The path of the otherworldly is not just a way to gain power, but a transformation of the very essence. The first step is to accept the darkness within yourself. Not to fight it, not to suppress it, but to recognize it as part of yourself. The second step is to learn to control this darkness, to make it your servant, not your master. The third step is to use the power of darkness for your own purposes, but always remember the price that has to be paid.
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 night path: the Sleepless One is awake when everyone else sleeps, the Midnight Poet turns the night into words, and the following steps already work with fear itself.
The method remained the knowledge of the few for a long time: the hierarchs of the churches were in no hurry to reveal it, and many otherworldly beings ascended blindly, paying for it with their sanity.
