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.
Name: Face of the Father
Level: Intermediate
Casting/Creation Time: 1 week
Casting Difficulty: 6 Traits
Description: The Church of Seth believe that Set is the figurative and possibly literal father of humanity. This Ritual calls upon that primordial source to enhance and manipulate the caster's appearance for a short time by combining the heritage of the Dark Father from lineages other than the caster's own. The sorcerer mixes the blood of people from at least three ethnic groups not represented in his own mortal heritage with milk, honey, ground ochre, ground stibnite (kohl), and myrrh, then allows them to age before applying this salve. This mixing of positive and attractive qualities from Seth's varied offspring allows the target to benefit from some minor cosmetic changes to their appearance.
Mechanics: This ointment, which takes five uninterrupted turns to apply, allows the caster to superficially change the facial appearance of the person it is applied to. These changes will last for three days, which can be increased to eleven days if a Willpower is spent during the casting. These superficial changes are otherwise real and semi-permanent - they cannot be detected with Auspex, negated by Stone of the True Form, or removed by the recipient or the caster until the duration has ended. This face can be concealed with Mask of a Thousand Faces, but is otherwise the recipient's real face until the duration ends. This allows for significant structural changes to the face (jaw shape, chin, nose, eye color, hairline, ears, etc.) but only relatively minor adjustments to a character's skin pigmentation. A character of European ancestry might be able to seem like they have roots closer to or further from the Mediterranean, but they could not change their pigment to match the peoples of Asia or north Africa. When the caster applies this ointment to a target, including themselves, they may change up to three specific Appearance-related Traits to any other Appearance-related Traits for the duration of the ritual, although these changes must remain in the same category (regular Social Traits can only be changed to regular, Negative Social Traits can only be changed to Negative).