The Discidia ritual apparently damages nearby villagers.

Is this working as intended? The journal states that it is supposed to be "lashing out at all enemies nearby", which shouldn't include villagers, should it?

If this is the intended behavior, is there any way to prevent villagers from being affected (e.g. mark them as friendly)?

Keep the ritual further away from them.

Hm, I was actually planning to use the ritual to protect the village, but I can find a workaround by placing the ritual anchors on the edges of the area.

I would then propose that you change the description text of the journal, as I assume that most people don't classify villagers as "enemies".

Thank you!

Use lucerna instead for that purpose.

I could do that of course, but I was going for bloody murder on those mobs :-P. Anyway, please keep the suggestion about the ritual's description text in your pipeline. Thanks! :-)