Mediation- Ritual tattooing. One of the two Practices a temple acolyte will master in order to become a high priestess. A sacred, highly skilled Practice wherein the high priestess acts as intercessor between temple visitors and the gods. During which, she coaxes the subject’s life-force into ink-dipped thread at the moment of skin penetration by blessed needle.
Applications:
Temporary - The shallowest layer of skin is inked with particular motifs to grant short-term blessings, i.e., luck in marriage, fertility, good fortune, etc.These will last anywhere from a few weeks to a few months.
Permanent - Deeper sub-dermal layers are inked with family crests to mark rites of passage, i.e., menses onset, marriage, giving birth, mourning a loved one’s death, and other, less common rites.
Alchemy- The crafting of enhanced or "Altered" items. Requires syphoned life-force to imbue objects or elixirs with certain effects or outcomes. This is a more advanced Practice and will be delved into during the second year of apprenticeship and afterward. Mastery is not required for high priestesshood.
Applications:
Nearly endless. Most common uses include detecting auras, defending one’s aura, creating or negating a certain type of ward, enhancing natural ability to perform other magical Practices, enhancing the effect of any singular Practice’s instance of application, such as buffering a ward while it’s being conjured, etc.
Item of Note: Altered items can be used by mages and natural humans alike.
Item of Note: Officially considered an Alchemy sub-Practice, (although some debate it ought to be considered its own Practice,) objects can be Altered to projectconvincing illusions. While fascinating, this is by and large considered a soft art. It’s generally implemented for entertainment purposes.
Conjuration- Manipulating life-force (usually syphoned) to evoke or bring forth something else entirely. A highly nuanced Practice requiring years of dedicated study. Mastery is not required for high priestesshood.
Applications:
Including but not limited to the casting of protective wards and barriers using syphoned life-force. Conjured wards are stronger and more versatile than those put in place via Altered items.
It is possible to conjure the equivalent of a personal ward using one's own life-force. This application can be used to strengthen one's aura against intrusion by others and will be studied in depth during the third year of apprenticeship.
A strong enough mage can conjure total compliance from another person by manipulating the life-force rooted their soul. Calledcompulsion, this application is considered to be dark magic and is highly unethical.
Item of Note: Physical objects and living beings cannot be conjured.
Divination- Foretelling future events by way of systematic methods. One of the two Practices a temple acolyte must master to become a high priestess.
Methods(may include but are not limited to):
