====== Empowerment ======

**Empowerment** is a technique for bestowing [[magic|magical ability]] on a commander, mage, or priest, using [[gems]]. It is a permanent process that stacks with all temporary boosts, such as those from [[items]], spells, and rituals.

Empowerment is very expensive, however. Every path has the same price chart (in its own type of gem), but this table will use [[Nature]]:

<WRAP center 20%>
^  New Path ^ Gem Cost ^
|  {{path>N1}} | {{gems>50N}} |
|  {{path>N2}} | {{gems>30N}} |
|  {{path>N3}} | {{gems>45N}} |
|  {{path>N4}} | {{gems>60N}} |
|  {{path>N5}} | {{gems>75N}} |
|  {{path>N6}} | {{gems>90N}} |
|  {{path>N7}} | {{gems>105N}} |
|  {{path>N8}} | {{gems>120N}} |
|  {{path>N9}} | {{gems>135N}} |
|  {{:misc:magic:nature.png?14&nolink}}X | {{gems>15N}}*X |
</WRAP>

Note that the costs above are **not** cumulative, so empowering from not being a nature mage to having {{path>N2}} costs {{gems>80N}}.

==== Empowering into Blood ====

Empowering into [[Blood]] is also doable; {{:gem:gem_b.png?nolink}}blood slaves are basically Blood gems, after all, just like how {{:gem:gem_s.png?nolink}}astral pearls are basically [[Astral]] gems.

{{:abilities:horror_mark.png?nolink }} There is a danger to empowering in Blood, though. The heinousness of the act //may// permanently stain the subject's hands with a [[horror mark]], a sigil invisible to all but the gods above and the [[horrors]] further above them...