Blood Sorcery

Learning powers

Powers

Level 1

• A Taste for Blood

  Analyze a blood sample by tasting it.

• Corrosive Vitae

  Use your Blood to erode an inanimate material.

Level 2

• Scour Secrets

  Search a collection of material for particular information using your Blood.

Level 3

• Blood of Potency

  Temporarily increase your Blood Potency.

• Scorpion’s Touch

  Create a short-lived contact poison from your Blood.

• Transitive Bond

  Preserve your Blood's ability to form a Bond after storage or through a ghoul.

Level 4

• Blood Aegis

  Spend Blood to absorb a limited amount of ranged-attack damage.

• Theft of Vitae

  Feed from a visible mortal at a distance.

Level 5

• Baal’s Caress

  Produce a poison capable of dealing Aggravated injury even to vampires.

• Cauldron of Blood

  Inflict internal injury by magically heating a victim's blood.

• Reclamation of Vitae

  Recall vitae from your ghouls, injuring them while reducing your Hunger.

Rituals

Level 1

• Astromancy

  Investigate a person through astrological interpretation, including information about Skills, Desires, or Convictions.

• Beelzebeatit

  Make an area unwelcoming to animals so that they avoid it.

• Bind the Accusing Tongue

  Interfere with a target’s ability to communicate criticism of the caster.

• Blood Apocrypha

  Place a message within blood or a vessel.

• Blood Missive

  Transmit a message through blood.

• Blood to Water

  Convert blood into water, eliminating the blood traces that would otherwise remain.

• Blood Walk

  Examine a vampire’s blood to identify their name, sire, and generation.

• Bloody Message

  Enchant a surface to reveal a message to a designated kind of reader.

• Clinging of the Insect

  Travel along walls or ceilings while keeping both hands and both feet against the supporting surface.

• Coax the Garden

  Turn nearby plants into a defense for the caster.

• Craft Bloodstone

  Prepare a stone that can be located through the ritual’s tracking effect.

• Douse the Fear

  Suppress the caster’s fear of fire for the scene.

• Enrich the Blood

  Increase the nourishment available from a mortal’s blood.

• Herd Ward (Minor)

  Protect one human member of a herd against feeding by someone without permission.

• Letter Ward

  Enchant a letter to ward against an unauthorized reader.

• Preservation

  Protect an item against ordinary aging, exposure, and small accidents.

• Revealing the Crimson Trail

  Expose residual signs of spilled blood.

• Rite of Introduction

  Broadcast an introduction to users of Foundation of the Chantry within the city.

• Sanguine Tidings

  Arrange for a mirror to display a message when the specified kind of person approaches.

• Seal the Brand

  Keep a tattoo from being erased by a vampire’s normal restoration of the body.

• Shared Memory

  Allow others to witness a Memoriam.

• Wake with Evening’s Freshness

  Prepare to awaken when a genuine threat interrupts daytime sleep.

• Ward Against Ghouls

  Apply a ward whose protected boundary or object harms ghouls under the standard ward rules.

Level 2

• As Fog on Water

  Move across water without making sound.

• Calix Secretus

  Set aside vitae for later consumption.

• Calling the Aura’s Remnants

  Question the remaining aura of a dead person.

• Communicate with Kindred Sire

  Establish a distant mental conversation between sire and childe.

• Craftmaster

  Temporarily obtain a specialty and rating in Academics, Craft, Performance, or Science.

• Depths of Nightmare

  Afflict a target’s sleep with harmful nightmares.

• Elemental Grasp

  Direct the Koldun’s chosen element to hinder a foe.

• Enhance Dyscrasia

  Preserve a Dyscrasia through feeding so that more than one vampire can benefit from it.

• Eyes of Babel

  Acquire the languages known by a victim through consuming that person’s eyes and tongue.

• Illuminate Trail of Prey

  Follow the supernatural trail of an individual whose face the caster already knows.

• Le Sang de l'Amour

  Connect two people who desire one another when the ceremony is performed.

• Shroud of Silence

  Keep sound within a room.

• Silentia Mortis

  Produce the silencing effect associated with Silence of Death.

• Soporific Touch

  Prepare vitae that leaves a target more vulnerable to ordinary influence and mind-altering Disciplines.

• Stolen Memory

  Reach into the sire’s memories.

• Tiamat Glistens

  Attune to a place of supernatural power and gain an advantage on rituals there.

• Truth of Blood

  Judge the truthfulness of a target’s statements through blood.

• Unseen Underground

  Hide from sight while below ground for up to one hour.

• Viscera Garden

  Cultivate plants that require vitae and consume corpses.

• Ward against Spirits

  Create a ward directed against spirits, using the general ward procedure.

• Warding Circle against Ghouls

  Create a protective circle against ghouls, using the general rules for warding circles.

• Web of Hunger

  Counter the Beckoning using the ritual’s special dagger.

Level 3

• Bladed Hands

  Turn the hands into piercing weapons used with Brawl.

• Blood Sigil

  Inscribe a persistent tattoo carrying a concealed message.

• Bloodless Feast

  Prepare a clear substance from blood that can sustain the ritual’s consumers.

• Communal Vigor

  Let a Pack Priest share Blood Potency with pack members.

• Dagon’s Call

  Cause a distant victim’s blood vessels to rupture.

• Deflection of Wooden Doom

  Prepare protection against a staking attempt.

• Elemental Shelter

  Merge into the Koldun’s chosen element in a manner comparable to Earth Meld.

• Essence of Air

  Give the caster the ability to fly.

• Eyes of the Past

  Observe earlier events at the caster’s present location.

• Fire in the Blood

  Inflict a sensation of burning within the victim’s blood that can incapacitate them.

• Firewalker

  Prepare resistance to fire for the caster or another recipient.

• Galvanic Ruination

  Disrupt nearby electrical systems.

• Gentle Mind

  Help another vampire resist frenzy through a shared-blood preparation.

• Grim Chrysalis

  Enclose the caster in a hardened-blood cocoon that supports healing.

• Haunted House

  Establish supernatural disturbances that make a haven seem haunted.

• Herd Ward (Major)

  Ward an entrance to protect multiple members of a herd within the space.

• Illusion of Peaceful Death

  Conceal signs of an unnatural death so a corpse appears to have died naturally.

• Illusion of Perfection

  Give the caster an inconspicuous appearance suitable for blending into a crowd, comparable to Mask of a Thousand Faces.

• Nepenthe

  Make a drink that can relieve Stains at the risk of permanent consequences from repeated use.

• One with the Blade

  Bind a chosen weapon to the caster and protect it from damage.

• Sanguine Watcher

  Form a small blood-created rat to carry out observation or retrieval.

• Seeing with the Sky's Eyes

  View a target from an overhead perspective.

• Seeking Tiamat

  Search for a supernatural vein in the earth.

• Sleep of Judas

  Prepare a substance that incapacitates a vampire.

• Soul of the Hemonculus

  Create a diminished bodily servant modeled on the caster and compelled to obey.

• Stone of the True Form

  Prepare a stone that breaks supernatural disguises and alterations.

• The Unseen Change

  Force a werewolf entering the protected area into Lupus form unless it wins the contest between the ritual and its Willpower.

• Trespass

  Pass through a building by slipping along openings that can admit blood.

• Viral Haruspex

  Seek information through the people in an area who share a particular disease.

• Ward against Lupines

  Create a ward directed against werewolves, following the standard ward procedure.

• Warding Circle against Spirits

  Protect an area with a circle directed against spirits, following the standard circle procedure.

Level 4

• Balm of Bathory

  Prepare a blood-based balm that makes its user appear younger and temporarily grants Stunning (4 dots).

• Compel the Inanimate

  Give an object a simple instruction that it carries out a few minutes later.

• Defense of the Sacred Haven

  Protect a haven from sunlight with supernatural darkness.

• Egregore Consultation

  Use an illness carried by the caster to draw on Skills from others with that disease nearby.

• Eyes of the Nighthawk

  Act through a predatory bird under the caster’s control.

• Feast of Ashes

  Prevent a vampire from feeding on blood for one night.

• Guided Memory

  Use another vampire’s blood to enter memories under that vampire’s guidance.

• Incorporeal Passage

  Assume an insubstantial state that permits passage without normal physical interaction.

• Innocence of the Child’s Heart

  Obscure vampiric qualities and evidence of diablerie from Scry the Soul.

• Innocence's Veil

  Temporarily conceal the signs of diablerie from A Taste for Blood and Scry the Soul.

• Invisible Chains of Binding

  Prevent a target from leaving one position.

• Land's Sustenance

  Draw sustenance from a place of power while making that location a source of heightened suffering and injury.

• Protean Curse

  Impose a bat transformation on another target, comparable to Metamorphosis.

• Rending the Sweet Earth

  Pull a vampire out of the ground despite Earth Meld.

• Riding the Earth's Vein

  Travel from a furcus to another furcus selected without the caster’s control.

• Seek the Gathered Vitae

  Locate a gathering whose combined Blood Potency reaches at least 13.

• Ward against Cainites

  Prepare a ward against vampires.

• Warding Circle against Lupines

  Establish a circle that protects against werewolves, using the general rules for warding circles.

Level 5

• Antebrachia Ignium

  Ignite the caster’s arms for use in conflict.

• Atrocity's Release

  Undo the effects of diablerie through the ritual’s restoration process.

• Dominion

  Suppress Animalism, Auspex, Dominate, and Presence within the protected building.

• Eden’s Bounty

  Draw blood from nearby living creatures.

• Elemental Attack

  Command the Koldun’s element against an enemy.

• Escape to True Sanctuary

  Establish a one-way escape passage between prepared circles.

• Fisher King

  Establish a supernatural connection to a territory until the story ends.

• Foundation of the Chantry

  Connect a foundation to a Vein of the Earth so the caster can receive Rite of Introduction broadcasts and answer them.

• Heart of Stone

  Harden the heart against staking at the cost of emotional detachment.

• Reawakened Vigor

  Accelerate the restoration of Blood Potency after prolonged torpor.

• Shaft of Belated Dissolution

  Prepare a stake that can destroy a vampire by reaching the heart.

• Simulacrum Gate

  Create a passage capable of transporting multiple vampires.

• Transferring the Soul

  Transfer a soul into a body through diablerie.

• Warding Circle against Cainites

  Protect an area with a circle directed against vampires, using the general rules for warding circles.

Clans

• Banu Haqim

  Feeding from another vampire can turn a controlled meal into a frenzy.

• Tremere

  The clan’s blood cannot bind vampires and takes more feedings to bind mortals.

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