Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

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Custom Content Category: Blood Magic: Ritual
Blood Magic Category: Akhu
XP Cost: 4XP
MET Mechanics:

Milk of Set

Blood Offering: (Intermediate ritual.)

Developed by the Zulu practitioner known as Jensen, this milk of set pays offering to the spiritual essence of an object, and then warps that spiritual essence, tying it to the Blood-Priest through the very sacrifice of blood that was offered.

This Milk of Set is created by sacrificing an animal through a single slice across the abdomen and letting the blood run into a basin along with half of the caster's own maximum vitae.  The mixture must be allowed to rest in a natural environment until sunlight and other organic factors reduce the solution to a single traits worth of thick, viscous sludge.  This Milk may then be poured into a vessel over a magic item/item created by any ritual.  After this mixture has steeped for 24 hours the Milk will be absorbed by the item, and from that point until the natural expiration of the item the caster of this milk will be considered the caster/creator of that item for all purposes, including sympathy."

Date of Archival: 22-Apr-2015
Followers of Set
Custom Content Category: Blood Magic: Ritual
Blood Magic Category: Voudoun Wanga
XP Cost: 4XP
MET Mechanics:

Developed by the Zulu practitioner known as Jensen, this milk of set pays offering to the spiritual essence of an object, and then warps that spiritual essence, tying it to the Blood-Priest through the very sacrifice of blood that was offered.

System: This Milk of Set is created by sacrificing an animal through a single slice across the abdomen and letting the blood run into a basin along with half of the caster's own maximum vitae.  The mixture must be allowed to rest in a natural environment until sunlight and other organic factors reduce the solution to a single traits worth of thick, viscous sludge.  This Milk may then be poured into a vessel over a magic item/item created by any ritual.  After this mixture has steeped for 24 hours the Milk will be absorbed by the item, and from that point until the natural expiration of the item the caster of this milk will be considered the caster/creator of that item for all purposes, including sympathy."

Date of Archival: 04-Mar-2018
Giovanni
Custom Content Category: Blood Magic: Ritual
Blood Magic Category: Necromancy - Western
XP Cost: 2XP
MET Mechanics:

** Giovanni has long studied ways of keeping information out of the wrong hands.  Secrets must be kept.

Components to Ritual:

Blood of those who will keep the secret

Cremated Ash of a Lawyer with no scruples.

Mixing the Ash with the Blood and incanting the words creates an ink.  Only those whose blood is part of the ritual may read/see anything written/drawn with the ink.  This ink may be used in any normal application of ink use.  The ritual used may still be discovered using powers such as Thaumaturgical Sight and the like. The necromancer must invoke the names of Saint Ramone(Saint of Secrets) and St. Mark the Evangelist(Saint of Venice).

Date of Archival: 17-Feb-2015
Giovanni
Custom Content Category: Blood Magic: Ritual
Blood Magic Category: Thaumaturgy - Hermetic
XP Cost: 2XP
MET Mechanics:

Level:
Basic.
Purpose of the Ritual:
Create a germinated seed with properties that will allow the growth of a plant imbued with
magic.
Knowledge Used for Creation:
● Knowledge of the Path of Advanced Green.
● Occult Level 5.
● Biology Level 4.
● Chemistry Level 3.
● Academics Agronomy 3.
Necessary materials:
● Vitae.
● Seed from a plant of the following families;Nepenthaceae, Sarraceniaceae,
Droseraceae and Lentibulariaceae.
● Land for planting
● Gardening tools such as pruning shears, shovels and rakes.
● Clay vase
Ritual Process:
Using gardening equipment throughout the process, fill the bottom of the pot with soil, make
a small incision in the seed shell, opening a small wound on its surface, place the seed on
the soil and pour a few drops of Vitae. While filling the pot with earth up to its lid, visualize
the vital energy flowing from the Vitae to the seed, reciting the following mantra; “Hoc Semen
Imbue Sanguine et Robore”. Then in silence, after filling the vase, you must draw a triskle on
its top. Let the earth dry. The vase can be transported in this process, it cannot be broken,
and the triskle design cannot be damaged.
Result:
At the end of this ritual, when the earth on the surface where the triskle is drawn is dry, which
should take about 2 to 3 days, or even less since there is no water involved in the ritual
process, you will then possess a Seed of Blood, which is the vessel itself. This material
should be used so that other rituals can be carried out, such as Nature's Alert, Consumption
of the Green or Living Barrier of Thorns.

Date of Archival: 30-Aug-2023
Tremere
Custom Content Category: Blood Magic: Ritual
Blood Magic Category: Anarch Sorcery - Punk Sorcery
XP Cost: 6XP
MET Mechanics:

Description: This ritual was developed by an Irish Brujah passionate about drinks and bohemian life, such love made him able to send his feelings and sensations to any type of drink.

System: As a Punk sorcerer, there is no standard procedure for performing the ritual, however, regardless of how you perform it, you must be drunk or under the influence of drugs and also spend 1 blood point to perform the ritual. After performing the ritual, the caster can put a feeling or sensation into a drink that is stored in a small gallon (2 liters) that lasts until the liquid is completely ingested/destroyed or for a period of 6 months, after which time the ritual loses its effect.

Date of Archival: 17-May-2022
Tremere
Custom Content Category: Blood Magic: Ritual
Blood Magic Category: Koldunic Sorcery
XP Cost: 6XP
MET Mechanics:

You need a human skull, and at least bone craft for this ritual.

You write the agreement on the skull using bone craft (which may require a bodycrafts chop)

All parties spend a blood and a will. All parties must be willing.

Anyone breaking the agreement loses access to a will power a night, then a mental trait a night once all their will power is gone. When the target hits zero mentals they fall to torpor. The skull will visibly darken while this happens.

This fate can be avoided by either destroying the skull, or finding a way to 'fix' the agreement (which will not always be possible), at which point all lost traits return the following night.

Date of Archival: 31-Jan-2015
Tzimisce
Custom Content Category: Blood Magic: Ritual
Blood Magic Category: Necromancy - Western
XP Cost: 6XP
MET Mechanics:
Spend 1 willpower to create. The necromancer gathers the bones from members form past Giovanni family and clan. The bones are then soaked in the blood of a member of clan Giovanni and carefully crafted into a wind chime. Whenever a person not of Giovanni blood enters within 100ft of the chime, throw a contested mental challenge (retested Occult) with the caster of this ritual as the aggressor. If the necromancer succeeds in detecting the invader, the chimes knock together making an eerie sound. Giovanni Perfect Infiltrators receive a free retest, and ties resisting this ritual. This ritual detects the physical bodies entering the chime's circle of effect, not any possessing or free floating spirits.

 

Date of Archival: 06-May-2019
Giovanni
Custom Content Category: Blood Magic: Ritual
Blood Magic Category: Natib Athirat
XP Cost: 2XP
MET Mechanics:

Along time ago, a book was formed by various Bahari to try and keep a textual record that reveal the story of vampires’ origins of Lilith.  These books were a great tool for Hierophants of Lilith to be able to educate those of the cult and to perform dark rituals in the ways of their Dark Mother.  The issue was that this book if fallen into the wrong hands of an uninitiated, could cause many issues for those of the cult initiated by pain and blood to the Dark Mother.  

 

The Hierophants of the Bahari sought a solution, and they found it by one of their own mortal cultists.  This mortal cultists offered up a pound of flesh to be used to bind the book into being.  To be able to lock the book from the prying eyes of the uninitiated.  Thus the Hierophant stripped the mortals flesh from his back, using his living skin as the book bindings.  Lastly the Baharist, took a single piece of barbed wire and wrapped it around the book using a prayer devoted to Lilith.  

 

Mechanic: The Baharist whom wishes to have the Book of Lilith must first find a mortal to gift a “pound of flesh” to its creation.  This mortal may not be manipulated by disciplines and must offer it up willingly.  After creation, the book is used as the communication means of the Cult of Lilith, and a way to store all rituals and stories of Lilith safely and securely. The flesh then becomes “awakened” allowing the user of the book to keep it locked and only opened by the member the book was made.

 

Using the Book of Lilith during any ritual grants the user +2 traits to the casting of the ritual and an extra “might-like” retest.

*Note - It is wrapped in barbed wire and requires the user to take 1 lethal opening the book.  The book is warm to the touch and made of flesh.

Date of Archival: 02-Mar-2015
Sabbat
Custom Content Category: Blood Magic: Ritual
Blood Magic Category: Abyssal Mysticism
XP Cost: 6XP
MET Mechanics:

Advanced Ritual Boukphos' Restored Mirror

Using the very mirror that one has already used Boukephos' Gateway on, the Mystic then begins to ritually scar and mark their face with the sigils of the abyss. The curse of the dark one denies them their own visage as they continue to chant why they do this.  Each sigil they mark upon their own flesh, up to five sigils, gives a chance for the abyss to take less than it once did.

Finally, after a  night of ritual incantation, the mystic presses their bleeding face to the mirror, leaving their impression upon the glass; the connection to the abyss forged previously allows the abyss to reach out, entering the mystic's flesh through these wounds.
System:
This ritual may only be cast once by any given mystic, ever, even if it fails. The casting of this ritual must be logged with the Lasombra Coordinator.
The user chooses to take 1-5 lethal damage: one lethal for each sigil they mark upon themselves, as they mark themselves with the Sigils of Ahrimane and Boukephos.

For the duration of this ritual, the user loses all appearance based social traits, and garners 1-5 additional negative appearance based social traits(Abyssal Repugnants), in addition to whatever they may have.
At each equinox and solstice thereafter, the user must then present themselves at midnight to the very same mirror, ripping one of the sigils off of their face and placing it upon the mirror, then chanting and channeling the power of the abyss.  When the chant concludes, the abyss takes back the piece of itself, leaving behind the flesh repaired. The caster must immediately be able to spend the exp to buy off the negative trait(at standard cost, ie 2 xp). Only one sigil may ever be removed at a time.
When all negative traits have been bought off, the user regains all their lost appearance based traits.
When this ritual is completed in its fullness and the last sigil is removed, the user, when activating obtenebration, does not actually spend social traits, if the social traits being spent on that use of obtenebration  are less than the damage they inflicted when initially casting this ritual.
This ritual is not known by any Non-player characters and was PC created.

Date of Archival: 18-Nov-2018
Lasombra
Custom Content Category: Blood Magic: Ritual
Blood Magic Category: Abyssal Mysticism
XP Cost: 6XP
MET Mechanics:
sing the very mirror that one has already used Boukephos' Gateway on, the Mystic then begins to ritually scar and mark their face with the sigils of the abyss. The curse of the dark one denies them their own visage as they continue to chant why they do this.  Each sigil they mark upon their own flesh, up to five sigils, gives a chance for the abyss to take less than it once did.
 
Finally, after a  night of ritual incantation, the mystic presses their bleeding face to the mirror, leaving their impression upon the glass; the connection to the abyss forged previously allows the abyss to reach out, entering the mystic's flesh through these wounds.
System:
This ritual may only be cast once by any given mystic, ever, even if it fails. The casting of this ritual must be logged with the Lasombra Coordinator.
The user chooses to take 1-5 lethal damage: one lethal for each sigil they mark upon themselves, as they mark themselves with the Sigils of Ahrimane and Boukephos.
 
For the duration of this ritual, the user loses all appearance based social traits, and garners 1-5 additional negative appearance based social traits, in addition to whatever they may have.
At each equinox and solstice thereafter, the user must then present themselves at midnight to the very same mirror, ripping one of the sigils off of their face and placing it upon the mirror, then chanting and channeling the power of the abyss.  When the chant concludes, the abyss takes back the piece of itself, leaving behind the flesh repaired. The caster must immediately be able to spend the exp to buy off the negative trait(at standard cost, ie 2 xp). Only one sigil may ever be removed at a time.
When all negative traits have been bought off, the user regains all their lost appearance based traits.
When this ritual is completed in its fullness and the last sigil is removed, the user, when activating obtenebration, does not actually spend social traits, if the social traits being spent on that use of obtenebration  are less than the damage they inflicted when initially casting this ritual.
This ritual is not known by any Non-player characters and was PC created.

 

Date of Archival: 17-Mar-2020
Lasombra

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