Blood Bonds

A medical procedure that, when legally performed, can take anywhere from weeks to years for governmental approval and then must be carried out in an approved medical facility. There is no approved approach to reversal of the process, though it is often attempted. The rise of OBSeq came, in part, to those who had lost their minds in a botched Bind or Reversal wanting to start again.

Blood memory does not last more than one transfusion generation.

Two types of Blood Bond: One made stronger by willingness of the __, one made weaker by it.

It is physically painful to disobey the wielder in the former type of blood bond.

Reversing the effects of a Blood Bond is possible, though almost certainly results in either death or the loss of the self. You need to trade blood with someone of a nearly identical latent body temperature.

When one-half of a blood bond dies, the other dies from oxygen deprivation as half their blood stops responding.