This is a ritual to create a hivemind compose of human beings (or other sentient races) and has been used by Mesmer in Aaron’s novel… only, he failed.
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Meeting of Minds
School enchantment; Level 9
Casting Time 90 minutes
Components V, S, M (a basin of fresh bodily fluids from a powerful telepathic or hivemind creature), F (a hypnotist’s locket), SC (at least 1)
Skill Checks Bluff, Diplomacy, or Intimidate DC 34, 4 successes; Sense Motive DC 34, 3 successes; Knowledge (dungeoneering) DC 34, 2 successes; Spellcraft DC 34, 1 success
Range close
Effect at least 2 creatures, up to 1 per caster
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw Will negates; SR yes
Backlash The primary caster takes 2d6 damage and is exhausted.
Failure The primary caster’s body dissolves; their psyche is absorbed into the hivemind and redistributed between all the bodies (in addition to the hivemind template, each body gains a simple class template matching the primary caster’s highest-level class if the primary caster had PC class levels, +1 NPC class level if the primary caster only had NPC class levels, or the advanced template if the primary caster hadn’t any class levels).
Effect
All the casters and the creatures to bond (who can be the casters themselves) must drink from the basin or immerse a part of their body in it and concentrate on the focus and the primary caster’s voice. Any unwilling targets must be helpless. Upon successful completion of the ritual, the harvested fluids are absorbed into the targets’ bodies, and the targets acquire the hivemind template. The collective mind thus formed is free-willed and has its own opinions and purposes; it is not necessarily friendly towards the casters, should they not be part of the new hivemind.
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