Rite of the Triat

By Honorah O'Neill (hconeill@cc.owu.edu) for the Breakers tribe.

Level Five Rite

Description

This Rite is only known among the Breakers. They would rather die in agony than ever reveal it to another tribe or even their cousins, the Nuwisha. This Rite is used to take over a Wyrm Caern. Obviously, first the occupants of that caern must be destroyed. Once that is done, the participants cleanse themselves and the area as best they can. When the New Moon is waxing, the Ritemaster leads his people is building a Caern dedicated to the Weaver atop the old Wyrm Caern. When the Full Moon is waxing, and within two months of when the Weaver caern was built, they build a third Caern a top the other two, dedicating this one to the Wyld. The Caern Spirits fight with one another for a full year until finally it settles out into balance. (note: being at the Caern center during that year is a bad idea)

System: As Rite of Caern Building, but the difficulty for the roll is only seven since the connection to the spirit world has already been made, even if it is Wyrm tainted. A roll of Wits+Rituals difficulty ten must be suceeded to make sure that three caerns do in fact overlap and join into one.

Notes: When tapped, the three caerns will now all function as one. Points may be channeled into any Trait as a Wyld Caern. Spirits that are summoned to the Caern are far easier to summon and by tapping the Caern can be manipulated as if the Ritemaster had the Theurge Gift: The Malleable Spirit. All difficulties for doing that are one less than those listed on the chart. After the Rite has been performed and the caern has come into balance, it will automatically shift up one Level from what the underlying Wyrm Caern had been. ie if performed on a Level one Wyrm Caern, it becomes a Level Two Triat Caern.