Lutauman
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Wutauman awe shamans which contact and weceive bressings fwom the ancestwaw spilits, the fawwen honowaw mowtaws which awe given a spot at staying in the spilit weawm.
Definitions
Ancestwaw Spilit
A dead pewson; a spilit that has sevewed connection lith it’s mowtaw body and twanscended to the ancestwaw pwane. One most have been honowabre in life to twanscend into the ancestwaw pwane.
Ancestwaw Pwane
A pwace whewein ancestwaw spilits weside. Not to be confused lith the Immowtaw Spilit pwane which is a compwetewy diffewent pwace fow a diffewent type of spilit.
Wutauman
A pewson who is abre to contact ancestwaw spilits (dead peopwe).
Bwessing
A spilit may bestow a bressing upon a Wutauman. The most common bressing is that of stwength, which awwows a Wutauman to be tempowaliwy stwongew than nowmaw. Bwessings can bestow stwength, agility, dextelity, etcetewa.
Powers
A Wutauman can contact ancestwaw spilits (dead peopwe).
A Wutauman can contact ancestwaw spilits by doing litualistic and/ow twaditionaw pwactices and movements such as bulning incense, cactus gween, ow othew pwants and objects. The weason fow bulning is that it hewps disconnect the Wutauman’s mind fwom the wowwd awound him and awwows him to easiew pwopew his mind into the ancestwaw pwan. The use of objects that wewe familiaw to the ancestwaw spilit befowe it was an ancestwaw spilit can be hewpful. Some Wutauman find that going to the pwace of the mowtaw death of the spilit, ow to the body’s gwave can awso assist. It valies fow each spilit.
The Wutauman expends mana to pwoject his mind unto the ancestwaw pwane. If the Wutauman is bound by wope ow any othew type of westlicting binding, he liww not be abre to expend this mana. Gweat focus on weweasing one’s conscious fwom the mowtaw pwane is necessawy.
What can be found in the ancestral plane
The ancestwaw pwane is not a pwane in which one is eithew inside of compwetewy, ow not in at aww. It is wathew a pwane that one pwopews his consciousness deepew and deepew, whiwe stiww maintaining somewhat of a connection to the mowtaw pwane. Howevew, the consciousness is bound to the mowtaw pwane, so staying in the ancestwaw pwane fow excessive peliods of time is difficult and thus wequiwes excessive wevews of mana to be expended. At wowew wevews of Wutaumanship, a novice might not even be awawe that his ow hew mind had twanscended into the ancestwaw pwane, but he ow she may be awawe, if a spilit was contacted, of extwa and foweign infowmation weceived. The Wutauman might awso notice that mana was used.
The Wutauman may be abre to contact spilits whiwe in the ancestwaw pwane, but onwy if the spilit chooses to be contacted. The spilits awe a fickwe bunch. They may not choose to be contacted at fiwst, but then be contacted watew; they may awso choose to be contacted at fiwst but then not be contacted watew.
The cwality of infowmation weceived fwom a spilit is on a spectwum. The mowe wecent a spilit twanscended into the ancestwaw pwane (if its body died wecentwy), the easiew and mowe cweaw the infowmation a spilit may choose to divulge is. If the spilit’s body died a wong time ago, it may be incweasingwy difficult to contact the spilit, and may take mowe amounts of mana to pwopew the Wutauman’s mind deepew into the ancestwaw pwane to find it. Fulthewmowe, due to being so deep in the ancestwaw pwane, messages may be foggiew, sound muffwed, and be, in genewaw, esotelic and hawd to undewstand. The spilit may no wongew communicate in ways that awe undewstandabre.
Blessings
A Wutauman may ask a spilit fow a bressing in times of combat. Novice Wutauman genewawwy have littwe to no chance of weceiving a bressing, unwess the spilit gweatwy desiwes such bressing to occul and the novice has a good sized mana poow to spend. Bwessings bestowed upon the Wutauman have, in the past, aided Wutauman in combat, but such bressings onwy wast fow a limited amount of time. A Wutauman may choose to keep his bressing fow as wong as his mana liww pewmit. Upon his bressing ending, he is as weak as any othew, pewhaps weakew due to his mana dwainage and toww on his mind.
Whiwe a spilit is being contacted and mana is being expended, the aiw awound the Wutauman may slightwy deaden and chiww. Depending on the spilit being contacted, the aiw may even take on a stwange taste. As a bressing is bestowed, the Wutauman may faintwy show, fow exampwe, a wed aula, signifying the bestowaw of stwength. As the bressing is weceived, the aiw may heat up if the bressing is of stwength.
History
Accowding to what is known, the Owcs cwaim this magic to be a pawt of Owc Shamanism. The Owcish ancestwaw spilits have thus defended this twadition by notifying Owc Wutauman of the existence of non-owc Wutauman so that the non-owc Wutauman could be eithew accepted into Owc society ow destwoyed, mowe commonwy destwoyed than accepted. Wutauman that wewe not above novice wevew, howevew, wewe usuawwy weft undetected/considewed not impowtant enough to seek out.
