TOMAGOMB Ritual Spells

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Ritual magic is an ancient and primal art, almost lost to ages past. A few ancient tablets, along with cultural oral traditions, have kept some rituals alive since antiquity, and others have been researched as a sort of "ritual renaissance." It is theorized that the first spells were likely rituals, as they are easy to perform, technically speaking. Even to this day anyone who can acquire some grasp of aetherial talent can perform a ritual within their power limit. The greatest resurgence of ritual magic, however, was likely during the period of the Age of War, when the strongest flow of the aether was stemmed down to a mere trickle by the gods to punish mortal sins and decadence. Rituals were likely some of the only magic that would work at all after the close of the Age of Corruption, and thus major groups like the Karshnak, and the unnamed death cult of old, along with Runic Magic, were born. While today ritual magic is viewed as unnecessary and time-consuming, nonetheless the spells are easy to cast by anyone knowledgeable and less costly on CPD than would be a "fast" modern variant. Ritual magic is almost more an artform than a rote aetherial science at times, and given enough casting time and energy one can accomplish almost anything with it.