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.
Having previously successfully cast the basic Trismegistus Ritual 'Personal Symbol of Power' to discover his personal symbol, the thaumaturge encodes his True Name within the Symbol of Power, protecting it from discovery.
The thaumaturge spends a week in fasting and meditation, purifying himself for the process. At sunset of day seven, he begins this ritual. He draws a Seal of Solomon in powdered black obsidian, then stands at the center. There, he draws his personal symbol with the thaumaturge’s own vitae and invokes the names of God: tetragrammaton, Adonai, El Shadai, Elohim, etc. At the beginning, middle, and end of the ritual, the caster spends a point of temporary Willpower. As he completes the ritual and, he encodes his True Name to the Symbol of Power permanently.
This has the following effect:
The True Name is effectively encoded by the Symbol of Encryption. Powers which determine or find True Names have their difficulty increased when targeting the caster (this includes but is not limited to: the Naming Art, the Obligation Discipline, Video Nefas, etc). The character enacting the power must defeat the Magus in an opposed Mental Challenge, with the Occult Ability as the applicable retest. The caster of the ritual is considered to be the defender for this callenge. If the power used to discover the True Name already requires a static challenge - such as a ritual or cantrip challenge - the static challenge is replaced by this opposed mental challenge.