Custom Sabbat Ritae
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.
Vitae Seal is a rite of blessing. Purifying a soldier of Caine's weapon before war. The Priest mixes his vitae with wax, dyes can also be added to change the color of the seal. The Priest preys over this holy wax, thanking Caine for the power of his blood. Once created this Holy Wax can be used immediately or stored until the end of the night. The power of sunrise removes the power of the Holy Wax. To bless a weapon melt the Holy Wax and drip it on the weapon. Using a consecrated item create a seal. Some have a seal press or signet ring they use, other carve new symbols or text each time. During this time the Priest asks Caine to bless this weapon. If he does the warrior will feel is blessing during the upcoming battle. The power of the seal lasts until the battle is over or until sunrise.
Game Mechanic: To make the Holy Wax add a trait of Vitae for each 10 dose you are making. Each dose can bless one weapon. The social challenge is done when creating the Holy Wax the trait difficulty is the number of dose being created. If the Priest fails at this challenge and the two simples that follow the wax mixture bursts and burns him, causing one level of Agg damage. Once the Holy Wax is created the Priest can bless one weapon per dose created. A Cainite can only have one blessed weapon per battle. If they have more than one with a seal only one of them carries the blessing. Blessing: Any time during the battle if the blessed weapon is being used the Cainite can call upon the blessing. The blessing gives you Purity trait that can be spent like a Willpower. Once the blessing is used, the battle ends, or at sunrise all Holy Wax and Vitae Seals turn to ash.
One of the central Ritae developed by the Daughter of the Dark Father, the member of the Cult who knows this ritae may spent quite time in prayer or other signs of blood offerings to Caine will stating a Vow to the Dark Father. A promise to uphold his ways and that of the Sabbat. If their offering is truly devout enough or worthy of the approval of Caine (in their minds) then they may find their own faith uplifted and strengthened.
System: This ritae is largely for Role-Play purposes, but may be used at Storyteller discretion to justify an increase in their True Faith rating if they have the merit Mark of Caine.
The priest says a prayer and recites the story of Caine laying curses upon the Antediluvians for slaughtering his first childer, Enoch. And Zillah becoming a weeping stone. Then the priest and its participants start a vauldrie, placeing one trait of blood in the chalice along with a stone for each participant. At the end of the Vauldrie, each participant swallows a stone. (Normal Vauldrie applies, can be used with the Varient: Sacraments of Caine. )
System: After both ritual tests (Weight of the Stone, and Vauldrie. )
Participants with the stone in their belly, are unaffected by the very first successful use of Stone of the True Form. This last for the night. And once used, may not be preformed again in the same night to reapply its protection.
Creator: Nickoli Bloodtalen
The Sabbat have never been famed for their brainpower, so it was only a matter of time before a Priest would develop a ritual to increase a Packs thinking power. The Priest who developed it had a slightly sick sense of humour and he could only make the brainpower work by eating brains. Even then it only works for specific occult based information. More work is needed to increase actual brainpower, but the Sabbat may well have more important things to do...
"My mind is open to be expanded The brains of all others will make me stronger The power of brains shall create a web of information Like a spider drinking a corpse we shall sup from the brains of humanity With this brain we will feast; mmm brains."
Effect: This Ritual grants 2 bonus points to Occult or Sabbat Lore ability scores for the scene.
Description: grants a +1 to either investigation or enigmas (must be chosen at
time of casting)
System: Castor and participants engage in a 20 minute meditation focusing on
opening and expanding their mind. Once the time of meditation ends
participants gain a +1 to either their investigation or enigmas ability for the
night (must be chosen at time of casting).
Note: Only one ability can receive the bonus and can only be cast once per
night
Casting time: 20 minutes