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Monday, 20 June 2011

What is Essence Splintering?

Summoners Coalesce. Coalescence is the absorption of pure essence into a being. This happens naturally and slowly, but can be increased through a focused action. Roughly 10% of the essence that is naturally gathered each turn by a summoner will passively coalesce into the summoner.

This power is displayed as a value - a whole number. The number simply represents a total power level of a creature or summoner and does not represent any single type of essence. This power is bound to the soul (Bound Power), but stored in the physical (Avatar for summoners). Should the body die, power is lost. Some beings, most notably summoners, are able to retain some of the energy.

Bound Power works both as a capacity and a resource.

As a capacity, a Bound Power level is often a requirement for spells and abilities, noted in the text of the relevant object.

As a resource, Bound Power can be spent by splitting off and empowering an object or spell. This process is called Essence Splintering.

Essence Splintering can be used to create or empower objects.

Vardøger
Avatars can be magically cloned to create an independent copy that will remain under complete control of the summoner. This Vardøger is permanently empowered with Bound Power and will be lost if destroyed, but can be re-absorbed by a summoner (and not just the creator!).

Vardøgers can use a summoner's essence to perform a minor list of actions and have access to roughly 20% of the parent summoner's knowledge. They can learn new spells, but this knowledge is not automatically transferred back to the parent - it must be taught or assumed by re-absorbing the Vardøger.

Tutelary
The raw elemental signature of a summoner can be brought into being in the form of a Tutelary. These are personal spirit guardians that are bound to an object - a person, or a place. Tutelaries have absolutely saturated alignments. As such they can never be tainted or influenced beyond their original binding - to protect their genius.

Tutelaries both project and assist their genius. This may be something as simple as shielding it from attack, or helping with a ritual.

Phylactery
Summoners may imbue an object, binding their soul to it. This object becomes a Phylactery and acts as a storage for Bound Power. The power within a Phylactery is never lost if a summoner's Avatar is destroyed and can further reduce the loss of Bound Power from an expiring Avatar. However, destroying a Phylactery will cause absolute loss of all Bound Power within it.

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