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.
Chairs of Water
This 15 minute ritual allows the caster to create more substantial and detailed chains of water when employing Neptune's Might. Instead of chains of water used to bind persons, the caster can now create objects with water. Chairs and tables are the most common uses for this power. Those who use these
objects mysteriously do not get wet even while lying on a couch of water. The objects created cannot be moved, and cannot be used to prevent passage through an area. They cannot be used in combat at all. They last until the creator leaves the area, or until he wills them away.
System: The ritual consists of the caster anointing himself with water while chanting for fifteen minutes. The power lasts for the rest of the night. Blood expenditures are still required to create the objects. Here are some sample costs for common objects. Stool or chair ‐ one blood trait; card table ‐ two blood traits; large table or sofa ‐ three blood traits.
Chakra Opening
Retest acupuncture
Chakra Opening rituals are based in the Ayurvedic Acupuncture practices, blending of Chinese and Indian principles. The Sadhu anoints the chakra points with ritual oils and places the needles. The Sadhu meditates and draws open the latent energy in the targets body, whether that is the sadhu himself or others, lightly tapping the needles to open the chakra gate or gates. All chakra points opening may be done at once the difficulty is set base 9 plus 3 for each other chakra ritual, so 27 as a set.
Whether or not they are successful these rituals may only be only attempted once per night per person. The time needed to cast is 5 minutes per or 30 as a set, this time cannot be reduced further in any fashion.
Crown Chakra (intermediate)
The 7th chakra is the Crown or Sahasrara is translated as “Thousand petals” and is located on the top of your head. This is known to be responsible for the direct connection with higher powers and the conscious energy.
When opened once a night you may refresh your meditation rating in willpower traits.
Chakra Opening
Retest acupuncture
Chakra Opening rituals are based in the Ayurvedic Acupuncture practices, blending of Chinese and Indian principles. The Sadhu anoints the chakra points with ritual oils and places the needles. The Sadhu meditates and draws open the latent energy in the targets body, whether that is the sadhu himself or others, lightly tapping the needles to open the chakra gate or gates. All chakra points opening may be done at once the difficulty is set base 9 plus 3 for each other chakra ritual, so 27 as a set.
Whether or not they are successful these rituals may only be only attempted once per night per person. The time needed to cast is 5 minutes per or 30 as a set, this time cannot be reduced further in any fashion.
Heart Chakra (intermediate)
The 4th chakra is the Heart or Anahata chakra, which translates to “unhurt" and is located in the center of the chest.. This chakra is where your love, compassion, and kindness are empowered. This includes love for others and love for yourself.
When opened you may make a simple test, when you are affected by a power, to know that you are affected by a power and you may spend a mental to know what that power is for the rest of the night.
Chakra Opening
Retest acupuncture
Chakra Opening rituals are based in the Ayurvedic Acupuncture practices, blending of Chinese and Indian principles. The Sadhu anoints the chakra points with ritual oils and places the needles. The Sadhu meditates and draws open the latent energy in the targets body, whether that is the sadhu himself or others, lightly tapping the needles to open the chakra gate or gates. All chakra points opening may be done at once the difficulty is set base 9 plus 3 for each other chakra ritual, so 27 as a set.
Whether or not they are successful these rituals may only be only attempted once per night per person. The time needed to cast is 5 minutes per or 30 as a set, this time cannot be reduced further in any fashion.
Root Chakra (basic)
The Root or Muladhara chakra is the first chakra of the body and is located in the base of the spine. Its role is to connect your mind, body and soul with the Earth.
When opened this point grants 2 survival. That are available to you all night but are gone when used.
Chakra Opening
Retest acupuncture
Chakra Opening rituals are based in the Ayurvedic Acupuncture practices, blending of Chinese and Indian principles. The Sadhu anoints the chakra points with ritual oils and places the needles. The Sadhu meditates and draws open the latent energy in the targets body, whether that is the sadhu himself or others, lightly tapping the needles to open the chakra gate or gates. All chakra points opening may be done at once the difficulty is set base 9 plus 3 for each other chakra ritual, so 27 as a set.
Whether or not they are successful these rituals may only be only attempted once per night per person. The time needed to cast is 5 minutes per or 30 as a set, this time cannot be reduced further in any fashion.
Sacral Chakra (basic)
The 2nd chakra is the Sacral or Svadhisthana chakra which translates to “the place of the self", and is located below the navel. This chakra is all about your identity as a human and what you do with it. Of all 7 chakras, this chakra is responsible for bringing you creative energy to help enrich your life.
When opened this chakra gives a single determined retest from self assurance a night. This retest may be used on any challenge.
Chakra Opening
Retest acupuncture
Chakra Opening rituals are based in the Ayurvedic Acupuncture practices, blending of Chinese and Indian principles. The Sadhu anoints the chakra points with ritual oils and places the needles. The Sadhu meditates and draws open the latent energy in the targets body, whether that is the sadhu himself or others, lightly tapping the needles to open the chakra gate or gates. All chakra points opening may be done at once the difficulty is set base 9 plus 3 for each other chakra ritual, so 27 as a set.
Whether or not they are successful these rituals may only be only attempted once per night per person. The time needed to cast is 5 minutes per or 30 as a set, this time cannot be reduced further in any fashion.
Solar Plexus Chakra (basic)
The 3rd chakra is Solar Plexus or Manipura which translates to, “city of jewels" and is located in the upper belly at the diaphragm, it acts as the center of personal power.
When open your system can hold half your meditation, rounded up, in extra blood for the rest of the night.
Chakra Opening
Retest acupuncture
Chakra Opening rituals are based in the Ayurvedic Acupuncture practices, blending of Chinese and Indian principles. The Sadhu anoints the chakra points with ritual oils and places the needles. The Sadhu meditates and draws open the latent energy in the targets body, whether that is the sadhu himself or others, lightly tapping the needles to open the chakra gate or gates. All chakra points opening may be done at once the difficulty is set base 9 plus 3 for each other chakra ritual, so 27 as a set.
Whether or not they are successful these rituals may only be only attempted once per night per person. The time needed to cast is 5 minutes per or 30 as a set, this time cannot be reduced further in any fashion.
Third Eye Chakra(intermediate)
The 6th chakra is the Third eye or Ajna, which translates to “command”/“perceiving" and is located in the forehead between the eyebrows. This chakra governs perception of self and of the materialistic world and beyond.
When opened you gain 2 alert mentals and 2 perception related abilities of users choice that are approved by the storyteller, this is active all night.
Chakra Opening
Retest acupuncture
Chakra Opening rituals are based in the Ayurvedic Acupuncture practices, blending of Chinese and Indian principles. The Sadhu anoints the chakra points with ritual oils and places the needles. The Sadhu meditates and draws open the latent energy in the targets body, whether that is the sadhu himself or others, lightly tapping the needles to open the chakra gate or gates. All chakra points opening may be done at once the difficulty is set base 9 plus 3 for each other chakra ritual, so 27 as a set.
Whether or not they are successful these rituals may only be only attempted once per night per person. The time needed to cast is 5 minutes per or 30 as a set, this time cannot be reduced further in any fashion.
Throat Chakra (intermediate)
The 5th chakra is the Throat or Vishuddha chakra which translates to "pure/purification" and it is located in the front of the neck. It governs communication and expression and is the seat of your spiritual self. It is the bridge between the spiritual and physical chakras.
When opened once a night you may spend a blood to see into shadowlands or umbra, decided when cast, and is active for a scene.
Basic Sielanic Thaumaturgical ritual
- Requires Path of the World's Blood and Become one with the Land
The natural world has fonts of magical power, ley lines and nodes that are there for those who are in tune with the natural world. Channel the Earth allows a caster to channel it and replenish their energies with their ties to the land to fuel their magic.
System:
Allows the expenditure of Hearth Wisdom as an equivalent level of Herd. This may generally be done once per game or downtime action, and must be done in a natural setting or a font of spiritual or magical power, such as a node. Places of particular power may have additional or unforeseen effects.
It can also be used where a Shepherd has attuned herself to the land with the Sielanic ritual Become One with the Land.
SUMMARY
The practice of placing coins in the mouth of the dearly departed is primarily associated with the ancient Greeks and Romans. These bronze or copper coins were payment for the psychopomp Charon, the ferryman who transported souls across the River Styx that separated the lands of the living from the lands of the dead. Necromancers skilled in the Ash Path can cross this boundary on their own. By creating and gifting the Charon’s Obol to their allies, they too can sojourn into the Shadowlands.
SYSTEM
To create a Charon’s Obol, you must journey into the Shadowlands using Ex Nihilo and submerge a bronze or copper coin into the fetid and murky waters that exist there while adding 1 point of Blood to the water. Once completed, you can return to the land of the living and gift these coins to your allies. An ally who possesses a Charon’s Obol can willingly accompany you when you use the power of Ex Nihilo. This is an exception to the rule that prevents the user of Ex Nihilo from bringing others to the Shadowlands.
Once in the Shadowlands, those gifted with a coin need not follow you, but can follow any necromancer wishing to lead the journey across the Shroud. To do so the recipient must simply place the small coin in her mouth and follow her guide. If at any time the coin is broken, destroyed, or spit out, the recipient is immediately ejected from the Shadowlands at a location determined by the Storyteller.
A necromancer may have a number of Charon’s Obols equal to her Occult ability at a given time. Crafting a new one in excess of this limit destroys the first one created.
SOURCE BOOK
BNS: MET - VTM - V2 (2021)
This ritual allows the caster to create an item that, while powered
by wielders blood, will temporarily strengthen the barriers between
the physical plane and all other planes of existence. The
Thaumaturge must create a mixture with seven traits of his blood (and
one trait of blood of anyone else he wants to use the item) and
powdered angelite. He must then soak a one inch diameter sphere of
jade in the mixture in a iron bowl over a period of seven days
chanting over it at least one hour a night in moonlight reflected from
a circular mirror. The stone will absorb the mixture by midnight of
the seventh night and turn a sickening black color that seems to swirl
with life. Record the casters mental traits at this time. The stone
will remain enchanted until destroyed.
To activate the ritual the caster (or anyone who donated blood to the
casting) spends a blood while holding the stone to his left eye,
placing his right hand on the ground and humming. Effects last one
hour and are in effect within one hundred feet of the point of
activation. All creatures not native to the physical plane must make
a static test of their Willpower vs. casters mental traits when the
stone was completed (which should be recorded on the item card); WP is
their only retest and overbid may be called for the ritual. If they
lose this test they are forced to return to their native plane. Any
being not on the physical plane must win this same static WP test for
any action in which they wish to interact with or observe the physical plane.
Furthermore, natives of the physical plane may not travel to any other
plane while this power is active; any power used to do so automatically fails.
The priest first fashions a pair of clay chests (or boxes), each no less than one cubic foot and no more than five cubic feet in capacity, engraved with hieroglyphics, working a trait of vitae per cubic foot of the chests’ capacity into the clay for each chest. Then the chests are enchanted during the three days of a new moon using a ritual that takes four hours to complete.
Completing the ritual permanently links the chests’ interiors so that the castor, or anyone attuned to the chest at the time of its creation, may place items inside one of the chests and speak a command word to activate the magic. Once activated, the next time either chest’s door or lid is opened, the items appear inside that chest, even if it is the chest in which they were originally placed. If a chest is ever destroyed while the magic is active, the magic breaks and any items “in transit” are treated as if located in the destroyed chest.
Transportation via the chests is also subject to other limitations:
1) Nothing living, sentient, or animate may ever be transported with the chests.
2) Both chests in a pair must be on the same plane to function, however if they are separated they will function once more when brought back “into alignment.”
3) One chest (the anchor) of the pair must always remain in the location at which the ritual was originally cast or the ritual breaks. The second chest may be moved freely but must attune to any location for 24 hours before the magic will work properly.