Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

Description: Sometimes the chains of the Aeons reach so deep that they are almost insurmountable, shackling even the mystic essences of the soul such as the akh and sekhem. This long and horrific sorcerous surgery, relying on the principles learned by Heart of Darkness and fundamental principles of other rituals, particularly Emancipation of the Ka, inverts malignant energies influencing a vampire—and only a vampire can survive this process—to undermine and erode even terribly potent shackles on the subject’s will. It is even possible to completely remove the lingering remnants of certain powerful chains if they have been sufficiently weakened. The lector-priest must have the subject somewhere they can perform the ritual securely, as it requires six uninterrupted hours of thanatological surgery.
The lector-priest must have specially-prepared canopic jars, with the four Sons of Horus inscribed on the jars in the opposite directions (Amset on the north jar, Khebsemuf on the east, and so on). The inscriptions are necessary as the lector-priest engages in a further blasphemous subversion and creates lids for each jar with the head of the sha, or Set-animal, instead of the four Sons of Horus. A mixture of tainted perfumes and the target’s vitae is poured into each jar so the organs may be submerged.
The lector-priest opens the body cavity of the subject and isolates the major arteries and veins of the stomach, intestines, lungs, liver, and gall bladder with delicate clamps made of gemstones for the arteries (turquoise, lapis lazuli, carnelian, obsidian) and metals for the veins (silver, tin, iron, bronze – never gold, for gold is the flesh of Ra). After each organ has been isolated from the circulatory system with these clamps, they are surgically removed and placed into the appropriate (by direction, not deity) canopic jars. Over the course of the ritual, they mix with the brews in their jars and dissolve into a kind of sludge. This sludge is poured back into the body cavity and it is sealed. The sludge then diffuses through the body, crawling its way towards the heart (or chest cavity) and brain, where it will dissolve into the flesh of the subject and disrupt the energies of other supernatural influences.
This entire process is deeply agonizing and can potentially kill a subject if they were already seriously injured, but if they have the strength of mind and will to endure it, even monumentally powerful tools used by the Aeons and their agents can be weakened or overthrown.
System: This ritual causes four unsoakable Aggravated wounds and the subject’s subconscious (i.e. the player’s choice) must be willing to receive the benefits of this ritual or it will not work. This is represented by the subject spending a permanent Willpower. This ritual can alleviate madness, subvert oaths, and even more break potent supernatural influences on the subject, including reducing a blood bond by one step or a Vinculum rating by three, potentially removing these bonds entirely if they were low enough. This ritual can even free the subject from the influence of Elder powers (Chain the Psyche, Obedience, etc.).

The animal fathers of Africa honor the king of cats and mankind too heeds their presence. The caster makes an offering to the ghost of the lions and then braids into his or her own hair a lock of a lion's mane that they have removed themselves for this ritual. Displaying it openly, the caster is granted the lion’s favor of the noble beast’s commanding presence.

This intermediate ritual allows you an extra social trait for the remainder of the evening.

The components are the hair from a lion's mane that you harvested and your own hair braided together. This could be a braid in your hair or hung around your neck, but this must be visible for the favor of the spirits to be granted. The ritual requires a trait of blood to be sacrificed in respect of the spirits; the blood need not be kindred, indeed wildebeest is preferred. Also note that the lion providing the hair need not be alive at the time of casting, but the beast must be respected and as such not kept in storage or as a captive. The trait granted is Commanding, and it remains the discretion of the storytellers if the favor of the Lion's Pride is granted. The Lion’s Favor can be judged with a static social test, difficulty 8 or ST discretion.

System: Adding a drop of the caster's blood and a single drop of black ink to a crucible containing burning heliotrope incense, the caster gains additional ability to obscure her influence manipulations.  The thaumaturge generates one additional free Stealth influence action when this ritual is cast.

Malicious Viscous (Advanced - 5)

This ritual uses the Bahari’s natural affinity to their Garden.  The user of this ritual uses sap from the trees from their garden as a component.  When the user wishes to release the sap, all they need to do is throw the sap, requiring a Physical challenge (retested with Athletics), upon contact it releases the ritual upon the target.  The victim becomes enveloped by sap wrapping around them, forcing them to become immobilized.  The victim may try to move, but the sap is too strong to break unless the victim can make a physical challenge (retest: brawl) against the Lilin’s mental traits (retest: occult).  On success, the victim can pry their arms and legs free, and on a fail they continue to remain enveloped.  This ritual lasts for a scene/hour before dissipating.