There are many different kinds of curses! The general idea is that you manifest some kind of harmful effect on someone you can direct personal resentment against -- if you're an evil spirit of some kind, the stain of your dark energy may rub off and leave a generic curse mark on someone just from coming close to you.
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Like any grudge, a curse perpetuates a bond between the victim and curse-layer. Ghosts and other evil spirits, driven by their hungers more than rational thought, are attracted to the familiar resentful energy of their grudge if it's close by, and will track their curse victims until the mark is removed. For more sophisticated curses, the link remains such that the easiest way for experts to try to help the victim is to rebound part of the curse on the caster, manifesting traces on the caster's body or spirit instead.
right now he's envisioning, with razor focus, using Heresy twice more: first to follow the path of the curse back and just SLUG THE GHOSTS IN THE METAPHORICAL FACE WITH THE DESTRUCTIVE ENERGY, like a ringing slap of rebuke or a discipline ruler. pay attention
second to try to crumble the connection of the curse between them directly, which would theoretically, if successful, rebound the curse on the curse-layer]
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uses Heresy on his curse mark.right now he's envisioning, with razor focus, using Heresy twice more: first to follow the path of the curse back and just SLUG THE GHOSTS IN THE METAPHORICAL FACE WITH THE DESTRUCTIVE ENERGY, like a ringing slap of rebuke or a discipline ruler. pay attention
second to try to crumble the connection of the curse between them directly, which would theoretically, if successful, rebound the curse on the curse-layer]