Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

The priest first fashions a pair of clay chests (or boxes), each no less than one cubic foot and no more than five cubic feet in capacity, engraved with hieroglyphics, working a trait of vitae per cubic foot of the chests’ capacity into the clay for each chest. Then the chests are enchanted during the three days of a new moon using a ritual that takes four hours to complete.

Completing the ritual permanently links the chests’ interiors so that the castor, or anyone attuned to the chest at the time of its creation, may place items inside one of the chests and speak a command word to activate the magic.  Once activated, the next time either chest’s door or lid is opened, the items appear inside that chest, even if it is the chest in which they were originally placed.  If a chest is ever destroyed while the magic is active, the magic breaks and any items “in transit” are treated as if located in the destroyed chest.

Transportation via the chests is also subject to other limitations: 

1)      Nothing living, sentient, or animate may ever be transported with the chests. 

2)      Both chests in a pair must be on the same plane to function, however if they are separated they will function once more when brought back “into alignment.” 

3)      One chest (the anchor) of the pair must always remain in the location at which the ritual was originally cast or the ritual breaks.  The second chest may be moved freely but must attune to any location for 24 hours before the magic will work properly.