Custom Blood Magic: Path

 

Borealis - Custom Thaumaturgy Path\

 

This Path was created in the Night… Falls (NVA) chronicle by Vincent King. It's being submitted by Berkeley, CA for a few reasons: 1) Our player Saskia Dietrich has the path, 2) The Arcane Compendium from 2010 is no longer valid, that's where the path was contained and now it has to be submitted to the database, and 3) It's custom material that isn't in the database yet.

 

Basics:

 

Ran's Touch: By concentrating, the thaumaturge can freeze a small area, rendering simple devices useless. To activate this power the target must be touched and single blood trait must be spent, then the caster engages in a Mental vs. Physical challenge. An additional Blood Trait must be spent for a currently moving target. This cannot be employed on a living or undead target. 

 

Grasp of Magni: A slightly larger area of space can now be frozen and the thaumaturge no longer needs to touch the target. By spending a Mental Trait the caster may create a small (up to a cubic foot) block of ice. If targeting a person or something that a person is grasping, the caster must engage in a Mental vs. Physical Challenge. The Ice can halt movement of a person or machine, and will last until melted or broken (static Physical vs. 6 traits). 

 

Intermediate 

 

Forseti's Silence: With this level of control the thaumaturge can create a wall of Ice. The wall is three cubic feet of ice for each Mental Trait spent to cast it, has as many Enduring Physical Traits as Mental Trait spent to cast it, and has health levels equal to half of the Mental Traits spent to cast it, rounded down. The wall must be summoned in unoccupied space within 50 feet of the caster. 

 

Hel's Kiss: The thaumaturge can literally freeze the blood of his chosen target. By spending a Willpower and winning a Mental vs. Physical challenge against the target, up to 3 Traits of Blood are frozen in the target's veins. A Mental Trait must be spent for each Blood Trait frozen. For mortals this would cause a lethal wound for each blood frozen, and render that blood permanently useless fluid. For Kindred this would make the blood unusable for 5 Minutes or the end of a scene. In both cases the target would be down one Physical trait for each blood trait frozen. 

 

Advanced 

 

Tomb of Buri: This power can completely incase a single target in a Tomb of Ice. The thaumaturgist must concentrate for a full turn, expend a Willpower Trait and initiate a Mental vs. Physical Challenge against the target. The Tomb has as many Enduring Physical Traits as Mental Trait spent to cast it, and has health levels equal to half of the Mental Traits spent to cast it, rounded down. If a Mortal is trapped in the Block of Ice he or she will take one Lethal wound each round until broken free. The victim of this power may attempt to break out, destroying the health levels of the ice, by initiating a physical challenge from within it.