Custom Blood Magic: Ritual
Some chronicles allow for their players to develop customized powers for their characters. The following is a compilation of player created custom content in OWBN. At this time, custom content that is created and/or used by vampire PC's is required to be listed.
(Basic Ritual, Rarity 5-PC made)
Prerequisite: Armory of the Abyss (Player’s Guide to the High Clans page 163-164)
System: This ritual is used to express finesse in the manipulation of shadows and Abyssal Materials. The caster empowers a single specific shadow creation with just enough Abyssal eternity to maintain its existence in perpetuity.
Upon successful casting of this ritual the caster is able to render a shadow manipulated by Shadowplay into a fragile state of permanence. The result may be static or include a repetitive few seconds of animation. Shadows thus affected will exist until destroyed by fire or direct sunlight (the Merit:Strength of Shadows is applicable). Objects thus created are quite intangible. Paradoxically, the object may be picked up or handled by sentient creature using deliberate cautious movements. Due to the Abyssal mote, the creation will never be a sympathetic link.
Finally, the object conveys a sense of eternal dark unreality. Anyone directly paying attention to the object gains a briefest sense of the Abyss.
For those with Obtenebration, the effect is empowering and refreshes a single expended Willpower trait, up to once per night.
The Willpower refresh cannot occur more than once in any given evening regardless of how many of these items are observed.
For those lacking Obtenebration, they must win a static mental challenge or gain the active derangement of Nyctophobia (fear of the dark) for a scene. The difficulty of mental challenge is set by the caster when Delicate Shadow Permanence is applied. It may be as low as one, or as high as the caster's applicable traits in an Abyssal Mysticism mental challenge plus Shadow Crafting skill.
Side Effects: Firstly, the caster that they gain the negative social trait Unnerving for the evening upon casting this ritual. Secondly, anyone, other than the caster, willfully touching the object immediately suffers from the penalties of the Flaw: Nightmares for the rest of the evening as their mind reacts to being noticed by the Abyss.