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.
Once considered an offering to the gods, the preparation of Soma has become a mystery. Twisting that legend the lector priest raises intoxicating plants watered with their blood to draw out the supernatural prowess. Once the plant has reached the point of harvest the priest grinds, cooks with grains or otherwise develops the juices into the nectar of the gods. this drug which can be passed from mortals to kindred by drinking their blood. This hallucinogen adapts to the drinker's desires. The consumer experiences synesthesia. As the drug's effects climax the user sees or believes they see the central truths and paradoxes of the vampiric existence. They experience the world as whatever they wish for the remainder of the evening. Characters under the effects of Soma may change their nature or purchase dual nature - the character perceives this as spiritual growth, but the serpents know it to be the complete destruction of the old personality - and replacement by a corrupt new one. Those who observe the aura of the user can see deep red hues and firefly flickers of subdued magical flickers.