Summoning Demons

Summoning is a practice to successfully warp a demon from the moon to another realm without the yeast colony losing too many of its members so as to die out when arriving on Welt. Summoning is the first part of succesful demonology, the second part, which tethers the demon to the realm is known as Invocation.
==Mechanics of summoning demons==
A successful summoning requires two conditions being met. First the demon has to be successfully warped from the moon to the realm. Then the yeast colony must quickly undergo reproductive acceleration (the summoning ritual) and its warping to the target realm. These are the first steps to bringing a demon to the realm. while basic, these are not all of the steps in order to properly tether a demon to the realm. The demon must then be invoked. 
==Warping==
As established by the rules of exoplanetary travel and inter realm warp, warping between realms is incredibly damaging to the entity warping. For demons, this translates as cellular death on a massive scale. As such, the ritual requires sacrifices which helps the colony rejuvenate itself upon being summoned. This cellular death sometimes causes the invoked demon to not be the one originally summoned from the moon through cellular realignment. Once a summoning ritual/sacrifice is complete, the demon arrives at the destination through a portal.
Warping a demon is difficult. it requires a summoner finding warp fungus and clenching it in its fist to communicate with the moon until a demon on the moon finds the corresponding fungus and answers (the fungus flashes on its correspondant when clenched ) The pair must then establish how to undertake the summoning ritual. Once they are in agreement, the summoner will construct a summoning circle from the fungus and provide heat sources around the circle (usually candles) and communicate with the demon. 
On the moon, the demon will fast itself for days in order to warp as easily as possible to the summoning circle. The demon after fasting will then eat the fungus and be warped to the summoning circle. On the way, the fungus will attack the demons organism. If the damage to the yeast colony is too extensive the demon will be unable to warp and be banished back to the moon. 
Once the demon is in the summoning circle the yeast colony must quickly feed itself in order to replace the lost cells or the fungus will kill it and it will be banished. The choice of ritual influences on how the colony will reproduce in order to replenish itself. 
==Summoning Rituals==
Since the demonic yeast grows better in presence of heat, summoning rituals generally involve a heat source and food such as candles, a great roaring fire and a food source, a sacrifice or a host.
As a rule, sacrificial rituals are meant to invoke more durable demons who have colonies large enough to withstand the mass cell death that comes with warping. Possession rituals are simpler for lesser demons, but require a willing and acceptable host. 
As such, both demon and summoner take risks when attempting rituals. as a result their mutual service is generally carried out hand in hand, with multiple preliminary communications taking place in order to ensure the ritual goes well. 
=== Sacrifice ritual ===
Sacrificial summoning rituals consist of ensuring the arriving demon has enough available nutriments to recoup the loss of cells it has suffered while warping to the realm. The ritual consists of killing live animates drenched in sentiment to "attract" the demon to the summoning circle. The entity will then feed ravenously and reproduce wildly in order to reconstitute itself in the realm.
Sacrificial rituals are considered double or nothing. The demon risks death from mass cell death during warping. Sacrificial rituals also imply that the demon must be its own entity as they will not find a willing host upon arrival, and will have to bet on the summoners ability to provide adequate sustenance on the other side. 
=== Possession ritual ===
Since possession of a host not versed in demonology is physically, socially and mentally damaging, not many volunteer for the honor. On top of this, hosting means giving control to the demon to the body. This, coupled with the unreliability of the act as the demon received is not always the one expected makes being a host a risk.
However the advantage of hosting is that the demon will be tethered to the body until a transfer can be made. This means that banishing the demon can be done by killing the host, or otherwise neutralizing the possessed. In short possession rituals are more manageable, on the condition that the host is willing.
Unwilling hosts aren't useful vessels as most often the demon cannot host and is banished from the resistance. the demon requires the host to produce faith sentiment in order to facilitate the acceptance and for the hosts immune system not actively fight off the yeast. Possession summoning rituals mostly consist of placing a demonic entity into a host's body. In the case of reluctant hosts, the demon's power directly correlates to how much sway it has over the host (ie, the quantity of faith the host will produce, which powers a demons magics).
== Notes ==
Rituals aren't mutually exclusive, a possession ritual can be modified to become a sacrificial ritual during the ritual and still successfully warp the demon.
Rituals don’t necessarily end in possession. Some rituals give the host a demonic form. The act sacrifices one’s body for a demonic form. These are rare as demons don't usually sacrifice themselves for their host, and the other way around.
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