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.
All preparation and casting of the ritual must be done under the light of a full moon, by a thaumaturge that has the ability to cast Hermetic Sight. From start to finish, this ritual takes one hour to complete.
Material Components:
- 18 silver thorns
- 9 anise seeds
- 2 white moonstones
- 1 trait of the thaumaturge’s vitae
Additional Tools
- Silver bowl
- Seawater
- White marble mortar and pestle
The thaumaturge must collect eighteen silver thorns, and nine anise seeds, which will be placed into a white marble mortar, along with two white moonstones that have been soaking in seawater in a silver bowl for the past lunar cycle. The thaumaturge will prick their left thumb with one of the thorns and allow seven drops of their blood to fall into the mortar, coating the thorns, seeds, and moonstones. They must then take a white marble pestle and grind the items into a fine paste while chanting seven times in Latin “Let the unseen shadows be made clear.”
Upon successful completion of the ritual, the material components will have merged to form a fine, white paste with a silvery sheen, of sufficient quantity for three applications. It must immediately be transferred into air-tight silver containers to be stored. This paste will last until either the next full moon or until it is used, whichever comes first.
To use the paste, it must be applied to the eyelids of the individual wishing to see into the Umbra. It bestows Hermetic Sight as if the user had spent a mental trait to see not only Spirits in the immediate vicinity, but also into the Umbra itself. They are down two traits on all interactions with the Skinlands, as per that use of Hermetic Sight. Once exposed to air, the paste will last for one hour.