, nose, et cetera).*

**(Passive) Vitium Druid:**

Tend to the grove as you would a diligent gardener. Vitium Druids become swaddled within the Corruptions flora - more fungi than man come time. Carrying magnified auxiliary aura that regrows, repairs and flourishes damaged parts of the Corruption, Vitium Druids are able to pacify and communicate with corrupted animals.

* *At Disciple, a Druid will have spotted bits of flora appearing on them, at Herald, vines will be ingrained in their skin, and at Prophet, their skin will develop a bark-like texture, although does not actively protect against weapons. The further a Druid progresses through thaumaturgy, the more their body will react negatively to fire as their body becomes more and more like a fungus.*

**(Passive) Thrall:**

Submission is power. By becoming fully enthralled to the Corruptor, the mind of the Vitium user is entirely impervious to pyschomancy or other psychological deterrents, showing no visual signs of corruption on them. Optionally, the corruption within the individual becomes dormant, allowing them to exit through the great barrier. Whilst dormant, the individual will hold no memory of being corrupted between the 6 - 24 hours prior to infection. However, any and all information perceived by the individual will be collected by the corruptor.

**(Passive) Insidious Armaments:**

Ornate yourself for her noble endeavor. Insidious Armaments permits the Thaumaturge to encase themselves up to halfplate. Moreover, entirely encasing the Vitium user within material tainted by the Corruption still permits them to wield Thaumaturgy.

**Mirrors of the Past:**

Your gods are a mockery and you will utilize their boons for her purpose. With this ability, you are able to pick one ability from your former sphere of thaumaturgy. This works from disciples being able to pick a disciple ability from their previous thaum, same as herald and champion holding allowance to pick herald / champion abilities. **You cannot pick abilities which are anti-corruption in nature.**

* *Using this ability to attain a Herald or Prophet ability will take that Herald or Prophet invocation, not a Disciple slot.*

## Herald

**(Passive) Beast:**

Your ego transcends flesh for her. The Thaumaturge adopts animalistic features, an aberration of what they once were; extremities become claws and talons, mouth an array of wicked teeth, flesh hardened into brackish purple scale which has grown tough and resistant to weapons with strength akin to metal, and abnormal strength overcoming them. Their eyes, now long and adapted for the night like a nocturnal hunter of its prey. A beast walks betwixt a fine, precarious line between a feral creature and who they once were.

**Planesmelding:**

The corruption is for your people to traverse alone. A Sphere of Vitium user can manifest two portals they and others can interchangeably enter to and from within the Corruption, immediately putting themselves where the other rests. The wielder can allocate it fifteen meters away from them, although to go further, the Thaumaturge must manually travel the distance.

* *Heralds can manually place portals up thirty meters, and Prophets forty meters.*

**Weapons of Her Actuation:**

Commonplace devices will not suffice for the noble endeavor. The Vitium Thaumaturge imbues weapon and armor with properties similar to holy weapons, the demented energy enhancing weapons to be on par to cysteel and armor to stratstone. Only two ‘blessed’ accessories may exist at a time. Constant reuse of this during a battle will heavily drain the thaumaturge.

**Corruption:**

You are an extension of the source for the Corruption. Upon imposing your invocation upon an individual after a prolonged span of time, without physically bringing them to a source, a person is teleported to one - undergoing a process of corruption.