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.
Rakshasas can look like humans or various animals. In their natural form they have blue, green or yellow skin, and eyes turned vertically in their faces. Everything else varies: Rakshasas can be tall or short, thin or fat, have one, two or more legs, or even multiple heads. They are the most consistently malevolent of demons.
Rakshasas were believed to have been created from the breath of Brahma when he was asleep at the end of the Satya Yuga. As soon as they were created, they were so filled with bloodlust that they started eating Brahma himself. Brahma shouted "Rakshama!" (Sanskrit for "protect me!") and Vishnu came to his aid, banishing to Earth all Rakshasas (named after Brahma's cry for help).
Their literary origins can be traced to Vedic sources through Hymn 87 of the tenth mandala of the Rigveda. They are classified amongst the Yatudhanas, mythological beings that consume raw flesh.
Some sources credit Kashyapa with the origin of the rakshasa. For artistic reasons, the Hymns of the Vedas do not do so. The knowledge of the Rakshasa lineage traceable to Kashyapa may have been known at the time of the compilation of the Vedas.
A Sadhu with this ritual can summon forth and command one of the Rakshasa for a simple task before it vanishes. The Sadhu prepares a ritual incense and fire to pray it before offering his own blood as a means to summon and command the creature. If done correctly the Rakshasa will follow one command of the Sadhu for a night before departing.
System: This ritual costs 1 blood to cast. Once summoned the Rakshasas will fulfill one task it can complete in a night. This task may not be related to attacking another creature. They will not risk their own existence for the caster in a battle. They will however, steal from or trick another individual. Rakshasas are built using the Demon Creation rules in Laws of the Night Sabbat Guide page 108 using Servitor stats. The Rakshasa are NOT Demons. Rather they are Spirit Like entities but also separate from them native to India and other places of Hindi, Buddhist, or Jani faith.