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 Milk of Set variant, through mixing powdered malachite, elder human urine and other ingredients symbolizing eternity and, calling upon Thot, creates a bluish green liquid that when mixed to another Milk of Thot extends its duration.
System: If added to another potent Milk of Set variant, it extends the duration from 1 week to one month. You cannot create another dose of Thot’s Pittance while it is active or one month has passed.
Mirror Aport (Advanced Custom Thaumaturgic Ritual)
This ritual allows the thaumaturge who knows it to enchant a set of two identical mirrors to allow transport from one mirror to the other, regardless of the intervening distance between the paired mirrors.
In order to properly create the sigils and symbols necessary to link the two mirrors requires the following abilities: Occult(x4), and either Sacred Geometry (x2) or Astrology(x2). This allows for greater utilization within the hierarchy, allowing for greater divergence of practical paradigm, as exemplified by the number of Houses currently within the Pyramid.
The sigils and symbols inscribed must be placed as mirrors of one another (up becomes down, right becomes left, so a symbol inscribed in the upper left-hand corner would then be inscribed in the lower right).
The linked mirrors must both be stationary for the link to be established, and for the entire time the link is actively maintained.
To activate the mirror pair, the thaumaturge must successfully cast the ritual “Mirror Walk” (LoE, p.91)
The number of individuals able to travel through the mirrors at any one time at the thaumaturge’s direction is limited to twice the casting thaumaturge’s permanent occult abilities. Each traveler spends a Mental Trait and stepping through the mirror. They will appear in the same position at the other mirror. An intervening object will cause the aportation to fail, though the link is not severed.
The active link may be severed in the following ways:
· The activating thaumaturge may step through the mirror in the same manner, at which point the active link between mirrors ends.
· If either mirror is moved at all, the active link is disrupted, and the process to link the mirrors must be start over from the beginning to re-establish the active link.
· Any damage to either mirror permanently disrupts the enchantment, as the mirrors are no longer reflections of each other. Repairing the mirror does not correct this.
· The activating thaumaturge wills the active link to end.
· Only one set of mirrors can be in use at a time. Any activation of a different set causes the link on any other set to fail.
To create the mirror pair, the thaumaturge must spend an evening, and 10 traits of their vitae to inscribe the sigils and enchant the mirrors. On the item cards for the mirrors, should be listed the creating thaumaturge, the date of enchantment, and a paired, unique ID. For example, “Created by Meerlinda, Jan 1, 2019, Mirror 1 of 2, Set 1AA”
The thaumaturge may only possess a number of active mirror sets equal to their Permanent Willpower/5. Only one set of mirrors can be in use at a time. Any activation of a different set causes the link on any other set to fail (but the mirror set itself remains viable for use later).
If the wording of “Mirror Walk” and “Mirror Aport” conflict, the wording of “Mirror Aport” takes precedence.
System:
Prerequisites: Mirror Walk, Occult Ability (x4), and either Sacred Geometry (x2) or Astrology (x2)
Mirror Attunement: Intermediate Ritual
System: This ritual requires a glass mirror. The caster must etch (properly and with good
craftsmanship, as hieroglyphics are not only a language but a set of magical symbols as
well) into the glass, a border of text. That text being a very lengthy and poetic
description of a soul passing through its own reflection. Then the "mate" of this mirror
must have the exact mirrored set of hieroglyphs etched in by the caster, including any
flaws or extended artistic whim. The caster then paints in, with her vitae, the etched
hieroglyphs (the mirror image reflection on its mate, identically) and brings them 'to
life'. The blood then must be left to dry, in the waxing half‐moon moonlight.
After this preparation these two mirrors ‐ no matter what location, distance, or angle ‐ can be entered by
someone using the ritual "Mirror Walk", and exit out the 'mate' of the mirror entered.
Effect: Taking one Oboli (wraith soul coin), and a silver hoop, one pierces the coin with the hoop. The hoop then acts as a divining rod leading the bearer (a gentle tug, does not tug if set down) in the direction of the next closes piece of Oboli made from the same soul. One all eight pieces have been found, the coins can be restored to one piece.
This ritual does not do what it was intended to do, but at least is a very good look into how currency travels throughout the land of the dead. :)
Advanced
Comine your blood, and the blood of someone with the merit 'magic resistant'
Feed this blood to an ash or oak tree every night for a full cycle of the moon. (It only takes a trait per person involved, not a trait each night)
When a stick, stake, or club formed from this tree (only one can be made per casting) contacts someone (other then the caster) actively using blood magic (including rituals, and potency, ect), they stand to loose their blood magic for but a round.
The target can not use any blood magic for one full round, after which they may begin recasting. The stake/stick/club crumbles after one use. For each active power on the target, engage them in a contested willpower challenge to see if that power/ritual drops. Powers lost in this mannor can be recast the following round (but not this one). Rituals lost in this mannor must be recast as normal. (Requiring ritual casting times.)
As masters of Svdharma many Sadhu have taken to a practice of confusing the wheel of fate in regards to their own truths and destiny. As a key tenant of the Path of Paradox its members attempt to weave lies and deceit to become one with the lies of the universe and seek true enlightenment. Through this ritual a Sadhu can thwart their enemies who seek answers to their secrets by nefarious means. The arts of divination, demon summing or asking other ethereal things for questions on the Sadhu will simply fail. The Sadhu must first ritually bath in the blood of five different individuals while reciting ritual prayer to add the karmic influence of those he bathed into his own. Once complete, and for the remainder of the night, the Sadhu is granted protection to the effects of any supernatural power that grants any information about them that is not directly gotten from the sadhu himself. That is to say rituals such as Video Nefas and Whispers In The Dark, or any similar power simply produce lies and falsehoods on the target, and grant information instead on those whose blood the Sadhu has bathed in; when used to gain information of the vampire under the effects of this ritual. The result of which is often different conflicting information each time someone attempts to use the rituals on the Sadhu as it will randomly grant information based on those blood the Sadhu has bathed in.
Telyavelic Tremere often find the need to use their full capabilities while remaining apart from technology. While suffusing their essence with nature through the ritual: “Become One With The Land”, they may then expend a point of Willpower into their domain to consider their claimed area as a “controlled setting”. Telyavelic Tremere may then use Alchemy freely within their claimed domain without the need for a laboratory setting. A Telyav may equally use chalk circles symbology and a campfire in place of chemicals over a Bunsen Burner. This does not negate any of the other requirements to use Alchemy, only shifts the focus for their magic. This lasts as long as the ritual “Become One With the Land” does. Additional Willpower may be spent when spending blood to maintain the connection with their land.
Nectar of Poimandres (Intermediary Ritual)
"To Aristotle, the soul and the body coincide in such a way that one cannot survive without the other. Thus, they form a substantial unit in which the soul is the body's perfect act."
This ritual derived from the three primes of alchemy aims to give real meaning to the words of this philosopher.
System: The thaumaturge creates a compound by mixing a point of his blood with sulfur, mercury and salt. The mixture should be heated slowly to a boil and then cooled.
When the substance is drunk, the connection between body, mind and soul is strengthened. Until the next sunrise, any attempt to separate body, mind and soul, regardless of if it is contested (via a challenge) or self-initiated (like with Astral Projection) will not occur immediately. It will take a number of turns equal to half the thaumaturge permanent willpower (round up) for the separation to occur. During these turns the target will be afflicted with great distress and will need to bet an extra trait for any action he wishes to perform.
PTBR
Nectar de Poimandres (Ritual Intermediário)
"Para Aristóteles, a alma e o corpo coincidem de tal modo que um não sobrevive sem o outro. Assim, formam uma unidade substancial na qual a alma é o ato perfeito do corpo. "
Este ritual derivado da Tria Prima da Alquimia tem como objetivo dar significado real às palavras desse filósofo.
Sistema: O taumaturgo cria um composto misturando um ponto do sangue dele com enxofre, mercúrio e sal. A mistura deve ser aquecida lentamente até a ebulição e então resfriada.
Quando a substância é bebida a ligação entre corpo, mente e alma é fortalecida. Até o próximo nascer do sol toda a tentativa de separar corpo, mente e alma independente de ser através de uma disputa (através de um teste) ou algo iniciado por si mesmo (como em Projeção Astral) não ocorrerá de imediato. Será necessário um número de turnos igual a metade da força de vontade permanente do taumaturgo (arredondado para cima) para que a separação ocorra. Durante estes turnos o alvo será acometido por grande aflição e precisará apostar um trait extra para qualquer ação que deseje executar.
Functions just like Shadowgate, except that it can be cast on another person.