Speak with Ancient Dead
Speak with Ancient Dead
Ritual Rank 6
Prerequisites: Divine Rank 4, Mysticism Discipline
Potency: 30
Focus: Ouija Board
Cost: 5 Resolve Burn
Prep Time: 1 phase
Cast Time: 1 moment
Duration: 1 phase per Divine Rank or until dismissed, dispelled or disrupted.
Target: One dead creature
Effect: You grant a deceased creature temporary life so that you may speak to it for the duration of the ritual. The creature can communicate with any of the languages it knew in life. The corpse's knowledge is limited to what the creature knew in life and it has no knowledge about events occurring after the creature's death. The corpse has the same dispositions it had in life, and is under no obligation to cooperate, answer questions, nor is it compelled to tell the truth. Uncooperative corpses can be Convinced as normal via Social Skills.
This ritual does not require an intact corpse and requires only the skull of the deceased creature. This ritual can be used on a corpse that has been turned into a Mindless Undead creature (such as a Skeleton or Zombie).