The Eternal Tribunal was forged recently within the confines of the Underworld. The Vulture Who Preyed On His Own Flesh, a Moonshadow Abyssal, crafted this weapon from 71 restless souls arguing against the rulership of the Deathlords. Vulture spent 71 days trying to calm the shades and make them understand the magnanimity of their Liege and understanding the intentions, motivations and history of each individual ghost threatening the peace of death. On the 72nd day, he captured them all within a net of braided tears and condemned each one individually to serve the Underworld for all eternity.

He smelt each of them with earth from their graves and forged them while enumerating their crimes against both the deads and the livings. Days later, Vulture brought Orovei to his Liege, which was pleased by the artifact and asked that it be stored and forgotten as a last punishment to those souls who dared defy him. Vulture refused, saying that he had already declared judgment on them. Vulture refused, and left to find a wielder for Orovei.

Searching far and wide across the Underworld, he caught wind of an undead-huntress travelling Creation, and tracked her. Vulture found the huntress in a Shadowland and gave her the Eternal Tribunal, ordering her to use this wonder against the corrupted souls fleeing the realms of death or mortals witholding offerings to their ancestors.

Evocations of Orovei

Attuning to Orovei creates a Tie of Upholding Justice in its wielder, which starts at Minor and grows one step after each story. This intimacy can be eroded but can never be destroyed as long as the wielder is attuned to Orovei. Against undead creatures, the wielder of Orovei can choose to make a special Decisive attack which follow these special rules:

• Hitting does not reset Initiative to base value
• The attack ignores Hardness
• The damage of the attack is equal to [Tie of Justice + Essence]
• Each point of damage dealt by this attack removes a point of temporary Willpower from the undead creature rather than damaging the health track
• If this attack brings the undead to 0 willpower, it gains a Major Tie of Submission towards the wielder of Orovei
• This attack has no effect on the Abyssals or Liminals, as neither are truly undead.

Soul-Servitude Sentence

Cost: 10m, 1wp Mins: Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-Only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None

This Evocation is a special gambit which can only target undead creatures with a tie of Submission towards the wielder of Orovei.

Soul-Servitude Sentence (Difficulty [Target’s Essence]): If successful, the wielder of Orovei can bind the undead to a task in the same way a sorcerer can bind a demon (as per the Summon First Circle Demon spell). The undead will be bound to the task for as long as it takes to complete it, or for a year and a day, whichever comes first. Once bound, shackles of obsidian appear upon the slave’s wrists (or other appropriate place if it has no wrists) until the task is over.

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