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Hexes and Curses

Pain and torment are always what follows those who cast hexes and curses upon someone. This is a type of magic that was created through the dark arts as ways for those who practice dark magic to torment their enemies or anyone who crosses them. They can be simple things that can make your day miserable to complex things that can make your life a living hell.

Manifestation

A curse or a hex are a form of magic that will alter something in the physical world. Some apparel physical and others do not, but their goals is the same, to punish those who have it cast upon them. There are several types of curses that are used in doing this with some worse then others.  

Curses

  Curses are designed for one thing, to punish those it is infected on. These cruses are often designed to make life difficult for you or even kill you. Curse are not broken until certain requirements are meet or the curse is lifted and even if the one who casted it dies it will remain active.  
Metamorphosis Curse: This type of curse often changing the physical appearance of someone, often into an animal or something in between. But sometimes they can be turned into monsters as well. Which often causes people to fear them because of their form.
 
Bloodline Curse: A curse that goes on from one generation to the next often infecting anyone born into it. The effect can very from deformities to certain things they are unable to do like growing something or some sort of transformation during certain periods of time.
 
Death Curse: The curse is simple as it cause death at the end of it duration, these are often given a time limit or a certain thing that will kill the person cursed.
 
Banishment Curse: These curse often cause a person to be unable to reach certain place and will feel pain should they go near it.  
Imprisonment Curse: Often cause the inflicted to be imprisoned in some form prison unable to escape or die and waiting until the curse is lifted. These can have them imprisoned in stone to being sent to a different plane of existence.
 

Hexes

  Hexes are often used to torment people rather the physically harm them, they are placed into a mental state that can alter them into believing or seeing things. Hexes are often broken if they are lift by the one who casts them or they die.  
Emotion Hex: Often causes someone to only feel certain emotions and often unable to control them. Make themselves danger to themselves and around others.
 
Binding Hex: A favorite among those who use dark magic. It causes the victim to have their life to be connected an object or another living thing. Often having pain felt by one another.
 
Torment Hex: Those inflicted often are forced to see things that no one else does, such as their worst fears or someone they care about who is deceased. It can even be a memory of a terrible moment in their life.
 
Memory Hex: The hex will alter the memory of someone, this change their personality and those of people then know.
 
Misfortune Hex: It takes away any chance of having luck and only bad things will happen to you.

Localization

A curse or a hex can be found on any living thing or object and will remain on them until the curse or hex is lifted no matter how long it takes.
Type
Metaphysical, Arcane


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