Holy Water

Holy water, or blessed water is a liquid with potential biocidic effects towards demons, deities and the undead. Blessing water is the act of applying faith sentiment to water in order for it to have the effects of holiness (consecration, demon repulsion, warding etc). 
== Mechanics ==
If an ordained (I.E. a person capable of producing above average amounts of faith sentiment) blesses an ocean, it has an effective range. Generally speaking, an ordained individual can bless 4.52 liters with the amount of faith produced in a minute. The amount of water that can be blessed in a minute does increase as the ordained progresses in its faith, with maximum levels having been observed in excess of 400 liters per minute. 
In one instance, a water deity was observed blessing a 4000 square meter lake in an afternoon, or roughly 1 million liters an hour,  or 16 666,67 liters per minute. Conversion of liquid works with liquid of identical compositions. A priest with a vial of ocean water can bless the ocean. Then the alchemist can add extra ocean water to the mixture while the priest keeps channeling the incantation. It should be noted that salting water, despite its use in removing foreign influence, makes blessing water harder. 
As a rule, blessing something resides in the atomic bond between molecules, which is why individual molecules, such as oxygen and hydrogen cannot be blessed. 
== Faith sentiment decay rate in water ==
In general, holy water spoils after2-3 days. Holy water stops being holy as the faith sentiment fades away, or if it becomes contaminated by foreign bodies.1 for 24 000 000 is the ratio of holiness conversion. 1 liter of holy water will convert 24 million liters of water for 2-3 days, provided the water is clean. For salt water or water with impurities, the ratio is 1 for 6 000 with exponentially decreasing potency. Holy water can be a temporary buffer solution, if a 1 liter vial of holy water is dropped into a water source, the contents will become holy within a 6000 liter capacity. Although this is only temporary, as the decay rate is also divided by 6000, meaning the buffer will be effective for 30 to 45 seconds. 
== Applications ==
Holy water has many ways of being practical on the field. 
=== Pure water ===
Blessing water is a good way of ensuring the absence of pathogens or other harmful elements from the water. For this reason, there are often ordained individuals in villages.
=== Blessing rain ===
Blessing the rain is a valid tactic, but requires blessing the cloud beforehand. 1ml of water over 1km2 rainfall for one hour represents 1 million liters. It takes a priest 40 hours to bless 1 million liters, or 25 thousand liters an hour, or 416.67 liters per minute. 
So in order to bless a light rain over 1 square kilometer, it takes a little less than 40 hours at minimum. For a just ordained individual, it would take 5 months, which is impossible given the faith sentiment decay rate.
Only prophets have that much belief sentiment, at maximum emission levels, with a specific preparation period. 
=== Blessing oceans ===
Blessing an ocean would require several relays, such as the leader of the religion and the guides of the faithful to all partake in the blessing to, at term, bless an ocean. but since an average ocean is estimated at 1.332 billion cubic kilometers, faith sentiment decay rates make this essentially infeasible. 
=== Blessing companions ===
Since an average anthropomorph is 70% water, blessing water is the most fundamental ability of any ordained in order to bless its companions. This makes them capable of suppressing most illnesses, but condemning the individual to die from symptoms akin to radiation poisoning within minutes due to the loss of pathogens in the body. 
=== Holy Steam ===
Holy steam cannot be made from boiling holy water, as the heat eliminates the sentiment. However, if it is blessed as it is created, holy steam can be produced. Theoretically, there can be coolant holy water in nuclear reactors. Evaporated water that is blessed into holy steam can power generators in turn making energy output holy. This way nuclear destroyers that are driven by holy energy are turned into holy weapons for crusading or battles against undead are possible. The Dalmer are looking into how to adapt this technology in their anti feral zombie efforts, without success given their fundamental misunderstanding of faith.
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