Desolation
From Activating Evolution
Desolation, also called Ravaging, Decay or Ruin is the ability to psychically dilapidate or ravage all things around. This name encompasses the use of many superhuman abilities. These may include:
• Erosion Inducing or Weathering- the ability to psychically cause rocks, stone, metal, clothes and other materials to weather and erode (either psychically or at a touch). One with this ability could erode rocks to sand to tunnel through mountains or cause the clothes of foes to wear down the longer the user touches or concentrates on them, and the like.
• Pollution, also called Contamination- the ability to psychically cause water to sour, air to become stale and a whole myriad of other things that taint one's environment. One with this ability can use it to pollute perfectly clean air, or to make water fetid and undrinkable, to decrease fertility in soil, to ruin plants and to poison animals. However, in some cases, the user may actually physically emit the pollution from their body (smog, radiation, poisons, sludge, etc.).
• Putrefaction, also called Stagnation or Rotting- the ability to psychically induce rotting in products which are biodegradable. One with this ability puts an aura around the product that attracts bacteria, fungi, mold spores and other dangerous pathogens to the product. This can be used to induce infection in the injuries of foes, speed up the rotting of food or dead bodies, and the like.
• Rust Inducing or Rusting- the ability to rust metals (either psychically or at a touch). This ability could be used to corrode through nearly any metal object or structure (sometimes even those metals which are not normally susceptible to rust). One with this ability could rust prison bars to escape jail, or to rust the metallic exoskeleton of a superhuman foe. Sometimes the rust can be removed, but that will not undo any damage already done by the rust (it just prevents further damage).
• Sickness Inducing or Sickening- the ability to psychically cause living creatures to become sick; while the user does not generate or manipulate bacteria or viruses, he does surround the foe in an aura which attracts bacteria and viruses, and lowers his immune defenses as long as the user stands nearby or concentrates; or it may simply attract pathogens to surfaces.
One with this ability weakens life all around oneself, causing animals to grow uncomfortable and sick, and causing constructs to wither and leaving death, decay and rot in his wake. The user would even dim fires and the like, along with ruining nearly anything in one’s environment upon coming into close contact (fortunately, this ability can usually be turned on and off at will). If one possesses all of these faculties it is simply called Desolation.
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