Thread Weaving

Strength of Mind

Focusing on the threads takes effort. It is so taxing that a thread weaver only has a finite amount of time that they may spend on thread weaving rituals each day. This time is defined by their Mind rating. A character gains ten minutes of casting time per day for each point Mind. Your casting time does not stack i.e. if you cast no rituals one day that does not mean that you get double casting time the next. How you use your casting time is up to you. You may either use it to cast one big ritual or several smaller ones.

Performing a Ritual

Before a thread weaver can work any complex rituals they must attune themselves to the Tapestry by using “Adore the Tapestry”. This ritual only needs to be done once per day and many thread weavers perform it as soon as they wake each day.

The Tapestry is fickle and many factors affect rituals. When you cast a ritual, your Mind is compared to the Soul of the target. If it is equal or higher the ritual will succeed.

Rituals

A table at the end of this section details the cost of these rituals. The system mechanics will be described in the lore sheets given to thread weaver player characters. Please note that the rituals listed below are the general ones taught in classes at the Academy. Different teachers may know different rituals and you may research other rituals of many different levels in the libraries as downtime actions. You must know at least two rituals from a level before you may proceed to the next (excluding Adore the Tapestry). This symbolises the need to master the increasingly difficult techniques before you may progress.

Novitiate

Adore the Tapestry: Using their focus a character meditates for a few minutes and aligns with the tapestry. They become aware of its vibrations and may begin to work more complex rituals. This ritual must be carried out before any others can be used and is the first taught to Academy novitiates.

Fray: By plucking the threads as one would a harp string a thread weaver can cause it to slowly decay. Objects slowly become weaker and individuals sicken more easily and feel shivers down their spines.

Watchful Eyes: A lens is bound to a thread allowing the caster to guard a thread. If the thread is tampered with, the lens will mist over. If it breaks, the lens will crack.

Whisper: If the weaver has link to a person, they can send a short message via the threads. This must be a single simple notion. The target will hear the caster’s voice from behind them.

Rituals Alumni

Delicate Loom: [Please note, this long and delicate ritual is primarily for use in downtime] By twisting the threads together a weaver can engineer strange coincidences and meetings. A group of people may begin to meet seemingly by chance or a certain object might keep turning up in someone’s possession.

Lodestone: Using this ritual a thread weaver can create a “compass” that will point to a specific person or object.

Silence: A thread bound across the mouth renders a target mute for the duration of the ritual.

Strengthen Weave: This simple ritual extends the duration of other rituals.

Rituals Luminary

Interlace: This ritual allow a persons pattern to be interlaced with that of an animals or other material. The weaver must have a strong personal link to the target to do so without inadvertently damaging their pattern, but if successful a target may become as swift as a deer or as tough as an oak.

Renew: Using this ritual a weaver may purify water and food and purge a body of poisons.

Sanctuary: By braiding the threads around them, a thread weaver may protect themselves and others close by from some forms of physical harm.

Sever: This ritual allows the thread weaver to damage the threads to such an extent that people and places lose their connection to the world. People may be suddenly shunned, businesses may lose their customers and objects that have held for years suddenly fall apart.

Rituals Proconsul

At this level the thread weaver becomes as powerful as the guild leaders. These rituals are closely guarded secrets that deal with the golem and other such mysteries.

* Casting time can vary for this ritual dependent on circumstances as outlined in lore sheets.

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