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| •-dot Rituals | |||
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| Balancing the Four Humors | Renders the caster immune to dice penalties from environmental hazards for one night. | Nomads p93 | |
| Blood Witness | Requires the expenditure of extra Vitae, which must be smeared about an area; for one day per extra vitae spent, may remotely observe the area from the spilled blood. | Coteries p84 | |
| Boyar's Caul | Grants an image of a subject of interest, which helps with locating or identifying them in the future. | Chosen 113 | |
| Confidence in Adversity | Caster loses 10-Again on all rolls, but regains one Willpower at the end of the scene. | CotC 204 | |
| Drops of Destiny | Generates a cryptic prophecy. | CotC 204 | |
| Fires of Inspiration | For one night, add Crúac to all Craft or Expression rolls to create art, but penalizes rolls to create anything else. | CotC 204 | |
| Genius Loci | Curse an area, penalizing all social rolls except Intimidate. | Mehk 107 | |
| Pangs of Proserpina | If successful at the activation roll (which is contested), subject is overcome with hunger and must feed, be they kindred, mortal, or other. | VtR p143 | |
| Pythian Renewal | If successful at the activation roll (which is resisted), the subject appears to grow twenty years younger for a number of hours. | CotC 205 | |
| Rigor Mortis | If successful at the activation roll (which is resisted), the victim (which must be a vampire) suffers a penalty equal to the successes on their next physical action. | VtR p143 | |
| Taste of Knowledge | Used during feeding, this ritual allows the caster to learn one secret of immediate importance to the victim. | CotC 204 | |
| Visage of the Crone | If successful at the activation roll (which is resisted), the subject appears to age ten years for a number of hours. | CotC 204 | |
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| Amemet's Pursuit | If successful at the activation roll (which is contested), the next time the subject attempts to flee from the caster they instead approach. | Mehk 107 | |
| Barrier of Blood | Blood must be applied to doors and other portals; for 24 hours, vampires with less blood potency than the caster cannot voluntarily cross the barrier without suffering damage. | Coteries p84 | |
| Cheval | If successful at the activation roll (which is resisted), the victim's senses may be shared by the caster at will for one night per success. | VtR p143 | |
| Harai | Blesses a mortal subject whom the caster has recently drunk from, healing them or potentially reversing a morality loss. | CoC 153 | |
| Hawthorn Barrier | Creates an invisible barrier through which no vampire with lower blood potency may pass, lasting for several minutes. | Chosen 114 | |
| Heliolater's Warning, The | Adds to all Wits pools to wake up in response to sunlight, and to the humanity roll to how long to stay awake, for one night. | Nomads 93 | |
| Hydra's Vitae, The | Transform's the caster's vitae into a poison, which inflicts lethal damage on mortals and vampires who attempt to consume it. | VtR p143 | |
| Imperious Call | Summon and manifest a particular spirit. | CotC 201 | |
| Maiden Skin | Grants armor against attacks that would break the skin equal to activation successes. | CotC 205 | |
| Painted Fears | Create a frightening work of art that inflicts anyone who views it with a minor phobia of whatever it depicts. The caster is resistant, but not immune. | CotC 114 | |
| Path of Thorns | Creates a field surrounding the caster, any entering it suffer damage from spiritual thorns, which lasts for several turns. The caster is not able to pass this barrier unaffected. | CotC 205 | |
| Prey's Blood | Gain significant bonuses to track a mortal, or penalized ones to track Kindred. | Gang 116 | |
| Soul's Work | Invest Willpower points into a work of art, which may later be used to perform an action that corresponds to the art form. | CotC 206 | |
| Succulent Buboes | Transfer Vitae from within the body into lymph nodes, potentially storing Vitae well above what Blood Potency would allow. | CotC 206 | |
| Wisdom of the Soul | Enter a trance and create a prophetic work of art; may later re-roll any one roll that night. | CotC 206 | |
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| Beloved Deodand | Bonds the caster to a former instrument of murder; each time the object is used in an act of violence again, the caster steals Vitae. | CotC 206 | |
| Deflection of Wooden Doom | Caster becomes immune to staking for one night | VtR p144 | |
| Final Service of the Slave | Sacrifice a Retainer, losing the merit; gain temporary increases to attributes or skills the Retainer possessed for several nights, or permanently increase one attribute or skill. | CotC 206 | |
| Flower of Demeter | May use this ritual to grow a flower fed by mortal blood; inspires all Kindred in its presence, granting a bonus to Craft and Expression. Swallowing the flower grants 24 hours of the blush of life. | Coteries p85 | |
| Hand of Seth, The | Drives a possessing spirit of a body. | Mehk 107 | |
| Mother's Blessing, The | A special ritual of the Yagnatia bloodline, this ritual is the only method through which they may Embrace another. | Chosen 112 | |
| Rain | Modify the weather in a region, potentially inflicting penalties to relevant rolls. | CotC 207 | |
| Servant from the Hidden Realms | Creates Essence, for the purpose of compelling a spirit to comply with commands. | CotC 201 | |
| Song of the Blood | Strengthens blood ties for one night, such that relatives can sense through them at any distance. | Nomads 93 | |
| Taste of Destiny | Gain insight into a future event; when the prophesied event comes to pass, regain the first three Willpower spent on rolls that do not succeed. | CotC 207 | |
| Tiamat's Offering | Brutal ritual which can create a homunculus servant. | CotC 207 | |
| Tickblood | Cause a mortal to generate an increased quantity of Vitae over the next few days. | Gang 116 | |
| Touch of the Morrigan | Charges the caster's hand with lethal energies, can do a one-shot discharge with a touch, inflicting activation successes in lethal damage. Expires if not used within a few hours. | VtR p144 | |
| Veiled Curse | Curses a mortal with the contempt of spirit kind. | CotC 202 | |
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| Blade of Tu'At | Imbues a blade with the ability to inflict aggravated damage to ghosts and spirits, both immaterial and when in Twilight. | Mehk 107 | |
| Bleeding the Tarantula | Creates a shadowy spiritual spider which watches over and protects the caster while they sleep. The venom of the creature is deadly to mortals, and drains Kindred of their Vitae. | Nomads 93 | |
| Blood Price | If successful at the activation roll (which is contested), the subjected Kindred mystically has a third of all Vitae received from feeding transferred to the caster for one night. | VtR 144 | |
| Eternal Guardian of the Dark Moon | Links the caster and a spirit, with the latter protecting the former, gaining power from Vitae spent. | CotC 202 | |
| Eye of the Norn | Reveal who the caster most needs to confront at this time, gaining 8-Again on all rolls against the antagonist when confronted. | CotC 208 | |
| Fount of Wisdom | If successful at the activation roll (which is resisted), the caster may acquire skills from a feeding victim, which slowly fade over several nights. | CotC 208 | |
| Mask of Blood | If successful at the activation roll (which is resisted), the caster may steal the form of a feeding victim, which last until sunrise. | CotC 209 | |
| Sacrifice of Odin | Cut off a part of the body, inflicting aggravated damage; until the caster regenerates this damage, they gain significantly increased benefits from using Willpower. | CotC 209 | |
| Thrashing of Apep's Coils, The | Conjures sudden extreme weather. | Mehk 107 | |
| Willful Vitae | Caster becomes immune to increased Viniculum or blood addiction for one night. | VtR p145 | |
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| A Child from the Stones | Create a gargoyle, or deactivates another caster's creation. | CotC 209 | |
| As One | Sacrificing three victims in three corners of the caster's would be territory, they become a patron god over the region, granting powerful bonuses. | CotC 209 | |
| Blood Blight | If successful at the activation roll (which is contested), the victim takes the activation successes in lethal damage (if mortal) or in lost vitae (if vampire) | VtR p145 | |
| Crone's Renewal | Embrace a childe who starts at Blood Potency ••, but drops the caster's potency by one. | CotC 211 | |
| Curse of the Ahasverus | If successful at the contested activation roll, the victim is ruled by their Beast for one night, checking for Predator's Taint at every encounter with another Kindred. | Nomads 93 | |
| Feeding the Crone | The caster's teeth begin to inflict aggravated damage, grappling is no longer necessary to bite, and activation successes are added to bite rolls. Feeding is impossible. | VtR p145 | |
| Rite of Going Fourth By Day, The | After eating the heart of a mortal, may project themselves in broad daylight, walking as a spirit. | Mehk 107 | |
| Roving Hut | May add Crúac dots to the Haven merit for one scene, warping the location in supernatural ways. | CotC 211 |