The Beast Fears Fire - Jolm

Jolm [Hardship 2]
Impulse - To Bring Forth Earth

The Gulf of Catastophe sits on top of what used to be, within historical record, a very large area of land called the Ketteleye. The history of that region is full of accounts of earthquakes, sinkholes, rockslides, mudslides, trees falling over for no apparent reason. It was a trio of serious earthquakes, all within about 20 years of one another, which caused the land to crumble and the sea to rush in, and no one in Crickton or its neighbors knows a damned thing about plate tectonics or the actual science of how earthquakes happen, so the jolm get the blame.

Fact is, they deserve some of it. A seismic event big enough to sink the Ketteleye into the sea would do a whole hell of a lot more to the rest of the continent, let alone the region, than it did, and prior to that, there was a lot of evidence that there were fewer jolm in the region than any place else on the continent and that those who were there were both weaker and less coherent than anywhere else. No one is too certain why, and it's likely that anything that would lead to an answer to the question of what happened to the Ketteleye to make it so geologically precarious is sunk at the bottom of the Gulf of Catastrophe.

With the exception of the historical Ketteleye, jolm almost never manifest unless an earth witch is making them manifest. When they do, jolm manifest as crystalline columns with visible auras, or as glittering clouds of coherent dust rising from the ground like convection currents. Once manifest, they tend to be, in defiance of most peoples' expectations, very chatty, speaking constantly in a childlike sounding whisper.

Harm 1/Peril [Heavy] Jolm are no more physical than any other custodial spirit, and generally pretty stationary, even when manifest. They do have a power that they use to fight, when fighting is what they have to do that causes anyone or anything they choose within a certain distance of them, to become extremely heavy. When used on animals, this tends to suffocate and crush them, over time.

The Weight
When you are the target of the jolm heaviness aura, face Hardship
On a Hit, you are able to crawl out of the jolm's aura before it does any lasting harm.
On a Hard Hit, you manage to topple the crystals or disperse the glittering cloud and force the jolm to discorporate.
On a Miss, you are borne down under the aura. Suffer Harm as stated.

Are you strong enough to stand, protecting both your heart and mine?
Jolm crystalline formations are perfect little batteries of earth power, which makes them very tempting targets, as interacting with one can give you short-term versions of the powers that earth witches have. For obvious reasons, earth witches are not big fans of anyone they catch using jolmcryst. There are some people who think that a large-scale "farming" of jolmcryst was responsible for the state of the Ketteleye. It is one of the simpler and more plausible explanations.