Vampire Rituals
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Vampire Rituals
by Setrivi
-Taint Ritual-
Four Elder Vampires casts out a web of darkness over a city, bringing down a light 'mist' of taint over the city. Thieves get a little nastier, thugs a bit more violent. A drunk husband is inclined a bit more to hit his wife. While the results stack, no single outcome is particularly amazing. However, the most important part of this, is the taint that strikes the population.
Virtues require places of power with a pure, clean, emphasis upon them. Once this curse is laid over the city, these places are defiled. While not so defiled as to bar the population from using them, they were filthy enough to make the act of drawing energy from them more difficult.
To enact this ritual, four canopic jars are set within the city. Each jar must hold the heart of someone pure - a child, a priest that actually cared for his flock, etc. Each jar is set at a cardinal direction, and they form the four points of the circle which acts as the boundary for this spell.
Once the spell is enacted, the jars can be moved without ruining the spell. However, if they are destroyed, the taint lifts from the affected area within hours.
Note: The ritual can not be cast past midnight and requires each vampire to drain a cup of his or her blood to feed the magical energies needed for this spell.
-Dark Scarab-
The Scarab is carved out of some fine substance, by an Elder Vampire, and then imbued with his own power. As the Scarab focuses the taint of oblivion, the small beetle-like figurine begins to pulse with dark energy. It does not harm the follower that created it, nor anyone else that simply casually touches it. However, once placed upon a body, it becomes part of that body, melting into it. Once within that body, any healing attempted upon the body is negated by the Scarab, and some of its energy abated. With time, the Scarab loses its potency, and the body can resume being healed. While part of a body, this scarab will follow whatever state that body is in.
Note: This ritual will negate external cures to a limited extent.It requires a considerable expenditure of blood from the Vampire to make the object work. Spirit Speaking is a helpful way to activate the object, using this will lower the amount of blood needed to run this ritual as corrupted spiritual energies occupy the Scarab.