A sunken tablet

Convocation of the Soil

Tags: immobile

A big old chunk of stone, maybe 5 feet across, covered in mud and algae. There are Maker-runes on it, barely visible. Runes for the earth, and spirits, and rejuvenation.

To unlock it, you must:

• extract the tablet from the muck;
• carefully clean it;
• decipher the Maker-runes;
• study the runes for a few weeks;
• practice casting the spell, at the risk of harming the nearby soil or waking something dangerous from the earth.

Convocation of the Soil

When you spill your blood on the soil and speak the words of convocation, the spirits of the soil will stir and wake, filling the soil with life and energy and nutrients.

When you cast this spell on the fields in early spring, spilling a scary amount of your blood, mark all three debilities and lose all but 1 HP. If the steading spends 1 Surplus to plant in the fallow fields, this autumn's harvest will generate 1d4+1 extra Surplus.

However, you must roll:

• On a success with a 6, there is no consequence.
• On a success with no six, before midsummer you must water the soil with the lifeblood of a large, healthy beast (like a horse, mule, wisent, or aurochs) — or else the extra crops will fail and the extra Surplus will be lost.
• On a bust, the spell works, but you stir some dangerous spirit or growth from the soil, or set free some evil imprisoned in the earth.