When the ritual calls for blood as a component, they are.
[Casually. There is so much power in blood. It's been the focus of human belief since times primordial, associated with life, associated with death, associated with so many things. There are few stronger things conceptually.
Spill it and it's still a living substance until the cells die.
Waver's counting on that unique potency to both help power the working and sustain the spell independently of him.]
A modified energy collection array. Been setting it up for months.
[Aka, he's making the sacred fire a mana tank. Which will be the base of other workings, likely, but gotta put in the foundations first.
The rooster screams in outrage when Waver kneels to pick it up, and squirms, trying to peck him with its beak. Not that it's having any luck, but if howling its rage is the only way to express its desire to kill everyone in sight, then by the Gods it will blast its lungs in hopes of murdering some eardrums at least.]
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[Casually. There is so much power in blood. It's been the focus of human belief since times primordial, associated with life, associated with death, associated with so many things. There are few stronger things conceptually.
Spill it and it's still a living substance until the cells die.
Waver's counting on that unique potency to both help power the working and sustain the spell independently of him.]
A modified energy collection array. Been setting it up for months.
[Aka, he's making the sacred fire a mana tank. Which will be the base of other workings, likely, but gotta put in the foundations first.
The rooster screams in outrage when Waver kneels to pick it up, and squirms, trying to peck him with its beak. Not that it's having any luck, but if howling its rage is the only way to express its desire to kill everyone in sight, then by the Gods it will blast its lungs in hopes of murdering some eardrums at least.]