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.
This ritual is known only to those initiated into the Kishijoten Mandala's understanding, a hidden corpus of Tal’Mahe’Ra teachings that map the currents of chi through both the living world and the Shadowed Realms. Within these lessons is the dreaded revelation that chi does not simply flow, it can be coerced, inverted, even made to devour its own momentum, just as the Ebon Dragon devours light.
Through two hours of ritual breathing, whispered sutras, and the controlled cycling of vitae through meridians the Hand names the Black Veins of Kishijoten, the practitioner evokes a vortex of reversed chi the so-called Breath of the Ebon Dragon. Sorcerers claim this inversion mirrors the Dragon’s ancient hunger, the power to swallow force, swallow intent, swallow the very will behind an attack.
To outside eyes, the conjured “wind” that forms around the sorcerer appears faint, little more than a chill swirl of darkness clinging to the skin. But to one trained in the chi-doctrines of the Tal’Mahe’Ra, the aura is unmistakable… a negating chi-spiral, a collapse of outward momentum into a perfect inward coil.
When invoked, the Breath twists the assassin’s own meridians into alignment with the Dragon’s pattern, allowing them to seize the chi inside any oncoming strike, steel, bullet, fang, flame, or fury and erase its motion, or worse, hurl its stolen flow back upon its wielder.
System: Once cast, the Breath of the Ebon Dragon remains with the character as a lurking, protective force that can be invoked to defend against attacks. It can strip all inertia from an incoming attack, vehicle, or bullet, and can even hurl the force back at the aggressor.
The caster spends one Blood and one Willpower and makes a reflexive Simple Challenge. On a success, the incoming subject is halted immediately. The caster takes no damage (if any would have been dealt), and the attack is completely stopped.
By spending two Mental Traits and an additional point of Willpower, the caster may instead send the offending object or person back the way it came, striking anything behind it for a minimum of two levels of damage.