Beyond the Wall of Death
This ritual was created by a koldun toward the end of the medieval struggle against the Warlocks, in an attempt to preserve the knowledge possessed by fallen sorcerers. After this ritual is cast over the dead body of a newly slain koldun, its spirit will appear to the caster. As long as the koldun is aware of the specific sorceries that were possessed by the recently deceased, he can entice it to mentor him in these Ways.
System: The player spends a blood point and makes the necessary roll. While standing over the body of a recently deceased koldun and chanting his name, the caster summons the spirit into his presence. The koldun must have prior knowledge as to what powers the spirit possessed when it was itself a koldun before he asks to be mentored in the Ways. On a successful roll, the spirit will grudgingly abide to mentoring the koldun, as long as the character is explicit in his question and the player has the experience enough to buy the specific power. The spirit will mentor the caster in only one level of a Way, but, before moving on to its final test, it will grant enough knowledge of the Way so that the koldun no longer requires a mentor to continue his progression. Once the spirit has completed its task, it will be banished from existence, and it will not be accessible again.
A spirit will be compelled to instruct the koldun only in other powers of Koldunic Sorcery and its rituals, not other Disciplines. Neither will it reveal other knowledge.
This power does not work on a subject who has been diablerized.
