{"id":759,"date":"2026-03-11T00:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/?p=759"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:05:05","slug":"baleful-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"Baleful Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"balefires\"><strong>Balefires:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">Storms and tides of strange energies that surge back and forth across the Forge, appearing suddenly, sweeping across systems and worlds, disappearing again, leaving chaos in their wake.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Certain pieces of Precursor tech seem to respond to their presence, but little else is known, except for the jeremiad of woes that they bring to the Forge.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"baleshine\"><strong>Baleshine:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Idiomatic for the unusual abilities that some appear to gain from balefire exposure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"balespawn\"><strong>Balespawn:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Lifeforms warped and twisted by too much exposure to balefire.\u00a0 Spawn are vicious, horrifying mutants easily recognizable by their many asymmetries and\u00a0 deformities, easily distinguishable from the indigenous lifeforms they once were.\u00a0 They are normally hostile and aggressive, but can sometimes be intimidated or even frightened away by displays of force and\/or &#8220;magic&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Balefires: Storms and tides of strange energies that surge back and forth across the Forge, appearing suddenly, sweeping across systems and worlds, disappearing again, leaving chaos in their wake.\u00a0 Certain pieces of Precursor tech seem to respond to their presence, but little else is known, except for the jeremiad of woes that they bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambleon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}