Rupture the pattern of Chi energy, doing great harm. Also known as aging or the "Dread Curse of Azatoth". Withering can take the form of fields or bolts of dark energy or bemore ephemereal.
Wound Points taken from Withering can't be recovered through the use of mundane medicine, only time and supernatural healing will cure it. Inevitable Comeback or Immortality does not work for creatures killed with this blast.
Common Metablasts
Area-Autofire, Area-Ball, Area-Cylinder, Area-Cone, Armor Piercing, Burn, Curse, Disintegrate, Drain, Focus (depending on source), Homing, Lingering, Manipulation, Melee, Paralysis, Ranging, Shock, Sleep, Slime, Stun, Web.