Ancestral Blessings

This spell is a part of the Lost Memories spell chain and is found in the Lost Memories rune stone.

The praeteriamancer knows better than anyone that the past is not empty. It is populated densely and richly with everyone who came before. Every ancestor who struggled and endured and learned and passed something of themselves forward through the long chain of generations that eventually produced the praeteriamancer standing here now. They are not gone. They are simply earlier. And Memory, which holds everything that was, knows exactly where to find them.

When this spell is cast the praeteriamancer reaches back through Memory not to a historical event or a forgotten place but to something more intimate, their own lineage. The spirits of their ancestors answer willingly, drawn forward by the same blood that connects them across the distance of years. They do not appear visibly. They do not speak or gesture or make themselves known in any dramatic way. They simply arrive, their collective presence washing over the praeteriamancer like a warmth that has been waiting to be felt, and with it comes everything they carried in life.

Their strength flows into the praeteriamancer's muscles. Their wisdom settles into the praeteriamancer's mind. All Strength traits and all Wisdom traits double for the duration as generations of accumulated experience and capability pour into the one who called for them. The praeteriamancer does not feel like themselves in this moment. They feel like all of them. Every ancestor who fought, endured, and survived, standing exactly where they are standing now.