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The Rite of the Fetish Egg is about the birds and the bees -- well, no bees -- and where new Corax come from. You see, when two Corax love each other very much, you know what happens? ...Nothing. Absolutely nothing. We can't breed with one another. That's why there are no Corax metis. Hell, a new Corax doesn't even have to be the kid of an old Corax. This is a matter of spirit, not genetics, boyo. Spirit's a lot more important. What it can mean, though, is that you can have real parents and spiritual ones, your flesh-and-blood folks as well as the Corax who gave you your spirit egg.
Making a spirit egg requires some hefty investment. There's got to be one spiritual parent from each breed, plus someone's got to plunk some serious spiritual gas in order to create the egg and bind it to the other half. The binding is done with a feather or a human hair from the 'parent' and ensure that the egg and the kid/chick stay linked until such time as the kid can handle getting a double dose of soul. If the binding breaks, it devastates the poor kid -- autism is the usual response. The parent usually just goes into depression; many lose the Sun right after that sort of thing.
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The Rite of the Fetish Egg is never undertaken lightly. For one thing, it costs three permanent Gnosis from the parent Corax, and that price is paid regardless of whether the rite succeeds or fails. The Rite of the Fetish Egg can only be performed in the Umbra, and requires one witness of the breed opposite that of the Corax performing the rite. Creating a fetish egg takes three hours; binding it to the soul for which it is intended takes another one. If the rite is interrupted at any point during this time, the Gnosis is lost and the rite fails. This rite requires a roll against the parent Corax' permanent Gnosis (before the donation) at a difficulty of 6.
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