Consecrate Ground

Effect

You bleed onto the ground and consecrate a Close range area centered on yourself. The area becomes resistant to the Current for 8 hours:

• The Tension Pool cannot increase from events within the area
• Channeling within the area costs +1 Strain above normal (the Current is harder to reach)
• Veil-Born creatures entering the area must make ECHO + Resilience (TN 11) or be repelled (cannot enter for 1 minute; can retry)

Steps

+4 hours duration per Step.

Special

This functions similarly to the Shepherd’s mundane Sanctified Ground but is more powerful (it taxes Channeling and the Tension Pool cost is lower, Strain instead of a Salt Pouch). The trade-off is the 1 HP cost and the Erosion risk inherent in any Psionic Talent. The HP cost cannot be reduced or absorbed: the ritual requires real blood on real ground.