The Three Communions
Three ancient approaches to supernatural power: Holy, Blood and Dark. Three answers to one question.
Ancient practitioners developed three ways to touch what lies beyond ordinary existence. They are not three unrelated schools of fantasy magic. They are three attempts at the same mystery, with three different prices.
Holy Communion
Preservation, restoration, protection and restraint. The disciplined use of power. It asks for endurance.
Blood Communion
Power through blood, sacrifice and the manipulation of life. It asks for vitality.
Dark Communion
The most dangerous: tremendous advantage, accumulating consequence. It asks for something that does not grow back, and takes a piece of humanity.
These traditions are interwoven through the realm’s broken past. The Hidden Village remembers all three. The Kingdom’s court mage works one. The Cult works another, badly. The player chooses.
See Magic for how each tradition plays.