Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Concentrate and spend 3 Blood traits and a Willpower trait. Shift is similar to Black Met but all of the body is shrouded with writhing shadow. Gain all the Benefits of Black Met and the Following Physical Traits Wiry x2 and Resilient x2

Lasombra have seen spirits, abyssal creatures, and other entities infect, inhabit, and possess objects, mortals, and vampires alike. The echoes of these creatures plague those around them all too often. Being no stranger to these dark entities, they have found ways to protect others from such things. Abyssal Exorcism allows the user to 'touch the spirit' to stir an entity or taint infecting or possessing the target and then use the Arms of the Abyss to wrench it out, removing the entity or its taint.

System: Summon Arms of the Abyss and establish physical contact. Make a Physical challenge, retest an appropriate Lore, vs the traits of the entity (e.g. Mental Traits, Pathos or Willpower per ST). Willpower can be spent as an appropriate defensive retest.
A successful test shows the Arms of the Abyss grappling and removing the entity or taint from the target, which could potentially be quite violent, supernatural, and is likely a breach. 
Unless the user wishes the entity to go free, the entity is returned to the Abyss with the Arms of the Abyss. Fully sentient entities can only be lost to the Abyss with ST permission. Entities allowed to leave generally return immediately to their appropriate plane or source.
Note that while ejection is the immediate goal, this power allows for the removal of related flaws or effects, such as Animate Shadow, Uncontrollable Night Sight, etc.
If the activation test is failed, make a static Willpower challenge (difficulty 6). Failure means that the entity or residue will instead move to the user (if possible).

The recipient of the flaw removal would be unable to regain Willpower per week equal to xp cost, i.e. a 2pt flaw would be 4 xp and 4 weeks unable to regain Willpower.

This ritual was developed by a Lasombra that, like most everybody, was searching out ways to cheat death. By utilizing his ability to transfigure his body into the Tenebreous Form,  as well as his abilities to manipulate the shadowy stuff of the abyss he discovered a way to remove a peice of his very Self and lock it away incase of the destruction of his physical body on any particular night.

This ritual lasts 24hrs once cast. If not used in that 24hr period, it dissipates and all stored "Temper" aspects return to the caster at the next sundown, unless, that is, the caster meets their "Final Death".

The caster begins the ritual by choosing a dark place of stationary shadow that never sees direct sunlight. After an hour of reflection, contemplation and meditation bathed in a cloud of incense and smoke from smoldering herbs, they utilizes the Tenebreous Form and forces a portion of their own being to bond with the chosen shadow and seperate from their physical form. The amount that they bond to the shadow decides how long after "Final Death" they reform fully from that dark seed of themself.

By expanding atleast 3 temp Willpower and 3 temp mental traits the user supplants that part of himself in the chosen shadow.  If that night the caster meets thier "physical destruction" by any means, they immediately begins to regrow from that seed of themself taking 9months to reach  full rebirth. This time can be shortened by 3 months for each additional 3 temp will and 3 temp Mental traits per 3 month period of growth he wishes not to wait through( 3w+mt=9months/6w+mt=6months/ 9w+mt=3months) to a minimum of 3 months gestation time.
 
All expendatures must be made at time of preparation/casting and the caster does not have access to any of the Temps that are utilized until the next sunrise or until the ritual is successfully completed.

Once cast, this ritual can only be stopped by exposing the casting location to naturally produced sunlight. Meaning light produced by the Sun, not by man made means.

Typically through the use of Hermetic Sight, the Magi is only able to view through the veil into the Umbra. However, some Magi who brave the perils of the Umbral realms have found a method to see back into their own realm while inside the Umbra. This power only requires the user to spend a blood to activate, and may peer through the veil with ease regardless of location while inside the Umbra.