Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

Warding Pylon (Advanced Sadhanna Ritual)

Long ago, before recorded time when the Daeva first appeared the Davana who claim to be the original venture (the clan being nothing more than a bloodline) were created as a means to fight against the Daeva who had come to destroy their race.  Ordered by Caine himself to stop the great plague that swept across the land during the time of the flood, this ritual was a means by which to protect an entire city from the Daeva. The hope was to starve the Daeva into submission as they required blood just like Kindred.  Since that time this ritual has long since been lost to the annuals of history. However several of the Pylons created from those times survive even until the Modern Nights, storing in them ancient secrets from the time of the flood. Should the ritual ever be rediscovered it would be a potent weapon against the creatures seeking the destruction of all Kindred.

System: Daeva cannot approach within the range of a city it was placed in. If they try, they vanish back to outside the city limits. No special conditions apply to the carving of the pylon. Enchanting the obelisk requires several hours of prayers, exorcisms with sand and water, incense, and bathing the obelisk in honey, beer and the blood of an owl, an asp and crushed spiders. At the end, the magician lets the rising sun burn his hand to ash while it rests upon the pylon. Completing the final prayer while burning off one’s own hand costs a point of permanent Willpower and one permanent Trait of the Characters Morality as they infuse the beacon with their own life energy. Note that this also means taking one health level of aggravated damage. The Warding Pylon works by itself from then on, continuously. Some Warding Pylons are thousands of years old.  While this ritual is being cast all Daeva within the area are immediately aware of the attempt to create one and who is casting it. This will often cause Daeva to swarm an area trying to kill the caster before they can complete the ritual. As an interesting side effect, the Pylos can also store a memory of the caster within it, able to be unlocked by those who decipher its writings and mysteries.