Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

Advanced Ritual

Created in an effort to protect holy sites,  this ritual is enacted in a manner similar to that of Ward versus Pishacha, but creates a circle centered on the caster into which a Pishacha cannot pass without being burned. The circle can be made as large and as permanent as the caster desires, as long as she is willing to pay the necessary price.

System: The ritual requires three blood points of fallen Pishacha blood. The caster determines the size of the warding circle when it is cast; the default radius is 10 feet/3 meters, and every 10-foot/3-meter increase raises the difficulty of the Mental check by one, to a maximum of +9. The player spends one blood point for every 10 feet/3 meters of radius and rolls. The ritual takes the normal casting time if it is to be short-term (lasting for the rest of the night) or one night if it is to be long-term (lasting a year and a day).

Once the warding circle is established, any Pishacha who attempts to cross its boundary feels a tingle on his skin and a slight breeze on his face. If the Pishacha attempts to press on, he must succeed in a Willpower challenge versus the caster's recorded Willpower at the time of casting (retest Occult or similar).

Failure indicates that the ward blocks his passage and inflicts three levels of aggravated damage, and his next attempt to enter the circle is at +1 Willpower difficulty. If the Pishacha leaves the circle and attempts to enter it again, he must repeat the challenge. Coming or going from the circle causes the same results, thus it is possible to trap a Pishacha within the circle, providing they are not willing or able to cross the boundary.

Warding Circle vs Scrying: (Custom Advanced Ritual)

Neither the area enclosed within this warding circle nor anyone within the area can be scryed upon by any supernatural means.

This place and the people are simply not there. If someone attempts to Scry on the place or on a person already in the place, the Scry simply fails. If the Scry is already established on a person who then walks into the warded area, the Scry ceases to work. If someone attempts to Scry just outside of the ward so as to look into the warded area from the outside, they cannot see anyone or anything in the area; it simply appears empty.

* As with all other area wards, this ward is trans-planer and spherical. It's area of coverage cannot overlap any other Warding Circle vs Scrying's area of coverage. 

* The boundary of this warding circle may not cross the boundary line of another warding circle though, for example, it may be entirely contained within a Warding Circle vs Spirits. 

* A given caster may only have as many of these warding circles cast at any one time as the caster has dots of occult ability. If a new warding circle is cast when the caster "is full" then the oldest warding circle currently in existence will vanish - first in, first out.

This Advanced ritual functions the same as warding circle vs. ghouls TT Guide to the Camarilla pg. 111

Creates a warding circle per MET with damage to mage should they enter.

Warding Pylon (Advanced Sadhanna Ritual)

Long ago, before recorded time when the Daeva first appeared the Davana who claim to be the original venture (the clan being nothing more than a bloodline) were created as a means to fight against the Daeva who had come to destroy their race.  Ordered by Caine himself to stop the great plague that swept across the land during the time of the flood, this ritual was a means by which to protect an entire city from the Daeva. The hope was to starve the Daeva into submission as they required blood just like Kindred.  Since that time this ritual has long since been lost to the annuals of history. However several of the Pylons created from those times survive even until the Modern Nights, storing in them ancient secrets from the time of the flood. Should the ritual ever be rediscovered it would be a potent weapon against the creatures seeking the destruction of all Kindred.

System: Daeva cannot approach within the range of a city it was placed in. If they try, they vanish back to outside the city limits. No special conditions apply to the carving of the pylon. Enchanting the obelisk requires several hours of prayers, exorcisms with sand and water, incense, and bathing the obelisk in honey, beer and the blood of an owl, an asp and crushed spiders. At the end, the magician lets the rising sun burn his hand to ash while it rests upon the pylon. Completing the final prayer while burning off one’s own hand costs a point of permanent Willpower and one permanent Trait of the Characters Morality as they infuse the beacon with their own life energy. Note that this also means taking one health level of aggravated damage. The Warding Pylon works by itself from then on, continuously. Some Warding Pylons are thousands of years old.  While this ritual is being cast all Daeva within the area are immediately aware of the attempt to create one and who is casting it. This will often cause Daeva to swarm an area trying to kill the caster before they can complete the ritual. As an interesting side effect, the Pylos can also store a memory of the caster within it, able to be unlocked by those who decipher its writings and mysteries.