"Empowerment is a dangerous process, with a fatal failure rate of ten percent. The donated prometus transferred to a Lightless Promethidae child at the age of four to six years old is identical in every respect to the prometus carried by the donor. Without careful preparation and monitoring, the donated prometus tends to treat the newly-Empowered child's body as the donor's own.
"At such times, the particles may modify the child's prometarium channels to match the donor's and mirror the more advanced sorcerer's magical workings. Even after a successful Empowerment, such resonance can be harmful, sometimes fatal, to the growing child. Likewise, such can endanger the donor, whose own prometus will mirror the donated particles and modify the body.
"To prevent such, it is vital to choose a donor who is as physically dissimilar from the recipient as possible."
—from Within and Without:
The Theory & Praxis
of Particle Interactions,
by Sedulus Trames
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