Editing Rising Sun Eternal: Magic (section)

== Learning a Ritual ==

Exactly how long it takes to study a given ritual depends on its complexity – that is, whether it is considered '''Simple , Complex''' or '''Elaborate'''. Typically, the more powerful the potential effects of ritual, the more complex it will be. Simple rituals take research of order of hours or days to learn; Complex rituals can only learned through the application days or weeks of study; Elaborate rituals can take weeks, months, or years of  time investment does not have continuous block can be split across periods of intense 

There are rituals which, if correctly performed, can create a supernatural effect. Rituals typically involve (potentially complex) patterns of action, chants, and associated paraphernalia. The manifestations created through rituals can be significant, but unlike magic in most tabletop roleplaying games such supernatural workings are laborious. They are typically time-consuming and may require the coordinated actions of a group of people to have any chance of succeeding. 

Despite such inherent limitations, supernatural rituals represent perhaps the most powerful source of otherworldly influence which Protagonists (or their human adversaries) are ever likely to have under their control. As such there are some individuals who scour the world searching for tomes or teachers which can instruct them in such rituals. 

When a Protagonist has successfully read a tome in its entirety you as Game Moderator should provide him or her with a list of any rituals it contains. Not every account contains rituals, and not every description of supernatural effects in an account is detailed enough to allow it to be reproduced. But for those that are present in such form, you should provide a sketchy description of what the ritual seems designed to do. This should be a description in vague game-world terms rather than in terms of game mechanics.

A Protagonist might decide to attempt to study the specifics of a ritual described in a tome. If so, he or she will need to devote time and effort to that endeavor. This is in addition to the time spent researching the account itself and represents study that can only begin when its information has been consumed in full.

Exactly how much time is needed to study a given ritual depends on its complexity – that is, whether it is considered '''Simple, Complex''', or '''Elaborate'''. Typically, the more powerful the potential effects of a ritual, the more complex it will be.

'''Simple''' rituals take research of the order of hours or days to learn; '''Complex''' rituals can only be learned through the application of days or weeks of study; and '''Elaborate''' rituals can take weeks, months, or years to master. The time investment to learn a ritual does not have to be a single continuous block of research but can be split across many shorter periods of intense study.