Endowment of [Ability Score]
This ritual is a sublime sign of loyalty, friendship, and love; for what greater love is there than to give of yourself to enrich another?
To perform it, all that is needed is for two people to clasp their hands together, and for one of them, fully aware of what they are doing, to will a piece of themselves into the other person. One is diminished; one is enriched.
The requirements for this ritual is that the donor must be fully aware of what they are doing, and cannot be compelled to perform this deed; they must be willing to give their might to another.
Rules-wise, there are two creatures involved in this ritual: the donor, henceforth known as the dedicate, and the recipient, henceforth known as the beneficiary.
If the dedicate's ability score (before magic items, effects that increase ability scores, and racial modifiers, henceforth referred to as their natural ability score) is 8 or below, this ritual cannot be performed for that ability score.
Otherwise, the beneficiary receives a +1 bonus to that ability score, which is increased by 1 for every two points higher than 13 that the dedicate has for their base ability score, and the dedicate has that ability score reduced to 1. This bonus is explicitly factored into a creature's base ability score. This bonus stacks with bonuses granted from other Endowments.
This bonus is a transferal of vitality; it is entirely nonmagical. However, upon the death of either party, the ritual's benefits and drawbacks end.
A given creature may only act as a dedicate once in their entire life, and may only be the beneficiary from 6 different rituals simultaneously.
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The above ritual works best in a setting without magical items that increase ability scores.
The flufftastic names for the transferal of each ability score are:
Endowment of Strength - Strength
Endowment of Vigor - Constitution
Endowment of Grace - Dexterity
Endowment of Wit - Intelligence
Endowment of Wisdom - Wisdom
Endowment of Spirit - Charisma
Endowment of Glamor - Appearance (for campaigns that use it.)
