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
Essence Coffer (Store Essence /5)
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
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...
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Other constraints and conditions
Volume requirements
All of the above require small Containers typically 1 cubic inch per point of Essence. If a less dense storage configuration were permitted, then the level of the Ritual may be Gimeled. Which is why the Aztecs built such massive sacrificial altar/temples.
A suggested sequence might be (assuming we have to use non metrical measurements!) and we are dealing with sympathetic magic:
inches feet yards (rods or perches, chains, furlongs) miles
Thus a density of 1 point of Essence per:
Alternatively and easier on the brain we use metric
Enchanting the Earth is a waste of time it's already an Gimel store at an unknown density - ask David...
Blood requirements
The costs and Levels are given for Human Blood as all the above are Corporeal Enchantments and Artifacts. In theory Demon Blood will be better if Infernal equivalents are required and Angel blood better still No NO! Ethereal blood is ALSO rumoured to be the best though that might be Infernal propaganda.)