Effect
Grounds
Grounds noun - Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief.
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Slightly Zigzagged in The Dark Eye, where demons take additional harm from priests, holy objects and grounds, but the effect is not restricted to good deities.
Source: Good Hurts Evil -
In Mass Effect, Ambassador Udina calmly sells you out to the Council and grounds your ship, despite having been on your side through most of the game.
Source: Nothing Personal - Near the end of the first Mass Effect game, the Citadel Council grounds the Normandy, preventing Shepard from going to Ilos and stopping Saren.
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