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.
An exercise in magical theory, Shepherd's Sigil is a refinement and augmentation of the basic ritual: Incantation of the Shepherd.
A magus concentrates their attention on their Herd, tracking their individual movements over time with nightly castings of Incantation of the Shepherd over the course of 1 week. This information is used to calculate a hyper-sigil that the magus holds in their mind while creating a clay amulet with a 2-dimensional representation of the sigil.
While they wear an intact amulet, the casting magus is even more keenly aware of their Herd, able to anticipate its movements as a whole. No insight on an individual is granted; the magus knows where *someone* in their Herd is, but not which person.This does not grant precise knowledge of an individual location, it gives the magus a strong sense of distance and direction.
While the ritual is active, time spent out of play for Herd is halved. Shepherd's Sigil requires Incantation of the Shepherd and 1 week to cast. It is active for 1 lunar cycle.