Greeting the Sun

From “Glories Most High, Unconqured Sun” Page 40

The Art of Husbandry (0, Charisma, 1, Five minutes)

First Age Solars mandated a schedule of worship wherein all mortals made five daily prayers to the Unconquered Sun: once at sunrise, then at noon, midafternoon, sunset and midnight. These prayers were not simply shows of respect to the Most High, they enabled the sun’s righteous blessing upon the people.  A successfully completed daily prayer to the Unconquered Sun obviates one botch between the time of the prayer’s performance and the next scheduled prayer in the cycle, making it a normal failure instead. (A prayer at sunrise would alleviate the first botch that occurred between dawn and noon.)

By the end of the First Age, the Solars had allowed most mortals to grow lax in their devotions, and the majority of individuals did not awaken to make a midnight prayer.  As a result, the small hours of the morning became widely associated with misfortune and disaster, an association that has persisted into the current day.  Only a very few communities still greet the sun according to the old methods, though the Cult of the Illuminated has recently revived the practice among its training camps.  This procedure uses Performance in place of Occult.

[My Adjustment]

It is now just a normal prayer ritual, it is no longer a Thaumaturgy Rite that uses Performance.  However, it now requires a Week of the scheduled prayer (Charisma + Performance, Difficult 1) before it start to take effect.  Once broken for whatever reason, it will need another week before it takes effect again.

The Ritual be started within a 10 minutes window at each phase.  It does not matter why it was missed, the person has to start anew.

It also only negates 1 Botch between Sunrises, not Once every 6 hours.

Otherwise the ritual is unchanged.

Keep in mind it is a Religious Ritual/Prayer.  Akin to the rites of Islam.   It is not a quiet silent thing one does under one’s breath in secret.  It is the reciting of the Unconquered Sun’s Litany while prostrating oneself towards the direction of the Sun (or lifting hands in prayer towards the middle of the sky should it be noon or midnight).  The ritual last 5 minutes.