Ritual of Faith Shield

This ritual protects the character from the effects of faith skills, spells and abilities from the Follower of the Light, Druid and Servant of Darkness skill lists. Additionally, one charge of this ritual will stop the effects of a White or Dark ritual, however, the character must be conscious to invoke this ritual. For purposes of determining if the skill is used, consider this ritual the same as an Invulnerability spell; so Death Touch skill is stopped and the skill is used, but a Destroy Undead skill is blocked and the skill is not used. After the faith shield is invoked to protect against an attack, the shield is expended and resets itself after 5 minutes. This ritual has three charges and each one takes 5 minutes to reset. For example, if a character uses one charge then 3 minutes later uses another, the first charge will reset 2 minutes later and next one 3 minutes later. This ritual will not block other spells or skills – Slay skill, Inferno spell, etc – from a follower of a faith, but will stop an attack augmented with their power. For example, a Dark Paladin who charges their weapon with their Wounding Pool, or a Druid using their Elemental Pool to swing their element can have the attack stopped by this ritual. The caster can choose to cast this ritual upon themselves, upon another character, or upon an item. If cast on themselves or another character there is no in-game representation of the ritual. If this ritual is cast upon an item, a temporary item card must be made to indicate the magical nature of the item. As with other rituals that create magical items, the item is indestructible so long as the ritual lasts. A Ritual of Embedding is not needed to make an item with a Ritual of Faith Shield. The player should call "Faith Shield" when they invoke this defense.