I see. I guess I needed a catalyst for his wound to become really bad. Maybe its trained by the Unholy Hand to use deep-cutting magic like this? Not necessarily tapping into the Beyond. But the artifact, the Ruinous Catalyst, was something that changed hands in a deal between The Unholy Hand and the Acolytes. I just wanted to use something my character uses, to relate the covenant I made to an existing Similar? one.