Esoteric Philosophies of the Bond

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A tome assembled of wildly diverse covers and papers and other compounds that should not work as one, yet somehow they do.

Ritual

Fasten the Bond. Keep the object of your closest connection—be they thing or person—in intimate proximity, whether worn against your bosom or tied to while both chewing on a lump of hard cheese. Look into the other's very being until you memorize its molecular network down to the deepest node. All going well this takes about an hour.

• Critical failure: One of your limbs loses its rigidity for a day and turns into a useless fleshy sack.

Cantrip

Conglutinate Phenomenon. Hold two things together for 10 seconds while incanting a passage from this book and they become inexorably conjoined for a scene.

Spells

Ferocious Fetter Fulmination. Using a substance with ionic crystalline structures such as tears or sundry minerals, take your time to draw a precise three-dimensional lattice about 1 meter in diameter upon a surface. Embed a trigger condition of your choosing within the lattice in orphic runes. When the condition comes to pass, the structures explode violently, dealing destruction and 4d8 Brawn damage to all and everything nearby.

Vicissitude. In your hands all flesh, sinews, bone, and offal is malleable as putty. Reshape parts of a willing or helpless target at will. Take care that the resulting shape remains physically viable and operable. Such an operation is more art than science but inevitably comes with both profound pain and prolonged recovery times. Estimate 1d4 wounds per full limb transformed, e.g. an arm bifurcated into a giant claw. Smaller changes require more negligible healing times.

Quantum Entanglement. In this hour-long ritual two willing or helpless people, or two human-sized or smaller items are permanently entangled on a ultracosmic level, such that anything that happens to one always also happens to the other, and all knowledge and awareness between them is one and the same. For the ritual they need to touch, but afterwards distance, dimensions, time, and universes are irrelevant. For all intents and purposes they are one and the same thing in two places.

Metensomatosis. The passing of the id or the soul into another vessel before or after death. This ritual takes 13 days at least as well as a willing or helpless source that must be present for the full duration, and a suitable vessel of course. The caster may choose to perform the transference of the soul at the end of the ritual, or at the predetermined juncture, such as the source's death or the utterance of a particular passage. At that point the source becomes but lifeless organic material.