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Realm Of Divine Magic
they don’t usually run right out and do what the cleric asks, but all priests and followers
are certain that this praying on sacred ground is something they have to do religiously, or
the world will Go To Hell in a Handbasket.
No area may be made sacred to more than one cult at a time. Consecrated sacred
ground (i.e., permanent sacred ground created by the consecrate greater instrument
prayer) prevents any subsequent attempts to consecrate the ground to other cults.
Consecrated sacred ground is a divine instrument, and may be defiled as such; for details,
see Divine Instruments, "Defiling and Cleansing Divine Instruments," page ??.
Temporary sacred ground (e.g., sacred tokens blessed with the bless token prayer) is
canceled when it moves into an area consecrated to another cult. Contact between two
blessed tokens cancels the sacred ground effect of both tokens.
Favored Cult Skills____________________________________
Skills listed in Cult Descriptions (pp. ??-??) as available to laymen may be learne d by
any cult laymen; skills listed for Initiates and Priests Rank 1-4 may only be learned by
cultists of the appropriate rank. A listed skill may learned under the following condition:
that a cultist who knows the skill be available to teach the skill to the cultist who desires
to learn the skill.
Certain skills are available to cult members at half-cost (50 EP) rather than at the
normal 100 EP cost. Such skills are indicated with an asterisk (i.e., shadowing *) in the
individual cult descriptions.
Ley Lines and Places of Power___________________________
In ancient times the greatest sources of aethyrial power in Warhammer World were
weak boundaries between the Material Realm and the Void. These weak boundaries were
long, more-or-less-straight lines that appeared to the ancient druids as perceptibly intense
sources of magic. It is primarily through these weak boundaries that aethyr leaked into
Warhammer World before the Great Collapse of the Slann Gates.
These boundaries, called leys or ley-lines, once were visible in high relief from the
background to those with the ability to sense magical power. In modern times, since the
Collapse, an abundance of aethyr so pervades Warhammer that these lines seem much
fainter by contrast, and are not detectable as lines, but as areas of generally stronger,
"warmer" aethyr.
The druids still retain mystical notions of ley-lines as handed down through the oral
traditions, but druids can no longer clearly distinguish the lines with magic sense as their
ancestors could.
The ancient druids established powerful rune stones at the nexi of leys, places where
the aethyr flow was strongest. These rune stones were magical storage batteries which the
druids used to power the elemental sorceries that fostered the fertility of the land and the
health of the people, plants, and creatures of the realm. At certain times of the year, when
the aethyr flux was most pronounced, they would summon groups of cultists to act as
transducers and transformers of these ley-line power leaks, then channel the energy into
and through the stones. Such sites are the standing stones, the henges, and the megaliths
of the Old World.
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