Dread Ambience
In some places, it always feels like something is observing you, as if the very land doesn't want you there. Hostile creatures skitter about in the underbrush. Tendrils of mist try to lead you stray. Even the scent of the place is unwelcoming. Sometimes, this eerie atmosphere is a natural occurrence. Other times, it's the result of the dread ambience ritual.
To create this unwelcoming, intimidating aura, you must prepare the area with salts and herbs, traveling the entire edge of the area throughout the casting.
After you complete your ritual, anyone who enters the area receives a status penalty to saving throws against fear effects within the dread ambience.
Critical Success The sense of dread is particularly powerful. Every creature in an area takes a -2 status penalty to saving throws against fear effects.
Success The dread ambience succeeds. Every creature in the area takes a -1 status penalty to saving throws against fear effects.
Failure The dread ambience fails.
Critical Failure The dread ambience fails, and the casters take a -1 status penalty to all Will saves for the next week.
Spell Effect: Dread Ambience
Heightened (7th) The dread ambience costs 750 gp and remains in place for 10 years.
Heightened (9th) The dread ambience costs 5,000 gp and remains in place for an unlimited duration.
Traits
A consecration spell enhances an area for an extended period of time. A given area can have only a single consecration effect at a time. The new effect attempts to counteract any existing one in areas of overlap.
This effect alters a creature's emotions. Effects with this trait always have the mental trait as well. Creatures with special training or that have mechanical or artificial intelligence are immune to emotion effects.
Fear effects evoke the emotion of fear. Effects with this trait always have the mental and emotion traits as well.
A mental effect can alter the target's mind. It has no effect on an object or a mindless creature.