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.
This ritual is cast in conjunction with any Warding Circle ritual and reverses its effects. Rather than being difficult to approach and keeping a particular creature type out, subjects of the appropriate type feel nothing until they pass into the warding circle. At that point, they feel the power emanating from the circle. In order to leave the circle, they must win a static Willpower challenge against the Mentla Traits of the caster at the time the ritual was cast (this means you should record the number of Mental Traits you possessed at the time of casting). If the subject fails, they suffer three lethal damage and are denied entry. If they win the challenge, they may cross, but still suffer the three lethal damage.
Divine Communion (Advanced Dur-An-Ki Ritual)
Ashipu ascend the ladder of heaven to commune with gods and seek covenants for power. To most ashipu this is something of a simple business like transaction. The ashipu agrees to do x service for the deity and they receive y benefit. However, some ashipu develop a more personal relationship with the deities they interact with. They become their agents on earth and have a deep connection to their patron. An ashipu only ever forms this sort of relationship with one deity (this can be represented by the background Spirit Mentor). These ashipu act as their deities agents. They erect shrines to their deities and venerate them according to their methods. Ashipu who develop this bond with a deity also practice this ritual. By spending time at their temple, church, or altar to their deity they can commune directly with them and seek the answers of the heavens.
System: You contact your deity or a divine proxy and ask up to three questions that can be answered with a yes or no. You must ask your questions before the ritual ends. You receive a correct answer for each question.
Divine beings aren’t necessarily omniscient, so you might receive “unclear” as an answer if a question pertains to information that lies beyond the deity’s knowledge. In a case where a one-word answer could be misleading or contrary to the deity’s interests, the storyteller might offer a short phrase as an answer instead. This ritual may only be used once a month. This ritual takes 1 hour to perform and must be at the appropriate site to the deity they have bonded to.
Domaldi, a legendary Swedish king, did not have a happy life. He became king when his two older half-brothers murdered their father Visbur, and his stepmother cursed Domaldi with a life of bad luck. This was one curse not made in vain; Domaldi's reign was marked by famine and plague. The first year of starvation, the Swedish chieftains sacrificed oxen, and when the harvest was still terrible, they offered up human beings the following year. Because the luck of the land was believed to be tied to the luck of the king, on the third year the chieftains reluctantly decided they had to sacrifice Domaldi (who was generally liked and well-regarded). Sagas relate that Sweden's luck changed once the altar was splashed with Domaldi's blood, and the next year's harvests were excellent.
Mechanics:The Koldun makes two cuts on the sides of his stomach, so that he may be full, but not eat, one cut representing each older brother. He places a maximum of as many small rocks (thumb-sized) as he has in his primary Koldunic Way multiplied by his Koldunism ability. He then heals the wounds (which are one lethal a piece) and ingests blood, which is suffused into the small rocks, sacrificing Domadli on the altar. One trait is absorbed into each. They may be activated no more than 3 per round to generate the blood trait infused in each small stone into the blood pool of the Koldun. Once cast, the stones will revert to blood if removed from the stomach. Each stone has a single use. They remain in the stomach until removed or used.
Advanced Ritual
This ritual enchants two doorways allowing passage from one through the other despite the distance between them; functioning similarly to the Hearth Path advanced level. One trait of vitae is required from each participant (who need not be present at the rituals casting), which is collected in a clay jar, in which is placed a papyrus copy of Anubis leading of the dead through the underworld from the Book of the Dead. Each door to be enchanted is carved with hieroglyphs and then painted in the vitae of those who are to be attuned to the doors, and, therefore be able to travel between them.
This passage works by creating a small passageway into Du'at through which the lector-priest - and those she has attuned to the doors - may travel. This brings about its own unique difficulties. If the ritual challenge is failed (after all applicable retests), another simple challenge is thrown (no traits risked). Failure on this follow-up challenge means that not only was the passageway not constructed properly, but something has come through from Du'at and will trouble the caster until she finds a way to get rid of it (Storyteller's discretion). Those who have not been attuned to the ritual who travel through the door, exit wherever the door would normally exit in the real world.
This ritual passageway lasts for one Sothic year (Year based on the rising of Sirrius), at which time it needs to be recast (using another trait of blood from each who wishes to pass through it) or the ritual lapses.
Doppelganger (Basic Hermetic Ritual)
Calling upon long suppressed secrets of the Tremere's lineage, a Warlock who has mastered this ritual is able to take on the appearance of another individual. After successfully casting this ritual, the Warlock is able to alter his appearance per the power of Malleable Visage until the next sunrise. To replicate the appearance of a specific person, the Warlock must engage in a Static Physical Challenge against the subject's Social Traits, retesting with the specialized Body Crafts ability. If this test is unsuccessful then a careful examination of the stolen appearance by someone familiar with the subject will quickly reveal the ruse.
This ritual is not as versatile as the discipline mimicked. The new appearance is fixed following the casting of the ritual; to alter it, one must cast the ritual again. While under the effects of this ritual, the Warlock will register as possessing Vicissitude to powers designed to detect such. The rituals effects may also be reversed by powers such as "Stone of the True Form" that are designed to counter form-changing powers. Finally, the power ends at sunrise, the Warlock's natural visage returning over his day sleep.
Vampire blood is dead and, like all things dead, Necromancers have a calling to it. Taking a drop of someone's blood, the necromancer ingests it and spends 1-3 Willpower. Depending on the amount of Willpower spent, the castor learns the Cainite's blood bonds or vinculums, with the storyteller able to provide vague impressions on who they may apply to with varying accuracy based on how many willpower have been spent. This power does not protect the necromancer from being blood bound by imbibing blood.
Long ago, upper and lower Egypt lived together in harmony. In a spectacle of wonder, Set called forth his children to witness what would later be known as his final wonderwork and gift to his children. As everything changed with the Silent Striders attacked. Set, in his glory; maintained not only the effort of his work but also defended Egypt from the Silent Strider invasion. Using their deaths and trapping their souls in the Du'at bonding it to Egypt to protect it. Ultimately after many days and nights of battle and thousands dead, Set ended the invasion by the universal destruction of all who threatened Egypt. When the dust settled and Egypt needed him most, Set was gone. In his place, a great mystical Barrier stood preventing the Silent Striders from ever returning. In 2017, the Silent Striders rallied a call for aid to lay Siege to Egypt once more. Other Garou, as well as their mustered allies among Mages and Fae answered their call. Their might eventually called to those long dead Ancestors bound in the Du'at to rise up as well. The living and the dead throwing their lives at this great wonderwork endlessly until it could bear the weight no longer. In the end, the living sacrifice their lives and the dead sacrificed their very souls but the deed was done and the barrier that separated the ancient tribe from their ancestral home was gone.
Through dedicated research and effort a Lichter Priest walks an area meditating and reflecting on this and other ancient stories of Set and their great works, under the lightless night of the New Moon. Marking the area with various Hieroglyphics with classic Egyptian tempera using their own blood as a thinning and bonding agent. The Lichter Priest must spend a minimum of 1 blood point per "block" they enchant. The Blessing lasts until the Lichter Priest is killed, or a Year and a Day; whichever comes first. A "block" is used as it is a measurement that is unique and appropriate to each game the rituals may be used in, in which an ST may then add additional limits as appropriate for their chronicle's geography.
The Ritual "Echos of Du'at '' Calls upon the fragmented souls of the Du'at to call to those who escaped and draw them back to their proper home. Any Silent Strider who sleeps more than 1 Hour inside the blessed area, finds that their mind is under siege by horrible nightmares (2pt Flaw). These nightmares persist for as long as the Silent Strider continues to sleep within the blessed area. As soon as the Silent Strider leaves, and sleeps at least 1 Hour outside the area, the nightmares fade, as does the flaw.
Alternatively, the Ritual "Draught of War" calls upon the seemingly endless wellspring of energy conjured on both sides of these ancient stories. In which the Gnostic Energy of the Silent Striders is siphoned by the Du'at to claim what rightfully belongs to it. Any Silent Strider which enters the protected area finds themselves unable to regenerate their own swells of Gnosis. They may still call upon powers, spirits, and fetishes or talens to regain their Gnosis - they simply can not regain it naturally under their own power. Should a Caern exist inside the protected area, the Caern is unaffected and the Silent Strider may regain gnosis at the Caern as normal.
While performed the same way, and an area may benefit from both rituals. Each must be purchased with experience points separately as advanced Akhu Rituals as well as cast as seperate challenges.
Drawing the Dragon (Int.)
As the Geomancer understanding of the flow of energy around the land and between the realms, they can reach out and feel the presence of the natural or unnatural collections of such energy. They may not understand what the wells of energies mean, but the can feel the flow of the energy as it moves and gathers.
Mechanics: After the initial casting of this ritual, they know the rough locations of significant gatherings of metaphysical energy such as Caerns, Hive, strong nodes, strong freeholds, or other places that pool metaphysical energy within 10 miles of where they cast the ritual. The caster can extend the casting time by 10 minutes for each additional ten miles they wish to map with a max range of 100 miles.
They may not know what type of energy is there or who is there, they just have a partial map of where these pools are within the casting radius. Other supernatural effects may decrease the visibility or lessen the apparent strength of place of power, but not entirely hide them. Depend on the caster Lores or other knowledge they may be able to make some educated guess at what the locations represent.
The caster spends the time necessary to cast this ritual in meditation, thinking upon the symbolic nature of the universe. When finished, the thaumaturge’s increased connection with the Atlas allows the materials present in the Atlas to help the thaumaturge solve symbolic problems.
Mechanics: Once per night, the caster can spend a temporary mental trait and retest one failed mental test involving deciphering, understanding, and solving runes, symbols or symbolic equations (such as various forms of mathematics). This counts as a magical retest, and requires the intermediate ritual, Forging the Atlas, to have been successfully cast.