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The '''Ritual of Blood and Iron''' | This is a ritual based on the symbolic power of the circle as both a symbol of summoning and multiplier of forces stemming from its perfection of form. | ||
The ritual is a working of meta-magic that is a spell that effect and or alters other spells. Its purpose is to record the residual eminations of a formerly cast spell in order to record and understand that previous spell. | |||
Since the ritual is eldritch in nature, drawing much of its power from the Dreaming, it fills in gaps of information or experience lost from the originally cast spell in order to make it possible for the Kiasyd to ''learn'' the original spell. | |||
The caveat here is this, as a working eldritch meta-magic, the '''Ritual of Blood and Iron''' draws upon the darker forces of the Dreaming to fill in the gaps in a unknown and fading spell with the darker creativity of dreams. | |||
= Casting = | = Casting = | ||
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“Everything the Power of the World does Is done in a circle. The sky is round, And I have heard that the earth is round Like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, For theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again In a circle. The moon does the same And both are round. Even the seasons Form a great circle in their changing, And always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, And so it is in everything where The Power moves.”
— Black Elk, Medicine Man of the Oglala Sioux Nation
Preface
The Circle of Sympathetic Lore also know as the Circle of Blood and Iron is a Kiasyd ritual, as such it is a magic eldritch in nature and result.
To understand this concept better it is important to keep in mind that such magics draw power from two radically different sources of power.
Like all vampires Kiasyd draw their power from blood, but they also draw much of their power from the Dreaming. Where these two forces meet chaos reigns and it is from this crux that the Kiasyd magician must forge an orderly working of magic.
Unlike the more stable and staid sorceries of other blood magicians Kaisyd magic can be very volatile and often unpredictable to in its manifestation.
Introduction
This is a ritual based on the symbolic power of the circle as both a symbol of summoning and multiplier of forces stemming from its perfection of form.
The ritual is a working of meta-magic that is a spell that effect and or alters other spells. Its purpose is to record the residual eminations of a formerly cast spell in order to record and understand that previous spell.
Since the ritual is eldritch in nature, drawing much of its power from the Dreaming, it fills in gaps of information or experience lost from the originally cast spell in order to make it possible for the Kiasyd to learn the original spell.
The caveat here is this, as a working eldritch meta-magic, the Ritual of Blood and Iron draws upon the darker forces of the Dreaming to fill in the gaps in a unknown and fading spell with the darker creativity of dreams.
Casting
System