Partage

Partage turns a country's waters into a vast circulatory system that harvests, purifies, stores, and redistributes mana across a civilization. It is the culmination of First Partage.

Harvest

Water enters designated people, draws out blood and mana, then returns to a central place stained red. At the network's heart, the spell removes blood and impurities and transforms the remaining power into divine mana. A consecrated body of water serves as reservoir, purifier, and distribution center. The Partage creates no mana: every gift it grants was taken elsewhere.

A harvested person rises tired. The tiny wound closes on its own, but the loss causes minor damage and leaves a dull ache and a sense of emptiness. The vulnerable may feel an unnamed sadness for several days. A successful harvest removes all spell slots and caster level for 24 hours. Known spells, knowledge, and feats remain, but there is no power to fuel them.

Distribution

Archon chooses who receives divine mana and how much. Aqueducts are the network's most reliable arteries, but connected wells, underground rivers, streams, and rain can also carry the gift. Distance, evaporation, detours, and broken channels waste power. Priests therefore receive denser mana near the central basin.

Divine mana travels with the faithful in an almost imperceptible film of consecrated water beneath their clothing and against their skin. The Partage replenishes this water. Far from a Bassin, it teleports fresh water directly onto the caster at greater cost to the network.

A priest can cut off this supply, or lose it when delivery is blocked. The water already received still fuels their remaining divine slots but no longer replenishes them. Powerful abjuration or destruction of the accompanying water can disperse the gift itself. Destroying an aqueduct cuts or weakens the distributions that depended on that route without dispelling the global spell. See Divine Mana for access to red mana and Rest and Recovery for slot recovery.

Archon's Absence

When Archon is inactive, notably during Soul Odyssey, the Censors administer the Partage. They maintain ordinary harvests and existing distributions but severely restrict new grants, mass transformations, and diversions. Their first concern is the network and its central reserve, so they may refuse a request Archon would have accepted.