Earthquake
Earthquake
Ritual Rank 11
Prerequisites: Divine Rank 9, Quake as a Mastered Prayer
Potency: 55
Components: 3 bottles of Earth Essence and an Earth Elemental's Heart kept within a spiked adamantine cage.
Cost: 2 Karma, 15 Stamina Burn, and 15 Resolve Burn
Prep Time: 3 Days
Cast Time: 6 hours
Effect: You bury the heart beneath the earth, at the location where you'd like the epicenter of the earthquake to be. You then spend 3 days in deep meditation, attuning yourself to the heart and the earth beneath your feet, consuming one bottle of Earth Essence per day. On the fourth day, you retreat to a safe distance (but within sight of the Heart's location) and begin to chant. When you complete the incantation, the adamantine cage contracts, collapsing upon the Elemental Heart and causing it to fracture and shatter. As the heart shatters, the earth around it begins to rumble and shake.
Earthquake creates a Rank 6 Natural Disaster in a 1,000 ft diameter area, destroying most structures within the area (particularly strong structures are subject to attack, Demolition +45 vs Durability). The duration of the Natural Disaster is felt over just a few seconds, rarely giving enough time to evacuate people and creatures from the area.
On the 2nd day of preparations, the power behind this ritual is felt by natural animals within 3 miles, and they instinctively flee the surrounding area.