Womb of Nestis

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Description: The title is a veiled reference to the Greek goddess Persephone, the dread Queen of the Underworld. The term Nestis is a euphemistic cult title for the queen of the dead, because to speak her name directly was considered taboo. The power and purpose of this ritual is to necromantically regenerate another vampire, animations or even a badly decayed cadaver in a bath of vitae laced amniotic fluid. The healing properties of a mother's amniotic fluid had been known to alchemists and necromancer, long before science revealed that the fetus breaths the amniotic fluid into its body in order to grow. The necromantic ritual, 'Womb of Nestis' is a necromantic mockery of the miracle of pregnancy. Through the dark miracle of this ritual, the necromancer can lend his ability to heal himself, to a cadaver, animation or another vampire.
Origin: Benesj Cherno
Ingredients: Amniotic Fluid / Vitae / Water-tight Sarcophagus
Casting: The ritual begins with the necromancer chanting an invocation to Persephone as the undead daughter of Demeter, the Greco-Roman mother goddess. When the regenerative properties of Nestis have been enumerated, the subject is immersed in an liquid tight sarcophagus containing human amniotic fluid. Once the subject is fully immersed, the necromancer slices his wrist and bleeds into the fluid over the subject's face, as he does so, he intones Breath! in Greek. If successful, each intonation of the command to breath in Greek, compels the subject to breath in the vitae laced amniotic fluid which travels to those areas most in need of healing and quite beyond the will of the subject, heals bodily injury regardless of severity.
System: The player rolls Intelligence + Rituals at a difficulty of six (6). Each success represents a lost blood point on the part of the necromancer and the healing of a level of lethal damage by the subject. If the necromancer wants to heal an aggravated level of damage for the subject, then he must sacrifice five blood points, a temporary willpower and gain a minimum of five successes to succeed. Due to the blending and dilution of vampiric vitae with human amniotic fluid, the subject cannot be blood bound to the necromancer.
Reference: Though I have searched the canonical sources, I have found no reference to any ritual regardless of source that refers to the accomplishment of such a task - it is therefore original.