Petrification

The ability to change targets (usually living) into stone.

Also Called

 * Medusa Effect
 * Stone Transformation

Capabilities
The user is able to paralyze and freeze other living beings by turning them into solid stone upon making physical contact or eye contact with them. This ability allows the user to entire populations into stone with enough skill and secretly defeat unsuspecting opponents.

Variations

 * Petrification Breath
 * Petrifying Kiss

Associations

 * Argentopoeia
 * Chrysopoeia
 * Earth Breath
 * Earth Manipulation
 * Elemental Transmutation
 * Gorgon Physiology
 * Salt Transmutation

Limitations

 * Eye-contact may be required.
 * Effects may only be temporary.
 * Reflective surfaces may reflect the ability's effects.
 * Some targets might be immune.
 * May require a personal touch with the object or person to petrify them.
 * The effect is not necessarily permanent, Reanimation and Petrification Cancellation may reverse it all together.