[SalsaDoom]

Regardless of the magical psuedoscience behind horror mark, it does permanently make SC pretenders worthless, and its cheap and easy to cast. This is wrong in my opinion -- the spell horror mark doesn't even require any gems to cast, its so low that just about any dippy mage could cast it in short order..

I'm with Twan and thejeff here.

--SD

Edit: Also that sometimes games can run -very- long makes anything permanent to a pretender extremely powerful, and rather annoying.