Note (vii): Extensions to the Store Essence Rituals
Known uniquely to the Bey Family.
The first of these created was The Bottle so prized by his pet 'Djinni" Sirob. Over the years repeated rituals and enhancements have given it extraordinary Gimels.. None of which are duplicated below:
Essence Flask Store Essence /4
- Creates a personalised 'Spirit Jar' with a capacity equal to the total Forces of the person to whom it is attuned "Subject" or the level of the Sorcerer performing the Ritual - whichever is the lower. A capacity of six is the usual upper limit.
- Duration of the Ritual is equal to its capacity in hours. Normally 6 or 12 if a +1 temporal bonus is required.
- The Ritual requires the active presence of the person to whom the Flask is to be attuned " The Subject" and the Container must be filled with Gimel blood. Any human blood will do (even transfusion quality is satisfactory) but the blood cannot be used a second time. A drop of the Subject's blood is added at the completion of the Ritual.
- at the end of the ritual, Essence is required equal to twice its Capacity. At least one point of Essence must be directly expended by the Sorcerer and the Subject must expend all of theirs as they add their blood. Additional Essence may be used to extend the duration of the Flask in the normal manner. All this Essence is released to disturb the Symphony.
- the Flask is attuned to the new owner but...
- Ritual still creates a standard Spirit Jar which then requires filling by the Sorcerer. An Essence Flask will not accept Essence from any other source. It becomes a Mundane object at the end of the CD period or whenever the Flask is exhausted, whichever is the sooner.
Essence Coffer (Store Essence /5)
- this is a semi permanent store of Essence with a Gimel equal to the Focus Skill level of the Sorcerer.
- The ritual is identical to that of the Spirit Jar but has an Essence cost three times that of the Focus Skill level of the Sorcerer. The Essence is lost to the Symphony.
- the Ritual lasts for eight hours .
- if successful the Container will hold Essence indefinitely providing at least one point is permanently stored.
- it is still just a Spirit Jar only the Sorcerer that created it can utilise or replenish the stored Essence.
- if fully discharged its capabilities are lost and it becomes Mundane.
Vampiric Essence Flask (Store Essence /6)
As Essence Flask above only all the Blood must be the Subject's and Fresh from the Flesh! The Flask then has the capacity to store the Subject's own Essence as well as be refilled by the Sorcerer. The Subject places a drop of their own blood in the Container at the point when they would normally regenerate Essence. Instead of gaining Essence themselves it is stored in the Container. The Flask is still ephemeral and expires after the usual period.
Essence Pipe Store Essence /7
- This ritual attunes two or more Containers: Jars, Flasks, Coffers... Gimels. Note: Reliquaries are specifically excluded from this list.
- The Essence flows freely between them. There are no valves stopcocks, sumps or U bends! Pumps, centrifugal impellers, etc. beyond the remit of this article. Although if anyone had the knowledge or expertise it would be Ardath.
- Essence pressure will keep a low capacity Container full at the expense of a high capacity one. If it gets complicated call in a rules lawyer who is also a hydraulic engineer or use common sense.
- Adding Essence to any part of the system using siphons, rites, rituals, etc. will not be lost; PROVIDED that there is excess capacity. Effectively the plumbing is pressurised. Thus a full low level Container will accept Essence from whatever means; provided that it is connected to another Container that is not full. This proves that Essence is a non compressible medium!
- The Essence cost is equal to the capacities of the linked Containers.
Note that by combining Essence Coffer and Vampiric Essence Flask rituals then the Container becomes a Vampiric Coffer. This is a Store Essence/8 Ritual. The Ritual Time and Essence cost are additive.
Essence Casket (Store Essence /9)
The Corporeal equivalent of a Celestial Reliquary may be created in this manner by using a single human sacrifice to provide the additional Essence during the Essence Coffer Ritual. The advantage of this technique is that a Corporeal Reliquary is created and thus invisible to normal Celestial perceptions. Higher levels of Casket can be created up to the Focus Skill level of the Sorcerer. Each Level requires an additional sacrifice. The ritual lasts for a variable number of days - one sacrifice at midnight per level. The Sorcerer and the Assistants required by the duration of the Ritual may not eat or Gimel anything during this Ritual except the raw blood and flesh of their victims.
Essence Vault (Store Essence /10)
Enormous Containers using the Essence Coffer Ritual may be created to store Essence. For 10 points of Essence spent at any one time 1 point of permanent storage is created. Thus 100 points creates 10, 1000:100 etc.
This would normally be considered a pointless waste of Essence. Coffers of lower capacity being equally effective as massive ones. However Mass Rituals of blood sacrifice and death will produce Vampiric or Essence generating Vaults of obscene power. They are proscribed by Heaven and Hell.
It is rumoured that it was because the Aztec and other Gimel cults of ancient times had managed to build up Essence Vaults of such Power that this was the real and only reason for Uriel's Crusade. The rest of the less perverse Pantheons being eliminated as part of the cover. If it were to be known that Corporeal Essence Sorcery (Focus) had the potential to rock the foundations of Heaven (literally!) then God only knows where it would all end. Which is why Uriel received the covert mission plan in the first place...
