The Smile of Larihei Heals the Mind Like Milk Heals the Body

[Supremacy 3357]

The Smile of Larihei Heals the Mind Like Milk Heals the Body

The Lifting— Sacrifice

 

The Ritual of the Lifting is different from that of Untempered Fi, for it is the stringent conditions which make for the true, Tempered Fi's creation. The ritual of the Elibar'acal follows, and yet it is sufficient but not necessary to create a Tempered soul.

 

The sacrifice is tied to the Altar, imbued with the magic of Fi. The room is lit only by the light of a Fi' orb in a specially made lamp. Gold dust is scattered upon the sacrifice as the following is read. Each in attendance may bless themselves as they so desire.

 

 

Elibar’acal, elkhel ito narne

il’cruan ay’thilln kaean taliiyh

adri’leh, ullral, ata— narne’ne ito

kaean evarn’lar.

 

The Golden Owl, darkness is upon us,

With pain and for silver, we bleed,

Apparitions, beasts and the wretched walk amongst us,

We are the shield.

 

 

The smile of Larihei heals the mind like milk heals the body,

liewyn'Larihei eltaeleh walehe ohn vallein eltaliyna walehe,

 

Milk is passed between those in attendance in a Silver Chalice. It is drunk by each in turn, symbolising they are worthy of the Milk of Larihei, and therefore her smile.

 

Your body unfit for the milk, Your mind unfit for the smile of Larihei,

Your very essence forefeit.

 

The Milk is refused to the sacrifice, symbolising they are unworthy of it. A blade imbued with Fi' energy (read: Fi'chant, just as the altar is) is used to cut the sacrifice's throat and as this is done droplets of blue will pool on the blade's tip. Blood is collected in a clay pot. The droplets will spin and form an orb of blue light which will become stable (PK) or will explode in a flash of light (no PK, soul escapes). It is required an orb be present to power both the altar and the blade.

 

The Ritual of the Lifting requires merely the gold dust, altar, blade and orb. Everything else is merely a detail. It is the soul which is destroyed used to forge a second connection to the void. It is then channeled into the orb. It is this orb which contains that which remains of the destroyed soul is a vessel to fuel the magic, and unlike in Untempered Fi, as established in the Fi' rebirth lore, must be fuelled by spectral or soul energy. It is as a consequence they often find themselves upon hunts for spectrals. Though, strictly speaking— a true soul can be used if one is inclined towards the immoral inclination of Fi'. The magic can not be used in absence of these orbs, which will not shatter like glass since they're— you know... made of soul and not glass. The precise orb can be changed. It is merely the fuel which is contained in the orb which is so required. The orb itself is the seat of the soul. No orb no soul, no soul no magic. Thusly, it is possible that a Fi' mage could be disabled by the orb being brought a distance from him (40 metres or more). The orb can be taken away, or simply left behind. Furthermore.... they can just put it in a zipped pocket. However, the orb itself is immune to magic acting upon it directly, given the soul bridges mana to the void. Anything which does act upon it dissipates if it is magic. Furthermore— a soul orb not in an essence library, or similar device to prevent dissipation, it will dissipate after it is out of "range" of a Fi' mage for more than an hour, ceasing to be entirely. In this way you can "disable" a Fi' mage for quite some time, until they find a new orb or sacrifice to make one.

 

Other Notes Established in LM/MAT:

• Enchanted Fi' implements will not be in use until further lore is written, with the exception of the sacrificial blades and altars— as they are not anti-magic as required for the ritual.
• If a warrior is strength 1, a mage is strength 0.5 and a Fi' user is physical strength 0.75.
• The soul still whispers to you— though it is destroyed— its likeness still lingers akin to a soul-shadow. There you go Bird.

Edited November 25, 2015 by Supremacy

[Supremacy 3357]

Edit: You can "resummon" an orb by gold-Fi-stabbing any spectral creature. Sacrifices are so hard to come by, if you took an orb it would be weeks. This makes it a bit easier by ET event or something. So if you leave the soul, which is in the orb, outside of an essence library and it dissapates. You lose your Fi and are basically "as if without magic" (sans you don't lose your weakness [so people don't regrow strength, basically]— but all other side effects are lost).