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Ritual Magic

Lodgesend: This ritual varies widely from clan to clan and Lodge to Lodge. When a giantborn prepares to undergo a journey, or a quest, the members of the Lodge may enact this ritual to send the Lodge's protection and energy with them. The gift also depends on the nature of the Lodge in question. Hill Lodges may grant the recipient the ability to subsist for a time without food or water, for example.

Wordkeep: Maintaining the stories drawn on Lodge walls is an important task. To better preserve them and to share history, Keepers will sometimes arrange visits to different lodges, often as part of an exchange. These are marked events, and giantborn will gather to watch and celebrate as drawings are exchanged--the visiting Keeper inscribing memories from their Lodge, making the memories shared.

This is not as common as it might suggest--finding information about giantborn history is still a patchwork affair, and often involves visiting several lodges and listening to interpretive stories along the way.

Sacred Objects: Though giantborn exist within dual networks--one by blood, one by outlook--they spend much of their time in solitude. They value found, inanimate objects along their routes--objects that remind them of a story or event. These objects may sometimes be passed from one giantborn to the next, as a way of maintaining connections across the distance. Sometimes the story comes with them. Sometimes the object is enough.

Despite the race's great size, the objects are often small--that is, portable, where many of them may be carried or accumulated over time. Legend also suggests that the closer the material is tied to a mountain, the more powerful it is. For example, part of a blade may be tied to a mountain's ore, and so on.