Summoning

"When the fist comes, meet it with the fist. When the night comes, meet it with your lantern...but do not cross the Summoner's Guild."

What is 'summoning'?

Summoning is the practice of focusing the Will in such a fashion that it calls out to an entity appear at the place of the summoner.

The most often summoned entities are Elementals (fire, water, air, and earth), demi-demons, homonculi, and animals. Creatures with weaker minds are easier to summon than more intelligent or wise beings. If the concentration of the Summoner breaks, it's not uncommon for the mark to flee or attack the summoner for inconveniencing it.

A more advanced summoner may call upon the aid of devils, elemental beasts, gods, or dragons. However, once the summoning link has been made, the summoner may become the summoned if the summoner's Will isn't strong enough to resist the mark's will.

From time to time, even the strongest summoner's may disappear for weeks at a time, only to return with a certain madness in his eye.

Reasons for Summoning

Once summoned, the 'mark' is a servant to the summoner (as long as the Wills are uneven). The mark may be forced to fight for the summoner, serve as a neccesary distraction, or even do banal errands and chores. Until the summoner releases the mark, it is pressed into servitude.

The Summoner's Guild

Within the School of Summoning, there is a secret society known as the Summoner's Guild.

Famous Summoner's Stories

This one time in a big battle, a summoner got really screwed up.