The spell reached into the fundamental connection between a person's mana channels and their soul and rewrote the hierarchy.
At the base level of magical identity, where a person's mana recognized its owner, [Subjugation] inserted a second authority above the first. The master's will traveled the same pathways that the slave's own intentions used, and the slave obeyed because they couldn't tell the difference between their own commands and their master's.
Furthermore… Unlike the traditional slave spell, [Subjugation] operated at the channel level. It didn't require the target to be conscious, to hear orders, or to understand what was happening to them.
Which meant Quinlan could issue orders to an unconscious, dying woman and expect compliance.
But there were conditions.
