The Method of Action is a way to digest a potion. The Otherworldly must behave as prescribed by their stage until the power becomes part of them. 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 shipboard: Sailor and Seaman live by sea work, Wind-Blessed guides the ship where the weather is against, Ocean Singer appeals to the element itself.
The method remained the knowledge of the few for a long time: the hierarchies of churches were in no hurry to reveal it, and many otherworldly rose blindly, paying for it with their sanity.
