Method of Action — a way to digest the potion. The Other must behave as prescribed by his stage, until the power becomes part of him. Until the potion is digested, the bearer is vulnerable: the power is already there, but there is no control over it yet.
The roles of the path are connected to influence: the Advocate speaks for others and knows the value of words, the Briber finds this value in everyone, the Count of the Fallen rules those who have already agreed.
The method remained the knowledge of the few for a long time: the church hierarchies were in no hurry to reveal it, and many Others rose blindly, paying for it with their sanity.
