Nightmare's Fangs

Nightmare's Fangs is a small group of heavily-modified and genetically-enhanced high and ascendancy devouts that have created their own unique shadow powers, and tactics that usually revolve around them. This group is composed of veterans, volunteering devouts deemed suitable, or those that have been gravely wounded and saved from certain death.

Nightmare Effect
The "Nightmare Effect", as the group's members call it, is inflicted as an on-target effect by nearly every attack, acting as a temporary sickness in its moderate duration. The effect has multiple phases that go in order, if it is ignored or unchecked.


 * The starting phase will first begin to degrade the physical strength, durability, and pain tolerance of its target.


 * In the second phase, it will directly attack the mental state of its target, while opening itself to be more vulnerable to shadow powers.


 * The third phase will allow the caster to levitate their target.


 * In its fourth (and final phase), the caster of the effect can have limited use of their target's body. With the addition of the effect slowly killing the target if their body is controlled by the caster.

Nearly all of the Nightmare Fang Devouts's abilities are able to spread this effect, as well as their Shadowist swords and modified Devout arms. This effect quickly diminishes itself if its caster is 80 meters away. If within the 80 meter range, the effect will remain, and its phases will progress faster depending on the distance of its caster. Affected victims who escaped the radius will need to wait an extended period of time for the effect to completely degenerate, or else re-entering raidus with it's effect being fresh will continue to empower it again.

Training
Nightmare's Fangs devouts consists only of high and ascendancy devouts, despite being experienced and training at this point, devouts who voluntary join must go through advance training that tests and improve survival, independence, and teamwork. Along with one-on-one duels, strategy guidance, and medical treatment. Because of this, obtaining new members for the Nightmare's Fangs is a length process.

Combat Role and Strategy
Being considered an indispensable elite infantry squad, Nightmare's Fangs are only used in stealth operations, small raids, and defending important figures or structures that are valuable to the Devout military. Nightmare's Fangs prefer wounding and weakening to killing, and will capturing targets when the given chance appears. They generally operate alone due to their roles and to function better with familiar allies.