Ritual

A Ritual is a set series of actions and useually associated props that come togather to produce an effect.

Specifics

Differing from spells given the time and set up involved. A rituals can take many forms given materials on hand.

Important Rituals

The First

Main article: Awakening Ritual

This one is useually what turns humans into practitioners.

The Three

Main article: Defining Rituals

Major rituals that let pratitioners choose a pal, place or paraphernalia.

Authority

Main article: Lordship Ritual

The formal ritual that lets someone claim a Lordship.

Known rituals

Drifter ritual<ref> - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.5</ref>

winter connection ritual<ref>“Like that, sure, but more… I dunno. More like you get benefits just for doing the ritual, and you don’t have to go anywhere. Maybe you deal with some people. Some of it was in the collector stuff we looked up.”

“Doing a ritual so the world sends the trash-tier trinkets and doo-dads your way,” Lucy noted.

“Yes,” Verona said. “And some that are like, they increase your claim. Just a big, expensive ritual, and it gets harder to take stuff from you. And you can do it multiple times, but each time the price doubles. And you have to renew. So if you’ve got some crazy claim ritual where the cost doubled up to something like a million dollars, you’re having to pay that every five years or whatever. So you have to be careful. Because failing to be ready when the renewal time comes clears you out.”

“Sounds like the sort of thing Bristow would love, and would definitely do,” Lucy said. “And if you can find it in the Blue Heron Institute texts, chances are good he’s probably read it too.”

“Probably,” Verona said. “And he’d take a ton of safeguards to protect himself, and probably wouldn’t schedule any big school takeovers for when the renewal thing is due.”

“Unless he needs the school to pay what’s due?” Avery asked.

“I don’t feel like that’s the key to handling this whole thing,” Lucy said. “Anyway. Yes, there are rituals that give you big benefits. And they’re pretty much always on, sometimes needing renewal, or a constant power source, or whatever.”

“Yes,” Verona said. “So my guess? Silas has this. And Faerie love the social manipulation and subtle crap. So how does that work with something like a Winter Faerie?”

“A creeping frost over connections?” Avery asked.

“What does frost do, though?” Verona asked.

“Chills? Makes things more rigid?” Avery suggested.

“Or it’s a prelude to freezing them,” Verona said. “Imagine. A big ritual, and it locks things down? Imagine that this kid is spending time around people, establishing a relationship as… I dunno. A friend, an enemy, a boyfriend, a student, and then freezing those relationships.”

“What’s the advantage in doing that to us?” Lucy asked.

“I think there’s a huge advantage in knowing exactly where you stand with people,” Verona retorted. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.9</ref>

collector trinket ritual <ref> - Pact Dice: Collectors</ref>

Drifter ritual - Helps ensconciate the Drifter state.<ref>Marlen was a drifter. Some practitioners tried to tie themselves to a place and its power. She’d done the opposite. She’d ritually disconnected herself from Earth and the earthly at a young age, with the consequence that getting in touch with her was hard. Which was largely the point. - Excerpt from Fall Out 14.z</ref>

Emergent Rituals

Those preformed by the innocent unknowingly and one of the research subjects for Historians.<ref name="Hist">“You’ve been coming here a while?” Avery asked.

“Three years. Dom is from a family of historians. They study patterns in history, to see if any accidental rituals emerge.”

“Accidental rituals?” Verona asked.

“I don’t know how much to explain, because I don’t know how much you know, and I’m not the best teacher. Uh, when non-practitioners do stuff, they can still create rituals. We call them accidental or emergent rituals. If you find a big enough or ancient enough one, you can tweak it or harness it. City layouts forming diagrams that influence economy? Big money, potentially. Patterns in, I dunno, wars followed by baby booms? That could potentially be a whole generation that’s special. They came here to deal with Ray, the guy I’m apprenticing under, so I’ve got the scoop there.” - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.4</ref>

Related Rituals

Living rituals that exist independent of others

References