The mage may converse with a dead entity if he occupies the place the entity died or was buried and calls fourth the dead’s spirit using this ritual. The ritual takes an hour to perform and must be cast from within a pentagram. The mage must have known of the death (by witness, hearsay, or reading) in order to summon the dead’s spirit. He must understand the language spoken by the entity. If the ritual is successful, the spirit will appear and answer 3 questions. The nature of the answers are usually riddles or puzzles but, if deciphered, will usually be true.
The mage can only affect creatures who have died within the past (rank x rank) years.
If the ritual is interrupted in anyway (others in the pentagram start speaking amongst themselves, someone enters the area of the ritual, etc.) the spirit will flee and the ritual will end. |