Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

This ritual is unknown to the vast majority of the Sadhu.  In fact, it is only known among the very few Asura Sadhanna users within the sadhu that have caught the eye of a Yama King.  Some will simply awaken with the knowledge of how to just perform it. Regardless, those few who do know this ritual may make offerings in dark rituals to make direct contact with a Yama King.  Once performed, the vampire may speak with and even bargain with the Yama King for perhaps more power and dark secrets.

System:  This ritual functions exactly like the Kindred of the East Rite, The Ritual of the Black Peony, however replace all Demon Chi Costs with Blood Traits.

The Abyss Mystics crafts an effigy or Talisman made from Obsidian Stone. They craft the stone
into a form of one of the various gods of the Abyss. After which the Mystic covers the talisman
in the ashes of his own hand from sunlight and exerts part of his very being onto it. After which
the Talisman created banishes all creatures to the Abyss back to their home plane regardless if
they want to be or not. Such Talismans last until they are destroyed.
System: Spirits of the Abyss cannot approach within 100 feet of a Conquering Sun Talisman. If
they try, they vanish back to the Abyss. No special conditions apply to the carving of the
talisman. Enchanting the talisman requires several hours of prayers, exorcisms with sand and
holy water, incense, and bathing the talisman in sunlight for a week. At the end, the Abyss
Mystic lets the rising sun burn his hand to ash while it rests upon the talisman. Completing the
final prayer while burning off one’s own hand costs a point of permanent Willpower. Note that
this also means taking one health level of aggravated damage. The Conquering Sun Talisman
works by itself from then on, continuously

The Dark Mother’s Sixth Sense (Basic - 2)

In conjunction with the Mark of Lilith and Rite of the Carrion Crow, the Hierophants devised a way for members to have a deeper connection than any blood bond.  All mothers have it.  Many mother’s don’t know where it comes from, or exactly at what point they get it, but all mother’s possess a super sixth sense when it comes to their children.  It’s the sense that you know something is wrong with your child, even when others don’t. They can’t explain the feeling, but they know they are right.  It wasn’t until the Hierophants of Lilith have figured out this sixth sense originator was from the Dark Mother herself. The Dark Mother gifts this ability to all of her children.  

The ritual starts out with the Hierophant having the participants circle around them.  The Heirophant while chanting of Lilith, will go around to each participant and kiss their forehead, as if checking the “child” for their fever.  The kiss leaves a bright hot mark upon their forehead, and then fades into their skin.

With a mastery over the soul, life and death comes the ability to affect a person’s spirit, mind, and soul.  

Mechanic: Upon completion of the ritual, it creates a sympathetic link of all those gathered whom have the Mark of Lilith and Rite of the Carrion Crow casted upon them.  It connects the spirit, mind, and souls of the Lilins to the “Cloud.”  Should one of the gathered Lilin’s ever be placed in a life or death situation, each of them will be thrown into rapture of pain and know who of the gathered is in potential peril.  This ritual will not provide location or the identities of those whom are assaulting the Lilin, only that danger is happening to that specific Lilin.  

Using the menorah as a symbol of creation and imbuing the flames to light it, making it consecrated, measuring the symbolism of the 7 days that creation took place. While the magus lights the object, it is necessary to reverberate a song in the Gospel of John: Light shines on darkness and darkness has not been understood. Like the symbol As powerful as the seal of Solomon, this ritual will seek the light to chase away the tainted.

System - The Thaumaturge must prepare the Menorah for six days under the energy of the Sun (energy of creation), then on the seventh day, leave the object soaked in 5 blood points.  Then, the Thaumaturge uses Lure of the Flames x1 to light the Menorah, expending 1 Willpower in addition to the normal cost of the Path and the normal Challenge to perform a Ritual; once the flame is lit, the Caster may make a Willpower Challenge against their target.  If the caster wins, the target is affected as per the Presence power of Dread Gaze; this effect bypasses any immunity the Infernalist may have to Presence or Fear Effects from the benefits of their Pacts or Investments.

The Hard Journey (Basic - 2)

The group gathers and a Lilin prepares by stripping nude, she is lashed by whips, burned by brands and made to walk over stones and glass.  When she falls the first time someone, usually in a cat mask comes forward and lays an offering of food at her feet (usually a dead animal, on rare occasions cooked meat).  She rises up again and walks more, sometimes through the woods.  When she falls again someone in a snake mask comes and gives her a drink, sometimes cold water, sometimes wine, but often blood.  The third time she falls someone in an owl mask wraps her in a warm cloak and then the participants create a garden around her with plants shelter and food.  She rises and feeds herself as the participants sing and chant. She is ministered to and at the end of the ritual a tree is planted in that place. It is regularly watered with the cults blood and regular gatherings held around that place.  The ground under its branches is always considered consecrated space for Ba’ham.