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Throughout history, many cultures have infused their funerary traditions with food. From modest funeral biscuits to lavish potluck offerings, the living celebrate those they have lost by nourishing the grieving people left behind. This ritual draws on the emotional power of such offerings, allowing them to nurture the spirits of the dead in lieu of the living.

This ritual requires you to obtain food or drink that was recently gifted to those grieving the loss of a loved one as a gesture of sympathy. The food must be sufficiently fresh that a normal mortal would find it edible, and you cannot prepare the food yourself – you must obtain it from a grieving mortal. Leftovers are fine in this case.

Spend 1 point of Blood while ritually intoning an invitation for spirits of the dead to come and feast on the offered food. Any wraith capable of hearing your invitation may choose to heed your call; for this reason, many necromancers carefully select and prepare the site at which this ritual is cast. Once the ritual is cast, for the next hour the food’s presence is duplicated in the Shadowlands and wraiths may interact with it, typically by eating and drinking it – relishing in sensory pleasures typically denied to the dead. In the material realm, the ritual food wastes away as the wraiths consume its nourishing qualities in the form of spiritual energy. If the target food is moved more than six steps from the location at which the ritual was cast, the ritual fails, and its effects immediately end.

From the participating ghosts, you may target a number of wraiths equal to your dots in the Occult skill. Each wraith that spends at least five minutes consuming the ritually empowered food regains a number of points of Pathos equal to twice the number of dots you possess in the Occult skill. The regained Pathos cannot exceed the maximum amount of Pathos the wraith can hold in its Pathos pool. 

For example, if the necromancer has an Occult skill of 4, each of the selected participating wraiths can regain up to 8 points of Pathos. A participating wraith that already had 3 points of Pathos in its pool can regain 7 points of Pathos from this ritual, up to its maximum Pathos pool of 10.