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.
Time: 30 minutes
Components: A serrated ritual knife, powdered bone-ash, a silver spike or coin
Overview
This rite is a Sabbat corruption of a Garou ceremonial ordeal. Stolen through captives, battlefield observation, or bloody experimentation, the Moonflayed Flesh binds hatred of the Wyrm-beasts directly into the Cainite’s dead skin. The scars it creates are raw declarations of war—silver hammered into undead flesh as both mockery and weapon.
Description
The caster heats silver in a blackened pan until it glows dull red. As it smolders, the caster rasps a chanted appeal—not to Gaia, but to the strength of the Pack and the fires of their Beast:
“The dead do not kneel.
The moon does not judge us.
We take its poison and carve it as our mark.
Let this flesh be defiance.
Let this silver be war.”
The caster carves jagged, angular sigils—half war-brand, half mockery of Garou glyphs—into the target’s flesh. Fresh vitae spills freely. The glowing silver is pressed into the wounds, sizzling into place as the vampire’s dead skin warps and fuses around it.
System:
Scarring the hands requires 1 Blood Trait and inflicts 1 level of unsoakable Aggravated damage when carved (This damage heals normally afterward). If the recipient frenzies, the ritual fails and must be recast. Scarring the rest of the body follows the same rules but causes 3 level of unsoakable Aggravated damage.
Hand Brands — Fists of the Burning Moon
Silver engraved into palms, knuckles, claws, or finger bones.
Effect:
Your unarmed attacks deal aggravated silver damage to Changing Breeds weak to silver. This includes punches, grapples, claw strikes (via Protean), and bone protrusions.
Torso Brands — The Carapace of Blasphemy
Brands spanning the sternum, ribs, shoulders, or spine.
Effect:
Changing Breeds weak to silver who touch or strike the branded Cainite take 1 level of aggravated silver damage per turn of contact. Armor does not prevent this; the resonance bleeds through metal, leather, or fur.
Drawbacks
The scars itch and throb during the full moon and the Cainite is two traits down in resisting Frenzy during this time.
Changing Breeds with abilities to sense silver can detect these brands if the Cainite isn’t using powers like Obfuscate to hide them.