Blessing Major Ritual

E/F/M:

This Spell is always cast under the aegis of a pantheon, and only those individuals who serve that pantheon gain major benefit from its being laid upon them. Others of the same ethos as the caster will benefit, however, for to such personas it is equal to a Blessing, Minor. The Casting is used to dispel minor opposing Castings (Grade I or II only), to assure the fertility of fields, the health of livestock, the soundness and safety of a building, such as to slow fires or prevent lightning striking, happiness and safety in a home, and for many other similar purposes and things as well. This Casting is frequently renewed too, of course, for once its beneficial dweomer is employed, its Effect dissipates.

Its principal purpose in regards to Heroic Personas, not otherwise needful of the removal of some small dweomer which is plaguing them, is to confer a bonus in the form of an adjustment to one or two important die rolls—whether related to initiative, avoidance, check against statistics, K/S STEEP, Basic Attack Chance, or the like. The exact application is determined by the recipient and equals +/—10 points toward one desired D% roll, +/-5 if two applications are determined to be desirable. If laid when a Blessing, Minor is also active, then both will function, but in no case will additional dweomers of this sort, including double Blessing, Major function.

While non-intelligent animals and the like do not require additional Heka expenditure to receive the Effect, each extra human subject does require added points of Heka at a 5:1 cost. Individual casters cannot lay this Effect upon themselves. See also the Rites Ritual, above.

The obverse of this Casting is Cursing, Major, and it has the reverse Effect.