The Dancing Dragons Parchment
Artifact: 5
Commitment: 10 motes
The Dragon Kings where some of the first created beings of the Primordials to discover the dragon lines and how they flowed across Creation and in some places pooled into places of power. And that there was a power in that energy that could be tapped into a more usable form. One of the earliest scholars known as the Yautol the Radiant. It was she who began the first cartography of Creation. The pterok traveled across Creation taking notes and compiling it all into a series of books on geomancy that even in the First Age would have given insights into how essence flowed across Creation.
After her journey was completed she returned to her home and began another intense period of study and understanding. She did not live to see her project finished but her next life continued her work. And for five generations they worked to complete the great work. And when they where finished was a map made of the finest paper and inlaid with fine wires of Jade and the Celestial Metals. When exposed to an area long enough the map attuned itself the region revealing all the dragon lines has they moved across Creation.
She created a stylus out of each of the magical metals that could interact with the wires inside the paper. Over the course of weeks with constant work the geomancer could draw the essence together to form a new demense. Because Yautol the Radiant was very conscience about the continued stability of Creation it will not let the geomancer form demenses that adversely effect the surrounding geomancy. And to the extent that it cannot create Underworld, Infernal or Shinma inspired demenses. It gives the power to the geomancer to unweave such patterns in the fabric of Creation.
When the geomancer arrives at an area that they wish to shape into a new demense they begin the ritual that attunes the map the area. By spending a week at the site they make an Intelligence + Occult roll, one roll represents a day of work and they need to accrue a total of 30 successes to bring the map into harmony with the surrounding area.
It shows which lines of essence are dominant in the area. To use a stylus they need to make a prayer roll to the entity that essence is infused with. The Unconquered Sun for solar essence. Luna for the Lunar essence. With a difficulty based on the strength the demense to be created x2. So to create a level five demense the prayer roll would be at difficulty 10, with additional successes needed based on the available type of essence. In an area where the essence is strong it is determined by the ST if there is a reduction in the difficulty.
If the prayer roll is successful the demense forms in a number of weeks equal to the rating of the demense. It was not in Yautol’s outlook to shift the essence of Creation so dramatically and suddenly.
To shift the essence away from a manse so it ceases to function is a more complex task to keep it from exploding. By rolling Int+Lore against the difficulty of the manses rating x2 can they begin to shift the essence. This roll is made every week for a number of weeks equal to the rating of the manse. Once the final roll is made the manse loses power and completely shuts down. In order to keep the effect going the geomancer cannot go very far from the manse or it restarts with the manse gaining a level of its demense back per week. Unless the ritual was designed to only take a portion of its power.
