Cost: 2 significant charges.
Ritual Action: People probably don’t live multiple lives, to an extent demons are proof of that but not everyone really understands what they represent. It definitely doesn’t stop people from confabulating false memories of having once been someone else. The good news is that regardless of how true the idea of reincarnation by default is, you can tack one on post-hoc.
This ritual can only be cast on another willing person, so if you want its benefits you’ll need to convince someone to do it to you. It also requires a third subject, someone dead and gone (so no one who’s turned into a demon) who passed before the subject was born and three objects from their life: one from their birth, one from their highest or lowest moment, and one from their death. Lastly you’ll need an intact egg from the extinct Elephant Bird (fortunately there are about 40 in public collections).
Preparation for the ritual looks a lot like religious purification (fasting, meditation, etc.) followed by the kind of thing that would have been considered deprogramming in a cruder era. They’ll need a total of 3 fresh notches on their Self gauge (failed or hardened, doesn’t matter) from this treatment to qualify. You’ll probably need to make a few stress checks yourself for participating in something like that.
Place the egg in the subject’s lap and use the objects in reverse order to reenact the events they represent, finishing with the birth. As the ritual progresses both you and the subject will experience vivid, total sensorium hallucinations of these events as they happened. The culmination, successful or otherwise, is hatching from the egg. The trauma is worth a rank 6 Unnatural check for both of you.
Effect: The subject loses a percentile amount equal to the ritual roll from their choice of an identity or relationship and gains half that value in one related to the adopted past life (excluding avatar and adept identities). It comes along with appropriate memories although having pieces of someone else’s life kicking around inside you isn’t good for their already damaged Self gauge. It doesn’t mean anyone from that life will think of them as them in terms of relationship connections or your work but their knowledge and resemblance of these things is uncanny and verifiable.
An avatar who is subjected to this ritual and adopts the past life of a historical figure who is a mask for their archetype may use the percentiles to increase their avatar identity, up to the next channel.
Place the egg in the subject’s lap and use the objects in reverse order to reenact the events they represent, finishing with the birth. As the ritual progresses both you and the subject will experience vivid, total sensorium hallucinations of these events as they happened. The culmination, successful or otherwise, is hatching from the egg. The trauma is worth a rank 6 Unnatural check for both of you.
Effect: The subject loses a percentile amount equal to the ritual roll from their choice of an identity or relationship and gains half that value in one related to the adopted past life (excluding avatar and adept identities). It comes along with appropriate memories although having pieces of someone else’s life kicking around inside you isn’t good for their already damaged Self gauge. It doesn’t mean anyone from that life will think of them as them in terms of relationship connections or your work but their knowledge and resemblance of these things is uncanny and verifiable.
An avatar who is subjected to this ritual and adopts the past life of a historical figure who is a mask for their archetype may use the percentiles to increase their avatar identity, up to the next channel.
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