Ritual of Summoning

Ritual of Summoning is a use of the Invocation skill.

• Truename Invocation: At-will, standard; you invoke the truename of a magical entity, such as an outsider. For this to work, you must know the creature's truename. You may use this for one of the following effects:
  • Call: you may summon the outsider into your plane by invoking his truename. Standard resistance applies (see below). On success, the creature appears. This does not automatically grant you power over the creature.
  • Suppress: you may suppress the will of an outsider within medium range, causing it to take no action (Willpower ends, standard resistance applies).
  • Dominate: you may impose your will on an outsider within medium range who is currently Suppressed. Standard resistance applies. Every sunrise allows a new check.
  • Standard Resistance: all effects of Truename Invocation require an opposed Willpower check to succeed. Any time the subject succeeds at such a check, besides the listed effects, it gains a +2 bonus to future Willpower checks against you (stackable, lasts forever, or until you gain at least 1 level).

• Call Outsider: As Truename Invocation, except you either attempt to summon an outsider whose truename you do not know (but you presumably possess some other way to address the being), or a generic example of a specific type of outsider. Without a truename, you cannot force your will on the creature; thus, Call is only a suggestion which it is free to obey or ignore at its leisure, and Suppress and Dominate are simply not available. You may still use Magic Circles and other means of binding or persuasion.