Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

While neonates of the Tower fear and respect the Tremere for their command of the paths of Thaumaturgy, those in the know are aware that ritual magic is where the strength of the Pyramid shines, and no ritual magic is more feared than those that use or manipulate sympathetic links and objects. By using this ritual, a thaumaturge can strengthen a sympathetic link for a short period of time (a year and a day), rendering objects casually handled by others dangerous in the prepared thaumaturgist's hands.

System: This ritual takes a weaker sympathetic link and turns it into a stronger sympathetic link for a limited use.

Specific effects are up to ST discretion but should be primarily story/plot driven. For example, a stone pulled out from tires of a vehicle being investigated may have a link strengthened to the point where it will function for a Scrying attempt of the locale the stone came from. Any link strengthened in this matter will function as a sympathetic link a maximum number of times equal to the temporary Willpower spent at the time of the casting, to a maximum of three. Past that, the ritual effect destroys any sympathetic links attached to the object at the time of the casting of this ritual, though new sympathetic links can be formed as normal.

Should the thaumaturge spend the requisite 3 Willpower, the sympathetic object maybe be substituted for a trait of blood requirement in an appropriate ritual that does not require the blood to be drunk. This irrevocably destroys the object in question after a single use.

When this ritual is cast, an item card should be created, noting the item, the person or place the sympathetic link is relevant to, and a creation date, as the ritual will maintain the link for a year and a day.