Spiritual Review

Spiritual Review Mystic Proficiency [Willpower] 400 hours Requires: Necromancy of Intelligence

By means of this ritual, you can channel the dead essences of those who have passed through that area. This allows you to see an event in the past through the eyes of one who witnessed it. You cannot view a scene away from your current location, and you cannot look through the eyes of someone who is still alive. On a roll of 10 or higher, you can vaguely determine the time frame or nature of the event you wish to view. On a roll of 15 or higher, you can determine the specific person you wish to use as your viewer. The scene is soundless, grey, and fuzzy around the edges. Higher rolls grant greater control over the specific time frame or event, or can be used for greater image clarity. For every five points over, you can either specify more about the time or event, or add one of the following: colour, crispness, sound (muted and somewhat unclear at first, clearer if you select "sound" a second time with a high enough roll), odour, or touch/movement.

For example, a diviner wants to see who killed her father. She knows the day it occurred, so she can try to scan for that day, or the event of the murder. She must first travel back home to the scene of the crime; this ritual simply will not work anywhere else. She believes there was a fight, so she wishes to view from a single person's eyes: her father's. Her first attempt at the ritual shows a different murder from much further in the past—a young Hobgoblin being slain centuries ago, where her family home now stands. On her second attempt, she rolls a 20, she can see through her father's eyes to see his killer, but the image is dark, blurry, and silent. She can see that the other person was saying something to his victim, but cannot see his eyes due to his low hood, lone candle in the room at the time of the murder, and the lack of visual clarity. Her roll allows her to either see more clearly, or some other option; our diviner chooses to hear the conversation. She is frustrated by the fact that she can only discern the music in the background, but now knows that the murderer could not have been the minstrel that was visiting—her first suspect. Our diviner has now spent several hours in ritual, and has stunk the place up with foul necromantic incense. She must either decide to continue with the ritual—hoping she isn't caught by the home's new occupants—or use the clues she's gained for further investigation.