(TFT) Demonic Powers

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DEMONIC
POWERS


>From 

THE BOOK of EBON BINDINGS 

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All material copyright 2004 by M.A.R. Barker 

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. M. A. R. Barker, 2002

DEMONICDEMONIC POWERS


POWERS 

>From 

THE BOOK of EBON BINDINGS


THE BOOK of EBON BINDINGS


By 

M. A. R. Barker 
ABCISSION the severing of some 
organ--usually castration

 ABERRATION causes a victim to 
become so divorced from reality as to 
eschew meat and drink and become 
catatonic

 ABSORPTION sucking the essence 
from a victim leaving him soulless

 ABSTERSION the cleansing of a 
victim of all soft parts and the sprinkling of 
these all about

 ABSTRACTION the removal of 
objects unnoticed from a guarded place

 AERIALITY the secret of flying

 ARRIVING sudden appearance with 
no prior warning

 ARTIFICE the construction of 
mechanisms of a sorcerous nature

 ASCERTAINMENT finding a road 
to a hidden place or object

 AVOIDANCE dodging or turning 
aside an assault

 BARRING obstructing an exit or 
entrance so that nothing physical or 
immaterial may pass

 BECLOUDING making an area so 
dim as to preclude vision

 CALCINATION the reduction of an 
object to a calx through burning

 COLLIQUATION causing a victim 
to melt or waste away

 COMMINGLING joining the 
substance of one entity into that of another 
so that they share one body

 COMMINUTION utilising the teeth 
to pulverize a victim into minute particles

 COMPRESSION the squeezing of a 
victim until all of his organs become a single 
compact mass

 CONCUPISCENCE causing a 
victim of pure spirit to engage in lecherous 
acts against his will

 CONDUCTING guiding a person 
through labyrinths and even through the 
planes of the many worlds 

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CONSUMING swallowing up 
whatever is offered to him and injesting the 
souls of the victims

 CONTUSING bruising or pounding 
a victim until all of his substances are 
mingled into one

 DECARDILISATION removing the 
heart from a victim and leaving no external 
sign

 DECORPOREALISATION altering 
matter to a cloud of gaseous particles

 DEFILEMENT causing something 
to be filthy, creating ugliness, tainting water, 
spoiling food, and making cities untenable

 DEFLAGRATION the causing of 
great explosions

 DELUSIVENESS causing a victim 
to believe untruths

 DENUDING rendering an area 
barren of all vegetation and animal life

 DEPRIVING removing any object 
from someone's possession though not 
necessarily giving it to the evocator

 DERISION causing a victim to 
become the object of extreme ridicule for a 
time

 DESCRYING perceiving some 
person or event upon this or another plane

 DESICCATION removing all 
moisture from any object or person so that 
naught remains but a crumpled shell

 DIMUNITION shrinking down to 
miniature

 DISCLOSURE finding lost objects 
or persons

 DISENCARCERATION freeing a 
person from captivity 

DISENCHANTMENT removing 
spells from persons or objects 

DISINVIGORATION the weakening 
of a male through a surfeit of sexuality

 DISJECTION segmenting a victim 
into numerous parts and scattering those 
throughout the many worlds

 DISPELLING ridding the evocator 
or his client of a hostile spell

 DIVESTMENT the stripping away 
of any matter or shell of magic from around 
some person or object

 DROLLERY playing ribald and 
ofttimes violent jokes upon a victim

 EBULLIENCE the creation of 
seething heat and incandescence

 EDACITY performing acts of great 
gluttony

 EDUCTION the drawing out of 
bodily fluids

 EFFUSING the giving off of noxious 
gases some of which are perilous to the 
envoker

 ELICITATION discovering the 
whereabouts of some person or object 
concealed upon this or any plane

 EMULATION appearing in the 
shape of a specific person for a period of 
time 

ENGULFMENT submerging a 
vessel or a victim beneath fluids

 ENRAGEMENT causing a victim to 
become so furious that no decisions can be 
taken and a seizure of the brain may ensue

 ENRAPTUREMENT causing a 
victim to so fall in love that he/she loses 
his/her wits

 ENRAPTUREMENT making a 
victim fall in love with the demon herself

 ENTOMBING taking a victim to an 
airless coffin within the bowels of the earth 
and allowing him to suffocate

 ENVENOMISATION injecting 
indetectable poisons into a victim

 ENVISIONING the giving of dreams 
both pleasant and unpleasant

 EXPUNGING annihalating an area 
and leaving no trace of any habitation

 EXTRACTION elicitation of 
information through duress

 FABRICATION the erection of 
edifices for the evocator according to the 
latter's wishes

 FAVOURING causing a designated 
person to be fortunate in some dealing 

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FEBRIFACIENCE causing high 
fever with resultant sores and weakness

 GATHERING collecting items or 
persons in one place at the direction of the 
evocator

 GERONTIFICATION causing a 
person to become old before his time

 GIFTING providing the evocator 
with great wealth in gems or coins

 GUARDING protecting a being from 
attack

 IMPARTING the teaching of an art

 IMPLACIBILITY the creation of 
permanent hostility between two victims

 INCENDIARISM making fired to 
rage amongst foes or within cities

 INCLINATION causing one person 
to fall in love with another

 INCULCATION the imparting of 
secret wisdom related to the many worlds 
and the denizens and doings thereof

 INCURSION enter into devices and 
spoiling their workings

 INFLAMMATION causing a fire to 
burn anywhere even in water

 INGURGITATION swallowing a 
victim entire

 INGURGITATION swallowing a 
victim whole

 INTERMURING causing a space or 
a victim to be surrounded by impenetrable 
walls

 INTREPIDITY the creation of 
courage and tenacity in the heart of a 
weakling

 LIQUEFACATION changing a 
victim into a disgusting liquid

 MANDUCATION the mastication of 
a victim so that no organ remains whole

 MARSHALLING the calling forth of 
hosts

 METAGROBOLISATION the 
creation of puzzles, snares and other traps in 
which a victim may lose his life if he fails to 
solve them

 NECROSIS causing a part of a 
victim to die and rot while the rest remains 
alive

 NUMBING stupefying a victim so 
that he can remember nothing, making no 
decisions and unable to resist whatever the 
evocator proposes

 OBNUBILATION beclouding a 
region so as to cause a fearsome gloom

 OBTURATION the stopping up of 
all of the victim's orifaces so that no waste 
products may emerge and he strangles 

OVERTHROWING turning a region 
completely upside down so that the molten 
crust beneath becomes the uppercrust

 PANSOPHISM the knowledge of all 
that transpires

 PARABLEPSIS causing a victim to 
perceive matters incorrectly

 PESTILENCE creating plagues and 
contagions

 PHANTASMS the creation of 
illusions and hypnotic visions

 PROROGATION causing time to 
stretch out to a great length for a person

 PUNITION tormenting a victim

 PURGING sweeping a region clean 
of all life and even geographical 
irregularities

 PURSUING following after a being 
relentlessly until apprehension is achieved

 PUTREFACATION causing a 
victim's limbs to rot without possibility of 
remedy

 RAISING calling forth the undead 
and making them serve for a time

 REFLUENCE causing time to flow 
backwards

 RENDERING reducing a victim to a 
dry and desiccated shell removing all of the 
body fluids and fat

 REPULSION the creation of a shield 
of defence around the evocator which will 
repel all attacks save those made by more 
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RESTORATION healing both 
illnesses and wounds--but not poisons--so 
that no one may ever conjecture that aught 
has been amiss

 REVERBERATION causing such 
vibration in the astmosphere that persons, 
edifices, and objects are shaken to pieces

 RISIBILITY the ability to make any 
person laugh and keep on laughing until he 
dies of exhaustion

 SATURATION filling a victim with 
liquid so that he bursts

 SEALING so closing an aperture 
that no person and no thing may open it 
again until the proper rites are performed

 SEISMISM the causing of 
earthquakes

 SLAYING killing a victim

 SOPORIFEROUSNESS causing a 
victim to sleep for a time

 SOVEREIGNTY rule over the 
undead and other creatures of the tomb

 STRIDENCY causing shrill and 
raucous noises that will deafen a victim and 
cause him to become witless

 SUNDERING tearing victims into 
very little bits 

TEMPETUOUSNESS the creation 
of winds and storms

 THUNDERING making such a 
clamour as to frighten large numbers of 
persons or beasts

 TRAMPLING the crushing and 
destruction of a region by his very passage

 TRANSFORMATION changing a 
being into some other shape

 TRANSLATING carrying a person 
or object from one plane of being to another

 TRANSMUTATION the changing 
of one substance into another

 TRANSPORTATION taking a 
person from location to another even across 
planes

 VAPULATION the beating of a 
victim into insensibility and death

 VISITATION appearing before 
some victim and terrifying him to death

 VITALISATION returning the dead 
to life

 VITILISATION causing inanimate 
objects to come to life and commit various 
acts 

WARDING protecting the evocator 
or others against other demons

 WARRING ability to lead into battle 

ZOOIFICATION causing plants to 
become as animals with the ability to move, 
eat, etc. 

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