Revelatory Light of the Empyrean Spheres - Revision history

Twiggy at 00:39, 5 March 2026

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	This enchantment allows the target to call [[Calls#Mass Calls\|MASS]] [[Calls#PARALYSE\|PARALYSE]] once during the duration. The character must be able to cast spells to make this call - it explicitly will not work if they are wearing armour.		This enchantment allows the target to call [[Calls#Mass Calls\|MASS]] [[Calls#PARALYSE\|PARALYSE]] once during the duration. The character must be able to cast spells to make this call - it explicitly will not work if they are wearing armour.

	While under the effect of the enchantment, the target experiences a powerful [[roleplaying effect]]: they feel detached from their emotions, and their passions are muted. They are conscious of their emotions, but not moved by them. This effect is especially pronounced for those with the [[merrow]] [[lineage]], and they may find they have additional difficulty understanding the emotional states of others, perhaps even going so far as to be mildly irritated by emotional displays.		While under the effect of the enchantment, the target experiences a powerful [[roleplaying effect]]: ''they feel detached from their emotions, and their passions are muted. They are conscious of their emotions, but not moved by them. This effect is especially pronounced for those with the [[merrow]] [[lineage]], and they may find they have additional difficulty understanding the emotional states of others, perhaps even going so far as to be mildly irritated by emotional displays.''

	The character who unleashes the power of the ritual is blinded for thirty seconds; they cannot see anything for the duration.		The character who unleashes the power of the ritual is blinded for thirty seconds; they cannot see anything for the duration.

Beeswax at 21:20, 28 March 2025

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	===Option===		===Option===
	{{Ritual Substitution~~\|[[Materials#Weltsilver~~\|weltsilver]]\|ingots}}		{{Ritual Substitution\|weltsilver\|ingots}}
	{{Mass Ref-effect}}		{{Mass Ref-effect}}

RichardRaynor at 21:06, 18 February 2022

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	This enchantment allows the target to call [[Calls#Mass Calls\|MASS]] [[Calls#PARALYSE\|PARALYSE]] once during the duration. The character must be able to cast spells to make this call - it explicitly will not work if they are wearing armour.		This enchantment allows the target to call [[Calls#Mass Calls\|MASS]] [[Calls#PARALYSE\|PARALYSE]] once during the duration. The character must be able to cast spells to make this call - it explicitly will not work if they are wearing armour.

	While under the effect of the enchantment, the target experiences a powerful ~~role-playing~~ effect: they feel detached from their emotions, and their passions are muted. They are conscious of their emotions, but not moved by them. This effect is especially pronounced for those with the [[merrow]] [[lineage]], and they may find they have additional difficulty understanding the emotional states of others, perhaps even going so far as to be mildly irritated by emotional displays.		While under the effect of the enchantment, the target experiences a powerful [[roleplaying effect]]: they feel detached from their emotions, and their passions are muted. They are conscious of their emotions, but not moved by them. This effect is especially pronounced for those with the [[merrow]] [[lineage]], and they may find they have additional difficulty understanding the emotional states of others, perhaps even going so far as to be mildly irritated by emotional displays.

	The character who unleashes the power of the ritual is blinded for thirty seconds; they cannot see anything for the duration.		The character who unleashes the power of the ritual is blinded for thirty seconds; they cannot see anything for the duration.

Hailmur at 22:53, 8 June 2021

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	==Common Elements==		==Common Elements==
	It is difficult to speak of common elements due to the comparatively small number of [[Groups#Covens\|covens]] who have mastered this ritual. They would include mirrors; bright lights; geometric shapes (especially spheres, cones and pyramids) and mathematical formulae; tomes of lore; carefully scored music with stringed instruments such as harps; careful movement and invocations of raw knowledge and dangerous power. Completion of the ritual is usually ~~signaled~~ by a great cry of triumph or the sounding of many horns.		It is difficult to speak of common elements due to the comparatively small number of [[Groups#Covens\|covens]] who have mastered this ritual. They would include mirrors; bright lights; geometric shapes (especially spheres, cones and pyramids) and mathematical formulae; tomes of lore; carefully scored music with stringed instruments such as harps; careful movement and invocations of raw knowledge and dangerous power. Completion of the ritual is usually signalled by a great cry of triumph or the sounding of many horns.

	Other common elements in this ritual might include the [[Ophis\|rune of revelation]], the [[Mawrig\|rune of destruction]] or the [[Hirmok\|rune of dominion]]. Mawrig is used when the ritualists seek to wreak devastation on the battlefield; some magicians believe that it is likely to leave the contributor who releases the effect more damaged than the use of Hirmok, which seeks to constrain and challenge the raw power of this spell.		Other common elements in this ritual might include the [[Ophis\|rune of revelation]], the [[Mawrig\|rune of destruction]] or the [[Hirmok\|rune of dominion]]. Mawrig is used when the ritualists seek to wreak devastation on the battlefield; some magicians believe that it is likely to leave the contributor who releases the effect more damaged than the use of Hirmok, which seeks to constrain and challenge the raw power of this spell.

Hailmur at 16:13, 3 July 2019

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	===Effects===		===Effects===
	This enchantment allows the target to call [[Calls#~~MASS~~\|MASS]] [[Calls#PARALYSE\|PARALYSE]] once during the duration. The character must be able to cast spells to make this call - it explicitly will not work if they are wearing armour.		This enchantment allows the target to call [[Calls#Mass Calls\|MASS]] [[Calls#PARALYSE\|PARALYSE]] once during the duration. The character must be able to cast spells to make this call - it explicitly will not work if they are wearing armour.

	While under the effect of the enchantment, the target experiences a powerful role-playing effect: they feel detached from their emotions, and their passions are muted. They are conscious of their emotions, but not moved by them. This effect is especially pronounced for those with the [[merrow]] [[lineage]], and they may find they have additional difficulty understanding the emotional states of others, perhaps even going so far as to be mildly irritated by emotional displays.		While under the effect of the enchantment, the target experiences a powerful role-playing effect: they feel detached from their emotions, and their passions are muted. They are conscious of their emotions, but not moved by them. This effect is especially pronounced for those with the [[merrow]] [[lineage]], and they may find they have additional difficulty understanding the emotional states of others, perhaps even going so far as to be mildly irritated by emotional displays.
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	Other common elements in this ritual might include the [[Ophis\|rune of revelation]], the [[Mawrig\|rune of destruction]] or the [[Hirmok\|rune of dominion]]. Mawrig is used when the ritualists seek to wreak devastation on the battlefield; some magicians believe that it is likely to leave the contributor who releases the effect more damaged than the use of Hirmok, which seeks to constrain and challenge the raw power of this spell.		Other common elements in this ritual might include the [[Ophis\|rune of revelation]], the [[Mawrig\|rune of destruction]] or the [[Hirmok\|rune of dominion]]. Mawrig is used when the ritualists seek to wreak devastation on the battlefield; some magicians believe that it is likely to leave the contributor who releases the effect more damaged than the use of Hirmok, which seeks to constrain and challenge the raw power of this spell.

	Needless to say, [[astronomancy\|the constellations]] are often evoked during this ritual, especially [[The Great ~~Dragon~~]], [[The Door]], [[The Key]] and [[The Lock]].		Needless to say, [[astronomancy\|the constellations]] are often evoked during this ritual, especially [[The Great Wyrm]], [[The Door]], [[The Key]] and [[The Lock]].

	<ic>"Have you ever seen someone die of perfection? Have you ever experienced the light of a million dancing spheres as it seared your soul with beauty? Heard the laughter of dragons echoing in your skull like golden thunder, <i>on</i> and <i>on</i>, until insanity seemed like a blessing and death a sweet release? Have you ever tasted a truth so profound that it felt like a bucket of live coals rattling around inside your head? Ever felt yourself struck dumb with insights so terrible your tongue simply refuses to utter them?"		<ic>"Have you ever seen someone die of perfection? Have you ever experienced the light of a million dancing spheres as it seared your soul with beauty? Heard the laughter of dragons echoing in your skull like golden thunder, <i>on</i> and <i>on</i>, until insanity seemed like a blessing and death a sweet release? Have you ever tasted a truth so profound that it felt like a bucket of live coals rattling around inside your head? Ever felt yourself struck dumb with insights so terrible your tongue simply refuses to utter them?"

Rafferty: /* Option */ Mass reffect

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	===Option===		===Option===
	{{Ritual Substitution\|[[Materials#Weltsilver\|weltsilver]]\|ingots}}		{{Ritual Substitution\|[[Materials#Weltsilver\|weltsilver]]\|ingots}}
			{{Mass Ref-effect}}

	==Description==		==Description==

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	===Additional Targets===		===Additional Targets===
	The ritual can affect additional characters from the same [[Groups#Covens\|coven]]. Each additional character increases the magnitude of the spell by 25. Additional characters must be present throughout, and each must [[Rituals#Contributors\|contribute]] to the performance of the ritual.		The ritual can affect additional characters from the same [[Groups#Covens\|coven]]. Each additional character increases the magnitude of the spell by 100. Additional characters must be present throughout, and each must [[Rituals#Contributors\|contribute]] to the performance of the ritual.

	===Option===		===Option===

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	===Effects===		===Effects===
	This enchantment allows the target to call [[Calls#MASS\|MASS]] [[Calls#PARALYSE\|PARALYSE]] once during the duration.		This enchantment allows the target to call [[Calls#MASS\|MASS]] [[Calls#PARALYSE\|PARALYSE]] once during the duration. The character must be able to cast spells to make this call - it explicitly will not work if they are wearing armour.

	While under the effect of the enchantment, the target experiences a powerful role-playing effect: they feel detached from their emotions, and their passions are muted. They are conscious of their emotions, but not moved by them. This effect is especially pronounced for those with the [[merrow]] [[lineage]], and they may find they have additional difficulty understanding the emotional states of others, perhaps even going so far as to be mildly irritated by emotional displays.		While under the effect of the enchantment, the target experiences a powerful role-playing effect: they feel detached from their emotions, and their passions are muted. They are conscious of their emotions, but not moved by them. This effect is especially pronounced for those with the [[merrow]] [[lineage]], and they may find they have additional difficulty understanding the emotional states of others, perhaps even going so far as to be mildly irritated by emotional displays.

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	This enchantment allows the target to call [[Calls#MASS\|MASS]] [[Calls#~~ENTANGLE~~\|~~ENTANGLE~~]] once during the duration.		This enchantment allows the target to call [[Calls#MASS\|MASS]] [[Calls#PARALYSE\|PARALYSE]] once during the duration.

	While under the effect of the enchantment, the target experiences a powerful role-playing effect: they feel detached from their emotions, and their passions are muted. They are conscious of their emotions, but not moved by them. This effect is especially pronounced for those with the [[merrow]] [[lineage]], and they may find they have additional difficulty understanding the emotional states of others, perhaps even going so far as to be mildly irritated by emotional displays.		While under the effect of the enchantment, the target experiences a powerful role-playing effect: they feel detached from their emotions, and their passions are muted. They are conscious of their emotions, but not moved by them. This effect is especially pronounced for those with the [[merrow]] [[lineage]], and they may find they have additional difficulty understanding the emotional states of others, perhaps even going so far as to be mildly irritated by emotional displays.

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	{{Season\|Day\|150}}		{{Season\|Day\|150}}
	===Performing the Ritual===		===Performing the Ritual===
	{{Casting time\|2}} The ~~ritual targets~~ a ~~single mage~~ [[~~Weapons & Armour~~#~~Implements~~\|~~implement~~]] ~~which must be present during~~ the ritual.		{{Casting time\|2}} {{Target Character}} The target character must be a [[Rituals#Contributors\|contributor]] participating in the performance of the ritual.

			{{enchantment}}
	===Effects===		===Effects===
			This enchantment allows the target to call [[Calls#MASS\|MASS]] [[Calls#ENTANGLE\|ENTANGLE]] once during the duration.

	~~The power~~ of the ~~ritual~~ is ~~stored in~~ the [[~~Weapons & Armour#Implements\|implement~~]] ~~targeted by the ritual. Any one of the~~ [[~~Rituals#Contributors\|contributors~~]] ~~can unleash~~ the ~~power~~ of ~~the ritual while holding the implement~~ to ~~allow them to call [[Calls#MASS\|MASS]] [[Calls#PARALYSIS\|PARALYSIS]]~~.		While under the effect of the enchantment, the target experiences a powerful role-playing effect: they feel detached from their emotions, and their passions are muted. They are conscious of their emotions, but not moved by them. This effect is especially pronounced for those with the [[merrow]] [[lineage]], and they may find they have additional difficulty understanding the emotional states of others, perhaps even going so far as to be mildly irritated by emotional displays.

	The character who unleashes the power of the ritual is ~~struck with a potent curse, and may be~~ blinded.		The character who unleashes the power of the ritual is blinded for thirty seconds; they cannot see anything for the duration.

	The power of the ritual can be invoked only once.		{{Day Duration}} The power of the ritual can be invoked only ''once'' during this time.

	~~{{Ten Minute Power}}~~		===Additional Targets===
			The ritual can affect additional characters from the same [[Groups#Covens\|coven]]. Each additional character increases the magnitude of the spell by 25. Additional characters must be present throughout, and each must [[Rituals#Contributors\|contribute]] to the performance of the ritual.
	===Additional ~~Uses~~===
	The ritual can ~~be used to place more than one use into~~ the ~~target implement~~. Each additional ~~use~~ increases the magnitude of the spell by ~~100~~. ~~Any uses left over are lost at~~ the ~~end~~ of the ~~ten minutes. You cannot charge up more than one implement with this~~ ritual.

	===Option===		===Option===
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	==Description==		==Description==
			This battlefield ritual allows a powerful magical attack to be unleashed against a group of enemies, freezing them in place for a dozen heartbeats allowing them to be easily butchered. As with [[Inescapable Chains of Bitter Glass]], the effectiveness of the magic depends almost entirely on the discipline and decisive action of those accompanying the magician, but the ten seconds that all the targets are completely incapable of action it should be possible to defeat practically any opponent.

	This battlefield ritual allows a powerful magical attack to be unleashed against a group of enemies, freezing them in place for a dozen heartbeats allowing them to be easily butchered. Like similar rituals, the attack is temporarily stored in a [[Weapons & Armour#Rods\|rod]], [[Weapons & Armour#Staff\|staff]] or [[Weapons & Armour#Wands\|wand]], and then unleashed at the most tactical moment.		The ritualist who unleashes the power of this magnitude is stuck temporarily blind, and may suffer other side effects. For a few moments, they perceive a limitless expanse of knowledge and cosmic awareness. The experience rarely lasts more than a second or so, but it can leave them mentally scarred and unstable, their sanity blasted and their mental stability crumbing. Very rarely, if they survive this experience, they may recall a momentary fragment of useful information but usually they are simply blasted by the powers unleashed.

	The ritualist who unleashes the power of this magnitude is ~~usually~~ stuck temporarily blind, and may suffer other side effects. For a few moments, they perceive a limitless expanse of knowledge and cosmic awareness. The experience rarely lasts more than a second or so, but it can leave them mentally scarred and unstable, their sanity blasted and their mental stability crumbing. Very rarely, if they survive this experience, they may recall a momentary fragment of useful information but usually they are simply blasted by the powers unleashed.

	The ritual is rarely used in the Empire due to the difficulty of finding the best moment to unleash it, where it will provide sufficient tactical advantage to make up for the ruinous cost and the devastation it can wreak on the ritualist who unleashes it.		The ritual is rarely used in the Empire due to the difficulty of finding the best moment to unleash it, where it will provide sufficient tactical advantage to make up for the ruinous cost and the devastation it can wreak on the ritualist who unleashes it.
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	==Common Elements==		==Common Elements==
	It is difficult to speak of common elements due to the comparatively small number of [[Groups#Covens\|covens]] who have mastered this ritual. They would include mirrors; bright lights; geometric shapes (especially spheres, cones and pyramids) and mathematical formulae; tomes of lore; carefully scored music with stringed instruments such as harps; careful movement and invocations of raw knowledge and dangerous power. Completion of the ritual is usually signaled by a great cry of triumph or the sounding of many horns.		It is difficult to speak of common elements due to the comparatively small number of [[Groups#Covens\|covens]] who have mastered this ritual. They would include mirrors; bright lights; geometric shapes (especially spheres, cones and pyramids) and mathematical formulae; tomes of lore; carefully scored music with stringed instruments such as harps; careful movement and invocations of raw knowledge and dangerous power. Completion of the ritual is usually signaled by a great cry of triumph or the sounding of many horns.

	The focus of this ritual is an implement, and the role it plays in the ritual can be quite important. Some ritualists take it in turn to hold the implement, passing it back and forth in an inticate pattern as the strength of the ritual grows. Others place the implement in the middle of the ritual and move around it, touching it with their hands and magic as they increase the power of the ritual, focusing beams of light on it and touching ingots of weltsilver to it as they invoke their magic.

	Other common elements in this ritual might include the [[Ophis\|rune of revelation]], the [[Mawrig\|rune of destruction]] or the [[Hirmok\|rune of dominion]]. Mawrig is used when the ritualists seek to wreak devastation on the battlefield; some magicians believe that it is likely to leave the contributor who releases the effect more damaged than the use of Hirmok, which seeks to constrain and challenge the raw power of this spell.		Other common elements in this ritual might include the [[Ophis\|rune of revelation]], the [[Mawrig\|rune of destruction]] or the [[Hirmok\|rune of dominion]]. Mawrig is used when the ritualists seek to wreak devastation on the battlefield; some magicians believe that it is likely to leave the contributor who releases the effect more damaged than the use of Hirmok, which seeks to constrain and challenge the raw power of this spell.
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	Needless to say, [[astronomancy\|the constellations]] are often evoked during this ritual, especially [[The Great Dragon]], [[The Door]], [[The Key]] and [[The Lock]].		Needless to say, [[astronomancy\|the constellations]] are often evoked during this ritual, especially [[The Great Dragon]], [[The Door]], [[The Key]] and [[The Lock]].

	~~<!--- flavour. --->~~		<ic>"Have you ever seen someone die of perfection? Have you ever experienced the light of a million dancing spheres as it seared your soul with beauty? Heard the laughter of dragons echoing in your skull like golden thunder, <i>on</i> and <i>on</i>, until insanity seemed like a blessing and death a sweet release? Have you ever tasted a truth so profound that it felt like a bucket of live coals rattling around inside your head? Ever felt yourself struck dumb with insights so terrible your tongue simply refuses to utter them?"

	<ic>"Have you ever seen ~~a man~~ die of perfection? Have you ever experienced the light of a million dancing spheres as it seared your soul with beauty? Heard the laughter of dragons echoing in your skull like golden thunder, <i>on</i> and <i>on</i>, until insanity seemed like a blessing and death a sweet release? Have you ever tasted a truth so profound that it felt like a bucket of live coals rattling around inside your head? Ever felt yourself struck dumb with insights so terrible your tongue simply refuses to utter them?"

	The old woman with glared down at the young boy, poking him with one bony finger to punctuate each question.		The old woman with glared down at the young boy, poking him with one bony finger to punctuate each question.