Ties That Bind

Blood is thicker than water, and stronger than any chain.

Ties That Bind is a Blood spell of Moderate Power that causes a victim's blood to erupt from their veins and bind them in an constricting embrace. In the grip of their own vitae, victims are are bound and crushed, even as their prison exsanguinates them.
An equal quantity of blood must be sacrificed for Ties That Bind. The more that is used to fuel the spell, the more is forced out from the victims veins to chain them.

Effect

Through Blood Magic, the mage calls on the victim's own. Their blood gushes out of the victim, either through major arteries, mouth, or nose. Once out of their body, it becomes hard as iron and wraps around them - the more they bleed, the more tightly they are wrapped in red chains. If enough blood is pulled from the victim, they soon perish from blood loss or are choked by their prison. Though strong, the Ties That Bind can be broken and blood once shattered or cut will not reform unless the spell is cast again. Other than hardened and mobile, the blood is otherwise unchanged.

Through some quirk of the spell or the aspect of Blood, Ties That Bind is especially effective on victims with which the mage shares a kinship of blood with.

With blood pouring from the victim, there is no running from the chains of blood and no hiding. The prison made from blood will hold the victim until they either break their chains or bleed out.

In the World

A particularly cruel spell, Ties That Bind can either capture or murder its victim, depending on the quantity of blood spilled to fuel it. Particularly tough creatures have an easier time resisting the spell, but even when foiled it is a painful experience. Blood roils and writhes within veins as it tries to escape, pressing against flesh or rising as bile in the throat. Creatures without blood are not affected, while those with an excess of it may suffer even greater agonies.

Though other spells capture prey or stop attackers, few do it with the intimidating flair of Ties That Bind. It is a favorite of tyrant-mages and those who rule with fear.

Power

Moderate to Greater

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Links of the Sanguine Chain

A Greater variant of the spell, Links of the Sanguine Chain allows a mage to affect a great number of victim. As each victim bleeds, these eruptions of blood bind together with another, forming a great chain that soon envelops the entire group so targeted. Though each chain is individually weaker than that of Ties That Bind, it gains strength and solidity with every additional link.

The number of victims depend on the skill of the mage and the sacrifices made, with stories telling of entire companies of soldiers consumed by bloody chains.

Links of the Sanguine Chain is a powerful, costly spell - it requires at least seven lives to be sacrificed, with greater sacrifice allowing more victims to be snared.