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.
Advanced Ritual
This ritual was designed by Santino to create a mask that will increase the wearer's Courage Rating as well as intimidate others while it is being worn.
Mechanics:
In order to create this mask the necromancer must subdue between 1 and 3 wraith and, with the assistance of one of his own wraiths, forge the unfortunate souls into a mask which he will wear in the skinlands.
System: Subdue (via any means appropriate to the character) a wraith and have another wraith with Soulforging or Moliate craft the victims into a wearable mask for the necromancer, along with a trait of the caster's blood and a hair from a lion (or some other "courage" related animal). The caster then recites the short blessing of battle over the mask, completing the enchantment (and making the ritual challenge at this point - failures means he must start over). The mask can be worn in the shadowlands at this point, granting the caster a a permanent bonus to his courage and additional "Intimidating" social traits usable only against creatures in the shadowlands, or it can be removed from the shadowlands (by some means not related to this ritual) where the caster can then use it as he pleases and gain the benefits against anyone in the shadowlands or the skinlands. If removed from the shadowlands the mask deteriorates over time and fades completely from existence after a year and a day have passed from the time it was brought into the skinlands. The mask grants a bonus courage trait and a bonus social trait as described above for each wraith used in it's creation, up to three. So a mask created with three souls would grant +3 courage and +3 Intimidating social traits to the wearer. The caster may only have one such mask in existence at a time, and no drones may be used in the creation of a mask - they must be wraiths with at least 3 permanent willpower
Storytellers are strongly recommended to run a scene where the necromancer or his minions must actively attempt to subdue the wraiths to be used for the mask in a manner fitting with your game's house rules. This shouldn't be an easy task.