Editing Cairn:Magic (section)

==Eldritch Rites==
The magic of Eldritch Rites is horrific, terrifying, obscenely powerful, and antithetical to existence. It is the power of the Great Enemy, the ghastly abominations that came from Outside the world and caused the Outer War which nearly destroyed all life. If magic normally breaks the rules, Eldritch Rites shatters them completely. Time, space, dimension, life, death, undeath, reality itself... all of these can be manipulated, broken, changed and corrupted. Worse, often those who use this power lack the finesse to control it completely, and thus the magic becomes unstable and can create severe unintended side effects as a result. None on Cairn tolerate the use of this magic, especially the Ra, and practitioners are quickly investigated and then destroyed mercilessly. Those who are greedy or wicked sometimes try to accuse those they would see gone of using this power in hopes of having them removed, and some have succeeded, but too often the perpetrators of the false accusation are brought before the Empress on trial and punished severely for their actions.

Sacrifice: Your sanity, your appearance, your social life, and very likely your soul as well.