Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

This grueling ritual takes from sunset to sunrise to complete and requires the caster to be trapped in the Astral Plane with their cord having been severed. They also require at least a small portion of the remains of their body, the ability to cast Power of the Pyramid, an assistant in the Skinlands who also possesses Power of the Pyramid, and a new body to tether their newly forged silver cord to. Vires Acquirit Eundo may not be used to modify this ritual in any way.

Papa Legba – Loa of the Crossroads/equated to St. Anthony (Patron Saint of lost things)
Papa Ghede – Samedi’s good counterpart
Baron Samedi – Loa of Resurrection
Ghede Linto – Loa who performs miracles, assists with either preparing for trouble or how to avoid it
Grand Bois, Matire Carrefour, Baron Cimetière – Triad of Magicians who represent the journey of life (rich earth that you spring from and dark woods, various roads and paths you choose to travel on, the end of the trip)

The caster must invoke each of the following Loa in turn, calling to them for their aid in reclaiming their Silver Cord and being returned to the lands of the living: Papa Legba, Papa Ghede, Ghede Linto, Grand Bois, Maitre Carrefour, Baron Cimetière, the Baron Samedi, and finally Papa Legba a second time.

The caster in the Skinlands lays out an apropriate offering to each of the Loa as they are named, forming a circle around a small pile of the primary caster’s ashes. (Tobacco and Water; a Cheap Cigar and an Apple; Rum and a lit Cigarette; Honey and Spiced Rum; Rum infused with Gunpowder; a Fine Cigar and fine Wine; Tobacco and Rum).

Once the Loa have been called to, both Casters will enact the ritual Power of the Pyramid, drawing the force of their wills together and then shifting it wholly to the caster trapped in the Astral Plane. They then forge a new silver cord by shaping the energies of the Astral Plane with the combined force of the two wills. This is passed back to the secondary Caster and is anchored to the primary Caster’s remains as the ashes are sealed into a small packet that has been blessed by those Loa who were summoned.

The packet must be placed onto the new host body within a lunar cycle or the caster’s soul becomes lost to the Abyss as the ritual fails.

Mechanics:
The ritual must be started at sunset and is completed upon sunrise and requires two participants to be successful, the one with the ritual being the caster seeking to reattach their Astral form to a body, and an assistant in the Skinlands. Both must be capable of casting the ritual Power of the Pyramid, and a portion of the remains of the caster's body are required in addition to the mundane components. In addition, the primary caster must expend two permanent traits of willpower, with the assistant expending one permanent trait of willpower.

Once the ritual is completed, they have precisely one lunar cycle to attach the newly formed silver cord to a new host body, though how the soul currently inhabiting said body is removed is an entirely different problem. Should the packet containing the caster's remains ever part company with the new body, their soul is immediately sucked into the Abyss as the ritual fails.