Grip

Effect

Causes an isolated seizure within a person's particular muscle group as a way to painfully restrain someone. Usually, in such a way as to trip someone, or force them to make a mistake during combat.
However, the technique is most known as a means of assassination by focusing on a vital area of the body.

Manifestation

If one pays close enough attention, you can see the white lumping salt that would slowly form around the leg, arm or throat of the victim. However, as the target would assumedly be struggling, they would very quickly break and scatter these clumps.

Source

Due to the rarity of the technique, it is thought that some combination of inner and outer spirit is needed, in conjunction with whichever salt is needed. This is, of course, highly speculative. We may be right. We may be wrong.
From the lack of notice by any reported witnesses who were next to a victim; some can, and have, argued that a master may not have need of salt at all, when utilizing spirit.

Discovery

The concept of 'Grip' is fairly straight forward. A caster connects salt dispersions in the air with his inner spirit and mentally concentrates on a particular part of his target. It is uncertain just when this technique was developed, only that it had been in use secretly for political assassination. There are very few families who have had members capable of it. Families are very unlikely to have shared it with each other, especially given its dastardly sneaky nature. Therefore, it is more likely that there were several inventors, unknowing of the others, who created some variant of 'Grip' independent of each other.

Related Organizations

• Triple Alignment

Material Components

Salt (specifically in the air)

Gestures & Ritual

What is important in performing "Grip" is in subtly establishing a salt connection. It is most common to direct spells with ones' hands. There are standard gestures a practitioner can make but the one for this spell is uncertain.

Related Discipline

• Tetlachihuiani of the Mist Men
• Iztanamacaque of the Alignment

Related School

Salt School

Related Element

Palm's full worth of Salt

Effect Duration

For as long as the caster can maintain his/her salty connection

Effect Casting Time

It takes about as long as the caster can manuver the salt into a viable connection.

That being said; it can take a while.

Range

Most usually within visual range

Level

Expert

Applied Restriction

It is exceedingly difficult when the target is underwater or in some other medium that dissolves or deprives salt (like fog, cold winds, mud or steam).