Sever Force
MindDark- Cost
- 5 FP
- Activation
- Action
- Range
- 30 ft
- Recommended Lv
- Lv 12+
Effect
As an Action, you reach out to smother a target's connection to the Force itself. A creature within 30 ft must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Force DC or be cut off from the Force while you concentrate, up to 3 rounds: it cannot cast Force powers, spend Force Points, or use any Force-fueled trait or ability, and any concentration it was holding ends at once. This is a graver, longer severing than Force Suppression's momentary block — and to turn it on another living being is to flirt with the dark side. The GM will take note.
At the Table
A Jedi shadow finally corners the rogue Inquisitor on a landing platform, but the dark-sider still has a saber spinning on telekinetic strings. As an Action she spends 5 FP and reaches out across the 30 ft gap to smother his bond to the Force; he rolls a Wisdom save against her Force DC and fails. His levitating blade clatters dead to the deck — concentration broken — and for the next three rounds, while she holds her own concentration, he can't cast a single power, spend a Force Point, or fire off a Force-fueled trait. He's just a man with a hilt now, and she knows the cost of what she just did: the GM is taking note.
In the Lore
Severing a being from the Force is one of the rarest and most feared acts in the lore, drawn from the deep Legends well of the Jedi and Sith. In Legends continuity, the Jedi Council could sever a fallen Jedi's connection as a final punishment, stripping away their power. The dark-side technique reached its terrifying apex in Sith sorcery, with Darth Nihilus of the Old Republic era devouring the Force essence of entire worlds, and the ancient art of cutting a Jedi off from the Force echoing through tales like that of Jedi who lost their connection through trauma. The power sits among the Alter disciplines as an inversion of the Force's gift, and because stripping another living being of their connection is an act of domination, it is overwhelmingly a tool of the dark side rather than orthodox Jedi practice. Where Force Suppression is a momentary block, true severance is a graver, more permanent shadow of that same impulse to control.