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 token passively tells if the target has died, or met final death if Cainite. Once crafted the tie can be used to detect any non-native afflictions affecting the individual the tie is bound to. The caster can make a number of Death Ties equal to double their thanatology or occult rating (Whichever is higher). Creating any beyond the limit causes others to no longer function in a first in- first out method.
System: The necromancer must secure a item to use as a focus for the token (ring, bracelet, gem, glass bead, etc.) and 1 point of the intended targets blood. While performing the Death Tie the necromancer must submerge the item to be tied within the blood of the intended target. With the item submerged the necromancer must spend 1 WP and make a mental challenge (retest thanatology) vs. the targets current WP. (reduce this by 2 if the target is willing). Once a target is linked to a Death Tie the item is bound to that individual regardless of distance. Should the individual linked to a particular death tie meet death (Final death if a vampire) the item will break with an audible crack.
Additionally: while focusing on the Death Tie and examining the individual in your presence, the necromancer can spend 1 mental trait to see if there are any semi-permanent afflictions affecting the individual. (Derangements, flaws, negatives, taint, etc. that are not native to the character sheet and have a duration of longer than 1 scene/hour are considered semi-permanent for the purposes of this)
Advanced Ritual
By gathering the remains of a mortician, pall bearer, funeral home director or the like a thaumaturge is able to call upon the pall of death that surrounded such an individual. By sowing their ashes with nightshade and sleeping in a graveyard for the three night surrounding the new moon the ashes are able to be infused with pure death energy. When applied to flesh they infuse the aura of the target with the cool emptiness of oblivion. For the ritual's duration, the individual's aura is smoother and filled with the quiet of the grave. However, this quiet slowly erodes the willpower of the caster.
System: Once cast, the ritual effects the caster for three nights. The caster may only benefit from the ritual's effects so long as he does not speak, make any loud noises or interact with his environment (doing does not end the ritual, it just prevents the caster from gaining the benefits while doing so). If these criteria are currently being met, any time someone attempts to perceive his Aura, he may spend a willpower a negate the challenge. Doing so causes the caster to appear as if he has no aura for that sole challenge only.
Learning the Mind Enslumbered allows a thamaturge to determine how an individual fell into torpor. Based upon this initial premise a less detailed and more general informative ritual was developed. The caster takes a silver coin, no smaller then a half dollar and soaks it in a mixture of one trait of blood from the ritual's target, crushed bone and ash. Once completed, the coin absorbs the blood, dust and ash and the coin turns blood red in color. For the next three nights the coin remains red while they target is alive (or as near as a Kindred can be), it turns white while their body is healthy, but their soul is elsewhere (Posession, Soul Steal, etc.), and turns black if they are in torpor or have met final death. At sunrise on the third night, the coin disintegrates to dust.
Defiling the Garden (Intermediate - 4)
This Ritual enacts the desecration of Lilith’s Garden that was defiled by Cain and his childer. The ritual is led by a priest and priestess with participants playing the parts of the destroyers. This ritual is often performed as a blessing (or punishment) on someone who has made a noteworthy achievement. The ritual takes place in their garden, be it an actual garden, their place of business or their home, something they have worked hard to create and are proud of. The Ba’ham being honored is often bound or immobilized in some way then brought to the ritual, not knowing what is about to take place. Frequently they have been honored more traditionally first, with wine, fine food and offerings or gifts, that are also brought to be destroyed. The high priest and priestess embrace, dance and often copulate in the garden while others remain silent and most have their back turned, sometimes three look on with the guise of the serpent, owl and cat. When the two finally rest the male priest leaves and the rest of the participants turn inward, one of them says “You have created something beautiful and for that I thank you.” Then they descend upon the garden destroying it. They bind the priestess and beat her savagely and only two of them offer any comfort to the priestess or the honored. This ritual often results in a large building fire and is relocated for the conclusion. Once everything is destroyed, often many hours later, many handfuls of ashes are brought and the honoree is stripped and bathed in them, then taken far away, often deep into the woods or inner city and left alone.
Mechanics:While it is truly a horrific experience for the honored they benefit from losing any mental negative traits or flaws for the following day and night and may suppress a derangement at no cost twice during that time. The rest of the participants avoid contact with the honoree for at least one cycle of the moon after the ritual (to avoid their wrath, but also in order to refuse aid and force them to reflect and possibly rebuild on their own.)
SUMMARY
The time-consuming nature of magical pursuits often makes the rigors of maintaining a staff far too tedious. Necromancy, however, has an easy solution. It is believed that when St. Zita, the patron saint of servants, left her house to attend to the poor, angels appeared to bake bread for her. This ritual allows you to summon otherworldly servants to attend to your own household.
SYSTEM
This ritual attracts and binds a number of ghostly servitors to your haven or a location you control, allowing you to populate it with Guards and Staff. These ghostly servitors are in addition to any other Guards or Staff you might already employ at this location. To enact this ritual, you must create a shrine to St. Zita within your house, which you must bless with 1 point of your Blood and then maintain by presenting an offering of fresh homemade bread every two weeks. After the initial casting, over the next seven days your servants will appear. These servants are nonspecific NPC wraiths who will obey you or anyone you designate, manifesting if necessary to carry out your instructions. For as long as you maintain this ritual, you may fire or destroy wraith servants that displease you, and others will take their place within a week. Revealing the nature of your servants to humans has the potential to break the Masquerade. You may only have a single active instance of this ritual at a time.
SOURCE
BNS: MET - VTM - V2 (2021)
Allows the user to bind a willing spirit into an item. Activates as a fetish. Costs three exp to create an item.
Name: Deny the Dragon
Basic Hermetic Ritual
The simplest form of protection against Koldunism, this ritual allows the Warlock to create a charm for a specific individual to ward off the effects of the Fiend's magics. The caster creates an amulet of obsidian bound by a simple leather strap. For three days this is left in a natural environment, exposed to the elements, surrounded by representations of the four classical elements. On each night of the three night ritual, the caster pours a trait of the intended beneficiaries blood over the amulet while invoking an incantation calling for protection from hostile spirits. After it has been exposed to three full days worth of daylight the amulet will be effective, though only for the individual whose blood was used during the incantation.
While wearing this amulet, the subject gains two additional traits when defending against any power of Koldunic Sorcery directed at him. While wearing the amulet, the subject is also unable to call upon any powers of Koldunic Sorcery he may possess.
Descent Into Shadows (Advanced Abyss Mysticism Ritual)
The Priestesses of Ereshkigal know that their patron was birthed and came from the Abyss. She was no mortal woman who was turned into a vampire. She is a goddess. As such the Abyss is her home she welcomes them to. It is for this reason Abyss Mystics of her cult are taught how to travel to her realm whenever they may need.
System: The Abyss Mystic must sacrifice a mortal and drain all of their blood into the anointed shadow. After which the character may enter the Abyss. Whenever the character wishes to leave the Abyss they may spend 1 willpower point to exist back into the material plane from the spot they first entered the Abyss.
Side Effect: After the character leaves the Abyss they will suffer a Derangement for one month.
Diamond's Doom
This ritual is the trademark of John Diamond, Jonestown's sire. It enchants a wooden object into a powerful anti‐Kindred weapon. The object can be as large as a wooden stake or a cane, or as small as a letter opener; in any case, it must be roughly shaped like a stabbing weapon.
System: A Diamond’s Doom stake gains an additional trait for use in combat challenges. Like any common stake, it can be used to impale the heart of and immobilize a vampire. The attacker makes three simple tests, not two, and if any two of them succeed, the defender is staked. Once the enchanted weapon is in a vampire's heart, it takes root, and cannot be removed without ripping out the heart and putting the vampire into torpor‐‐a disaster for low‐generation Kindred. Furthermore, if weapon and heart are
removed‐‐a task involving considerable strength or crude butchery‐‐the vampire remains staked, similar to the results of staking a removed heart as in Heart of Darkness. If the heart is burned or exposed to the sun, the vampire is destroyed. Furthermore, if the heart is outside of the body of the kindred for more than one hour, it begins to decay, and will lead to the death of the kindred who’s heart it is (this ritual is not a cheap alternative to Heart of Darkness, and does not provide the protections of the heart that the Advanced Serpentis does).
Aegis may be blown to avoid death by heart deterioration. The heart will re‐form in the body when Aegis is blown. The weapon will release its grip and slide out easily if the true name of the one who wielded it is spoken as it is pulled. Anyone may remove it by this method. Other methods of removal would be by the use of Vicissitude (up to Bonecraft is required), the ritual Rotten Wood will destroy the stake, Decay (First Basic Hands of Destruction) will destroy the stake (the Second Basic Gnarl Wood will not work). Other methods such as burning the stake out with a blowtorch will only result in the death of the person so staked. The ritual Purity of Flesh will also expel the stake.
Those who can see auras will notice a shimmering cloud of menace and hate around the weapon if they think to check. Anyone who tries to use Spirit's Touch or its equivalent will be overwhelmed by visions of pain and violence from the malevolent intelligence that inhabits the weapon if they attempt to "read" it. Whether they win or lose, they will gain no useful information from the Spirit's Touch. This ritual can by no means be combined with Shaft of Belated Quiescence or Splinter Servant.
This ritual is cast in conjunction with any Warding Circle ritual and reverses its effects. Rather than being difficult to approach and keeping a particular creature type out, subjects of the appropriate type feel nothing until they pass into the warding circle. At that point, they feel the power emanating from the circle. In order to leave the circle, they must win a static Willpower challenge against the Mentla Traits of the caster at the time the ritual was cast (this means you should record the number of Mental Traits you possessed at the time of casting). If the subject fails, they suffer three lethal damage and are denied entry. If they win the challenge, they may cross, but still suffer the three lethal damage.
Domaldi, a legendary Swedish king, did not have a happy life. He became king when his two older half-brothers murdered their father Visbur, and his stepmother cursed Domaldi with a life of bad luck. This was one curse not made in vain; Domaldi's reign was marked by famine and plague. The first year of starvation, the Swedish chieftains sacrificed oxen, and when the harvest was still terrible, they offered up human beings the following year. Because the luck of the land was believed to be tied to the luck of the king, on the third year the chieftains reluctantly decided they had to sacrifice Domaldi (who was generally liked and well-regarded). Sagas relate that Sweden's luck changed once the altar was splashed with Domaldi's blood, and the next year's harvests were excellent.
Mechanics:The Koldun makes two cuts on the sides of his stomach, so that he may be full, but not eat, one cut representing each older brother. He places a maximum of as many small rocks (thumb-sized) as he has in his primary Koldunic Way multiplied by his Koldunism ability. He then heals the wounds (which are one lethal a piece) and ingests blood, which is suffused into the small rocks, sacrificing Domadli on the altar. One trait is absorbed into each. They may be activated no more than 3 per round to generate the blood trait infused in each small stone into the blood pool of the Koldun. Once cast, the stones will revert to blood if removed from the stomach. Each stone has a single use. They remain in the stomach until removed or used.