Familiar Ritual

Familiars are directly connected to their master's soul.

To actually join them together the process is extensive.

The ritual takes 5 minutes to actually do the binding part, but it requires building a basic circle and two weeks worth of energy stored to be used during the 5 minute cast.

The energy required to bind the two takes roughly a fortnight from only the person who is going to partake in the ritual, the time it takes to charge is at the common rate for inexperienced mages.

Once the energy is collected, the mage needs to prepare their familiar to be.
This process requires special ink, to be incribed unto the animal's fur. This ink is to act as a gateway for the mage's energy. This Ink will stay after the ritual no matter what happens to it's fur.

For the ritual it requires a simple animal to be tamed to the point that the owner can inscribe all of the runes. Followed by this the mage takes their familiar to be into the circle and flows the energy though what ever they stored the energy in, and through themselves to their familiar. The unfocused energy will during the sustained 5 minutes connect the two.

This connect is young, but will quickly flourish into a impossible to break bond that no matter the distance the two will feel each other.

The young bond directly effects both the Mage and Familiar, Bahavours start to cross over.
The first few hours the familiar and mage must be directly next to each other.

The second week the familiar starts to form solid personality, that will stay with it even if the bond is broken. The bond is strong enough to survive periods away from each other.

Once a month has pasted, the dou can easily focus though each others senses, and can spend extended periods apart without any problems.

At this point the familiar is completely bound to its owner, and the familiar then starts forming its own independent magic.