Essence ofSpirit Summoning

By drinking this essence you become an initiate of the art of spirit summoning.

• Spirit summoning is a type of magic where you summon spirits to do your bidding. This essence gives you the knowledge of rituals needed to summon a spirit and make a contract with it.

• The ritual contract can take anywhere between a few minutes to few days to get completed based on the power of the spirit and its willingness to enter a contract. This essence guarantees that any spirit you try to make a contract with would be willing to make one.

• Whenever you use the ritual, it summons the spirit you're trying to target from the spirit world. It's a world mirroring the normal world, but with strange inhabitants. Everything in the world has a spirit. Usually the spirits of living beings inhabit their bodies and leaves them when they die. The spirits of dead beings enter the spirit world to undergo reincarnation. The spirits of non living beings and ideas live in the spirit world and can't usually interact with the normal world.

• Each spirit in the spirit world is a thing that has existed or is existing, so every toy, every fire ever burnt and every road ever built have a spirit in the spirit world.

• When you summon a fire spirit you're summoning a spirit of the fire that existed once. It behaviour might depend on the circumstances surrounding its birth (the reason the fire started) and any experiences it had in the spirit world. You can modify the ritual to target a campfire or a forest fire, etc; The spirit's behavior might change after the contract due to new experiences it might have around you.

• Once you summon a spirit, you can decide on the terms of contract, usually it'd be the spirit asking for something in return for helping you. Sometimes, the spirit might demand a fight and if you win the fight, it enters your service based on the terms of a contract drawn up by you.

• You can decide whether the contract would be a quid pro quo style contract where the spirit asks for something or a fighting contract where you can dictate the terms of the contract. Usually the spirit possesses your body if you lose the fight, but the essence makes sure that the spirit is banished to the spirit world if you lose the fight.

• If you don't reach an agreement or don't want the spirit's service any longer, you can break the contract and banish the spirit back to the spirit world.

• A spirit contract is a spiritual connection made between you and the spirit so, your spiritual body would gain some benefits from the contract. The benefits gained by your spiritual body reflect on your material body too, contract with a fire spirit would give you resistance to high temperatures, a lightning spirit would give you resistance to electricity, etc; The resistance would be based on the strength of the spirit in question.

• The contract gives a spirit the ability to manifest in the real world and influence events. This stabilizes the spirit's existence and reinforces and improves it's legend (the record of a spirit's activities and it's history during its existence, it's present in the spirit world and decides the power of the spirit. A spirit with a bigger legend has access to much stronger powers and much bigger spiritual energy.) Once the spirit has done great deeds, it's legend would be updated, which improves all aspects of the spirit (strength, intelligence, speed, etc).

• The fire spirit you summon might be at the strength of a campfire but constantly using it will increase its size and it's temperature.

• Apart from their original appearance (the form their physical manifestation takes in normal world), spirits can take a wide variety of shapes based on plants, animals and even humans. So, a fire spirit might look like a floating ball of fire or a fire in the shape of a cat or a little girl, etc;)

• You can make a contract with items and summon their spirits to the material world to inhabit their bodies(the item in question), it will grant the item enhanced durability, sharpness (if the item is sharp), ability to touch and harm spiritual entities and animation. Constantly summoning a spirit to inhabit it's body makes it easier for the spirit to change it's body to look like its spiritual self (constantly summoning a sword spirit to inhabit it's body would make it possible for the spirit to turn the sword to look like her spiritual self (for example a beautiful woman in her 20s, turning back to sword form is instantaneous)

• You can make a contract with an idea, it would take more time but provide you with more power. Making a contract with a city block would make you teleport people between different parts of the block or make it so they can't leave the boundaries of the block. Making a contract with an idea of a city would let you improve a given city or teleport between different cities, etc; the amount of powers you can use or the idea spirit can use would be limitless but limited to the idea of a city. (Reduce the temperature in a city, decrease pollution in a city, increase the boundaries of a city, etc; but can't improve the number of animals in a forest). Ideas have been alive for thousands of years and their history is influenced by generations of people, so their way of thinking might be completely alien to you, so be careful when dealing with the spirit of an idea.

• You can improve your physical characteristics and reaction time by channeling spiritual energy through your body. Repeated channeling of spiritual energy slows down your rate of aging. The amount of spiritual energy you can channel is nearly endless, but you start out with slightly above the normal spiritual energy of a human being. Creating contracts with spirits increases the amount of spiritual energy you can channel and you can tap into the spiritual energy of a spirit under your contract to use various supernatural abilities, flying, turning into a lightning bolt, throwing fireballs, blessing crops, etc; The amount of spiritual energy you can channel and use increases with the level of the spirit you've contracted and having a contract with a mountain or a country would skyrocket your spiritual resources till you're closer to a spirit than a human. At this point you stop ageing. Any children you have would inherit your power to make contracts and you can even create contracts that stipulate that any spirit under your service should serve your descendants.

• Whenever a spirit takes enough damage, it dies and an egg appears near you after some time (usually a day), the egg hatches in a month and the spirit returns to life, albeit with slightly diminished power. (A loss of around 10% in power).

• You can enter spirit world by touching a mirror or any reflective surface, the size of the surface doesn't matter, you'll be sucked into the spirit world, you can reemerge in the material world by touching another reflective surface in the spirit world (try contract a mirror spirit, it'll be really useful, teleportation, causing damage to a person by hurting their reflection,etc;)

• You can enter contracts with ghosts but the people that usually become ghosts have some unresolved issues that you might need to solve for them so they enter your service.

• Spirits of planets and other celestial bodies can't be summoned to the normal world without causing grievous damage to your planet. So, the celestial spirits usually use avatars to meet and help their summoners. The power of an avatar is nothing to scoff at.

• You can have sexual relations with spirits and can even try having children. Pregnancy due to sex between a human and spirit is known to be possible but the results aren't well documented, some say the children are half spirits, some say the children turn into spirits based on the type of their spirit parent, some even say the children are human with the ability to see spirits. But it's advised that people should try having eith spirits only after they have enough spiritual strength that they've stopped aging.