Chapter 55: Chapter 53: The brightness of the stars contrasts the terrible darkness of the night

Recipe: Rot of the Soil

Step 1) Acquire a dryad, living.

Step 2) Flay arms and legs. Remove the bones, but leave the flesh and sinew attached.

Step 3) Drop blackwater inside of flayed limbs.

Step 4) Take flayed, soft limbs and fold inward. Tie all four together over the heart.

Step 5) Force feed healing potions to regrow cut skin and bones. (Break teeth and use tube if required.)

The regrowth of the bones will occur according to the new shape of the body, causing the natural magical radiances of the NATURE entity to become tinged and misshapen, as they mingle with the permeating blackwater. Upon returning to the ambient magics that fill the world, these tainted magics will act as a poison, trickling into the stream of ambient world magic.

Given that a dryad can sustain itself from ambient magic alone, this spell needs only to be cast once and will last forever, unless broken.

Step 6) Bury the dryad in the forest. A box is suggested, in order to keep insects away to prevent smells, but is not required.