Hermetic Thaumaturgy Rituals by Level

[Skir]

Admixture of Just Acquiescence
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual works for any Cainite, not just a Gargoyle.
•The duration is based on the caster's Permanent Willpower.
•If out of combat, the target loses one blood point per 30 seconds until once again acting in accordance with the Thaumaturge's orders.
•The specific orders must be given at the time the Humor is being infused. Future orders during the duration carry no additional compulsion.

Bind the Accusing Tongue
•The effects of this ritual rely on the victim to appropriately roleplay the effects. For this reason, the target of this ritual should be informed of the rituals effects.
•Negative words spoken are defined as any words spoken with negative implications or intent, not only overtly negative statements.
•This ritual is no barrier to writing negative things, only to verbalizing them.
•Should a victim attempt to say something negative about the caster and fail the roll, he will gag on his own tongue and be unable to speak for a full turn unless he succeeds in resisting the ritual.

Blood Into Water
•This ritual affects a 10 yard radius around the caster. While it is possible to measure spitting distance in a LARP, none of us really want to.
•This ritual will clean any blood stain no matter how old, though it leaves the stained material wet.

Blood Mastery
•This ritual requires a full point of blood from both the user and the victim.
•This ritual uses up the blood sample of the victim.
•The automatic success on this ritual applies even to contested checks, meaning that the Thaumaturge will automatically score one success more than his opponent did if the roll is contested.
•The effects of this trigger the first time a roll is made against the victim, regardless of the desires of the caster. If the caster is forced to make a roll before his designs come to fruition, then the ritual is expended on the first roll.

Blood Rush
•This ritual removes the need to make any hunger frenzy roll for one full hour.
•If this ritual is used on a vampire in hunger frenzy (though this ritual is not normally capable of being used on another, there are methods that would allow this scenario) it immediately pulls him out of frenzy and prevents the need for further hunger frenzy rolls for a full hour.
•If the person affected by this ritual is still hungry when the ritual ends (less than or equal to 7 – Self-Control/Instinct blood points left) he must immediately roll for Hunger Frenzy again.
•This ritual may be invoked on a target already affected by it. This resets the time to one hour from the point of the last casting.

Brand of the Paramour
•The twins whose blood must be used do not need to be identical, only actual twins.
•This ritual may only be used on a ghoul of the Thaumaturge.
•The phantom pain alerts the Thaumaturge to the kind of damage suffered and the general location of the injury, but not the severity. A stubbed toe will register the same as having one’s foot cut off.
•This ritual remains active indefinitely until the ghoul dies or is embraced. If the ghoul ever stops being a ghoul, the ritual will also end.
•This ritual may be used on any ghoul, whether human or animal.

Cloak of Blood
•This ritual may be performed on the Thaumaturge himself or on any other diabolist.
•For a mortal to be innocent, he or she must have a humanity score of 7 or higher. The blood taken from that mortal must be taken without force or coercion. Use of Mental and Social disciplines on the innocent count as coercion for these purposes, though the passive benefit from Presence to social rolls as well as other powers that affect the Thaumaturge himself do not.
•If the Thaumaturge is Hungry when taking the blood point from the innocent (7 – Self-Control/Instinct in blood remaining) he must roll for Hunger frenzy at difficulty 6. Should he enter blood frenzy, the ritual is ruined and must be begun anew with a new 7 days of fasting.
•This ritual lasts as long as there are blood points from the innocent in the Thaumaturge’s system. Blood points leave the body in the order of first in, first out. The beneficiary of this ritual should carry a card denoting how many of the innocent blood points are in his system and at what point in the rotation they are.
•Should a diablerie be committed while under the effects of this ritual, the amount of successes needed to detect diablerie lines in an aura is reduced to 3 for the next month.
•This ritual cannot remove the lines of an Assamite Warrior, as they are not gained from true diablerie.


Communicate With Kindred Sire/Communicate With Sire
•This ritual may only be cast to communicate with the Thaumaturge’s natural sire. If his sire is dead or in torpor, this ritual has no effect.
•The sire may choose whether or not to accept communication from his childe when this ritual is used.
•The mental link is purely for communication purposes. Neither party gains any sort of mind-reading on the other. Mental images may be sent as well as words.
•Should the sire be asleep when this ritual is used, this ritual’s use provokes an Awakening roll on the part of the sire.


Counting Coup
•The Thaumaturge must know the name of the intended recipient(s) to leave them a message.
•No matter what the image, this ritual can cause no damage or other mechanical effect, though the content may provoke Frenzy checks.
•The image triggers immediately upon the proximity of the intended individual. The dormant recording will last indefinitely until triggered.
•The Wits + Intimidate roll must be made after the ritual is cast successfully. Botching this roll also counts as a Thaumaturgy botch.
•At the conclusion of the ritual, all traces of the Thaumaturge's presence are erased, including Psychic residue that may be picked up by the Spirit's Touch and all signs of magic. Powers such as Wooden Tongues may still work as the spirits still saw what they saw.
•The recording may be anything the Thaumaturge can imagine within the guidelines laid out based on successes.

Dedicate the Chantry
•As long as multiple buildings are connected in any way, such as a covered walkway or a tunnel, they count as a single structure.
•This ritual only lowers the difficulty on those rituals that specifically affect or surround the structure itself or any lesser area within.
•This ritual only applies to rituals of Hermetic Thaumaturgy.

Defense of the Sacred Haven
•This ritual does not require a physical structure to contain the effect, though it will be a significant Masquerade breach should anyone stumble on a 20 foot radius outside where sunlight simply does not enter. Should this ritual be cast outside of a containing structure, the Thaumaturge must paint a circle in his own blood marking out the 20-foot radius.
•This ritual, even when cast inside a structure may risk significant masquerade breaches if basic precautions are not taken such as putting up actual blackout curtains.
•When within the effects of this ritual, a Kindred need not roll Rotschreck or take any damage from the sun, though the Weight of the Sun still applies, forcing him to make rolls to remain awake and reducing his dice pools as normal.
•This ritual lasts until the sunset following the ritual's casting.
•This ritual prevents sunlight from entering the area but has no effect on any form of artificial light.


Deflection of Wooden Doom
•This ritual only affects an attempt at the staking maneuver. It has no effect on wooden weapons not aimed at the heart.
•This ritual cannot stop non-wooden weapons enchanted with The Verdant Blade.
•This ritual will affect any wooden weapon, regardless of size or quality that is used in an attempt to stake the Thaumaturge.
•While the splinter is under the Thaumaturge's tongue, he should role-play difficulty speaking and is treated as though he possessed the Speech Impediment Flaw.
•This ritual affects thrown weapons and projectiles intended to stake as well as those used in melee.
•This ritual affects the first weapon used in a staking attempt regardless of the success or failure of the attempt.
•This ritual cannot be cast on the same Thaumaturge more than once.
•The magic can sense a feint or other insincere attempt to stake the Thaumaturge and will not be triggered. This ritual will trigger only on the first genuine attempt to stake the Thaumaturge.
•If the Thaumaturge is asleep when this ritual activates, he may make an awakening roll.


Devil's Touch
•The effects of this ritual are treated as the third level of Path of Curses, Pariah, save that it can only affect mortals, including ghouls and other "lesser templates" (kinfolk, kinain, sorcerers, etc.) but not any "major template" supernatural (werewolves, changelings, mages, etc.).
•In addition to the effects of Pariah, the victim suffers a +4 difficulty on all Social rolls for the duration of the power.
•This ritual lasts until the sunrise following the ritual's activation or until the penny is no longer on his person.
•The magic is in the penny, not the victim, and the victim does not need to be present for the full casting, but must be personally given the penny by the Thaumaturge for this ritual to take effect. The victim need not know that he has been given the penny.
•This ritual need not be used with any small denomination of any local currency roughly equivalent to a penny in value. It need not be an American or British penny.

Domino of Life
•This ritual may be cast up to five times, each producing a different effect to simulate humanity.
•Each time this ritual is cast, the subject's apparent Humanity score is increased by 1.
•Each separate casting requires a separate vial of human blood to be carried.
•This ritual cannot cause the Thaumaturge's aura to show him as human.
•The human blood must be fresh, acquired the same night as the ritual is to be cast. Stored blood whether preserved mundanely or mystically will not work for this ritual.
•The effects of this ritual last until sunrise or until the vial of human blood is no longer on the Thaumaturge's person.

Encrypt Missive/Epistle of Babel
•This ritual costs a blood point as the thaumaturge must write the missive in his own blood. This may cost more at the Storyteller's discretion if writing a novel.
•The Thaumaturge must know the name of the intended recipient to use this ritual.
•This ritual may only be used on a missive the Thaumaturge has handwritten himself in his own blood.

Engaging the Vessel of Transference
•This ritual only functions if it makes skin contact.
•The Intelligence + Occult check to recognize the sigil only applies if someone actually sees the sigil, which may be covered or hidden.
•When the ritual is cast, the blood in the vessel must be the caster's, however this can be exchanged for another's via the ritual.
•Opening the vessel ends the effect and requires the vessel to be re-enchanted.
•The vessel must be capable of holding a pint of liquid.
•No one, the caster included, is immune to the blood transfer if they touch the vessel.
•Feeling the chill of this effect does not mean the victim knows what has happened to him unless he scores 3 successes on a Perception + Occult at difficulty 6.

Evocation of the Taper/Quench the Tallow
•This is a single ritual granting both effects.
•This ritual requires Lure of Flames 1 to learn.

Expedient Paperwork
•This ritual reduces the amount of time of a Bureaucracy Influence action by one third, rounded up to a minimum of one week.
•This ritual can also be used to bypass such troublesome mortal bureaucratic problems as audits. The paperwork just seems to get exactly to where it needs to be and checks out.

Flatline
•This ritual requires either the subject’s True Name or a personal possession. It does not require that you know where they live.
•This ritual puts the victim in a coma-like state of suspended animation in which no sign of life is detectable.
•This power lasts until sunrise.
•This power has no effect on mystical powers that may detect life, only mundane physical and technological means.

Illuminate the Trail of Prey
•The destination of the journey is defined as the ultimate desired destination. Someone getting on a plane’s destination is the eventual stop of the plane, not the airport. Similarly stopping somewhere along the way does not count as having reached their destination.
•The trail glows such that only the Thaumaturge can see it. Thus sending others to follow the trail is useless.
•The Trail ends after a week’s time should the target not reach the destination of his journey.
•The trail is the path the subject has taken, not a direct path from the Thaumaturge to the victim. Thus if the Thaumaturge doesn’t know where the victim’s journey began, he cannot track him by this ritual until he locates the trail.
•The Trail cannot be hidden from the Thaumaturge. If he is in the vicinity of the trail (within line of sight) he will see it and be able to follow it.

Impressive Visage
•This power raises the user’s Appearance by 2. This may cause Masquerade problems if raised above 5 as the Thaumaturge takes on an impossible, angelic beauty.
•Should the caster wish, he may narrow the scope of this ritual, only granting the bonus to one specific feature of himself, and thus only getting the bonus dice when directly displaying that feature (brilliant teeth, beautiful eyes, etc.).
•This power is of no help to those characters who have an Appearance of 0 due to Clan Weakness or some other factor, but does stack with any Appearance gained from Mask of One Thousand Faces.

Incantation of the Shepherd
•This ritual increases the Thaumaturge’s effective Herd rating by 1 during any week he casts it.
•If the Thaumaturge does not have the Herd background, this ritual grants a +1 die on feeding as it locates nearby mortals that the caster has already drank from.
•This ritual can be justification to obtain and increase Herd.
•This ritual cannot track Minions or any other group of people than the Thaumaturge’s own Herd.

Learning the Mind Enslumbered
•This can only detect the cause of a Kindred’s Torpor or Final Death.
•This power can only give knowledge that the torpored or dead Kindred possessed themselves. If they did not see the attack coming or did not recognize it, this ritual cannot give that information.
•The message comes in the voice of the dead or torpored Kindred, whispering in the Thaumaturge’s ear. The message is auditory only, like the subject is describing the events to him. This ritual cannot convey images or other sensory data.

Luminous Vitae
•This ritual does not differentiate between types of blood, or how old. All blood appears the same under this ritual.
•This ritual does not detect blood within creatures, but does within jars or other vessels. However if the vessel is opaque, the Thaumaturge may not notice the glow.
•This ritual affects all blood within a 10 foot radius of the Thaumaturge.

Now Its Sight Is Ours
•The eye must be removed during the ritual. This cannot be used with a stored eye.
•The potions, though made with the Thaumaturge’s vitae, do not cause a Blood Bond. All power is consumed in the ritual.
•The eye is mystically preserved and will not rot.
•A drinker of the potion can switch back to his own senses at any time during the 10 minutes duration, but doing so ends the effect of that potion.
•While under the effects of the potion, the drinker is completely blind, but still retains all other senses at the actual location of his body.

Preserve Corpse
•This ritual may be applied to any solid organic matter and preserves it indefinitely as long as the dried liquid is not scraped off.
•The preservative liquid must be scraped off completely in order to use the preserved body parts for any thaumaturgical purpose.
•This ritual cannot preserve blood.
•This ritual can be used to preserve the bodies and body parts of kindred past when they would usually crumble to dust with the rising sun.

Purge the Inner Demon
•While this ritual is in effect, the subject cannot spend Willpower for any reason.
•The Manipulation + Empathy roll must be made after succeeding on the usual ritual roll. Botching this roll also counts as a botch on Thaumaturgy.
•This ritual cannot be cancelled early unless by means of another power.
•This ritual also affects Rotschreck.

Purify Blood
•This ritual can purify only one blood point at a time, regardless of generation or volume.
•This will remove any foreign substance from the blood.
•This will not cleanse transmuted blood such as that changed by Quietus or Vicissitude.
•This ritual does not change anything innate about the blood.

Purity of Flesh
•This ritual can remove Vicissitude infection if used before the user has purchased the first level. If he has already acquired Malleable Visage, the infection is too deeply rooted to be removed in this manner.
•This ritual will remove Quietus poison from the subject.
•This will remove any foreign item that has been implanted in the subject by means such as Vicissitude.
•This ritual must be performed naked. This is not an excuse to permanently destroy some unwanted item by carrying it in a pocket while performing this ritual.
•Anything removed in this manner is disintegrated, leaving a non-descript, thaumaturgically inert ring of gray dust around the caster at the conclusion of the ritual.

Rebirth of Mortal Vanity
•This ritual resets the subject’s appearance to match the new hair. Every night thereafter, the subject’s appearance will reset to the new look gained by use of this ritual.
•The hairs from the child must be plucked the same night as the ritual is cast.
•The hair can be grown in any style the Thaumaturge desires, though it will always be the color of the subject’s own hair.


Rite of Introduction
•This ritual is the expected standard protocol for a new Tremere entering a city. Not using it may cause social issues among the clan, particularly for higher ranking Tremere who should know better.
•This ritual contacts all Tremere within a 30 mile radius. The Tremere receive the message in order of Rank and Circle of Mysteries, beginning with the highest and then descending to the lowest. Only the highest ranked Tremere may respond to gain the 5 minute conversation, though he may pass this down the line to the next highest ranking Tremere if he wishes. This is particularly important in cities with multiple Chantries. For the purpose of this ritual, an Astor is considered a Regent of the 6th Circle, but can never respond, this duty being passed to the next highest.
•This ritual contacts all those of who have ever undertaken the Transubstantiation of Seven ritual, regardless of station or acceptance within the Pyramid. Those who are not part of the Pyramid are contacted last.

Sanguine Lodestone
•This ritual is the same as Craft Bloodstone. Despite its lower level here ECC uses the modern nights version at level 2.

Sanguineous Phial
•The earthenware jar may be of any size and contain any amount of blood.
•The jar must be buried for two days before any application of this ritual. The ritual itself takes only 5 minutes. Wise Thaumaturges who wish to continue using the same jar simply keep it buried for this reason.
•This may be used to preserve transmuted blood such as created by Quietus or Vicissitude to preserve the effect.
•This ritual preserves blood only. No other substance may be preserved with this ritual.
•This ritual preserves the blood to the same state of freshness it was in when the ritual was cast.
•This ritual may preserve Kindred blood.

Scent of Lupine’s/Garou’s Passing
•This ritual may only detect actually present Lupines, not any scent they might leave behind. It is completely ineffective at tracking Lupines.
•The ritual creates the mixture that must be sniffed to gain the effect. Anyone may sniff the mixture to gain the ability to scent Lupines for the scene if the Thaumaturge says the necessary incantation as they sniff. The mixture retains its potency until sunrise.
•If the sniffer has smelled a particular Garou before while under this ritual, he may identify the particular Garou’s smell again with 3 successes on the Perception + Alertness roll.

Sense the Mystical
•The glittering is visible to all who can see the object, not just the Thaumaturge.
•This only detects vampiric magic, not any supernatural effect of Sphere Magic or any other power.
•This gives no information as to the kind of magic or the nature of the effect, only that magic is present in the person or object.
•The light from the candle itself activates the tell-tale sparkling effect - thus, if the candle light does not touch the magical person or item, such as if it were obscured or hidden in some way, the item will not sparkle.
•The candle must be lit as part of the 5 minute ritual. The ritual ends if the candle ever goes out, requiring the ritual to be cast again.

Serenading the Kami
•This ritual cannot aid an extended action that will take more than a single night to complete.
•This ritual enlists the aid of Umbral spirits in the task.
•This affects only the first physical action taken after the ritual is completed. The physical action must be taken within one minute of completing the ritual or the effect is lost.

The Carrion Fly Delayed
•The preservation granted by this ritual remains perfect regardless of the conditions the flesh or blood is stored in. Samples may be moved and used as desired while under the effects of this ritual.
•This ritual may be used on the same sample multiple times. Each time it is used, the duration resets based on the casting of the latest ritual.
•This may preserve samples that have been altered mystically such as blood altered with Quietus or Vicissitude. This preserves the alteration should that alteration have a duration.

The Imp's Affliction
•Despite its name, this ritual has nothing to do with the Infernal.
•This power may be used on living supernatural creatures such as werewolves and mages, though they may have their own protections against such.
•This does not require the True Name, only the name by which the victim identifies himself.

The Scribe
•This same ritual incorporates the variant that transcribes their words to computer files.
•Use of this ritual halves the time needed to scribe a Lore or Thaumaturgical Path or Ritual, or a
•A Thaumaturge may cast this ritual multiple times, though all will make copies of the same thing.
•The Scribe cannot write in any language or code that the Thaumaturge does not speak in. The Scribe has perfect and elegant handwriting, but cannot mimic another hand, the Thaumaturge's or anyone else's.

True Sight
•The doubling of Perception only applies to social rolls based on Perception, such as sensing deception or determining emotional state.
•This does apply to social based disciplines using Perception, such as Aura Perception.

Wake With Evening's Freshness
•This ritual wakes the caster without need for an Awakening roll.
•After the two turns have passed, the caster is subject to the usual penalties for remaining awake in the day and must immediately make a roll to remain awake.
•This ritual will waken the caster under any condition that might trigger the Danger Sense merit. The caster will wake before the event that might cause him harm occurs.
•If not directly in a combat situation when this ritual is triggered, the effects last for 1 minute.

Widow's Spite
•This ritual causes no true mechanical effect, more often used to scare victims with unknown pains and itches.
•The pain or itch lasts for the remainder of the scene in which the ritual is used.
•The Thaumaturge must have seen the target before using this ritual, though a full body photograph is enough.

Will o' the Wisp
•The ball of light cannot travel outside of the Thaumaturge's line of sight.
•The ball of light cannot produce light bright enough to cause penalties to anyone without the Light Sensitive flaw.
•The ball of light can be directed to cause distraction in combat, giving the person it is distracting +1 difficulty on all actions. The Concentration merit negates this penalty.
•Commanding the ball of light does not take mental actions on the part of the Thaumaturge and in combat, takes actions on the Thaumaturge's initiative.
•The ball of light lasts until dawn or until dismissed by the Thaumaturge.

[Skir]

2nd Level

Ale of True Remembrance
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual works for any Cainite, not just a Gargoyle.
•The memories grant no additional dots in Knowledges or any other statistic. However while the memories persist, the subject may access all of of the subject's Lores with a successful Intelligence roll at difficulty 8.
•Should the subject fail the Path roll at the expiration of the ritual, he gains the Flashbacks flaw, but triggered at any stressful circumstance as deemed appropriate by the Storyteller. This will persist for as many Flashbacks as the victim had Permanent Willpower.

Black Water
•Only the surface of the water is blackened, though this does mean that no light enters the water beneath.
•This effect may be dispelled by mixing in an amount of normal water equal to 50 gallons for every pint of oil used.
•The black water cannot be seen through from either side.

Blood Walk/Revelation of the Blood Lineage
•This ritual does not give the True name of the subject, only of his lineage.
•This ritual also gives the common names of the lineage for recognition's purposes, though it does not reveal any alternate IDs anyone in the lineage might currently be using.
•The information and images are gained mystically, appearing in the Thaumaturge's mind.
•If cast on someone other than a Kindred, the ritual does not reveal lineage, but does still reveal blood bonds.
•This ritual reveals the levels and sources of blood bonds and vinculums.
•If used on a Caitiff, this ritual reveals the clan from which the Caitiff was originally descended.
•This ritual cannot determine lineage of an artificially created vampire such as a non-embraced Gargoyle or Blood Brother.
•This ritual reveals the subject's clan and generation in exact terms, whether the Thaumaturge recognizes the names revealed or not.
•This ritual does not give the True Names of those who share a blood bond with the subject, only their common names and images.
•This ritual consumes the blood sample used.
•If used on a Dhampir (technically the 16th generation) this does give their vampiric lineage.


Bureaucratic Condemnation
•This ritual causes the next Bureaucracy Influence action taken by the target to take triple the normal time, tying up all involved Influences for the full duration. Unlike normal influence actions, this action cannot be aborted early.
•This only applies if the subject is making use of a Bureaucracy action, including using Bureaucracy to boost or hide another action.
•This ritual lasts indefinitely until triggered.

Burning Blade
•This ritual does not cause actual fire. As such there is no need for Rotschreck rolls and is not considered fire for other effects such as Skin of the Adder, Tenebrous Form, or any other power that talks about fire damage. It does aggravated damage to every kind of supernatural creature.
•This ritual, if the blade is unsheathed, automatically breaks the concealment of Obfuscate and Donning the Mask of Shadows.
•Strikes that completely miss the target (0 net accuracy not 0 net damage) do not consume a charge.
•The ritual fades automatically on the next new moon after it is cast. Note on an item card when the ritual was cast, for how many successes, and how many successes remain.
•Cast on a stake, the stake does 2 levels of Aggravated damage for as many turns as charges that remain until the magic is depleted. This also applies to any other impaling weapon left in the victim, though the extra damage stops if the weapon is pulled out.
•This ritual only affects melee weapons, though they can be thrown and still do aggravated damage.
•This ritual does not need to be cast on a weapon with an edge or a sheath or any other requirement of the weapon save that it is not a projectile.


Calling the Restless Spirit
•This ritual only works on dead people who have become wraiths.
•This ritual, for the duration of the scene, allows the Thaumaturge to see and hear the wraith in question.
•This ritual summons the wraith to the caster from wherever it may be.
•This ritual lasts for the scene, which ends when the wraith leaves.
•If the wraith cannot appear (due to being Soulforged for example), the ritual is considered a failure.
•If attempting to communicate with a wraith without using their body, the Thaumaturge must be in one of that wraith's Haunts.
•The corpse does not need to be intact. This ritual works with as little as a skull.

Craft Bloodstone
•The thaumaturge does not know the exact location of his bloodstones. He knows the direction and approximate distance only.
•No matter how many bloodstones the Thaumaturge has, he will always know the approximate location of each one individually.
•The thaumaturge does not need to use his own blood to make a bloodstone. Any blood, even animal blood will do.
•The thaumaturge may make multiple bloodstones at the same time as long as the blood cost is paid for each one.


Deny the Intruder
•Bureaucracy influence actions targeting the Chantry with this ritual active will automatically fail unless boosted to a level equal to or higher than the successes on this ritual.
•This ritual will cause a great deal of confusion among mortal authorities who look into the Chantry's affairs when they can't find any records of this building's existence and their GPS devices can't locate the address. This may cause increased scrutiny.

Detect Authority
•The sharing of blood from this ritual does not cause a blood bond or vinculum.
•The difficulty is the target's current Willpower.
•This ritual detects blood bonds and any compulsion power such as dominate. It does not reveal the use of Presence or powers of emotional manipulation. This power only reveals the presence or absence of such effects, not the specific nature of the compulsion or the source.
•The Perception + Intimidation roll does not benefit from Auspex.

Donning the Mask of Shadows
•This power does not grant actual invisibility. It renders the subject translucent and smoky, muffling sounds as well.
•This power is a physical stealth power. As such it does affect cameras and other electronic surveillance based on sight or sound.
•Anyone observing someone under Donning the Mask of Shadows may ask for a Perception + Occult roll at a difficulty of the caster's Wits + Occult. Any success reveals the presence of the cloaked individual and allows the detector to interact normally with them until they break line of sight. If line of sight is broken, the Perception + Occult roll must be made again. This roll does not benefit from Auspex. A separate roll must be made for each cloaked individual.
•Anyone with Auspex 3 or higher who is actively looking for cloaked individuals with Seeing the Unseen automatically pierces the effects of this ritual.
•The Thaumaturge may voluntarily lower the effect on any individual he has cast it on.
•Strenuous or difficult actions, even attacking, do not break this effect. If the user gives away his position (such as by attacking) those who do not see through the effect may interact with the cloaked individual as per the blind fighting rules.


Drought of Molten Fury
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual works for any Cainite, not just a Gargoyle.
•The extra damage dice apply only to physical melee or brawl attacks.
•The humor remains dormant in the subject indefinitely until the subject triggers it by spending a blood point. At that point the effects kick in immediately and last a number of turns equal to the caster's Permanent Willpower.
•The damage the subject must soak at the end of the effect is considered Lethal damage.


Dust of Remembrance
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•Severing the finger causes a level of unsoakable lethal damage.
•The Thaumaturge automatically knows that an object he sprinkled the dust on has been moved. The Intelligence + Occult roll is a reflexive roll if the Thaumaturge has multiple tracked items made when he feels the pain.
•The dust transfers the effect to the items themselves. Wiping away the dust does not stop the Thaumaturge from knowing if the item has been moved.
•This ritual in no way tracks the items after they have been moved, only alerts the Thaumaturge to their movement.

Enhancing the Curse
•This ritual does not require the ghoul to be present for the full ritual. The caster must only scratch or strike the ghoul and draw blood within the same night as he casts the effect.
•The aggravated damage the ghoul suffers is soaked (if the ghoul has Fortitude) at the same difficulty that a vampire would soak equivalent sunlight (9 if fully exposed, 6 if all skin is fully covered).

Extinguish
•Pinching out the candle's flame requires the Thaumaturge to make a difficulty 4 Rotschreck roll and soak a level of aggravated damage at difficulty 3.
•This power can extinguish any fire up to the size of a bonfire.
•This ritual cannot be used to extinguish parts of larger fires if the fire is continuous (though of course if the fires are not connected the Thaumaturge may put them out).
•Putting out a fire is a mental action.

Eyes of the Night Hawk
•Controlling the bird does not take mental actions on the part of the Thaumaturge.
•The Thaumaturge may switch back and forth between the bird's senses and his own. While using the bird's senses, all actions the Thaumaturge takes himself are made at +2 difficulty.
•While this ritual is active, the Thaumaturge may use any power of Animalism on the bird from any range.

Impassible Trail
•All attempts to track the Thaumaturge using this ritual are increased in difficulty by the number of successes scored on this ritual.
•The scent can only be detected if the tracker is actively attempting to track with scent.
•If tracking by scent and the scent is detected, the increase in difficulty no longer applies.
•The Perception + Alertness roll to detect the scent does benefit from Auspex, though the tracker only has a chance to detect it if actively attempting to use scent to track.

Inscription
•An inscription cannot be used to learn the Thaumaturgy discipline, but can grant knowledge of the specific ritual to someone who already knows Thaumaturgy.
•A Thaumaturge may only inscribe a ritual he knows. He cannot copy one from a book or scroll.

Iron Body
•This ritual only assists in the soaking of damage from impact sources such as claws, teeth, Baal's Caress, and Burning Blade - specifically not fire or sunlight.

•This ritual lasts for hours equal to the Thaumaturge's Stamina at the time of casting. The Thaumaturge may spend blood to increase his Stamina for this purpose, but only up to the maximum he can maintain for a scene (usually 6).

It Steals Your Whispers
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•Sawing off the ear is part of the ritual and must be done during the casting. This will not work with a stored or preserved ear.
•The elixir does not cause a blood bond.
•Taking multiple doses stacks the duration.
•The drinker may NOT end this effect early or shift his hearing back and forth.

Jinx
•This ritual is pre-prepared by the Thaumaturge and triggered with a mental action at any point thereafter. The ritual lasts indefinitely as long as the blood does until triggered.

Know the Unnatural Beast
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual only works if cast on a Gargoyle.
•The effects of this ritual last for one night per success on the ritual.
•The roll is not automatically made on seeing every animal. The Gargoyle must specifically look at an animal and call for the roll.
•The effects of this ritual do not tell the Gargoyle what the unnatural animal is, only that it is unnatural in some way.

Machine Blitz
•This ritual once cast creates an aura of technological chaos around the caster extending 10 feet in all directions from the caster. This ritual breaks all machines within that radius.
•This ritual does not just stop machines, it breaks them. For any important items, the Storyteller should make a World of Darkness test. If the test fails, the particular item breaks irreparably.
•This ritual lasts for as long as the vampire concentrates on it. All the caster's other actions are at a +2 difficulty while concentrating on this ritual. The Concentration merit negates this penalty.
•This ritual does affect the caster's own items so a wise Thaumaturge carefully checks his pockets and surroundings before casting this ritual.
•This ritual causes anything more complicated than a rope and pulley to break.

Membranous Appropriation
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual cannot be used unless the Thaumaturge has Skin Eaters to provide the material component.
•This ritual also requires vis to function, requiring the Thaumaturge to have a way of harvesting vis such as the ritual Draught of Earth's Blood or another such method of getting tass.
•When wearing the mask, the wearer gains -3 difficulty on all attempts to disguise himself as the subject.

Mourning Life Curse
•This ritual will keep the victim bleeding from the eyes (losing one blood point per 5 minutes) until the Thaumaturge stops staring at him.
•Mortals are usually greatly disturbed by this ritual and unless restrained in some way or compelled to stay are likely to freak out.
•This ritual will not wake a sleeping victim.

Obscure the Malice
•This ritual affects all wounds visibly evident on the corpse.
•5 successes completely disguise the cause of death for any violent death, even to a full autopsy.
•This power can reattach limbs or other severed extremities if the Thaumaturge places them next to the stump before casting this ritual.
•This ritual will not disguise any blood loss.

Potio Martyrium
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual works for any Cainite, not just a Gargoyle.
•As this power is triggered by wishing for death, the user cannot be Dominated into its activation.
•As the user explodes, all those within 3 feet of him must soak 2 levels of aggravated damage at difficulty 7 to soak, and are set on fire as per Lure of Flames 4.
•All those within 30 feet must make a successful Dodge roll to avoid being hit by shrapnel as burning chunks of meat fly in all directions dealing a number of dice of aggravated damage equal to the user's Strength score.
•This ritual always causes final death in the Cainite who activates it.

Power of the Invisible Flame
•This ritual requires the Thaumaturge to have at least a rating of 2 in Lure of Flames to learn it.
•This ritual lasts the full night and cannot be ended early.
•All fires started off of invisible fires are also invisible, though evidence of the burning structures will readily become apparent.
•This ritual is likely to cause Masquerade problems if invisible fires get out of control.

Principle Focus of Vitae Infusion
•There is no maximum number of Principle Focuses the Thaumaturge may have at any one time, so long as he spends the time to make each one.
•Causing a Principle Focus to break down into blood takes a mental action for each focus the Thaumaturge wishes to break down. In other words, the maximum amount of blood that can be reclaimed is one per turn.
•A Principle Focus may be attuned to another, so that they can spend a mental action to cause it to break down into blood, but then the Thaumaturge cannot cause it to break down. Using Principle Foci created by another vampire does transmit the blood bond.
•Each Principle Focus may only store one blood point, regardless of volume, and is always the caster's own blood.
•Only one user of the Focus may be assigned to each one to be able to reclaim the blood, regardless of how many people were present for the ritual.
•Eating infused foci before they are broken down into blood is impossible without the Eat Food merit.


Recure of the Homeland
•The caster may only use this ritual on himself.
•The ritual creates the paste, which takes only a single physical action to apply to a wound, which heals instantly.
•If the paste is not used by the end of the night, it becomes inert at sunrise.
•This ritual can only be cast using soil from the character's mortal birthplace, and so the character must have a card for this item to cast the ritual.

Ritual's Recognition
•This ritual causes an unsoakable level of Lethal damage to the caster, not bashing, since a single level of bashing damage would halve to nothing if taken by a Kindred.
•This ritual only tells the caster if a ritual succeeded or failed, not how well the ritual succeeded.

Skin of the Chameleon
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual only works if cast on a Gargoyle.
•This ritual grants a Gargoyle who has not yet mastered the first level of Visceratika the effects of having that power for one night per success scored on the ritual. This replaces the actual mechanics of the ritual which were designed before Gargoyles were true vampires with their own discipline.
•This ritual has no effect on Gargoyles who have already mastered the first level of Visceratika.

Spite of the Harridan
•This ritual causes the mother to immediately miscarry upon completion of the ritual. Regardless of stage of pregnancy, the baby will not be able to be saved.
•Sudden, violent miscarriage will cause medical problems and may cause the death of the mother if she does not receive quick medical care.

Steps of the Terrified
•This ritual prepares the poplar buds in advance of their use. To activate the effect takes only a single physical action as the buds are thrown at the feet of the target.
•If not used within the night, the buds will lose their potency and become inert at sunrise.
•The same buds may be refused for this ritual multiple times.
•A Thaumaturge may only cast this ritual once per night.
•This ritual only affects the victim's movement speed. It has no effect on the victim's dice pools.
•Each time the victim attempts to move faster than a walk, his speed halves again. Attempting to leave at a walk is the way to achieve maximum speed.
•If the victim attempts to use Celerity to gain extra actions, each Celerity action taken halves his speed.

Summon Guardian Spirit
•This ritual summons and binds an Umbral Spirit, not a ghost.
•The Thaumaturge is treated as though he possessed the Danger Sense merit for the duration of this ritual.

The Open Passage
•This hour-long ritual must be performed on the surface the Thaumaturge wishes to pass through.
•This ritual causes the solid barrier to become insubstantial to anyone who wishes to pass through it for a single turn (30 seconds out of combat).
•This ritual also allows those who cross through the Passage to take anything they are wearing or carrying through the Passage as well.

The Serpent's Cruel Milk
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual may be used on any Cainite, not only Gargoyles.
•The difficulty of the Stamina roll made by feeding victims of the subject is the current Willpower of the Thaumaturge at the time the ritual was cast.
•Failing this roll deals the poisoned victim one level of unsoakable lethal damage each night.
•The humor remains dormant in the subject indefinitely until the subject triggers it by spending a blood point. At that point the effects kick in immediately and last a number of turns equal to the caster's Permanent Willpower.
•For each point of blood taken, the Stamina roll must be made separately. Multiple doses of this poison stack for damage.
•The secret roll to see if the user poisons an additional victim is made after this ritual's duration has expired. If the user fails, his next feeding victim will also be poisoned in the same manner.

Transubstantiation of Humors
•No other action may be taken in the round that a victim is vomiting, even with Celerity. During this round they are considered a helpless target (-2 difficulty to hit them in combat).
•Vomiting costs a Vampire victim a blood point in addition to the loss of the blood points ingested.
•Vampires who botch the Stamina roll, vomit up an extra number of blood points equal to the number of negative successes on the roll (the times tested down past 0)

Trima/Lassitude of Revelry
•This ritual only works on mortals, though it can affect ghouls, sorcerers, kinfolk, and other "lesser templates". This ritual does work on Mages.
•The drugged wine retains its potency until sunrise, at which point the vitae disappearing causes the wine to instantly sour.
•Drinking more wine when already under the effects cumulatively raises the difficulty of the Stamina roll by 1 for each glass consumed. If under the effect of multiple doses, the difficulty of the Willpower roll cumulatively increases by 1 for each glass consumed.

Whispers of the Ghost
•This ritual is cast in advance and lasts the entire night. For the rest of the night whenever he uses Astral Projection, he may speak across the Gauntlet and be heard by those in the material world.

Your Fate Shall Be Known
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual only works on Cainites and ghouls, though other supernatural creatures who have been ghouled are acceptable.
•The damage from this ritual is unsoakable.
•This ritual lasts indefinitely.
•The eye is mystically preserved by this ritual and does not rot.

[Skir]

3rd Level

A Touch of Nightshade
•The ritual consists of applying the poison to the Thaumaturge's hands. Delivering the poison only requires a single physical action for the Thaumaturge to make skin contact with the victim.
•The poison requires skin to skin contact to deliver.
•If the victim botches the Stamina + Fortitude roll, he immediately goes into torpor and remains in that state for the usual time depending upon his Path rating. If he fails, he suffers +3 difficulty to all actions for the next 3 nights. If he scores 1 success, the difficulty penalty is reduced to +2. If he scores 2 successes, the difficulty penalty is reduced to +1. If he scores 3 or more successes, he is unaffected.

Awakening the Verdant Thorn
•This ritual takes effect if the stake impales the victim anywhere, not only on a successful staking maneuver.
•The stake must be left impaling the victim for the ritual to take effect.
•The stake starts draining blood on the turn after it has impaled the victim.
•The stake continues to drink blood points even after it has gained strength 8, though it gains no additional benefit of the drained blood.
•The stake can be activated a number of times equal to the successes on the ritual. An entire scene of the stake drinking blood from a single target is considered one use. Should the stake be removed from one target and used on another, even in the same scene, it counts as an additional use.

Bind the Familiar
•Despite sharing a name with a level one ritual of Dark Thaumaturgy, this ritual is not infernal in any way.
•The human blood used in the ritual must be extracted the same night as the ritual is cast. This ritual requires 3 points of human blood. These do not need to be from the same person.
•The caster may not drink the blood of the animal he is draining. The blood is an offering to the spirit.
•Having a familiar increases the caster's Blood Debt by 4x the level of the familiar.
•The statistics of the familiar are dictated by the caster as per the following rules:

◦Attributes: A familiar will use the animal's attributes, except for Intelligence, which will equal the caster's at 4th level, and always be 5 at 5th level.
◦Abilities: A familiar will have all of the abilities of the animal and 5 additional dots to put in abilities specifically related to the type of spirit used at 4th level, 10 at 5th level. ST has final call on what is appropriate for abilities.
◦Backgrounds: None at base.
◦Willpower: Equal to 3 + Familiar level
◦Essence: A Familiar has an Essence pool of 2x its Willpower + the Health Levels of the host animal. It replenishes this Essence when it drinks blood at a rate of 1 for 1.
◦Charms: Only a Familiar of 5th level can get Charms. A familiar will get its choice of 2 Spirit Charms that must be in association with the type of spirit used. A charm is usually a basic on or off ability that the Familiar can activate on your behalf, although there are some exceptions. Details of the Charms must be worked out with the ST and recorded on the Familiar's sheet or card. See the Djinn background for more details on Charms.
◦Enhancing your Familiar: A familiar does not get freebie points at creation, however its capabilities may be increased with your own experience points at the normal rates. Increasing a Familiar's Willpower will increase its Essence Pool. Charms cost a flat 10xp each.

Bladed Hands
•This ritual was specifically developed by the Tremere Victor in Milwaukee and he has not shared it with the Pyramid at large. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•The blades cause the caster's unarmed strikes to deal Strength +1 Lethal damage.
•Burning blade may be cast on the bladed hands, and they may deliver poisons such as Baal's Caress.
•The caster suffers a +2 difficulty to any Dexterity roll involving fine manipulation while this ritual lasts.

Blood Allergy
•The Thaumaturge must have a point of the intended victim's blood in order to cast this ritual on them. The blood sample is used up in the casting.
•The age requirement applies to total lifespan, including time as a ghoul and mortal.
•The victim feels no immediate effect, but the effect hits him with full force the next time he feeds, causing him to vomit up all but 3 blood points. Thereafter, for the duration of the ritual, the victim immediately vomits up any blood in excess of 3 points within his system.
•This ritual does not prevent hunger frenzy brought on by low blood.

Caustic Bile
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual works for any Cainite, not just a Gargoyle.
•See The Serpent's Cruel Milk for clarifications on the poison system.
•This Humor remains dormant in the subject indefinitely until triggered by a mental action, at which point it remains active for a number of turns equal to the caster's permanent willpower.
•The poison only works if skin to skin contact is made during the duration of the power once it has been triggered.

Certamen
•ECC uses the updated ritual Blood Certamen which is 4th level, not 3rd. See that ritual for further clarifications.

Cleansing the Flesh
•This ritual grants justification to buy off the Addiction and Disease Carrier flaws, as well as any other the Storyteller may deem appropriate.

Clinging of the Insect
•Moving along walls and ceilings requires the Thaumaturge to use his hands and feet. He may use only one hand, but doing so halves his speed again.
•While the spider is in his mouth, the Thaumaturge is considered to have the Speech Impediment flaw. Talking is not easy while trying to keep a live spider under your tongue.
•The thaumaturge cannot crawl along completely smooth, slick surfaces such as Teflon or slime-covered glass.

Craft Dream Catcher
•This ritual requires at least 3 hairs, a point of blood, and a sample of spittle from the person the Dream Catcher is being made for. If the Dream Catcher is being made for a Kindred, the spittle requirement is removed, as Kindred spittle is blood. This ritual does not in any way preserve the hair, which if from a Kindred and not preserved another way will crumble to dust at sunrise, causing the Dream Catcher to stop functioning. The blood is part of the ritual and though it also is destroyed at sunrise if not preserved, does not stop the Dream Catcher from functioning.
•The difficulty modification of powers of Oneiromancy apply to effects cast both by and on the owner of the Dream Catcher at his choice. The choice, once made, affects all powers of Oneiromancy cast by and on the owner. Changing the choice involves unwinding and rewinding the hair in a different pattern on the Dream Catcher.

Crucible of Sympathetic Agony
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by the original Tremere of Ceoris. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual is considered a Heinous Act for those on the Path of Humanity, and requires a degeneration roll even at Humanity 1.
•If used for obedience, this ritual will cause the victim to act as if under the effect of the fourth level of Dominate, Conditioning.
•The second Willpower roll granted when the Thaumaturge's orders place the victim in danger needs only one success to pass, granting free thought to the victim until the danger has passed, when the Conditioning effect resumes.
•This ritual works on any kind of victim, mortal, Cainite or otherwise.

Defender of the Haven
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual only works if cast on a Gargoyle.
•This ritual grants a Gargoyle who has not yet mastered the second level of Visceratika the effects of having that power for one night per success scored on the ritual. This replaces the actual mechanics of the ritual which were designed before Gargoyles were true vampires with their own discipline.
•This ritual has no effect on Gargoyles who have already mastered the second level of Visceratika.

Displacement of the Pneuma
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by the original Tremere of Ceoris. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•Making the hollow blade requires at least 4 successes on a Craft check to make an uncommon tool.
•The hollow blade must contain a full point of the caster's blood. The blood is used up in the ritual. The hollow shaft is considered a Feature on the item.
•If the victim is unaware of the trickery, the ritual is cast at -1 difficulty.
•A victim killed by this ritual will automatically be considered at +2 on the chart to see if they become a Wraith after death.
•While the victim's soul is in the animal, the soul carries with it the victim's mental Attributes and Abilities.

Draught of Earth's Blood
•A Cray is a Cairn is a Node is a Freehold is a Dragon Nest. A Haunt is not a Cray.
•This ritual does not draw vis (or quintessence as it is called in modern nights) from the Cray. It allows the Thaumaturge to harvest and manipulate the tass that forms around a Cray that is not having as much energy drawn from it as it produces. See Ogham 5 clarifications for a better description of the mechanics of Crays.
•Blood tass may be preserved by any mystical means of preserving blood, but mundane refrigeration will not work.
•Any tass in excess of the Thaumaturge's successes that the Thaumaturge attempts to turn into blood tass are destroyed and their energy lost.

Eldritch Glimmer
•Firing a bolt is a mental action.
•The bolts may be dodged but not blocked or parried.
•The Perception + Firearms roll to hit benefits from Auspex.
•The bolts function as any ranged attack, granting carry over dice to damage. The base damage of a bolt is 3 dice of Lethal damage.
•This ritual lasts until the next sunrise, but only as long as the caster carries the sandstone. The ritual may be ended early by throwing away the sandstone.
•The effects of this ritual automatically break attempts to hide using the Obfuscate discipline or the ritual Donning the Mask of Shadows.

Eyes of the Past
•This ritual will show the Thaumaturge a maximum of a single scene, or half an hour.
•The Thaumaturge must know the exact time he wishes to view. He cannot name an event and search for it without casting the ritual many times.
•The images come to the Thaumaturge mentally in a trance as he sees back into the past.
•While viewing the events of the past, the thaumaturge may not move from the spot he cast the ritual on, though he may bend and turn his head within the vision to gain a different perspective.
•The Thaumaturge views the past scene through his own senses, including the use of passive sensory powers such as Auspex, which may be used during this ritual. Active powers of Auspex may not be used.
•If the Thaumaturge is disturbed during the vision, he may make a reflexive Wits + Alertness roll at difficulty 8 to shake himself out of the trance.

Fire in the Blood
•The Wits + Medicine roll to calm down the blood takes 5 minutes during which the victim may take no physical actions.
•The aggravated damage may be soaked with Fortitude.
•The Thaumaturge need only know the name of the victim to curse him with this ritual.
•This ritual lasts for the remainder of the night.

Flesh of Fiery Touch
•The Thaumaturge must make a difficulty 9 Rotschreck roll to swallow the burning ember. Botching this roll means that the ritual is considered a botch. Given this, most Thaumaturges spend a Willpower to force themselves to swallow the coal.
•This ritual only does damage should someone touch the Thaumaturge's bare skin. This does not necessitate skin to skin contact.
•This ritual cannot distinguish friend from foe.
•This ritual cannot be cancelled before its duration expires at the next sunset.
•The Perception + Medicine roll to see the artificial skin tone does not grant any knowledge as to the nature of the effect, only that it looks weird. This is not severe enough to be considered a masquerade breach for most people in the world, unless they see someone burned by touching the Thauamturge. Most observers who make the check will assume the Thaumaturge got a bad fake tan. This can be covered with a single success on Mask of One Thousand Faces.
•This ritual will continue to damage anyone who maintains contact with the Thaumaturge's skin, inflicting another level of aggravated damage each round that contact is maintained.

Friend of the Trees
•This ritual works in any reasonably heavy wooded area. The final call is up to the Storyteller but a good rule of thumb is that a dense park would count but a small clump of trees or a shrub on the street would not.
•This ritual cannot distinguish friend from foe, making it very difficult for the Thaumaturge to show anyone to a location.

Gentle Mind
•This ritual cannot be cast on the Thaumaturge himself.
•The extra Willpower points can exceed the subject's Permanent Willpower, but are not considered when setting the difficulty of anything that uses Current Willpower as a difficulty. The extra Willpower points may not be spent for any purpose other than gaining an automatic success on a frenzy roll or attempting to control one's actions in an existing frenzy.
•This ritual lasts for the remainder of the night.
•This ritual does not cause a blood bond to either party.

Haunted House
•This ritual may only be cast on a location where a vampire has slept at least 3 consecutive days.
•Within a week of this ritual being cast, the domain in which the house is will gain the Haunted tag, unless the tag is at its current limit.

Hell's Calling
•Without knowing what to flee from, the Rotschreck takes the victim in a random direction as he flees his surroundings in a blind panic.
•Once the victim has completely fled his surroundings, he may make a reflexive Wits + Courage roll at difficulty 6 to realize that he is running from nothing. If successful, this ends the Rotschreck.

Ichor of the Hexaped
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual may only be cast on a Hexaped Gargoyle. As none have been created since the fall of Ceoris and the Gargoyle Revolt, this ritual has been lost to time.
•Treat the surface thoughts of the victim as though the Thaumaturge had scored 1 success on Telepathy.
•The Thaumaturge sees into the bowl as the victim sees, using the victim's sense and dice pools, but at +2 difficulty.
•The victim may make a Perception + Occult roll at difficulty 10 each time the Thaumaturge looks into the bowl. 1 or 2 successes tell the victim something is up, while 3 allow the victim to know he is being watched, though not how, from where, or by whom. This roll does not benefit from Auspex.

Illusion of Peaceful Death
•This ritual will fool all medical equipment and even the most skilled autopsy will not reveal a violent cause of death. For all intents and purposes, the corpse will appear to have died of a heart attack.
•This ritual will not regrow missing extremities, but can reattach them if placed in the correct place before the ritual is cast.

Illusion of Perfection
•This ritual is automatically pierced by any Kindred with Auspex 3 or higher who actively attempts to use Seeing the Unseen.
•Treat this effect in all ways as Mask of a Thousand Faces, save that the Thaumaturge may not emulate specific people, or raise his effective Appearance score beyond 2.
•With a mental command, the Thaumaturge may change the illusion to that of a different average individual.
•This ritual lasts for the rest of the night.
•The Thaumaturge may attempt to reassume a form he has already taken by making a Manipulation + Performance roll at difficulty 7.

Incorporeal Passage
•This clarification overrides the previous house rules on this ritual that allow it to be cast in only a minute and only allow the caster to travel a straight line.
•The mirror shard must be held out from the thaumaturge at all times to maintain the effect. This ritual does not function should the Thaumaturge attempt to wear the mirror shard in any way.
•The caster may move about as he desires while Incorporeal, but must follow a straight path through any solid objects he walks through.
•A non incorporeal person or object passing between the thaumaturge and his mirror does not disrupt the effect. Only causing the thaumaturge to lower the mirror will break it.
•The thaumaturge is not immune to mental influences such as Dominate or other effects - only physical effects.
•The thaumaturge is immune to physical attacks while under this ritual, and cannot make them himself either.
•The thaumaturge is unaffected by gravity while under this ritual and may walk up or down at ordinary speeds. This allows the thaumaturge under this ritual to enter and exit upper floors of buildings without putting their feet through stairs or being left behind as he goes through the elevator floor. The thaumaturge may not "fly" with this power, however, only move along corresponding lines of normal material such as ascending to upper stories of a building or sinking through a manhole cover to the sewer.
•The Wits + Survival roll must be made after the ritual is successfully cast. Botching this roll is considered a botch of Thaumaturgy.
•Should the caster rematerialize inside a solid object, he will immediately be shunted out of the object by the shortest route and take a number of dice of lethal damage equal to 1 for foot he was shunted.
•The caster does not appear translucent or hazy. Unless someone sees him pass through a solid object, there is no way to visually tell that he is incorporeal.
•The Tremere who say this power brings them closer to the lands of the dead and subjects them to the powers of Wraiths are wrong. This power works purely on this plane of existence.


Inherited Affinity
•This ritual bypasses all learning times for Thaumaturgy. This only works for Hermetic Thaumaturgy, though other magical paradigms may have their own rituals that have the same effect.
•Having this ritual cast on a subject is justification for the subject to buy off the flaw Thaumaturgically Inept.
•Having this ritual cast on a subject who is currently researching a new Hermetic Thauamturgy ritual gains additional dice equal to the successes scored on the ritual for their next research roll.
•This ritual should always be role-played due to the chance of frenzy or other calamities.

Major Creation
•This ritual requires the Thaumaturge have mastered the third level of the Path of Conjuring to learn.
•See the clarifications for the Path of Conjuring for specifics on what can or cannot be Conjured.
•Severing the thumb causes one level of unsoakable lethal damage.
•The Path of Conjuring power affected by this ritual must be used immediately following the ritual.

Medicament of Resisting Flesh
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual works for any Cainite, not just a Gargoyle.
•If used on a Tzimisce or anyone infected with Vicissitude, this ritual has the same increased effect as if used on a Gargoyle who was made from a Tzimisce.

Mirror of Second Sight
•The true forms of Lupines, Demons, Mummies and Changelings are reflected overlaid on the mundane image.
•The mirror reflects ghosts and spirits in the Shadowlands and the Penumbra only. It does not see deeper into the Underworld or the Umbra. The mirror also reflects anyone physically moving through the Shadowlands or Umbra as well, as well as Astral forms.
•The mirror does reveal those with True Faith showing them bathed in golden light.
•This ritual does not reveal the true forms of supernatural creatures using an active power to change shape, only those who innately have multiple forms.
•The mirror does not pierce Obfuscate of any level.
•The mirror does not detect vampires in any way.

Moonlight Dancers
•The Thaumaturge may direct the apparitions to perform whatever dance he wishes. Assume the dancers score successes on the performance roll equal to the successes of the ritual. The Thaumaturge may also change the music and style of dance as he desires with a simple mental action.

Pavis of Foul Presence
•ECC uses the V20 version of this ritual as its baseline.
•This ritual may not be cast on others.
•Due to in game actions, this ritual is no longer an unbroken secret among the Tremere.
•Assume the reversed effect has the same number of successes as scored by the original user.
•The Thaumaturge does not innately know when his Pavis has reflected a Presence effect, though the effects may become obvious shortly thereafter.
•The ribbon may be woven into any other piece of jewelry or costume and will still function.

Populate Night's Gardens
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•Botches of any stage ruin the whole ritual and are considered a botch of Thaumaturgy
•This ritual is extremely involved and will require a great deal of Storyteller involvement.
•The final entity must be approved by the Storytellers.
•The gestation period is the same as the longest gestation period among the types of animals used.
•The final creature may not exceed 10 in any attribute, or 5 in any ability.
•The creature is considered an animal for the purposes of powers that target animals.
•Beasts created by this ritual may be used in the Bind the Familiar ritual.

Power of the Pyramid
•This ritual only works for those of Tremere lineage, though this does include Caitiffs embraced from a Tremere line as well as any Tremere bloodlines such as the Telyavelic Tremere.
•If any of the caster's botch this ritual, the entire ritual is ruined for all involved, though only the one who botched suffers specific effects of a Thaumaturgy botch.
•Sharing Willpower means that any participant may grant their temporary Willpower dots to any other participant. These extra dots cannot exceed the beneficiary's Permanent Willpower. Any temporary willpower in excess of the participant's Permanent Willpower at sunrise fade away.
•Every participant may spend a Willpower point to grant an automatic success on any Thaumaturgy Path or ritual activated by the Lynchpin.
•It is technically possible for the lynchpin to join with another group of Tremere and cast a second Power of the Pyramid, and then that ritual's lynchpin to leave and do the same, ongoing as such as long as none of the individual covens break their connections. In such a way, the Tremere have worked their most legendary spells, such as the Curse of the Assamites.
•Any lynchpin who is away from their circle to perform the business he is empowered to do is highly charged with magical power and any character can make a Perception + Occult roll at difficulty 6 to notice the incredible power he is invested with.


Quicksilver Eel
•This ritual only works on Mages or mortals with supernatural powers such as Numina. It does not function on Kindred, Lupines, Changelings, Demons, or any other Primary supernatural creature. It does affect the Imbued or mortals with True Faith.
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by the original Tremere of Ceoris. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•The Eel may not be dodged or blocked, though it is subject to any Prime wards the Mage may have active.
•Once the process has begun, there is no innate way to stop it from continuing. Mages with the Prime Sphere may attempt to target the Eel but once it is inside them, it requires the mage lace any effect with a minimum of Life and Mind 3 to affect it as it has bonded with his body and mind.
•All supernatural powers that do not have a defined level are lost when the victim is reduced to Willpower 4.
•The eel will also strip any supernatural merits and flaws from the victim at effective levels equal to their point cost.
•The eel lasts indefinitely while contained. The duration begins when it is freed.

Rite of Sorcerous Shield
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual only works if cast on a Gargoyle.
•Should any magic affecting the Gargoyle have a resistance roll, the two dice are added to that roll. Should the effect not have a resistance roll, the Gargoyle may roll the two dice as one.
•The extra two dice apply to the soak roll for the first round of fire damage from Lure of Flames, but not to subsequent rounds of burning.
•The magic does not have to specifically target the Gargoyle for the Gargoyle to get a resistance roll with this effect, though any reduction in the effect due to the Gargoyle's resistance roll applies only to how the Gargoyle himself is affected and not how anyone else affected might be.

Ritual of Darkness
•This is considered mundane darkness so Eyes of the Beast will see through it.
•All those without Eyes of the Beast are affected as though completely blind, though other powers such as Tongue of the Asp or Auspex may mitigate blindness as normal.
•No light other than sunlight will have any effect in an area enchanted with this ritual.

Rotten Wood
•The command is mental not verbal and thus can be invoked even when the Thaumaturge is staked.
•This ritual turns any wood currently touching the caster to dust when he gives the command.
•Giving the command is a mental action, though the thaumaturge may make an attack roll to touch a wooden object held by another as part of that action without splitting his dice pools.

Rutor's Hands
•The caster must make a Willpower roll at difficulty 9 to cut of his hand and pluck out his eye (only one roll needed for both).
•Each Rutor's Hand increases the Thaumaturge's Blood Debt by 4.
•A Thaumaturge may mentally command his Rutor's Hands even when he cannot see them, though he cannot perceive their surroundings nor may the hand mentally communicate with him from a distance.
•The Rutor's Hand has perfect memory for anything it has seen and heard and can relay exactly what happened without memory checks.

Sanguine Assistant
•This ritual will not consume any item the Thaumaturge remotely cares about. It is made from office detritus.
•The Sanguine Assistant is a reflection of the Thaumaturge's own mind and will transform its personality to match the thaumaturge's ideal of a perfect servant.
•The Sanguine Assistant should be treated as though under level 10 vinculum to its creator that will never fade.
•A Sanguine Assistant has 4 health levels and suffers no wound penalties.

Shaft of Belated Quiescence
•This ritual may be cast on a rowan wood weapon bigger than a normal stake, which increases the base damage of the weapon to match the new form.
•Once the tip breaks off, the stake now inflicts bashing damage.
•The same rowan wood stake may be resharpened and reused in a subsequent use of this ritual.
•The base successes on the extended roll are equal to the successes scored on the initial attack roll, not the damage roll. This is the net successes after any defensive action the victim might have taken.
•The Dexterity + Medicine roll is made at +2 difficulty if the victim is attempting it on himself.
•Removing the tip from the heart after the victim has been staked requires 15 successes on the hourly Dexterity + Medicine roll. The evasions of the tip made every thirty minutes reduce the successes scored by the surgeon but do not further damage the victim.
•The victim cannot feel the tip moving toward their heart and without some knowledge of Thaumaturgy practices is unlikely to know anything is wrong until it is too late.

Summon Mischievous Spirit
•This ritual summons a minor jagling Chaos Bane with an Essence Pool of 10.
•The Charisma + Spirit Lore roll must be made after the ritual is cast successfully. Botching this roll causes the spirit to torment the caster for a duration based on the number of negative successes accrued using the same chart.
•The duration of this ritual is reduced for LARP play. Treat 5 successes as 3 months.

Telecommunication
•This ritual can affect any device with a screen, not just a television set.
•Modern Tremere often use this ritual on their smart phones to have conversations that don't actually go through the network.

The Framing
•5 successes on the Appearance + Subterfuge roll fools all supernatural senses, even those who can normally see through illusions.
•This ritual lasts for the duration of the scene.
•This ritual mimics the appearance of the true form of the subject, whatever that might be.

Ritual of the Bitter Rose
•The victim instantly meets final death when the heart is cut out.
•The maximum number of participants in this ritual is equal to the caster's Occult score.
•In addition to the drop in generation (if any) all participants will gain a discipline dot from the victim as though they had committed ordinary diablerie.
•The tales of this ritual only working on Methuselahs are apocryphal. They spread due to the fact that few gain the benefits of this ritual when used on someone near to the generation of those performing the ritual.
•The thaumaturge gains no innate knowledge of whether the roll was successful or not. There is no apparent difference in a failed or botched concoction until it is drunk.
•All participants must drink the concoction simultaneously, and no one participant may benefit from more than one of the potions if they drink more than one.

The Tears of Phoebus
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual works for any Cainite, not just a Gargoyle.
•This Humor remains dormant in the subject indefinitely until triggered by a mental action, at which point it remains active for a number of turns equal to two times the caster's permanent willpower.
•This Humor lowers the difficulty on soak rolls made to soak sunlight. This has no effect if the subject does not have a way to soak sunlight.
•The increased difficulty to soak sunlight lasts for the next full scene in which he must soak sunlight damage.

The Unseen Change
•Any Lupine forced into Lupus form by this ritual will be unable to transform to any other form while in the affected area.
•Any Lupine that succeeds the Willpower roll is unaffected by this ritual completely unless he exits the area and re-enters, requiring him to make the Willpower roll again.
•This ritual may ward an area of any size or shape, but requires a point of wolf's blood for every 10 feet in diameter.
•This ritual lasts for a year and a day from when it was cast.
•This ritual has no effect on Gangrel or other changing breeds.
•This ritual may be used with the blood of a different animal to protect from other Changing Breeds (cat's blood for Bastet, crushed spiders for Ananasi, Raven's Blood for Corax, etc.).

The Watcher
•The rat will follow all verbal commands of the Thaumaturge.

Track Transgressor
•This ritual only functions on Hermetic Thaumaturgy, not any other form of Blood Sorcery or mortal magic.
•Only the caster may see the path taken by the Thaumaturge being tracked.
•This reveals footprints if the tracked Thaumaturge is on foot, turns to tire marks if in a car, and even leaves glowing streaks through the air if flying.

Transubstantiation of Seven
•The bonds created by this ritual do not fade with time apart from the Regnant.
•The bonds take immediate affect when the blood is drunk, affecting the thrall's feelings toward the clan as an ideal if he has never met any of the Circle of Seven.
•A full quart is 2 blood points if the caster is of the 9th generation or higher, 3 blood points if 8th generation.
•Unbeknownst to most who use or even know this ritual, every person who drinks from the cup has one point of their blood mystically removed and stored in a vessel in Vienna or Ceoris in case the clan has need of it.
•Any power such as Sympathetic Bond or Father's Vengeance that reverses or corrupts blood bonds does not actually have any effect on the Council of Seven.
•There is no way to use Blood Walk or any other diagnostic ritual on the blood created to glean information on or use the blood to affect the Council of Seven with rituals or Paths.

[Skir]

4th Level

Binding the Beast
•This ritual is cast on the iron spike beforehand. Thereafter for the remainder of the night, the Thaumaturge may push the iron spike through his hand (taking 2 levels of unsoakable lethal damage) to pull the subject out of a Frenzy. This will instantly end any Frenzy.
•Drinking the subject's blood does cause the caster to advance one step of a blood bond.

Blood Certamen
•This ritual can only be cast if both participants are willing to abide by the terms. Both combatants must participate in the ritual, though neither need actually know it if it being cast by another.
•Traditionally this ritual is cast by the arbiter.
•The Intelligence + Occult roll is made at a difficulty of 3 + the level of the power being used. This roll is reflexive, not needing an action.

Bone of Lies
•This ritual can only be used on a bone from someone who became a wraith.
•This ritual which does not cause the bone to turn black. Instead it forces the holder to immediately correct the lie and tell the truth right after.
•This ritual only affects deliberate lies. Lies of omission, or rewording things to be deceptive do not trigger the bone's effect.
•The holder, after telling a lie, must immediately correct the falsehood spoken, but need not go into any details.

Bottled Voice
•The ritual prepares the bottle. Drawing out the voice requires the victim to drink some liquid from the bottle. Later in that same night, the thaumaturge must make a verbal incantation and seal the bottle with wax. As long as the bottle is sealed, the victim will remain unable to speak.

Consecration of the Sanctum
•This ritual has no effect on Hermetic Paths.

Drawing Upon the Bound
•This ritual only works on ghouls, not vampires.
•Taking a discipline and giving it back is a mental action.
•The Thaumaturge must make all rolls and pay all costs associated with using the discipline in question.
•Disciplines taken do not stack with the Thaumaturge's own, only overlap.

Firewalker
•This ritual lasts for a number of hours equal to the caster's Stamina.

Furtive Integument
•This ritual is completely lost and unknown in modern nights.

Heart of Stone
•The penalties for having a Heart of Stone end when the caster ends the effect.
•The caster cannot increase his Conscience/Conviction or Empathy scores with xp while this ritual is active. The scores increase back to their original level when the ritual ends.
•Ending the ritual is a mental action.

Infirm Inert
•The thaumaturge must drip a blood point onto the target at some point in the same night before using this ritual.
•Victims have no way to know they cannot heal while under this ritual, but may make a Perception + Occult, difficulty 10, scoring 3 successes.

Infernal Compact
•This power is most common among the Horned Society, though it is known to some outside their ranks as well.
•The caster may summon any demon whose Celestial name he knows. This power may also summon the twisted Banes who are responsible for most of the "demon" legends.
•The demon does not like being bound to this specific contract and will usually attempt to beguile or trick the thaumaturge into making a different kind of deal. The Thaumaturge is free to accept other contracts outside the bounds of this ritual, but if he does he loses the protections this ritual grants.
•If the caster changes Paths after casting this ritual, the maximum cap on Path still applies.
•This ritual always causes a Degeneration check for any Path other than Path of Screams. Even Evil Revelations calls this a sin as it is attempting to control your Infernal Masters.
•While infernal powers usually break all the rules, this compact follows a very strict set of rules. As such the extra dots may not exceed generation limits, though the Thauamturge may make extra deals for such using normal infernalism.

Infusion of Earth
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual only works if cast on a Gargoyle.
•This ritual grants a Gargoyle who has not yet mastered the third level of Visceratika the effects of having that power for one night per success scored on the ritual. This replaces the actual mechanics of the ritual which were designed before Gargoyles were true vampires with their own discipline.
•This ritual has no effect on Gargoyles who have already mastered the third level of Visceratika.

Innocence of the Child's Heart
•This ritual is only known to Nicolai of Chicago and he hasn't told anyone else about it. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual gives the caster a solid white aura. Nothing else is detectable by Aura Perception.

Invisible Chains of Binding
•This ritual produces 4 invisible chains. These chains may be targeted at different people or the same person. If multiple chains bind the same target, the number of successes required on the difficulty 8 Strength roll is increased by 2 per additional chain.
•This ritual is cast in advance and grants the thaumaturge a single use of this power that he must use before sunrise. The Thaumaturge must take a mental action and make threatening hand gestures at his targets to activate this effect.
•The thaumaturge may not cast this ritual multiple times to build up multiple charges.

Keening of the Banshee
•This ritual does not age the mind.
•This ritual is cast in advance and grants the thaumaturge a single use of this power that he must use before sunrise. The Thaumaturge must take a mental action and let loose a horrific shriek to activate the effects.
•The thaumaturge may not cast this ritual multiple times to build up multiple charges.

Mark of Amaranth
•The thaumaturge may diablerize the necessary kindred he must kill.

Mirror Walk
•The mirror that the caster exits from must be large enough for the caster to step from.
•A second person may follow through the mirror with a successful Dexterity + Dodge roll at difficulty 7. Failure instantly torpors the character as he is cut in half (or kills a mortal). A botch brings even a vampire instant final death as he is decapitated.

Protean Curse
•The ritual is cast on a vial of rabid bat blood. The effect begins as soon as the target drinks the bat blood.
•The target must drink another dose of enchanted rabid bat blood to turn back.
•This bat form functions in all ways as the flight form of Protean 4, save that the subject cannot voluntarily change back.

Puissant Shield
•This ritual only takes one minute to cast.
•This ritual will automatically block all projectiles and thrown weapons.
•The variant that is bound to the crystal as practiced by Mictlantecuhtli is an elder level ritual known only to him.

Rend the Mind
•The difficulty of the Intelligence + Empathy roll is the target's current Willpower.
•This ritual does require the Thaumaturge consume the brain of a rabid animal.
•The thaumaturge may not cast this this ritual multiple times to build up multiple charges.

Rending Sweet Earth
•This ritual automatically pulls an Earth-Melded Kindred out of Earth Meld. Unlike the normal system for disturbing Earth Meld, the target does not erupt from the ground ready to fight, though he does automatically awake without the need for an Awakening roll.

Respect of the Animals
•This ritual grants the thaumaturge the merit Inoffensive to Animals.

Return of the Heart
•This ritual requires the subject's True name or a point of their blood.
•While under the effects of this ritual, the victim must make Degeneration rolls as though he had a Humanity Score of 9. Any resulting Path loss is deducted from the victims own Path score. This ritual has been known to cause kindred to Wassail very quickly.
•While under this ritual, a victim not on the Path of Humanity must still also make Degeneration rolls for their own Path as normal.
•Because of the nature of this ritual affecting the target's feelings, the target does understand that the acts that would cause Degeneration are wrong to them (even if such an idea makes little sense to them besides) and does receive warning as normal that the acts will cause Degeneration if he attempts them beforehand.

Scry
•This only requires some drops of owl's blood, not a full point. This ritual does not require you to kill an owl.
•When scrying, the passive Heightened Senses power of Auspex still applies to what the Thaumaturge sees. However he cannot use any other power of Auspex through the pool, including Seeing the Unseen.
•This ritual will not pierce Obfuscate or Chimerstry of any level.
•If the scry targets a person, the thaumaturge may change people with a simple mental action as long as he meets the prerequisites for being able to scry on that person. If he targets a location, the focus of the ritual cannot be changed without re-casting the ritual.
•The thaumaturge may leave the scrying pool and return at any time within the duration and change the target (if a person) with a simple mental action.
•The images actually appear on the surface of the water, visible to anyone looking. As such a thaumaturge can even film the surface of his scrying pool.

Shadowgate
•This ritual is almost exclusively practiced (in Hermetic Thaumaturgy) among the members of the Tal'mahe'ra. Characters not associated with the Tal'mahe'ra should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•The thaumaturge cannot bring other people with him into the Shadowlands. Torpored or staked Kindred still count as people for this purpose.
•While in the Shadowlands via this ritual, they are there bodily and suffer all of the normal vulnerabilities to damage and dangers of that place.

Soul of the Homunculus
•A homunculus adds one die automatically to all of the thaumaturge's research attempts. This does not require the thaumaturge to make a Leadership roll as he is passively controlling the creature as an extension of his own body.
•A homunculus reduces the extra time taken to use an Occult Library from half an hour to only 15 minutes as the thaumaturge never has to stop to get another book.
•A homunculus can scribe any Lore, Path or Ritual the Thaumaturge knows. This, along with The Scribe allows the thaumaturge to scribe more books in less time.

Splinter Servant
•This ritual may not be combined with Shaft of Belated Quiescence, but can be combined with other rituals that enchant a stake such as Awakening the Verdant thorn, as long as all requirements for both rituals are met.
•Anyone may activate a Splinter Servant by tearing off the binding and naming a target. The wielder can indicate a target without knowing his name if the target is immediately visible.
•A thaumaturge may use the Crafting system to craft superior stakes and then enchant them with this ritual. The splinter servant will gain the benefits of the features added via superior Crafting such as lowered difficulty to stake or extra damage.
•A splinter servant is only harder to remove if they stake a victim themselves. If the stake is wielded before being activated, it counts as an ordinary stake.
•If splinters are left behind in the victim's heart, it requires complex surgery to remove them, taking approximately a full hour and requiring a Dexterity + Medicine roll at difficulty 9, requiring 3 successes. If any shards are left, the victim is still considered to be staked until all shards are removed.
•A splinter servant is affected normally by Deflection of Wooden Doom.
•Only one Splinter Servant may be directed at a target in a single action. Attempts to release multiple servants at once result in the same as if the user fails to specify a target.

Stolen Kisses
•This ritual does not leave any marks on the victim's body.
•This ritual requires skin-to-skin contact.
•Blood loss from this ritual functions the same as blood loss from any other source.
•Feeding by this ritual does not induce the kiss.
•This ritual lasts for the remainder of the night.

Suspension of Incantation
•The difficulty of this ritual does not reach a maximum of 10.
•The Wits + Occult roll for this ritual replaces the usual Intelligence + Occult ritual roll.
•The conditions must occur within line of sight of the object or location of the focus.

The Bronze Head Speaks
•This is a very old ritual created by the original Tremere of Ceoris. However unlike many of the old rituals, this one survived the destruction of Ceoris and is still in fairly common practice in the modern nights. Due to the horrific nature of this ritual, its use is not usually shared with the Camarilla.
•Mortal victims of this ritual always meets final death afterward. Fortitude may not be used as automatic successes on the roll to survive this ritual. It is not a soak roll.
•This ritual allows for the retrieval of memories buried or even those covered and rewritten by Dominate.
•The bronze head has a personality of its own and remains aware in between uses of the ritual.
•The bronze head retains all the memories of all previous victims of this ritual. It is treated as having Eidetic Memory for all of those memories.
•If a victim falls into torpor from this ritual, the torpor lasts the usual amount of time based on the victim's Path rating.

The Curse Belated
•This ritual will embrace the ghoul, causing it to rise as a vampire 1 hour after the ghoul dies. The ghoul will rise with 1 blood point in his system, likely in a hunger frenzy.
•This ritual cannot resurrect a ghoul who was decapitated.

The Haunting
•This ritual summons an Umbral Spirit.
•Replace all references to a Spirit's Fright rating with the successes scored on this ritual, which determine its Gnosis (maximum 10). The spirit rolls its Gnosis instead of the Fright + Intimidation roll as stated in the ritual.
•The duration the Spirit remains is reduced for LARP play. 5 successes causes the spirit to remain for 3 months, not a year.

•The spirit will attempt to cause the victim to have a heart attack at a minimum of once per week. The rest of the time, the spirit acts in all manner as one summoned by the ritual Summon Mischeivous Spirit.

Unweave Ritual
•This ritual does not require specific components from the actual ritual that was cast, only some component that would be used in the casting of that ritual. For rituals that have no components, no components are required to unweave them.
•This ritual may unweave any ritual, not only those affecting the Thaumaturge himself.
•The thaumaturge must know the effect he is unweaving to use this ritual. The affected subject, object, or area must be present for the entire 20 minute ritual. Attempting to unweave a ritual that does not actually affect the target has no effect.
•Treat an unwoven ritual as though its duration has run out normally, with all usual effects that would come of the ritual ending. Unweaving a Blood Contract is considered a violation of the terms of the contract, triggering the penalty clause as normal.

[Skir]

5th Level

Abandon the Fetters
•This ritual is extremely difficult to get, usually only taught to those of Regent rank or above, though it has been known to be passed in rare circumstances to high circle apprentices.
•This takes a full point of blood from the regnant of the bond being broken.
•The subject must be bound in some way to prevent them blood frenzying when they are exsanguinated.
•This ritual has no effect on Vinculums, only true blood bonds.

At Our Command It Breathes
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This is the illegal ritual that first made the Gargoyles. The Tremere have sworn to the Camarilla to never again use this ritual to make Gargoyles.
•The thaumaturge must cast this ritual, making the ritual roll (notably at difficulty 9 + 1 per kindred donor), on the gestating Gargoyle once per week for the 3 month gestation period.
•All Gargoyles feel the urge to come to the support of the newborn, but this is not a compulsion and they are not required to come.
•This ritual creates an original form gargoyle using the system out of the Dark Ages Storyteller's Companion, not a True Vampire (unless the Gargoyle buys that merit). The Gargoyle will use the Gargoyle Powers system and not have access to vampiric disciplines.

Blood Contract
•This ritual requires mastery of the Path of Blood to learn.
•This ritual does not carry any true compulsion effect, but rather enforces it with threat of a horrible fate. The contract may contain any penalty clause up to and including Final Death. If the contract is ever breached, whatever penalty clause was written will instantly happen. The most common penalty clause is Final Death, but some Tremere have been known to put a penalty clause that instantly alerts them if the contract is breached, or even ones that curse the victim with some horrible debilitating deformity such as being struck blind or deaf. The penalty clause must be an effect that can occur immediately and not something with a duration. Any attempt to use the penalty clause to give a beneficial effect breaks the contract which immolates on the spot and causes a level of unsoakable aggravated damage to all signatories and the caster.
•If the contract itself is destroyed by fire, the contract breaks with no penalty.
•It is possible to use Intelligence + Law to hide clauses within a Blood Contract. See the Law system for more details.
•No one can be dominated or controlled supernaturally to sign a Blood Contract. The act must be willful, but normal coercion or intimidation are still possible, and it can be signed under duress.

Blood Phylactery
•This ritual does not exist in modern nights. In the Dark Ages, the Tremere were able to wield a far more powerful Talisman. Unfortunately with the Hermetic paradigm breaking down, all that is left is the lesser ritual. See Enchant Talisman for the ritual that still exists.

Cobra's Favor
•The blood does not taste any different until swallowed by the drinker, at which point it burns.
•The drinker gains no blood points from drinking the acidic blood granted by this ritual.
•The acid also takes effect if the blood is injected or enters the body in any other way.

Court of Hallowed Truth
•The crossed bones must be placed over every entrance that a person could reasonably fit through. The thaumaturge does not need to cover mouse holes, cat flaps, or any other small opening.
•All must speak the truth, but may still lie by omission and deceit unless asked a direct question by the presiding authority. If asked a direct question by the presiding authority, the questioned must answer fully and candidly leaving nothing out. He does not need to volunteer information that was not asked for however.
•The presiding authority usually is the person in the room of the highest rank among the Tremere. If non-Tremere are involved, the issue gets more complicated but usually is the person in the highest position in whichever sect is making use of this ritual (usually the Prince or Sheriff in a Camarilla city). If there is no clear authority, any kindred may make a Charisma + Leadership roll at a difficulty 6 to attempt to establish himself as the authority. If there are multiple people attempting to establish themselves as the authority, the one with the most successes is the authority. That person must then take command of the situation, even if they are the one being interrogated, in which case they can reverse the interrogation.

Curse of Clytemnestra
•The difficulty of the resistance roll is the number of blood points the caster spends during the ritual to a maximum of 10. The caster must score 3 successes on this roll to survive. If he succeeds, he is considered crippled with aggravated damage.
•This ritual only affects men.
•As part of the ritual, the caster must destroy the personal possession. The blood is also consumed during the ritual.

Dominion
•This ritual prevents all active uses of these disciplines. The passive benefits of Auspex and Presence still apply, as does Animalism ability that makes animals like a kindred as well as the ability of Seeing the Unseen.
•This ritual can only ever enchant a single room, a maximum of 500 cubic feet.
•The seals can be disguised in ornamental ways.
•This ritual prevents only new instances of these disciplines. Memories erased by Forgetful Mind will not return in the room, and a person could enter using Possession or Subsume the Spirit without the power being cancelled.

Enact the Blood Contract
•See Blood Contract

Enchant Talisman
•Collapsible items at least a yard long may be used as Talismans, but only function when extended to full length.
•The difficulty increase only applies to magical effects that specifically target the thaumaturge. If they are caught in an area effect, the Talisman has no effect. This applies to all forms of blood magic as well as True Magick and Hedge Magic, including Psychic Numina.
•The benefit to ritual casting applies only to Hermetic rituals.
•The Perception + Occult roll to find a lost talisman functions as a bloodstone (see Craft Bloodstone) and does not give precise location.
•Rituals targeting the owner of a talisman while holding their talisman have no increased effect beyond the extra three dice granted by holding the Talisman.

Escape to a True Friend
•This power only works for one specific person, the person whose trust and friendship the Thaumaturge values most. The Thaumaturge need not necessarily reciprocate the feelings of trust and friendship, but the person in question must truly have feelings trust and friendship in the Thaumaturge, and those feelings cannot be artificially produced by powers like Presence or Dominate. Even the blood bond is not technically enough to create “true” trust and friendship, though most ghouls that have been in service to a Kindred for a solid amount of time will qualify regardless, so a Retainer is suitable. Calling upon the power of their sympathetic emotions is literally the basis of this ritual, and it does not work as intended without it.
•This ritual, however many times cast with however magic circles, only ever goes to a single person.
•Use of this ritual necessitates the knowledge of the True Name of the person who the circle will work for. Speaking a false name, or the True Name of someone who does not truly trust you, or if the person linked to the circle is dead, causes the Thaumaturge to be lost to the void irrevocably, and the character can never return, per Dark Ages: Vampire pg 221. The ritual circle launches you through the aether, and the emotional bond of the target's trust guides you to them. Without that link, the Thaumaturge is lost.
•Thaumaturges' players should create an item card for the magic circle, describing its location and the person whose True Name you intend to speak to activate the teleportation. Any use of this ritual to teleport to a Player Character should go through a Storyteller who will vet the power for the required Trust component.
•Because of the roundabout nature of the teleportation, using this ritual just happens to never break the Masquerade through obvious magic.
•Only the Thaumaturge who created the circle may use it to complete the Teleportation ritual - multiple Thaumaturges who know this ritual may not use the same circle.

Eyes of the Beast
•This ritual functions in all respects as Eyes of the Night Hawk, save that it may target any kind of animal.
•See Eyes of the Night Hawk for all appropriate clarifications.

Ghost in the System
•This ritual creates a mortal Alternate ID at level 5 for the caster. The thauamturge does not need to spend experience for this alternate ID. The caster can have only one alternate ID from this ritual at a time. Casting the ritual a second time causes all paperwork and records of all other alternate IDs to mysteriously vanish. If the caster had other mortal Alternate IDs before using this ritual, he loses them all. This can cause some bureaucratic problems, particularly if anyone is currently looking into that Alternate ID.
•The caster may designate any relevant details of the alternate ID as he likes when he casts the ritual.
•This ritual only works for the caster, not for anyone else.

Haunting Breeze
•This ritual is cast in advance and grants the thaumaturge a single use of this power that he must use before sunrise. The Thaumaturge must take a mental action and speak a brief incantation to activate the effects.
•The wind increases the difficulty for all except the caster.
•The thaumaturge may not cast this ritual multiple times to build up multiple charges.

Lion Heart
•The bonus dots granted by this ritual can take the thaumaturge above generational maximums.

Mindcrawler
•This ritual is cast in advance and grants the thaumaturge a single use of this power that he must use before sunrise. The Thaumaturge must take a mental action and touch the victim's head, smearing the crushed tick on his forehead to activate the effects.
•If an attribute has already been reduced to one when its turn in the cycle comes around, that attribute is skipped and the next one is reduced that night.


Night of the Red Heart
•This requires a full point of the victim's blood.
•The victim gets the realization that he must either flee the city or kill the caster or he will die by sunrise immediately when the ritual is cast. He does not however know who is casting this effect, nor gain any inherent way to track the Thaumaturge.
•This ritual must be cast before midnight.
•The range of this ritual is 30 miles from the caster.

One Mind of the Covens
•No Tremere below the rank of Regent is permitted, by Pyramid Law, to know this ritual.
•This ritual may be used to telepathically contact any other person who also possesses this ritual.
•If the ritual is cast multiple times, multiple people may be contacted by this ritual at the same time.
•The communication is telepathic, though it is communication only. There is no mind-reading as part of this ritual.
•Images and sensations may be transmitted through the link.

Paper Flesh
•This ritual does not cause the victim's Stamina and Fortitude to instantly drop to 1. Instead it reduces the victim's soak pools by 1 per success scored on the ritual, starting with normal Stamina and taking Fortitude levels when all Stamina is expended. This ritual also prevents the victim from activating his Fortitude for automatic successes.
•This ritual requires the victim's True Name.

Sculpting the Perfect Servant
•Due to the long-term nature of this ritual, it is very unlikely to ever be able to be used in this real time LARP. Unless the thaumaturge finds another way to artificially age the child, it is unlikely to mature within the time scale of this game. A character who starts the game with this ritual may, with Storyteller permission and appropriate story, begin play with one ghoul who was originally created with this ritual, making the ritual tests with their starting stats.
•This ritual grants the child extra freebie points as allocated by the thaumaturge. The child gets an amount of extra freebie points equal to 5x the successes scored by the Thaumaturge on the first ritual roll. These freebies may only be spent on Attributes or inherent Merits. The child will manifest these traits by the time he reaches physical maturity.

Serum of Perpetuating Vitae
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual works for any Cainite, not just a Gargoyle.
•This duration is based on the caster's Permanent Willpower.
•Each time the subject spends blood he must make a Willpower roll at difficulty 8. He regains an amount of blood equal to his successes, to a maximum of the amount of blood he spent.

Serum of Vaunted Exhortation
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual works for any Cainite, not just a Gargoyle.
•This duration is based on the caster's Permanent Willpower.
•The humor remains dormant in the subject indefinitely until the subject triggers it by spending a blood point. At that point the effects kick in immediately and last a number of turns equal to 2x the caster's Permanent Willpower.

Severed Hand
•The body part to be severed must be removed as part of the casting of this ritual. This ritual has no effect on existing wounds.
•Obeah has no power that can reattach a severed limb.
•The limb may be regrown when this ritual is cast on the severed limb again in inverse form by the same caster.

Shadowland Passage
This ritual is almost exclusively practiced (in Hermetic Thaumaturgy) among the members of the Tal'mahe'ra. Characters not associated with the Tal'mahe'ra should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual causes 2 levels of unsoakable lethal damage.
•Casting this ritual while in the Shadowlands returns the caster to the material world in the pool of water where he cast this ritual, as does exiting the Shadowlands any other way, such as through Ex Nihilo. Thus, this ritual cannot be used to teleport across the world unless you can accomplish what you wish from the Shadowlands elsewhere.

Spirit of Torment
•This ritual summons an Umbral spirit.
•This ritual requires the caster to roll Manipulation + Spirit Lore at difficulty 8.
•Replace the statistics given for the spirit with the following:
◦The spirit will have an Essence of 20, divided between Rage, Gnosis and Willpower as determined by the Thaumaturge. The spirit will have one Charm per success scored on this ritual, plus Reform, Materialize and Airt Sense which are possessed by all Spirits. See Spirit Manipulation for more details on acceptable Charms and spirits in general.
•If the spirit ever takes damage beyond its soak, it will immediately return to the Umbra and leave.
•The thaumaturge may attempt to summon the same spirit as he previously summoned.

Stone of the True Form
•The difficulty of the contested willpower roll is based on the Stamina of the caster at the time he cast the ritual, not at the time the stone is used. Stamina may only be increased with blood for this purpose to the level that the thaumaturge can maintain for the full scene.
•This ritual immediately removes all Vicissitude modifications, the now unspent modification points being retained by the target. The modifications do not come back automatically, but can be restored by someone with Vicissitude, spending the same mod points.
•Victims of a Stone of True Form do not automatically transform back into their alternate forms when the effect ends.
•The Stone requires physical skin contact to function.
•No one, the caster included, is immune to the effects of a Stone of True Form.

Stone Slumber
•The corpse must be between 12 and 13 hours dead when this ritual is cast.
•This ritual lasts until the Thaumaturge would normally wake up for the night based on his Path rating.

The Verdant Blade
•This ritual costs 2 blood points in total.
•The effects of this ritual end with the first successful staking attempt made with the weapon.

Thirst Unquenchable
•This ritual requires a point of the victim's blood be mixed with a handful of salt.
•For the remainder of the night, the victim will only regain 1 blood point for every 2 he consumes, rounded down.
•This ritual also causes the victim to need to roll for Hunger Frenzy whenever he encounters blood if his blood pool is below 7, rather than 7-Self-Control/Instinct.

Transform the Skin to Stone
•This is a long forgotten ritual created by those involved in the original Gargoyle project. Characters should have a very good reason for knowing this ritual.
•This ritual only works if cast on a Gargoyle.
•This ritual grants a Gargoyle who has not yet mastered the fourth level of Visceratika the effects of having that power for one night per success scored on the ritual. This replaces the actual mechanics of the ritual which were designed before Gargoyles were true vampires with their own discipline.
•This ritual has no effect on Gargoyles who have already mastered the fourth level of Visceratika.

Umbral Walk
•This ritual takes the Thaumaturge bodily into the Penumbra. From there, the Thaumaturge may attempt to travel deeper, though anyone without the Cosmology knowledge is extremely likely to get lost attempting this feat.
•The ritual does not in any way depend on the supernatural power of the sacrificed being.
•The Thaumaturge may come back to the material world by taking a mental action and rolling Willpower against a difficulty of the local Gauntlet.

Vires Acquirit Eundo
•This ritual must be cast immediately after casting another ritual, which delays the effect until this ritual is completed.
•The successes scored on this ritual add duration to the first ritual corresponding to this chart:

1 - +10%
2 - +20%
3 - +40%
4 - +80%
5+ - +150%

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These are all up under three separate pages in Play Hub>Blood Sorcery>Thaum Rituals 1-2, 3-4 and 5+ respectively.