The Ritual

The Ritual is a colloquial name for a procedure completed to enter The Venandi, it involves the person having a blade inserted into their sternum to the effect that the person begins to die and cross The Void, the person is then resuscitated in order to re capture the soul. The effect of the candidate crossing The Void is that they can detect spectral entities and given the blade is partially imbued with the owners soul it can also cause harm upon them.