[Jonah sighs through his nose.] Me, specifically. And.
Tim, there are so many parts to this. It's hard to.. explain it linearly. These entities mark us. In some small ways, in other big ways. And usually you either become an avatar or a monster for it, or... [Food. At the mention of the marks though, he feels a bit self conscious himself, rubbing at the burn scar wrapped around his hand like he shook hands with fire.] To even attempt a ritual, you have to be marked.
Gertrude came up with the theory that the rituals.. don't work. At all. That these entities are too big, and too intertangled with each other for any ritual to successfully summon one single entity. And she tested it, watched the, the People's Church of the Divine Host. They attempted, Gertrude watched.. and it fell in on itself.
Somewhere.. between that and Elias appointing me, he got the idea. That you can't summon just one, but you could construct a ritual to summon them all. And to do it... the person performing it has to be marked.
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Tim, there are so many parts to this. It's hard to.. explain it linearly. These entities mark us. In some small ways, in other big ways. And usually you either become an avatar or a monster for it, or... [Food. At the mention of the marks though, he feels a bit self conscious himself, rubbing at the burn scar wrapped around his hand like he shook hands with fire.] To even attempt a ritual, you have to be marked.
Gertrude came up with the theory that the rituals.. don't work. At all. That these entities are too big, and too intertangled with each other for any ritual to successfully summon one single entity. And she tested it, watched the, the People's Church of the Divine Host. They attempted, Gertrude watched.. and it fell in on itself.
Somewhere.. between that and Elias appointing me, he got the idea. That you can't summon just one, but you could construct a ritual to summon them all. And to do it... the person performing it has to be marked.
[A beat, squeezing that scarred hand of his.]
By all of them.