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.
Path: Thaumaturgy (House Virtue — Spiritual / Angelic / Mental Defense)
Type: Ward / Support
Casting Time: 1 minute per participant
Cost: 3 Vitae
Components: A parchment scroll with a name of power written in celestial script, a candle infused with sacred herbs, and a chime rung at harmonic intervals.
Effect:
Upon completion, the caster draws a protective sigil in the air above each participant (up to three per casting) while intoning sacred Names of Protection, anchoring a subtle spiritual resonance.
* For the remainder of the scene, each participant affected by the ritual gains 2 bonus traits to resist:
Social Manipulation
Fear / Terror
Effects that compel or cloud judgment (e.g., Presence, Dominate, or supernatural deception).
* These bonus traits apply only once per test involving mental or emotional coercion. This is not cumulative with other Thaumaturgical protections or ritual-based bonuses.
* Participants also experience a sense of clarity and righteous purpose, allowing them to automatically detect if someone deliberately speaks a lie to them during the ritual’s duration. This does not compel truth, but allows the listener to know if the intent is falsehood (subject to ST discretion).