An Arcadian Ceremony - Magnitude 10 - The Warheart
Performing the Ceremony
Performing this Ceremony takes at least 2 minutes of roleplaying. This Ceremony targets a character who must be present throughout but need not be one of the priests performing the Ceremony.
This Ceremony is an Enchantment. A target may only be under one Enchantment effect at a time.
Effects
The target character may use Stay With Me twice a day as if they know the skill without spending any energy.
If you recover all energy from an effect, it also recovers the uses of this ability.
As long as they are enchanted the target experiences a roleplaying effect: You are offended by displays of weakness, including falling ignominiously in battle, but will do whatever necessary to help people redeem themselves.
The roleplaying and mechanical effect lasts until the end of the event.
Description
While the desperate call of a friend and comrade to rise and fight once more has been the saving of many a downed warrior, this Ceremony raises it to new heights of effect. The instruction to rise by one affected by this Ceremony is not just a call to rise, it is an unequivocal instruction to do so. A shot of adrenaline straight to the heart, suppression of pain receptors and nerve endings, so that the target can rise and push on no matter the cost or the pain to come.
Those who feel the weight of this Ceremony on their shoulders are quick to chide those who fall due to their own stupidity and angered by the loss of those who should have fought better. This anger, though, is channeled productively by Arcadian to push them to teach others to be better, to help them avoid the same mistake in the future, and to spend their own time and effort to help those who fall along the path to the Sphere of Steel.
Performing the Ceremony
Drawn from The Warheart, powerful lungs and powerful will are required for the subject of this Ceremony to make the most out of the blessings they will receive. They will be asking others to fight through mind-crushing pain, rather than actually healing their existing wounds, and to do so too much risks killing or making permanent an injury that could otherwise have been treated.
Priests might instruct the target of the Ceremony to show their ability to shout from the diaphragm, either swearing them to oaths or having them declare their faith loudly to the world. Additionally, to understand the pain they will be putting others through, priests might have the target ceremonially injure or hurt themselves so that they can feel some small amount of the pain that they will be asking others to continue to inflict upon themselves.