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.
Challenge Type: Social
Retest: Occult
Static Difficulty: 7
In revenge for the murder of relatives by rival tribes the Jivaro developed the practice of Blood Revenge. When the Jivaro went to war they did battle both physically and spiritually. The Jivaro believed that unless the spirit of a slain warrior was captured, it would be free to curse and send bad luck to the victorious warrior and his tribe. In exacting Blood Revenge the Jivaro would take the heads of their fallen foes. After a week long ritual (which would eventually shrink the head to the size of a grapefruit) the spirit of the dead warrior would be bound to the Shrunken head or Tsantsa. This gruesome act served a dual function of preventing the enemy spirit from harming the warrior's ancestors in the afterlife as well as prevent it from aiding its tribe.
Mechanics - The necromancer must take the head of a fallen foe. After taking the head it must be specially prepared in a week long ritual that involves removing the skin from the head and salting the flesh. After boiling the head to shrink it's size, and stitching the head around a rock the ritual would be complete. During this week long process the victim slowly takes form in the shadowlands released from his caul at the end of the week. Invoking this ritual costs a willpower, and one week of preparation. At the end of the ritual the shrunken head acts as a 5 point fetter to the wraith. Anyone in possession of the head is +2 traits up in all challenges involving the wraith.
optional - To avoid PC trouble, this ritual will not work on PCs or Kindred/Cainites who, because of their age, would crumble to ash upon Final Death.