>>30186511
So based off of animism?

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if you defeat a wolf in single combat, he'll teach you how to get into Berserkergang. Also he'll teach you to smell human flesh on the wind.

>>30186524

thats rigth. It can be other things beside animals, like a river, or the wind, a flower or even metals.

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the snakes teach you how to hipnotize persons; how to implant subtle ideas on them, or how to paralyze with only the eyes. You can also force people to do things agains their wills if your will is high

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>>30186511
If you find an infant owl and raise it with love and affection, then when it grows up, it will share with you its ability to see how a man will die.

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If you manage to catch a dragonfly using your hands only without hurting it, it teaches you a dash spell.

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While the park spirits are said to be similar to the forest spirits, only a fool would say so in their presence. While forest spirits rage and plot against the reckless expansion of civilization, the spirits of the park are far more subtle in their dealings. Some would say they are mere slaves and prisoners to the dead cities that surround them, but they know that with life there is always hope.

The park spirits bequeath this knowledge to those who seek it, granting you vigor and healing when all seems lost. Unlike most spells of healing and empowerment, the spells of the park seem to grow much stronger when the caster is at his weakest.

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Spiders will tell you everything its happening in your roundabouts. They also teach you how to be immune to poison.

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Teach you how to stealth in the shadows
Teach you how to unattach your shadow to use it as a familiar.
Teach you how to have nine lives

I could go on; cats are pretty OP

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Ravens can teach you how to become one of them

is there anything cooler than becoming a raven at will?

Fuck this is awesome. I'm stealing it all.
If you can put a beached whale back into the sea, it will teach you how to hold your breath for several minutes or even hours.

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>>30187062 its all yours, mate! im glad you liked it!
>tfw somebody in /tg/ actually likes something
>tfw when its something you've came up with


if you can find an artic fox in the snow, he'll reward you with an almost perfect invisibility spell.

>>30186527
>if you defeat a wolf in single combat
>wolf
>single combat

That's pretty much the exact opposite of how wolves work.

>>30187196
Agreed. Replace wolf with bear (like, black bear, not grizzly). Berserk means bear pelt anyway.

>>30187242

Now we're in agreeance. I think a better reward/trial of the wolf is that you have to manage to separate a wolf from the pack. If you do so, it will teach you a recall spell, to return to your loved ones.

>>30187196
So, fend off a pack of wolves for a whole night, then ?

>>30186527
Fking sucks.

>>30187275
Much better.

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learning from the trees allows you to be aware of changes in the weather, and how to endure whatever the seasons give. Learning from the trees takes time, and in return you must guard the green places from harm.

>>30187280

Nah, just this: >>30187275

>>30187285

Glad you like it.

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The humble moth.

Compassion is a virtue seldom commended. If one saves a moth from flying into a burning flame, it will reward the savior with a whispered secret. It teaches the ability to conjure a small flame at will.

This is an incredibly useful ability, one that most any creature would covet. However, it is rare as the sort of person that would show compassion to a moth is uncommon indeed. And hence, worthy of reward.

I got a little wordy with this one, my apologies.

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>>30186511

The Nightjar will show you how to camouflage yourself - if you can find it!

If this were used in a game, how would you keep track of how often you can cast a spell? It seems like anybody could learn one if they get the idea of how, so would you get a cast for every X ritual you perform? Would you get more for every repeated deed? Do you just sleep it off like D&D/PF?

>>30186599
You can grab them pretty easily by a wing when they sit still. The wings are like plastic, doesn't harm them.

>>30187527
its more of abilities than actual spells, it seems.

>>30187527

I would assume that most would be more like passive abilities. Others would be at-will.

I don't play D&D so I can't say how it would compare to that.

>>30187527
The idea is that you have a magical moment with an animal once and then get the ability forever. They aren't teachers waiting in town for you to follow that old "find me in the snow" ritual for a gold coin.
If you want to put a limit on things, use a mana pool.

>>30187565
>>30187565
Some seem a bit OP for at-will casting/abilities, though, like invisibility or OP's disguise spell.

>>30187612
Can you please stop talking about balancing? This thing lends itself to a story driven rpg and you can fluff the effect to be as slow or fast, short or long as you want.

>>30187612

They aren't OP if you're using them in a narrative system, not faggy D&D. Seriously man, I get it. It doesn't work for D&D. But for something like Jaws of the Six Serpents, it would go wonderfully.

>>30187642

Fuck yes. Glad to see someone else gets it.

>>30187644
>>30187642
Shit guys, alright, my bad. Just trying to contribute some food for thought.

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The elusive octopus.

The octopus is known as a master of contortion and an escape artist without equal. If you can manage to capture one with your bare hands and then keep it in captivity for twenty four hours, it will bestow upon you its secrets as an escape artist. This will allow you to slip bonds much more easily and contort yourself into small and strange shapes. A slippery character indeed.

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>>30187683
Sorry for being rude.

If you defend a Cheetah's meal from lions, leopards and hyenas it will teach you how to excel in sprint and keep up with it.

>>30187880

That is the saddest cheetah I have ever seen. I just want to hug it.

>>30187963
Cheetahs got it rough.

>>30187963
Cheetahs take surprisingly well to domestication if you get them young. Go get a cub that you can hug.

>>30188018

They also aren't all that dangerous to adults. I would feel pretty confident about fending one off if I had to. A leopard on the other hand? I'm fucked.

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A pod of dolphins will teach you how to contact the clairvoyant spirits.

But

You must bring them women first.
To their caves.

>>30188063
>dolphins
>teaching anything but how to RAPE

>>30187880
Too poor for a motorized vehicle? Don't worry, with this training program you too can enjoy all the injuries of a major motorcycle crash, with just your own feet needed.

Wolves, Ravens and Snakes are the coolest animals on medieval-europe. Which other animals are cannon fodder for this setting?
-DEERS
-BISONS
-EAGLES (eagle eye is the most sensible choice)
- FALCONS
- BEETLES

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If you feed the mantis the blood of an orca, it will teach you the true 1 inch punch, that can sunder iron and shred flesh.

>>30188123
Hey, not his fault you're so clumsy. Grace and maneuverability were never part of the deal.

>>30186738

The secrets of the LOLCat are akin to Cthulu Mythos spells. You can learn them - but only at great cost.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html
Archiving for future reference, please upvote so that it gets a good rating.
In the meantime, OP, please post moar.

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The spirit of flint is that of creation through destruction. If you give the stone the shape it truly wants, it will show you how all other things break.

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Befriending the Lamb teaches you the Ritual of Sacrifice, a spell that lets you sacrifice your own life to resurrect someone else.

Bumping

>>30187460
It is in the pic, right?

>>30189830
I always dreamt of having a thread archived on /TG/!!! this is a day to remember!

>>30186983
Ravens must be befriended by offering them carrion. You must promise them to cause a lot of deaths, and then do it. They'll act as familiars, teach you how to appear in other people's dreams, and talking to them.
If you still giving them carrion on a strong basis, they'll eventually show you how to shift in one of them, to avoid death.

>>30192009

to avoid death in danger situations, fly long distances or just for the lulz

Sounds very Shinto

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>>30186511
If you grant the Snowy Owl protection from Ravens during the day for a week, he will teach you the secret of moving without noise on fallen snows.

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>>30191850
OH SHIT. I fucking found it and it is fucking CAMOUFLAGED man.

Granite is patient and knows the secrets of time. If you live in the mountains for a season with nothing but things you have made yourself with wood and stone it can teach you to look into the past.

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If you ask Coyote if he can teach you a particular spell, he will say "Of course!" and if you pay his price (which can be anything, from a song to the blood of a king) he will teach you.

You should never trust Coyote.

>>30193606

Lol but which kind of spell do coyotes know?

Taken from wikipedia:

Coyote has been compared to both the Scandinavian Loki, and also Prometheus, who shared with Coyote the trick of having stolen fire from the gods as a gift for mankind, and Anansi, a mythological culture hero from Western African mythology. In Eurasia, rather than a coyote, a fox is often featured as a trickster hero, ranging from kitsune (fox) tales in Japan to the Reynard cycle in Western Europe. Similarities can also be drawn with another trickster, the Polynesian demigod Māui, who also stole fire for mankind and introduced death to the world.[citation needed]
Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist proposed a structuralist theory that suggests that Coyote and Crow obtained mythic status because they are mediator animals between life and death.

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If you carve the snow in order to find grass for the elks, they'll show you a secret of Endurance. you'll be allowed to carry 3 times more weight, and never get tired by walking, no matter the landscape.

bump for the night, tg! dont let the thread die!

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If you ask the budgie to teach you a spell, It'll ask you the same.

Annoying little gits.

>>30192009
>If you still giving them carrion on a strong basis, they'll eventually show you how to shift in one of them, to avoid death.

I imagine a person fatal injured, abandoned by those they trusted and left to die on a bare hilltop.

In they're desperation, they present an offering of carrion to the crows: their own doomed flesh.

A swarm of 20 crows descend, picking and tearing away the still living meat from the bones. When nothing is left, 21 crows disperse from the skeleton.

>>30187434
See I like it, but I feel like if the secret got out everyone would do it, and the fluff wouldn't apply as much?

>>30201029
>I feel like if the secret got out everyone would do it, and the fluff wouldn't apply as much?

I've been operating under two assumptions:

1. The rituals are about intent as much as action.
2. These are things to be stumbled upon, not to be sought out.

Therefore, people wouldn't be spreading this shit around. If you learn this secret, the animal has told you something just that. A secret. Faggots aren't going to be running around "Dude, save moths from flames, you get cool shit."

If you can't rely on people being chill, how about making it part of the pact? If they tell anyone where their power comes from, they lose the power. That way, magicians remain very mysterious and circumspect about their methods. Anything more precise than a cryptic, "I learned the secrets of the flame from a wise moth," causes you to lose the ability.

So wizards know better than to ask about the power of others, and mundane folks know they'll only get cryptic bullshit by asking the wizards.

>>30189576
ohh not bad! not bad at all.

if you befriend the elefant you wont forget anything ever again.

bonus: bigger trunk

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>>30201440

if you befriend the elefant you wont forget anything ever again.

bonus: bigger trunk

forgot pic

>>30201218
>Faggots aren't going to be running around "Dude, save moths from flames, you get cool shit."

I'm reminded of the story of the woodcutter who dropped his axe in a lake. A spirit/god/fairy/whatever appears with a golden axe, and asks if this is what was dropped. The woodcutter answers truthfully, that his was a common axe, and he's given the gold axe along with his original axe.

He tells the story to a friend, and that friend goes and "loses" his axe in the same lake. The same spirit appears, and asks if he dropped a golden axe. The friend excitedly states that, yes, the golden axe is his.

The spirit then beats the man to death with the axe for his dishonesty.

Now, I imagine someone hearing about the moth engineering a situation where a similar moth is endangered by a flame.

I imagine the outcome does not end well for the copycat.

>>30201594

Precisely.

>>30201594
To be fair a golden axe would be stupidly useless for woodcuttinb.

>>30201627
There's another myth about a man who saves the life of a sparrow. The sparrow says he'll reward the man by allowing him to have his choice of two boxes. The man, being polite, gratefully accepts the smaller of the two, humbly explaining that it would be easier to carry back to his home.

When he gets home, he opens the box and finds that it is filled with precious jewels. He tells the story to his wife who is then furious that her husband chose the smaller of the two boxes.

The wife leaves to find the sparrow, and demands the sparrow hand over the larger box as well.

The wife then greedily opens the box then and there, and a skeleton pops out.

This and similar stories are basically the same as the later Goofus and Gallant comics, and the moral is such: Goofuses get _fucked_

>>30201862

I hate the classic "greedy wife" stories. Because I actually know cunts like that. Fuck they agitate me.

>>30201862
>a skeleton pops out.
2spooky4me

>>30201862
>and a skeleton pops out.

Ah shit I hate when that happens.

>>30200668

THIS.... IS AWESOME!!!!

>but do you really needed to make a skeleton pop out?

>>30209733

Oh you.

>>30198767

Budgies and parrots are the knowledge merchants of the spirit world, trading spells and secrets with everyone.

>>30201029
Thats why sometimes, the Moth just whispers "your a faggit"

>>30186527

My grandmother was raised in the mountains, and traveled with the shepards. And she uses to say that at night, the eyes of the wolves shine like two lanterns. I know thats totally impossible and that it must be only the reflections from her bonfires, but always thought that it was super cool

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