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.
Custom Content Category: Blood Magic: Ritual
Blood Magic Category: Thaumaturgy - Hermetic
XP Cost: 6XP
MET Mechanics:
Glyph Activation
(Advanced)
This ritual is intended for use with Way of Warding. It allows a Tremere to activate and deactivate the
glyphs of the Way of Warding, manipulating them in ways otherwise not possible, even if the magus did
not himself invoke the Way of Warding, or cast the Glyph Activation ritual. This ritual, once cast, lasts
for the duration of the Way of Warding glyph upon which it is cast.
When applied to glyphs of Bar the Common Passage, Runes of Power or Secure the Sacred Domain,
it allows the magus to deactivate/reactivate the glyph. This allows Runes of Power (when cast on a
portable object) to be deactivated, moved and then consequently reactivated without the power of the
glyph being lost, or allows Secure the Sacred Domain to be temporarily deactivated/reactivated, which
is treated as the description of multiple castings of said power, sealing any new breaches in the walls.
In order to deactivate or reactivate a glyph from the above three Way of Warding powers to which
Glyph Activation has been applied, a magus must trace the pre-existing glyph in his own Tremere vitae
(another’s vitae, or non-Tremere vitae, will not allow the magus to utilize the glyph).
When applied to Glyph of Scrying or Glyph of Enlightenment it allows a magus to deactivate/activate
and utilize the glyph(s), even if he is not the glyph’s original caster. In order to make use of a glyph from
the above two Way of Warding powers to which Glyph Activation has been applied, a magus must have
traced the pre-existing glyph in his own Tremere vitae (another’s vitae, or non-Tremere vitae, will not
allow the magus to utilize the glyph) within the same lunar month (within the past 28 days). During that
same lunar month, the magus may utilize the Glyph of Scrying or Glyph of Enlightenment at will as if he
was the caster, with all the described drawbacks of such utilization (see Way of Warding).
Date of Archival: 21-Feb-2015
Tremere