Apsu Portal

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The people of southern Mesopotamia believed that all lakes and rivers connected to an underground ocean of fresh water called Apsu. Their temples symbolized these life-giving waters with a large tank of holy water, which they also called an apsu. Sorcerers can exploit this myth of the connection of all fresh waters to travel around the world.
System: This ritual requires an apsu tank, properly consecrated through prayers and sacrifices to Enki, the god of the subterranean sea and master of all magic. In the ritual itself, the magician pours a pint of rose oil and one blood point's worth of her own vitae into the apsu. She also adds a phial of water from another body of fresh water anywhere in the world. Then one person (the magician or anyone else) can jump into the apsu and instantly emerge from that other body of fresh water. The Assamites like to tell the story of an assassin who reached a well-guarded victim after he bribed a pool-cleaner to bring him a sample of water from the elder's subterranean swimming pool.