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Likewise, if a ritual requires an additional condition to prevent it ending prematurely (for example, a mark on the face or that the target be incapacitated) then a permanent effect still ends if that condition is not being met. | Likewise, if a ritual requires an additional condition to prevent it ending prematurely (for example, a mark on the face or that the target be incapacitated) then a permanent effect still ends if that condition is not being met. | ||
For example, the various rituals that grant additional production to farms such as [[Blessing of New Spring]] are | For example, the various rituals that grant additional production to farms such as [[Blessing of New Spring]] are rarely performed using ilium because such rituals always end at the start of winter. | ||
==Roleplaying effects== | ==Roleplaying effects== | ||
Revision as of 19:36, 18 March 2014
Overview
The rare material Ilium can be used to give a ritual enchantment or curse a permanent duration. Some other rituals can also incorporate ilium to get additional effects such as Distill the Serpent's Stone; such cases are specifically mentioned in the ritual description.
Using Ilium in rituals
To make the effect of a ritual permanent requires a number of rings of ilium equal to three times it's magnitude, with a minimum of ten rings.
Effects that lower the magnitude of an effect do not change the amount of ilium it requires to make it permanent. The ilium must be consumed when the ritual is performed; an existing enchantment cannot later be made permanent with ilium.
Only enchantments and curses with a duration of Season or Year can be made permanent in this way.
Removing a permanent effect
Making an enchantment or curse permanent only affects the natural duration of the effect, it does not impede other methods of removal or other restrictions on their duration.
This means that, because a target can only be under the effect of a single enchantment at a time, and the most recent effect takes precedence, a permanent enchantment is supplanted if the target is subject to another enchantment even if it is not itself permanent. Likewise, a permanent curse can still be removed by anything that would have removed a more standard version (so a permanent version of All the World in a Grain of Sand is still removed by Transmogrification of the Soul's Echo.
Likewise, if a ritual requires an additional condition to prevent it ending prematurely (for example, a mark on the face or that the target be incapacitated) then a permanent effect still ends if that condition is not being met.
For example, the various rituals that grant additional production to farms such as Blessing of New Spring are rarely performed using ilium because such rituals always end at the start of winter.
Roleplaying effects
The roleplaying effects created by many rituals are also made permanent when the ritual is made permanent. As such, they cannot be removed with the ceremony of exorcism.