A Child from the Stones
(Level-Five Crúac Ritual)
This ritual for creating gargoyles only takes a moment to enact. The Acolyte writes a name in Vitae under the creature’s tongue or on its forehead (sometimes the name of a deity, sometimes the Acolyte’s own real name from life) and what was inanimate becomes mobile.
Awakening the gargoyle isn’t easy, but it’s quick. Building the body in the first place isn’t even quick. It’s an extended Dexterity + Crafts roll. Each roll represents two hours of labor. When 40 successes have been amassed, the body is ready. While many are carved stone or kilnfired clay, other Acolytes have made them out of carved hardwood or even by training thick vines into human form. Rumors say there are mannequin gargoyles seeing use in Scotland, but most Acolytes are more interested in a reliable creation than in experimenting.
If this power is used to activate a gargoyle that was not crafted specifically to accommodate this ritual, the gargoyle functions only for a number of turns equal to the successes scored on the activation roll.
Creation gives insight into destruction. If a character knows A Child From the Stones, she can use it to deactivate someone else’s gargoyle (often by defacing the name that animates it). She has to touch the gargoyle within three turns of completing the ritual, however, to counteract its creation.
Awakening the gargoyle isn’t easy, but it’s quick. Building the body in the first place isn’t even quick. It’s an extended Dexterity + Crafts roll. Each roll represents two hours of labor. When 40 successes have been amassed, the body is ready. While many are carved stone or kilnfired clay, other Acolytes have made them out of carved hardwood or even by training thick vines into human form. Rumors say there are mannequin gargoyles seeing use in Scotland, but most Acolytes are more interested in a reliable creation than in experimenting.
If this power is used to activate a gargoyle that was not crafted specifically to accommodate this ritual, the gargoyle functions only for a number of turns equal to the successes scored on the activation roll.
Creation gives insight into destruction. If a character knows A Child From the Stones, she can use it to deactivate someone else’s gargoyle (often by defacing the name that animates it). She has to touch the gargoyle within three turns of completing the ritual, however, to counteract its creation.
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Level
5