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A Sunken TabletFront
A big old chunk of stone, maybe 5 feet across, covered in mud and algae. There are Maker-runes on it, barely visible. Runes for the earth, and spirits, and rejuvenation.
The tablet reveals the workings for a ritual, which you can learn if you…
Convocation of the SoilReverse
When you spill your blood on the soil and speak the words of convocation, the spirits of the soil will stir and wake, filling the soil with life and energy and nutrients.
When you cast this spell on the fields in early spring, spilling a scary amount of your blood, mark all three debilities and lose all but 1 HP.
If the steading spends 1 Surplus to plant in the fallow fields, this autumn's harvest will generate extra Surplus. However, you must roll +WIS: on a 10+, there is no consequence; on a 7-9, before midsummer, you must water the soil with the lifeblood of a large, healthy beast (like a horse, mule, wisent, or aurochs) or else the extra crops will fail and the extra Surplus will be lost; on a 6-, the spell works but you stir some dangerous spirit or growth from the soil, or set free some evil imprisoned in the earth.