Blood Sorcery

Process:

The ritualist spreads the mixture of her blood and chosen ingredient on the floor or ground in a counterclockwise circular path. The area circumscribed can be as large as 1000 square feet.

System:

Once the circle is complete, insects and animals must immediately vacate the circumscribed area. Thereafter, animals will not willingly enter the space. This does not prevent animals compelled by supernatural means from entering the area. Familiars who succeed in a difficulty 5 Mental challenge may ignore this power.

Process:

Once prepared, the ritualist spreads the concoction over an area of vegetation no larger than 18 steps by 18 steps.

System:

Once the concoction has been spread, it seeps into the soil and plant life, awakening it to a near-sentient level of awareness. Until dawn, whenever anyone other than the caster of this Ritual enters the area, their movement is slowed by 1 step per action spent on movement as the awakened plants ensnare them. The ritualist will also be alerted to the presence of trespassers by a psychic twinge. Lastly, if a trespasser stays in the area for longer than 1 full turn, they must succeed in a Dexterity + Athletics test at difficulty 3 or suffer the Grappled condition. Escaping the grapple requires the escapee to succeed on a subsequent test as a Standard Action. To learn this Blood Sorcery Ritual, a character requires one dot in the Bahari Loresheet or instruction from a character who possesses the ritual.

Process:

The caster exposes the holy object to a flame. The object needn't be destroyed.

System:

The first time in a night, the caster must test for Terror Frenzy; they automatically succeed. The caster may only cast this ritual once per night.

Process:

The caster slowly pours the unprocessed blood into the vial, which mystically never fills up. The vial is then fed back to the target.

System:

For one week, the target mortal's blood is unusually fulfilling. A harmless sip from their veins slakes two levels of Hunger instead of one. In addition, two vampires feeding from the target at the same time can slake their Hunger to zero if they share the kill. To learn this Blood Sorcery Ritual, a character requires one dot in the Penny Dining Club Loresheet or instruction from a character who possesses the ritual.

Process:

The vampire casting the ritual pours the molten silver over the mundane body modifications she wishes to make permanent. This causes the recipient to suffer 1 Normal damage from the heat.

System:

The mundane body modification (holes from piercings, tattoos, etc.) cannot be removed or altered and does not revert when the vampire sleeps. Only another usage of this ritual or a power such as Fleshcrafting can undo the modification.

Process:

The caster passes the cloth through the golden ring, dips each end of the cloth in their vitae, then affixes it to a door handle or threads it through a keyhole.

System:

Once the cloth is placed, the room through which the door enters is rendered completely silent. No noise is produced in the room, no matter what would cause it. If the cloth is removed, the effect ends in 60 seconds; otherwise, this ritual lasts 1 scene. To learn this Blood Sorcery Ritual, a character requires one dot in the Shepherds of Ur-Shulgi Loresheet or instruction from a character who possesses the ritual.

Process:

The caster spills 1 Rouse Check of blood on the wood, then holds the wood in her hand while walking on the surface of the body of water that they wish to cross.

System:

Once complete, the vampire can walk across the surface of water for the remainder of the night, as long as she continues to carry the piece of wood. While walking, they leave a gentle fog that rises from their footsteps.

Process:

The process to create a Calix Secretus in a safe and controlled manner takes days of hunting and ritual casting. The ritualist goes through a cycle of drenching an object with their blood and feeding to limit the risk of Hunger Frenzy. Once the object is full, a pinch of fine-grain sand is sprinkled over the object, signifying that the ritual is complete. It takes 1 week to create a Calix Secretus.

System:

Over the course of 1 week, the blood spent mystically diffuses into the item. Before a game session, make 5 static challenges. For each win or tie, your Calix Secretus contains 1 Rouse Check worth of blood. Once the ritual is complete, whenever the caster chooses, they may hold the object and concentrate to 'feed' from the item. They may consume up to two Rouse Checks' worth of blood with a Standard Action. Each Rouse Check worth of blood consumed reduces the caster's Hunger by 1 to their Blood Potency minimum. Only the caster may retrieve the blood. You may not reduce your Hunger below one with this power. To other characters, the object is mundane. The caster can only enhance one Calix Secretus at a time and may only do so once per game.

Process:

The caster must hold the object and meditate upon its Resonance for five minutes before tasting the target mortal's blood. The object must then be freely returned to the mortal.

System:

For the next week, anyone who Slakes 1 Hunger from the target gains the same Dyscrasia that the mortal had at the time of this casting. In addition, they may utilize that Dyscrasia two additional times before losing its benefits. To learn this Blood Sorcery Ritual, a character requires two dots in the Penny Dining Club Loresheet or instruction from a character who possesses the ritual.

Process:

The ritualist must bleed 1 Hunger worth of blood (satisfying the normal cost of a Blood Sorcery ritual) on a visual depiction of her target victim, who must be a vampire. In the next hour, before the blood fully dries, she must then light the visual depiction on fire by spending a standard action.

System:

After burning the visual depiction of her target, the ritualist must succeed in an opposed challenge. If successful, the target victim must immediately make a non-beneficial Rouse Check and suffers the Weakened Condition for 5 minutes as her body is racked by pain as if her vitae is on fire. The ritualist does not require line of sight to her target to utilize this ritual, but the target must be within 50 miles as the ritualist. If they are not within 50 miles, the ritual automatically fails. The ritualist does not learn that the target is outside of this radius by having this failure occur. They simply know that the ritual failed. To learn this Blood Sorcery Ritual, a character requires three dots in the Church of Caine Loresheet or instruction from a character who possesses the ritual.

Process:

The caster must wrap a silver cord around both wrists tight enough to draw blood. This blood is then used to submerge the target weapon until the next sunrise. As the night continues, the silver cords sink slowly into the vampire's skin, leaving a permanent thin, silver ring on her wrists like a tattoo. Once the sun rises, the target weapon is fully enchanted.

System:

Once the melee weapon has been enhanced, the ritualist can spend one Rouse Check and a simple action to cause the melee weapon to dissolve into blood and absorb it into her skin. She must be touching the weapon to do so. Similarly, the caster can make one Rouse Check to cause the melee weapon to coalesce from her blood and appear in either hand without spending an action. A ritualist can only have one such enchanted weapon, which always appears immaculate. Enchanting an additional weapon removes the enchantment of the previous one. If the weapon suffers an effect that would break it while the caster is holding it, she may make one Rouse Check to prevent the weapon from being broken or destroyed. Another ritual cannot enchant a melee weapon enchanted with this ritual.

Process:

The caster writes the name (or at least the name she knows her target by) on the parchment in her own blood and then burns it.

System:

Once the parchment is burned, make a contested challenge against an intended target within 50 miles. If successful, the next three times the target Slakes Hunger from any source, they vomit ash, and the Slaking fails. The effects of this ritual end at dawn. A target may only be affected by this ritual once a night. A character may only cast this ritual once per night.

Process:

The sorcerer must inscribe arcane sigils on the chain using her own blood. The process takes one hour to complete, after which the chain becomes invisible to everyone but the sorcerer.

System:

To employ the Invisible Chains, the sorcerer must concentrate on a target in their line of sight within 25 steps of them and throw chains. Upon a successful Dexterity + Marksmanship challenge vs. the target's Dexterity + Athletics, the chains wrap around the target's legs and torso, anchoring them to the ground. Once their quarry is ensnared, the bloody chains become visible. The target suffers the Grappled Condition and may not move from her location until she wins a Strength + Brawl challenge vs. the sorcerer's Resolve + Occult. The target makes these challenges on her own Initiative. She may attack and defend herself normally while chained. Once broken, the chains turn to ash. A sorcerer may maintain a number of Invisible Chains up to her Occult skill.

Process:

The vampire coats her arms up to the elbow in her own Blood. This coating remains visible until the ritual is triggered. To finish the ritual, the vampire must ignite the bloody arm.

System:

At any point in the night, the ritualist may spend a simple action to expose her arms to a source of fire, igniting them for the rest of the scene. Once ignited, the user may attack targets with an opposed challenge (using Dexterity instead of Strength), dealing 1 aggravated damage per hit. These attacks cannot benefit from exceptional successes, but can be used to ignite flammable objects. In addition, the mere sight of the ritualist's arms bursting into flame causes all vampires within 6 steps of the ritualist to make a Terror Frenzy test versus a difficulty 3 immediately. To learn this Blood Sorcery Ritual, a character requires three dots in the Church of Caine Loresheet or instruction from a character who possesses the ritual.

Process:

The ritualist places the fresh apple in the corpse's mouth and then places the body at the foot of a living tree. The ritualist then places the rotten apple in their own mouth. After biting down on the rotten apple, the corpse is supernaturally pulled into the ground and merges with the tree's root system. As the body merges with the ground, blood from mortals within 1 mile drains into the ground and mystically emerges from the rotten apple to sate the caster's Hunger.

System:

After the body disappears into the earth, the ritualist must make a static Stamina + Occult test at difficulty 5. On a success, the character Slakes their Hunger to 1, regardless of Blood Potency. On a critical success, the character Slakes their Hunger to zero without draining a mortal dry. On a failure, the character Slakes no Hunger and must test for Hunger Frenzy at difficulty 5. If a vampire with feeding restrictions uses this ritual in an area where her excluded class of mortals predominates, she gains 1 Stain. Blood is mystically pulled in small amounts from the humans in the surrounding area for the vampire to consume. Resonances from this form of consumption are fleeting, unless a large number of mortals in the area possess the same Resonance (such as Sanguine at a rave, Melancholic at a memorial ceremony, etc). All mortals in the area lose a little blood to the earth, although the loss is not noticeable to normal individuals. However, a medical expert investigating anemia may notice something odd is occurring if they investigate within a week of the ritual being used. For the remainder of the week, mortals affected by this ritual suffer the Weakened condition due to anemia. To learn this Blood Sorcery Ritual, a character requires two dots in the Bahari Loresheet or instruction from a character who possesses the ritual. This ritual may only be cast once per evening.