Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

Intermediate Ritual: Faith in Fire

To begin the ritual, the caster takes a white taper candle and lights it with Lure of Flames.  He then must enter a meditative trance, centering his concentration on the flame and chanting for a half hour as the candle burns nearly to the end.  After a half hour passes, the caster makes a Mental Test against 7 Traits, retesting with Meditation. If he succeeds, the thaumaturge takes the palm of his hand and extinguishes the candle with it.  The thaumaturge takes a unsoakable level of Aggravated damage that burns a hermetic sigil into his palm. He tests for rotschreck as usual and if he fails the ritual fails.  For as long as the sigil stays burned into the palm of the caster, and he does not heal the Aggravated damage sustained from the ritual, he is immune to the ravages of thaumaturgical fire that he creates, as well as radiating intense, notable heat from his palm.