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.