Oblivion

Learning powers

Powers

Level 1

• Ashes to Ashes

  Dissolve a corpse by introducing your Blood.

• Binding Fetter

  Identify objects that anchor a ghost to the world through sensory examination.

• Oblivion Sight

  See through darkness and perceive ghosts that are present.

• Shadow Cloak

  Use nearby shadow to conceal yourself or appear more menacing.

Level 2

• Arms of Ahriman

  Direct shadow extensions to grapple, strike, or perform simple tasks.

• Fatal Precognition

  Witness a possible future death and the resistance fate offers to changing it.

• Fatal Prediction

  Place a mortal at risk of a future harmful coincidence.

• Shadow Cast

  Create a persistent supernatural shadow from your own body.

• Where the Veil Thins

  Determine how strongly the local boundary separates the living and the dead.

Level 3

• Aura of Decay

  Spread damaging decay around yourself.

• Passion Feast

  Slake Hunger by draining a nearby wraith's sustaining passions.

• Shadow Perspective

  See and hear from a shadow while retaining awareness around your body.

• Shadow Servant

  Send a detached shadow to observe and report back.

• Touch of Oblivion

  Inflict a crippling injury through direct physical contact.

Level 4

• Necrotic Plague

  Inflict a supernatural illness on a touched mortal.

• Profane the Sanctified

  Disrupt True Faith and briefly stun its bearer, or permanently corrode a holy symbol.

• Stygian Shroud

  Cover an area in supernatural darkness that also harms mortals within it.

• Umbrous Clutch

  Use a target’s shadow as a passage that brings them into the caster’s grasp.

Level 5

• Shadow Step

  Travel from one sufficiently large shadow to another you can perceive.

• Skuld Fulfilled

  Restore an old affliction to a mortal or strip a ghoul's protection from aging.

• Tenebrous Avatar

  Become a moving shadow that can pass through extremely narrow openings.

• The Darkness Within

  Manifest a hostile double from a victim, intent on destroying its host.

• Withering Spirit

  Attack a victim's spirit through a bloodied touch.

Ceremonies

Level 1

• Gift of False Life

  Prepare human corpses with blood, phlegm, and bile.

• Knowing Stone

  Determine whether a particular ghost exists and locate it.

• Summon Spirit

  Call a wraith from the Underworld.

• Traveler's Call

  Call to another Shalimite.

Level 2

• Ashen Relic

  Preserve remains from a vampire’s body.

• Awaken the Homuncular Servant

  Use a body part or an animal no larger than a small dog, the implement used to remove or kill it, and a mixture of urine, fecal matter, and semen.

• Blinding the Alloy Eye

  Make camera images of the caster unclear.

• Compel Spirit

  Force a wraith to obey the caster.

• Maw of Ahriman

  Open an aperture into the Abyss, commonly through the caster’s mouth.

Level 3

• Create Corpse Suit

  Assemble a garment of mortal flesh that notices subtle danger.

• Create Flesh Golem

  Construct an animated flesh golem from corpse parts.

• Fortezza Sindonica

  Establish a boundary that injures wraiths crossing it.

• Harrowhaunt

  Make a haven repel unwanted visitors through supernatural dread.

• Host Spirit

  Invite a ghost to possess the caster’s body.

• Knit the Veil

  Reinforce the local Shroud to make passage impossible.

• Misfortune's Hand

  Direct supernatural decay against an enemy’s Backgrounds.

• Name of the Father

  Paralyze a target with a direct experience of Oblivion’s emptiness.

• Shallow Slumber

  Shorten a vampire’s time in torpor.

• Shambling Hordes

  Raise corpses as aggressive servants.

• Wisdom of the Dead

  Consult a dead person through their head or skull.

Level 4

• Befoul Vessel

  Turn a mortal’s blood into a poison for vampires.

• Bind the Spirit

  Tie a wraith to a person or location.

• Bind to Mortal Form

  Keep a mortal alive beyond their natural lifespan without making a ghoul.

• Death Rattle

  Force a target to experience the sensations of a wraith’s death.

• Split the Veil

  Weaken the Shroud, potentially removing it enough for wraiths to cross.

Level 5

• Ex Nihilo

  Cross into the Shadowlands.

• Gift of True Life

  Transfer years of life from one mortal to another.

• Lazarene Blessing

  Restore a recently dead body through a wraith’s occupation.

• Pit of Contemplation

  Cast a foe into Oblivion.

Clans

• Hecata

  The bite causes pain, making even an agreed feeding difficult.

• Lasombra

  Reflections, recordings, and modern devices respond abnormally to the vampire.

References