You can transfer essence from one person to the other. As essence is magical or a energy you will be able to transfer it.
There are a few ways known how to transfer it.
Ritual
You need to know a ritual to transfer essence from yourself to someone else or from someone else to you. You can only acquire essence from someone who is willing. Once a day you can give essence to a other subject with a maximum of 10 essence points. You can also take essence from other subjects but only once per day per subject with a maximum of 10 essence point. If a subject already gave essence in this way it cannot be done on that subject again. Rituals + Int Every time you do this ritual it will cost 3 essence.
Magic
Funnel Essence: Some mages are able to Transfer Essence like a conduit. The Mage activates this ability with a cost of 5 essence per person and can conduit the essence into itself or to someone else. This can be done as a group effort but will add more difficulty to the concentration of the mage. Concentration + Willpower -1 per person (excluding yourself) The subject must all be voluntarily.
Buying this power costs 10 exp
Drain Essence: Some mages are able to Drain essence from other subjects even if they are not willing it is difficult but it is possible. The mage must make a Concentration+Willpower-3 per subject.The mage can only drain 10 essence per target in one round. The victim can make a opposed Concentration+Willpower (or difficult willpower) test to withstand the drain every round. If the mage fails a concentration check the draining will stop immediately. Draining costs 5 essence per person.
Buying this power costs 10 exp and you need to have the Funnel Essence power
Maximum Essence
Your body and soul can only handle so much essence, too much essence will start to destroy the body. Your body can hold it’s essence score + willpower x 10 as a maximum.
Every essence point above that will do 1 LP damage per essence. If the essence is not gone it will keep doing so every round. Till you are on 0 and you will be automatically unconscious.
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