Find the Best Path

Rules

Performing the Ritual

Performing this ritual takes at least 10 minutes of roleplaying. During the ritual the casters must be in a strong Autumn regio. This ritual targets an Imperial army. The general responsible for the army must be present throughout.

This ritual is an enchantment. A target may only be under one enchantment effect at a time.

Effects

While under the effect of this enchantment, the general of the target campaign army can issue the forced march or desperate reinforcement order. However, while the magic persists they lose any existing army quality - they cannot use any special orders or passive abilities granted by those qualities.

While the enchantment persists, the general responsible for the army experiences a roleplaying effect: you feel a strong affinity for maps, feeling driven to collect them and to spend your spare moments studying and memorizing them.

The effect lasts until the start of the next Profound Decisions Empire event.

Options

Any caster who has mastered the ritual may choose to substitute orichalcum for crystal mana when contributing to it. Every 2 ingots of orichalcum spent counts as 1 crystal mana when contributing to the ritual.

Description

This ritual was entered into Imperial lore during the Autumn Equinox 382YE by Marcus of Endsmeet, the Autumn archmage. The text that provided the ritual was pat of the book Meditations, penned by a former Dean of the Lyceum from the reign of Empress Brannan. Callus Strategos, the author of the book, was known to be a particularly cynical critic of the Imperial Conclave during his life, and made it a point of principle not to allow many of the rituals he codified during his tenure as Dean to be added to Imperial lore.