geas

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For my geas is potent, and, late or soon, I serve my geas, and take my doom as the pay well-earned that is given as pay to me, for the figure I make in this world of men This figure, foreseen and yet hidden away from me, glimpsed from afar in the light of a dream,--will I love it, once more, or will loathing awake in me after its visage is plainlier seen?

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  • “He means a geas, mistress,” said Rob Anybody, glaring at his brother. —  Wintersmith
  • Or unless whoever had invoked this particular lar had added a manifold-geas to the spell so that others in Coven could also give it orders. —  Triplet
  • She bit at her lip, running through her mind the three manifold-geas spells she'd been taught. —  Triplet
  • Or else she'd get the same result as she'd just gotten with the geas-release combination: namely, nothing. —  Triplet
  • Because a vampire can lay a geas, he can also be put under one. —  Kat Richardson - Greywalker 1 - Greywalker (v2.0)
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