I. 💡 FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENCES FROM OTHER DECKS

🔥 Trigger Mechanic: Emotion Resonance

Each card is bound to a dominant emotional state at the time of casting. If your state matches the card's encoded emotion, it casts at full power. If not — it either fails, backfires, or manifests differently.

Example Emotional Triggers:

• Rage
• Despair
• Joy
• Regret
• Devotion
• Hate
• Terror
• Grief
• Calm
• Hunger (desire)

A card bound to “Rage” will not activate if the caster is calm — unless they pay a price to force the emotion.

🩸 How You Make a Blood Pact Card

Blood Pact Cards are created through emotional imprinting, usually during:

• The death of a loved one (Grief Pact)
• A betrayal or vengeance vow (Hate Pact)
• A divine or demonic offering (Desire Pact)
• Near-death survival (Terror Pact)
• Confession of true feelings (Devotion Pact)

They're written in blood, literally or metaphorically. Often require:

• A wound or self-harm
• An emotional sacrifice
• A memory engraving onto parchment or flesh

II. ⚔️ MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR

• No Upright/Reversed — Instead: Resonant / Non-resonant
• Emotion Match = Full Effect
• Emotion Mismatch = Reduced, Backfire, or Alternative Manifestation
• Some cards burn out after one use (especially grief or hate pacts)
• Some cards can mutate if used while experiencing the wrong emotion too often

✴️ CARD TYPES

❗ USE COSTS

• May drain HP
• May sacrifice a memory (lose access to a skill)
• May fracture relationships (NPC bond drops)
• May force you to roleplay the matching emotion (if you aren’t already)

🎴 BLOOD CARD APPEARANCE

Visual Design:

• Jagged black/red parchment or skin-like texture
• Blood-vein fractal borders
• Emotional sigils etched or burned into surface
• Faint heartbeat animation, pulses when close to resonance
• Name written in the user’s or origin source’s blood

Back Symbol

• Stylized heartbeat line crossing an eye
• Smeared pact rune with soul-thread threading through

Font Style: Rough, calligraphic. Looks like pain was used to write it.

III.🩸 BLOOD PACT RITUALS

“To bind a card in blood is to confess a truth the soul cannot hide.”

WHAT IS A BLOOD PACT RITUAL?

A Blood Pact Ritual is the act of transforming raw emotion into an enduring magical contract. It is not crafted with will — but with feeling that could not be denied.

Each ritual carves a specific emotion into the card through pain, confession, offering, or release.

** RITUAL METHODS BY EMOTION TYPE

Each ritual is singular. Even repeating it yields a different card — the moment is always unique.

IV. TOOLS AND RITUAL EFFECTS

REQUIRED TOOLS & CONDITIONS

General Components:

• Emotion Anchor (symbol, relic, or token)
• Living Ink (blood, breath, or Sliver oil)
• Blank Card Medium (bone vellum, spiritcloth, curseleaf, etc.)

Setting Conditions:

• Must occur in alignment with emotion:

  • Grief → Nightfall, grave, storm
  • Desire → Full moon, mirror, market
  • Fear → Alone, hunted, under veil

✴️ Pactcasters often carry a Rite Satchel with: ritual chalk, memory threads, gauze, and voidglass to record the pact.

Once completed:

• A Blood Pact Card is born
• Emotion is sealed into it — caster may feel numb afterward

• If the emotion was forced (e.g. fabricated), the card may:

  • Refuse to trigger
  • Burn out early
  • Curse the caster

Some cards “weep” when held — lightly pulsing to their pact’s resonance.

DANGERS OF RUSHED RITUALS

💬 “The pact remembers what you won’t admit.”