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Each of the defining rituals can only be performed once in an individual's lifetime. They serve to help define one's identity on a magical level, as well as each providing a valuable, flexible resource for their Practice. | Each of the defining rituals can only be performed once in an individual's lifetime.<ref>Once lost, though, you don't tend to get the ability to get stuff | ||
back. If demesnes/familiar/implement are allegories for where you're | |||
at, your life partner, and your career, then it'd make sense you'd have | |||
the ability to pick a new one, much as it's common nowadays for people | |||
to have two marriages, or make a massive career change mid-life, or (not | |||
so common, but possible to) pick up and move halfway across the world. | |||
But the practitioner world tends to lag behind the real world in these | |||
things. Perhaps in a few decades, with some precedent. - [https://old.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/gjv1at/can_a_practitioner_replace_lost_things/fqnjrae/ Comment by Wildbow]</ref> They serve to help define one's identity on a magical level,<ref name=":0">[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/6kpxxn/how_do_demesnes_work/djnxlzk/ Comment by Wildbow]</ref> as well as each providing a valuable, flexible resource for their Practice. | |||
The three rituals have a great deal of traditional weight behind them; combining or otherwise modifying the rituals is possible, but tends to lead to worse outcomes without that weight. For example, combing two of the rituals (a living familiar-demesnes for instance) will take up both "slots", preventing one from performing either ritual again, but will not provide as much power as performing both rituals seperately and often carries other drawbacks.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/6kpxxn/how_do_demesnes_work/djnxlzk/ Comment by Wildbow]</ref><ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/8hx8vn/a_few_questions_about_familiars_and_implements_in/dyn7app/ Comment by Wildbow]</ref> | The three rituals have a great deal of traditional weight behind them; combining or otherwise modifying the rituals is possible, but tends to lead to worse outcomes without that weight. For example, combing two of the rituals (a living familiar-demesnes for instance) will take up both "slots", preventing one from performing either ritual again, but will not provide as much power as performing both rituals seperately and often carries other drawbacks.<ref name=":0">[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/6kpxxn/how_do_demesnes_work/djnxlzk/ Comment by Wildbow]</ref><ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/8hx8vn/a_few_questions_about_familiars_and_implements_in/dyn7app/ Comment by Wildbow]</ref> | ||
Being products of [[Europe]] and Western Practice, they are limited to Western countries and places influenced by them (such as [[Japan]].) | Being products of [[Europe]] and Western Practice, they are limited to Western countries and people or places influenced by them (such as [[Japan]].) | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
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The three defining rituals are the Familiar, Demesnes, and Implement rituals; three rituals which have special significance for Practitioners in the Western world.
Commonalities
Each of the defining rituals can only be performed once in an individual's lifetime.<ref>Once lost, though, you don't tend to get the ability to get stuff back. If demesnes/familiar/implement are allegories for where you're at, your life partner, and your career, then it'd make sense you'd have the ability to pick a new one, much as it's common nowadays for people to have two marriages, or make a massive career change mid-life, or (not
so common, but possible to) pick up and move halfway across the world. But the practitioner world tends to lag behind the real world in these
things. Perhaps in a few decades, with some precedent. - Comment by Wildbow</ref> They serve to help define one's identity on a magical level,<ref name=":0">Comment by Wildbow</ref> as well as each providing a valuable, flexible resource for their Practice.
The three rituals have a great deal of traditional weight behind them; combining or otherwise modifying the rituals is possible, but tends to lead to worse outcomes without that weight. For example, combing two of the rituals (a living familiar-demesnes for instance) will take up both "slots", preventing one from performing either ritual again, but will not provide as much power as performing both rituals seperately and often carries other drawbacks.<ref name=":0">Comment by Wildbow</ref><ref>Comment by Wildbow</ref>
Being products of Europe and Western Practice, they are limited to Western countries and people or places influenced by them (such as Japan.)
History
The Ritual Implementum is the oldest of the three.<ref>For as long as there has been practice there have been tools to hone that practice. Of the three defining rituals of the Western practitioner, the Ritual Implementum dates back the furthest and is the most frequently carried out. - excerpt from Implementum, quoted in Bonus Material: Implementum Text</ref>
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