Alchemist’s Nigrido
Cost: 1 Flesh and 1 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: Blood from somebody with a dyscrasia of all four humours, something with the subject’s name on it burned, something rotten.
Effect: This ritual is the first step towards creating the alchemist’s magnum opus, granting them insight into hidden matters. The ritual permanently grants the subject the archetype Philosopher, in addition to any other archetypes. They gain two personal resources with the Philosophy aspect for the current summit. At the start of the next summit, the subject will gain a manuscript for Alchemist’s Albedo.
A New Thread In The Weave
Cost: 10 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of somebody who knows the subject Ritual and blood from a member of the archetype mentioned in that ritual; the signature of somebody with a second archetype; the presence of at least one Warlock; exactly three people.
Effect: The ritual takes an existing ritual that requires the presence of a single existing Archetype to cast, and searches for corresponding rituals for another Archetype – that of the signatory. Clues to the appropriate ritual’s nature appear; and must be found and collated. It immediately creates a Project with magnitude 7 and the aspects Warlock, Research and Sorcery. If that Project is completed, it will produce a manuscript of a new ritual that will be delivered to the next Summit by the Administrators.
Archivist’s Dead Hand
Cost: 1 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of a Scholar, a nonfiction book, the subject’s signature, ink.
Effect: This ritual draws upon the records left by those now dead, guiding the subject towards the knowledge they seek. If the subject has any Research personal resources, they get an extra Research personal resource. Creates a roleplay effect on its subject, for the rest of the summit – “You feel a reverence for rare knowledge”.
Assess the Humours
Cost: 1 Flesh Oblation.
Requirements: A Doctor, a glass disk.
Effect: By measuring the balance of humours with them, this ritual reveals all roleplaying effects currently affecting the subject, including any that are currently suppressed.
A Surfeit Of Leeches
Cost: 3 Flesh Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of a Doctor, something made of willow, something made of bone, a jar of muddy water.
Effect: This ritual creates, as if from nothing, an abundance of subtly intelligent leeches that a skilled practitioner can use to treat medical conditions. The subject gains 3 Resources with the aspect Medicine. Creates a roleplay effect on its subject, for the rest of the summit – “You feel visceral discomfort if you could act to relieve somebody’s suffering and don’t.”
Attis Reborn
Cost: 1 Flesh Oblation.
Requirements: A Libertine, a Doctor, a mask.
Effect: This ritual allows the subject to alter their physical appearance as they see fit: the end result can be anything they wish and need not conform to the normal appearance of their Genus. This transformation lasts as long as they wish, potentially beyond the initial summit, and ends when they wish it to end.
Behold The Great God Pan
Cost: 4 Flesh and 1 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: An Innocent and a Doctor, a surgical procedure performed on the subject, an idol of a pre-modern nature-deity, suffering.
Effect: The ritual’s subject becomes able to see the Great God Pan. They pick either the Philosopher or Monster archetype, and gain it permanently. They gain the permanent roleplaying effect: “You can see the insane influence of the Great God Pan behind all things, and seek to carry out its agendas”. They cannot swear Oaths, and are wracked with pain if they try.
Whenever they participate in a Ritual, they gain an Omen card.
The effects of this ritual are permanent and can never be reversed.
Behold the Shivering Embrace
Cost: Free
Requirements: An Administrator with somewhere to take you, veils, pseudo-death
Effects: All participants are temporarily enveloped in the Administrative Mind allowing them to control and see through the eyes of Administrative vessels. This ritual needs an Administrator to provide an opportunity to cast it, without which it doesn’t do anything. It counts as an excursion.
Beseech The Hyades
Cost: 1 Flesh and 1 Symbol Oblation.
Requirements: A Philosopher or a Monster, the shape of the Hyades constellation drawn, an intoxicant consumed by the subject.
Effect: The ritual makes the things in dreams real, creating tangible resources. The ritualists can spend any number of Omen Cards: for each card spent, the subject gains a Personal Resource with the Philosophy or Terror aspect. For the remainder of the summit, the subject has the roleplaying effect: “You can see the hidden influence of the Queen Cassilda of Hali and are terrified by her impending arrival”.
Binding the Fated Threads
Cost: 1 Oblation token per participant as specified by the Administrators
Requirements: An Administrator approved committee proposal (see below), thread, oaths sworn to pursue the purpose of the committee proposed by each participant.
Effects: This ritual binds the participants together into a committee to allow individuals of different factions to make decisions together based on shared traits or goals. Prior to casting the ritual, a committee proposal must be submitted to the Administrators. It must contain:
- A Committee Name (this must reflect the nature and purpose of the committee, e.g. Alliance of Wild Kith Rights or United Medical Research Initiative)
- A Unifying Aspect (this is something that all founding and future members must have. This could be genus (e.g. Fae), resource aspects (e.g. Medicine), or even goals or interests (e.g. Becoming Immortal).
- Purpose (the committee must have a distinct and clear purpose. It could be founded to tackle one specific issue e.g. Issues with sunlight for Dawn Vampires, or more broad ones e.g. Ensuring the Protection of Lycan Rights)
- Founding Members (This will be a list of the Founding Members of the Committee)
Once approved, the Administrators will inform you of the type of Oblation Token that will be required. Inherent traits are more likely to need Flesh Oblations while vocational traits are more likely to need Symbol Oblations. You will then perform the ritual with all founding members.
Once created Committees are permanent until all members vote unanimously to dissolve the Committee. Future rituals may require committees to cast. Committees have the following powers, all require unanimous votes of the Committee:
- Submit advisory motions (This works very similarly to faction advisory motions but must pertain to the specific purpose of the committee. Any scribe may be used to submit it to the Administrators.)
- Add new members (New members must be Administrator approved and must have the unifying aspect. They must perform the same ritual as created the Summit however only the new member must give an oblation token)
- Remove members (Does not require Administrator approval but Administrators must be informed. Requires a 0 oblation token ritual mirroring the initiation ritual that involves cutting threads and breaking promises.)
The Binding Of Choronzon
Cost: 4 Flesh and 7 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of an Explorer, an Ancient, a Libertine, and a Scholar, a sworn oath by all ritualists involved to pursue transcendence, a ritual circle marked with a faction’s symbol, shadows.
Effect: The ritual calls up an aspect of primordial chaos, binding it and casting it down as an expression of raw magical power. The ritual grants resources to the faction invoked in the ritual;
• 6 Emptiness resources
• 6 resources with an aspect of the ritualists’ choice from the twelve options available in character creation.
The ritualists all gain the roleplaying effect for the rest of the summit: “You have a strong urge to transcend the limits of your current state.”
Blight the Flesh
Cost: 1 Flesh Oblation.
Requirements: An obscene or disrespectful gesture towards the target, decayed organic matter.
Effect: This is a simple, brutal curse. The ritual creates a curse on the subject until the next summit: “You feel wracked with illness, making it hard to focus or perform strenuous tasks”.
Further, any Projects that the subject commits their personal resources towards will have their outcome tinted with some suffering or misfortune as a result of the curse.
Burn The Mind’s Dross
Cost: 1 Flesh Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of a Visionary and an Innocent, a flame applied to the subject’s skin, white ash.
Effect: This ritual conjures intangible fire that purifies the subject’s magical essence. The ritual ends all temporary roleplaying effects currently experienced by the subject.
Burn The Weave
Cost: 7 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of A Fae, a Lycanthrope, a Dawn Vampire, a Dusk Vampire, and a Warlock; sworn oaths that all involved oppose the Project to be targeted, quicklime.
Effect: The ritual draws on entropy and destruction to render a course of action utterly impossible; it erases and removes a single Project.
Carve Open The Third Eye
Cost: 2 Flesh and 1 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: An Innocent and a Doctor, a surgical procedure performed on the subject, a false eye.
Effect: The ritual opens a third eye in the subject’s forehead, allowing them to perceive the flow of energy through the leylines. For the remainder of the summit, they gain the permanent roleplaying effect: “You understand that places are just as alive and aware as people. The Leyline tower collapsing causes you physical pain.” They pick either the Philosopher or Monster archetype, and gain it for the remainder of the summit. For the remainder of the summit, whenever they complete a Leyline Adjustment, they gain a Flesh oblation.
The Communion Of Dionysus
Cost: 6 Flesh and 1 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of an Innocent, wine, blood, flame.
Effect: The ritual causes strange miracles to spring up around a given enterprise, creating an ecstatic atmosphere among those involved. It grants a single Project the Faith aspect, and grants the subject 5 Faith personal resources. The Subject’s Archetypes become Innocent and Philosopher. They gain the roleplaying effect for the rest of the summit: “You feel as if you’re being directed by a higher power, and your decisions aren’t your own”.
Create Blood Periapt
Cost: 1 Flesh Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of a Dawn and Dusk vampire, a handful of blood from a third party, a pebble.
Effect: The ritual creates a Blood Periapt. A Blood Periapt is a magical artefact that can be spent as a Flesh Oblation but lasts indefinitely. It has the effect “While you possess this, you gain the archetype Libertine and find tasting the blood of others appealing”.
When a Blood Periapt is spent, it is destroyed.
Chrysalis of the Leylines
Cost: 5 Flesh Oblations.
Requirements: The blood of a Dawn Vampire and an Explorer, a map of the city, the presence of an intact Leyline Convergence.
Effect: The ritual forcibly re-balances the tangle of leylines; the jenga blocks for the Leyline Convergence are shuffled together and a fresh new tower formed without causing a crisis
Dance The Digital Leyline
Cost: 3 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of an Architect, a Spy and a Traveller, a map of the area in question, a written question agreed on by the ritualists, a circuit-board.
Effect: The ritual creates a burst of hyper-dense digital information; it allows one of the ritualists to ask the Administrators any single yes/no question about a location, and receive a truthful answer.
The question for this ritual must be submitted to the Administrators at least ten minutes prior to the casting of the ritual.
Dance Down The Black Spiral
Cost: 1 Flesh and 1 Symbol Oblation
Requirements: A Soul Jar, the image of a black spiral, saltwater, the subject’s fingerprint.
Effect: The ritual draws out the power of living death. Any Project the ritual’s subject commits any of their Personal Resources to gain the aspects Philosophy, Terror and Emptiness. The subject gains a roleplaying effect for the rest of the summit: “You are fascinated by death.”
Defixion
Cost: 3 flesh Oblations.
Requirements: An image of the subject, defaced, the presence of the subject, suffering.
Effect: The ritual is a particularly spiteful, longlasting curse. When it’s cast, the subject loses any personal resources they might have had for the remainder of the summit. The subject suffers a permanent curse: “You are in overwhelming pain, as if on fire.”
Dopethrone
Cost: 3 Flesh Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of a Visionary, a Libertine and an Ancient, who indulge in a mind-altering subject, a written question agreed on by the ritualists.
Effect: The ritual grants a flash of drug-addled insight; it allows one of the ritualists to ask the Administrators any single yes/no question about a current Project, and receive a truthful answer.
The question for this ritual must be submitted to the Administrators at least ten minutes prior to the casting of the ritual.
The Dove’s Missive
Cost: 1 Symbol Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of a Traveller and a Visionary, a feather, a sheet of blank paper.
Effect: This ritual carries a written message to a named individual at a named location, who the text materialises before; the recipient can then send a reply that appears in the same way. The message can consist of no more than 100 letters. The recipient’s reply uses the remaining amount of letters not used in the initial message. This ritual is not limited to the Latin alphabet: you can communicate quite efficiently in shorthand or kanji if the recipient can read them.
Dredge Lethe’s Waters
Cost: 3 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of an Ancient, a document with the subject’s name on it, something made at least a thousand years ago.
Effect: This ritual calls up things that have been forgotten, flooding the mind with lost knowledge. The subject gains 3 Resources with the aspect Sorcery. Creates a roleplay effect on its subject, for the rest of the summit – “You feel preoccupied with the mistakes of the past.”
Empower The Red Element
Cost: 1 Flesh Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of a Killer, an Explorer and an Innocent; somebody with a Choleric dyscrasia, a naked flame held by the subject.
Effect: The ritual aligns its subject with elemental fire. The next block pulled by the subject for Leyline Adjustment counts as Fire aligned.
Empower The Pale Element
Cost: 1 Flesh Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of a Scholar, a Spy and a Visionary; somebody with a Sanguine dyscrasia, an empty bottle the subject inhales from.
Effect: The ritual aligns its subject with elemental air. The next block pulled by the subject for Leyline Adjustment counts as Air aligned..
Empower The Grey Element
Cost: 1 Symbol Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of a Doctor, a Traveler and a Libertine, somebody with a Phlegmatic dyscrasia, a cup of water the subject drinks from.
Effect: The ritual aligns its subject with elemental water. The next block pulled by the subject for Leyline Adjustment counts as Water aligned.
Empower The Black Element
Cost: 1 Symbol Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of an Ancient, a Survivor and an Architect, somebody with a Melancholic dyscrasia, a handful of earth rubbed onto the subject’s skin.
Effect: The ritual aligns its subject with elemental earth. The next block pulled by the subject for Leyline Adjustment counts as Earth aligned.
Endless Recursion of the Goblin’s Contracts
Cost: 3 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: A volume of dense legal texts, a Fae’s presence, a subject who has sworn an oath, a fraying knot.
Effect: This ritual draws on the ancient relationship between Fate and the fae, calling in a favour to avoid the consequences of particular actions. The subject names an oath they’ve sworn: that oath is discarded by the Fates, and it becomes as if they had never sworn it.
Forge The Black Blade
Cost: 3 Flesh Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of an Architect and a Killer, a blade of some sort, blood from somebody dead.
Effect: The ritual creates a single Black Blade. A Black Blade is a magical artefact which causes its owner to gain the Killer archetype and the roleplaying effect for the rest of the summit:
“You feel energised when others suffer by your will”. Any Project that the owner commits their Personal Resources to gains the Violence aspect.
Follow The Golden Road
Cost: 1 Flesh Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of a Traveller, a bottled drink, the subject’s blood, gold.
Effect: This ritual grants wealth in a simple, direct way, transmuting possessions into luxury equivalents. One type of the subject’s personal resources replace their aspect with Trade. Creates a roleplay effect on its subject, for the rest of the summit – “You feel unwilling to act on others’ behalf unless they pay you somehow”.
Galen’s Effigy
Cost: 1 Flesh Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of a Doctor, a cup or bottle, the subject’s blood, clay and fat.
Effect: This ritual creates a soulless empty humanish body that can be taken apart for medical materials. If the subject has any Medicine personal resources, they get an extra Medicine personal resource. Creates a roleplay effect on its subject, for the rest of the summit – “You feel an urge to experiment on and alter yourself”.
Games Of Troy Town & Mao Games
Cost: 2 Flesh and 2 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: An Ancient and a Visionary, a game played by all the participants, the idol of a pre-modern underworld deity, suffering.
Effect: The mental filters of the participants are temporarily stripped away, reverting to the innocent cruelty of childhood. They gain the archetype Monster or Philosopher for the remainder of the summit. They gain the roleplaying effect for the rest of the summit: “You have no mental filters; your id runs un-checked and you cannot ignore painful or frightening things.”
For the rest of the summit, whenever they complete a Leyline Adjustment, they gain an Omen card.
Haruspicy On The White Rabbit
Cost: 2 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: A Scholar, a Visionary and a Spy, a bottle of red ink, a sworn oath by the ritualists to investigate a particular topic.
Effect: This ritual creates subtle but powerful portents in the seemingly-arbitrary patterns of spilled ink. When this ritual is cast, the ritualists state a topic they wish to learn about. The ritual produces whichever Omen card in the available pool is most relevant to that topic.
Harvest The Akashic Records
Cost: 2 symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of a Fae or Lycanthrope, an Akashic Stone, an oath sworn by each subject to preserve knowledge.
Effect: The ritual draws on the knowledge stored within the Akashic stone to empower petty magic. It grants each of up to three subjects a single Research or Sorcery personal resource.
Inflict Fey Curse
Cost: 1 Symbol Oblation.
Requirements: The speaking of a riddle of some sort to the subject, a Fae’s presence, sand.
Effect: This is a cunning, cruel curse. The ritual creates a curse on the subject until the next summit: “You feel a sense of impending doom”. Further, any Projects that the subject commits their personal resources towards will have their outcome tinted with some tragic or surreal twist as a result of the curse.
Inhabit Soul Jar
Cost: 1 Flesh and 2 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: A written oath by the ritualists that they renounce their mortality, an object to become the soul jar, the image of a black spiral.
Effect: This is the first step onto the black path of living death. The ritual creates a Soul Jar bearing the name of the ritual’s subject. A Soul Jar is a magical artefact. A Soul Jar’s presence for a ritual counts as its owner’s presence when conducting a ritual. Further, the subject’s physical presence no longer counts towards the requirements for a ritual, only their Soul Jar; this effect is permanent. A given person can have any number of soul jars. At the start of the next summit, the subject will gain a manuscript for Navigating The Black Path.
The Invisible Hand Of Commerce
Cost: 2 Flesh Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of at least 2 Travellers, who exchange gifts with one another, witnessed by the ritual’s subject.
Effect: By invoking the stochastic will of the market, this ritual ties its subject to the networks of trade and investment that exist. The subject gains the Traveller archetype until the next summit, all their Personal Resources become Trade resources, and they gain an additional 1 Trade resource.
Invite Lunar Influence
Cost: 3 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of a Visionary, a drawing of the moon, a moth.
Effect: This ritual opens a path between its subject and the churning forces of hallucinatory magic bleeding slowly from the moon. The subject gains 3 Resources with the aspect Communications. Creates a roleplay effect on its subject, for the rest of the summit – “You feel impulsive, emotional and prone to dangerous outbursts, which grows almost irresistible by moonlight.”
The Invisible Choir
Cost: 2 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of at least 2 Visionaries, who share food or drink with each other, witnessed by the ritual’s subject.
Effect: This ritual summons The Invisible Choir, ghostly sirens that sing as directed by their temporary master. The subject gains the Visionary archetype until the next summit, all their Personal Resources become Communications resources, and they gain an additional 1 Communications resource.
Know The Flesh
Cost: 1 Flesh Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of a Doctor, surgical tools, a glass disk.
Effect: The ritual allows you to inspect a body, alive or dead, and gain whichever knowledge about it you desire. The Administrators will provide answers to any questions you have.
Mark of the Hidden Road
Cost: 3 Flesh Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of an Explorer, masonry over a century old, a lantern.
Effect: This ritual opens a multitude of concealed entrances to the under-city, warping the tunnels and underground passages to lead to any desired destination. The subject gains 3 Resources with the aspect Underworld. Creates a roleplay effect on its subject, for the rest of the summit – “You feel no obligation to abide by the laws and expectations of others.”
The Maw of Entropy
Cost: 1 Symbol Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of somebody with a deficient dyscrasia, ash, an oath sworn not to create a particular type of artefact.
Effect: The ritual destroys an artefact utterly.
The Moon’s Cold Gaze
Cost: 7 symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of a Spy, a reflective surface, a page of written gibberish, a forged signature by the subject.
Effect: The ritual draws the attention of the moon to a given enterprise, and with it madness. It grants a single Project the Espionage aspect, and grants the subject 5 Espionage personal resources. The Subject’s Archetypes become Spy and Monster. They gain the roleplaying effect for the rest of the summit “You feel paranoid and struggle to tell fantasies from reality and see connections everywhere”.
Offering The Left Arm
Cost: 1 flesh Oblation.
Requirements: A sworn oath to complete an act of magic, a signature in blood, the presence of a warlock or a dawn vampire.
Effect: The ritual empowers its subject at great cost. They can perform a form of magic (eg: blood magic, energy magic, divination, oaths or rituals) for the remainder of the summit despite any Curse they might be affected by; decide which form of magic. Any curse they ignore in this way becomes permanent.
Perform the Titanomachy
Cost: 1 Flesh and 2 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: A brooch, a blade, a ceremonial combat.
Effect: The ritual’s subject ceremonially defeats the other ritualists in mock-combat, taking a brooch from each of them as a trophy. For the remainder of the summit, the subject gains the Archetype Monster and three Terror personal resources. For the remainder of the summit, the other ritualists that they defeated gain the Archetype Philosopher, and lose all their other archetypes.
Persephone Rises
Cost: 1 symbol Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of two Survivors, an oath to protect each other until a project is completed, fruit, seeds, grave-dirt.
Effect: The ritual imbues a situation with the flourishing power of spring, and plants bloom unseasonably. A chosen Project gains the aspect Nature.
The Pin Of Sophia
Cost: 1 Flesh Oblation.
Requirements: An Explorer, a Libertine, an effigy of the subject with a pin in it,
Effect: This ritual allows the subject to alter their inner nature. They may select any temporary role-playing effect they’re under, and make it permanent. If this effect was a curse, it no longer counts as a curse. If they gain a new permanent roleplaying effect in this way, they may discard one of the permanent roleplaying effects granted by their Genus if they wish.
Pins In The Great Weave
Cost: 1 symbol Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of a Spy and an Architect, a set of metal needles, a volume of legal text.
Effect: The ritual grants the casters knowledge of every oath sworn at the current summit.
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Cost: 1 Flesh and 1 Symbol Oblation.
Requirements: Music, somebody who has broken an oath, the presence of a fallen Leyline Convergence, blood.
Effect: In the face of impending tragedy, this ritual invites in something to offer its aid to those who struggle.
Every Project gains the aspects Philosophy, Terror and Emptiness. For the rest of the summit, every ritualist gains the roleplaying effect “You feel the presence of something vast, beautiful and divine just beyond your reach.”.
Preserve The Hand Of Glory
Cost: 3 Flesh Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of a Spy and a Doctor, salt, pepper, wax, a severed hand. Effect: The ritual creates a single Hand Of Glory. A Hand of Glory is a magical artefact which causes its owner to gain the Spy archetype and the roleplaying effect “You feel deeply uncomfortable being observed by others”. Any Project that the owner commits their Personal Resources to gains the Espionage aspect.
Raise The Green Man
Cost: 1 Symbol Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of a Survivor, a wooden weapon, the subject’s signature, sap.
Effect: This ritual creates Green Men, elemental manifestations of the living ecosystem. One type of the subject’s personal resources replace their aspect with Nature. Creates a roleplay effect on its subject, for the rest of the summit – “You feel little nostalgia for civilisation before the disaster”.
Red In Tooth And Thorn
Cost: 5 Flesh Oblations.
Requirements: A map depicting the district to be affected, dead leaves, animal bones, the presence of a Fae and a Lycanthrope
Effect: This ritual empowers the forces of the wilderness, granting plants, animals and the weather greater power and subtle intelligence; these forces are not necessarily all that fond of humanity. The ritual invigorates the natural ecosystem in the district in question. All Projects to crises in that territory gain the aspects Fae, Lycanthrope, Nature and Sorcery The outcomes of plots occurring in that district – whether solved or not – will be coloured by uncontrolled wild animals and plants, and/or people reverting to their baser instincts.
Refine the Awakened Lineage
Cost: 2 Symbol and 1 Flesh Oblations
Requirements: 3 Warlocks, a crystal, poetry, chalk.
Effects: Creates an Artefact called the Awakened Lineage Locus. This can be destroyed to create a manuscript of a ritual the user names.
Refine the Moon Lineage
Cost: 3 Symbol Oblations
Requirements: 3 Lycans, a crystal, a circular mirror and something carved from ivory.
Effects: Creates an Artefact called the Moon Lineage Locus. It can be spent and destroyed to immediately create three omen cards.
Refine the Shadow Lineage
Cost: 3 Flesh Oblations
Requirements: 3 Dusk Vampires, a crystal, tar, something rusty.
Effects: Creates an Artefact called the Shadow Lineage Locus. A shadow lineage locus can store blood as if it were the recipient of blood from blood magic. It can then be spent and destroyed to release this blood as if it were a donor.
Refine the Shielded Lineage
Cost: 3 Oblations of any one type
Requirements: 3 Humans, a crystal, lye, something made of lead.
Effects: Creates an Artefact called the Shielded Lineage Locus. This can be spent and destroyed to flawlessly remove a magical effect from somebody.
Refine the Sun Lineage
Cost: 3 Flesh Oblations
Requirements: 3 Dawn Vampires, a crystal, something made of gold, a magnet.
Effects: Creates an Artefact called the Sun Lineage Locus. This can be spent and destroyed in the presence of a leyline tower, counting as a pull of the colour of the user’s choice.
Refine the Wild Lineage
Cost: 3 Symbol Oblations
Requirements: 3 Fae, a crystal, something made from clay, squid ink.
Effects: Creates an Artefact called the Wild Lineage Locus. This can be destroyed to add an additional archetype to somebody. The archetype can be whichever the user names, and lasts indefinitely.
Reforge the Lance of the Apocalypse
Cost: 13 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The blood of a Human and a Warlock; the presence of an Architect, a Killer, a Scholar and an Ancient, shrapnel from a weapon of mass destruction, insignia for the armed forces of a pre-collapse nation.
Effect: The ritual creates an Apocalyptic Lance, a minor magical weapon of mass destruction. An Apocalyptic Lance is a magical artefact. It can be detonated, counting as 13 Resources with the Violence aspect that can only be assigned to a Project with the Violence aspect. Whoever carries it suffers the roleplaying effect
“You believe everybody standing in your way deserves to die”.
Further, for the rest of the summit, every block in the leyline tower counts as bearing a symbol (making that block cause backlash when pulled).
Finally, if an Apocalyptic Lance is forged, at the next summit a manuscript for another of the magical weapons from the Great War, of greater power.
The Restoration of Prometheus
Cost: 3 Flesh Oblations.
Requirements: A Warlock, somebody with multiple excessive dyscrasias or sworn oaths, a slice of liver, an eggshell, scarification, flame.
Effect: This ritual takes the malleability of mortal nature and calcifies it, causing a temporary modification to endure like a scar or callous. The ongoing effect of a ritual the subject is subject to that lasts for a single summit becomes permanent and can never be reversed. (Instant or one-time effects are not affected). Any roleplaying effects from that ritual that would be curses cease to be cursed after the current summit ends.
Resurrection of the Leylines
Cost: 6 Flesh Oblations.
Requirements: The blood of a Dawn Vampire and an Innocent, a map of the city, the presence of a fallen Leyline Convergence.
Effect: Through an act of will, this ritual drags damaged leylines together and restores them. The fallen jenga blocks for the Leyline Convergence are shuffled together and a fresh new tower formed.
Sanguine Miasma
Cost: 5 Flesh Oblations.
Requirements: A map depicting the district to be affected, the presence of a Dawn and a Dusk vampire, a mouthful of blood, rainwater.
Effect: The ritual creates an emotional miasma over the district in question. All Projects in that territory gain the aspects Dawn Vampire, Dusk Vampire, Medicine and Underworld. The outcomes of plot-lines occurring in that district – whether solved or not – will be coloured by an uptick in vampirism, unrestrained passions and/or turmoil.
Schismatic Stigmata
Cost: 1 Flesh Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of an Innocent, a ritual knife, the subject’s blood, a religious text.
Effect: Effectively a recipe for an instant saint, this ritual opens up its subject to spiritual forces far bigger than themselves, causing their body to manifest spontaneous, seemingly miraculous side-effects. One type of the subject’s personal resources replace their aspect with Faith. Creates a roleplay effect on its subject, for the rest of the summit – “You feel unwilling to conceal or downplay your beliefs”.
Shark-mind
Cost: 1 Flesh Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of a Killer, a weapon, the subject’s blood, a shark-tooth.
Effect: This ritual refines the killing instinct in its subject, allowing them to become a focused, clinical hunter or soldier. If the subject has any Violence personal resources, they get an extra Violence personal resource. Creates a roleplay effect on its subject, for the rest of the summit – “You feel few compunctions about solving problems using force”.
Sharp Teeth & Silver Tongues
Cost: 1 Symbol Oblation.
Requirements: The presence of a Spy, an alcoholic drink, the subject’s signature.
Effect: One type of the subject’s personal resources replace their aspect with Espionage. Creates a roleplay effect on its subject, for the rest of the day – “You feel most tasks are best achieved by others acting on your behalf”.
Swim The River Of Night’s Dreaming
Cost: 3 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The use of some mind-altering drug, river-water, a book of poetry.
Effect: The ritual allows all the ritualists to experience a psychedelic vision of some sort. Each participant gains an Omen card.
Take On the Brand of Veritas
Cost: 1 Symbol Oblation
Requirements: Vulnerability, Exposure, Water
Effects: Each person in the ritual willingly takes on a magical mark or ‘brand’ for the rest of the Summit that gives them the roleplaying effect “Whenever you knowingly tell a lie or falsehood, the brand erupts in blazing pain”. This brand can take whatever form the casters desire. The brand does NOT activate if the bearer could speak the truth but chooses not to or from lies of omission.
Thaumogenesis
Cost: 4 Flesh Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of an Explorer and a Scholar, a wound inflicted on a willing donor who has not yet donated towards this ritual.
Effect: The ritual manifests magical knowledge in a tangible, physical form; it creates a Thaumaturgic Dross for each Ritual known by the donor.
The donor suffers a cursed roleplaying effect for the rest of the summit: “You are wracked with pain from your injuries.”
A Thaumaturgic Dross is a magical artefact that can be spent like any sort of Oblation. When a Thaumaturgic Dross is spent, it is destroyed.
The Thing In The Willows
Cost: 1 Flesh and 1 Symbol Oblation.
Requirements: Somebody who has broken an Oath, willow-branches, blood.
Effect: This ritual draws the attention of something to the subject. The ritual’s subject gains 2 Personal Resources, and all their Personal Resources’ aspects are replaced with Terror. For the remainder of the Summit, they gain the roleplaying effect: “You feel the presence of something old and hungry observing you.”.
Transcribe The Akashic Records
Cost: 3 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of somebody who has experienced Domus, a Scholar and an Ancient, a gemstone.
Effect: The ritual creates a single Akashic Stone, one of the crystalline records used to magically store information on Domus.. An Akashic Stone is a magical artefact which causes its owner to gain the roleplaying effect
“You recall experiences on Domus you were never present for”. The Akashic Stone can be spent like 2 Research or Sorcery personal resources. When an Akashic Stone is spent, it is destroyed.
The Violet Sign
Cost: Free.
Requirements: Drawing a calligraphic symbol of the name of Hali.
Effect: The ritual attracts the attention of Queen Cassilda. Every ritualist who took part gains the roleplaying effect for the rest of the summit: “You notice ominous signs of Queen Cassilda’s attention”. Inform the Administrators when you cast this.
The Vitruvian Pillars
Cost: 1 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of an Architect, a set of mason’s tools, the subject’s signature.
Effect: This ritual thrusts inspirational visions of a grand, technologically advanced metropolis into the subject’s mind. If the subject has any Technology personal resources, they get an extra Technology personal resource. Creates a roleplay effect on its subject, for the rest of the day – “You feel that temporary solutions are useless”.
Vultures Scavenge the Old World
Cost: 10 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of somebody who once lived on Domus; the presence of at least one Lycanthrope; exactly three people.
Effect: The ritual draws remaining texts out from the Old World, scattering them about the New World to be gathered. It immediately creates a Project with magnitude 7 and the aspects Lycanthrope, Espionage and Sorcery. If that Project is completed, it will produce a manuscript of a totally unknown new ritual that will be delivered to the next Summit by the Administrators.
Whisper Behind The White Mask
Cost: 2 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of at least 2 Spies, who exchange secrets with one another, witnessed by the ritual’s subject.
Effect: This ritual draws the victim into the invisible networks of information and influence that exist behind the scenes. The subject gains the Spy archetype until the next summit, all their Personal Resources become Espionage resources, and they gain an additional 1 Espionage resource.
White, Green & Scarlet Ceremonies
Cost: 1 Flesh and 1 Symbol Oblation
Requirements: A Philosopher or a Monster, an Omen Card, white, green and red marks made on each participant, suffering.
Effect: This ritual allows those who take part in it to abandon the filters on their perception, allowing them to tap into a deep well of hallucinatory power.
For the rest of the summit, the participants gain their choice of the Philosopher or Monster archetype. They can immediately exchange any amount of Omen Cards for their choice of Flesh or Symbol oblations.
The participants gain the roleplaying effect for the rest of the summit: “You feel no regard for standards of decency.”
Wormwood’s Descent
Cost: 13 Flesh and 1 Symbol Oblations.
Requirements: The presence of an Innocent and a Visionary, a bottle of Absinthe, a map of a comet’s path, something radioactive.
Effect: The ritual calls down a great falling star that thrashes with nuclear fire. The ritual raises the magnitude of a single project by 1. It also grants resources for the summit to assign invoked in the ritual;
• 4 Emptiness resources
• 4 Terror resources
• 4 Philosophy resources
• 4 resources with an aspect of the ritualists’ choice from the twelve options available in character creation.
The ritualists all gain the roleplaying effect for the rest of the summit: “Everywhere you look, you see signs that the apocalypse is underway.”