Level Two Rituals

The Necromantic Library of Phineus

• -- Blades of Thanatos -- Bone knives enchanted to steal life force.
• -- Cogitationibus Animae Septem -- This ritual allows the necromancer to temporarily enchant a mirror to view any one of a subject's seven souls.
• -- Crematory Obscuration -- A meta-magic ritual that obscures whatever lies within the boundaries of the warded area.
• -- Dismissal of the Dead -- A mystical bribe to a wraith to leave and not return.
• -- DM’s Ring -- A temporarily enchanted magic ring that allows the user to see and speak with the dead.
• -- Doll of Thanatos -- A spell inspired by the Giovanni, that curses a victim to appear as a corpse. I gained this ritual in the 1st Iteration, during the 2037 assassination of a household of Australian Giovanni in Sydney, Australia. I refined the ritual and clarified it, originally, it was called 'Cadaver's Touch' and was rated level four. But after using it for an extensive time, I pointed out to the storyteller - Jamie - that the ritual really only rated a level of two and was poorly written. {BZ}
• -- Embryonic Stone -- This ritual preserves blood for later use by petrifying it.
• -- Erebus Speaks -- The necromancer invokes an individual’s shadow, allowing it the freedom of speech.
• -- Eyes of the Grave -- A Giovanni curse that causes a target to see visions of their own final death, randomly over the course of a week. This is another ritual gained from the destruction of a family of Australian Giovanni in Sydney, during 2037 of the 1st Iteration. It is one of a very few Giovanni rituals that I have kept, without re-researching it, because it is essentially a good example of sound necromantic magic. {BZ}
• -- Fallen Familiar -- An enchantment which creates an undead sentinel.
• -- Graven Stimuli -- This ritual creates a sympathetic stimulus between a corpse and a target.
• -- Guardian Genius -- A Drone guardian that watches and warns the caster of impending danger.
• -- Incendia Purgatio -- This ritual uses Barrow-flame to remove mystical residue.
• -- Kiss of the Dark Queen -- This ritual enchants a subject with the ability to track wraithly Relics through the Underworld.
• -- Libations of Asphodel -- A sacrifice of the necromancer's blood that restores wraithly pathos.
• -- Malediction of Hypnos -- This spoken curse lasts over multiple days and enjoins a specter to prevent sleep during this period.
• -- Mists of Death - Rank Two -- An enervative ward that protects a room from animal intrusion.
• -- Nekiya -- The classical Greek summoning of the dead used by Odyssius and taught by the witch Circe.
• -- Oath of Orcus -- An authoritarian variant of the Giovanni ritual 'Judgment of Rhadamanthus', consisting of a verbal contract between the necromancer and a summoned wraith. Again, I gain the original Giovanni variant - Judgement of Rhadamanthus - during my attack on the Giovanni of Sydney, Australia in 2037 of the 1st Iteration. After learning it, it languished in my possession for decades before I began trying to use it and it was agreed between the storyteller (Jamie) and I that it was essentially a just a mundane con used to trick wraiths into helping Giovanni vampires. But, after a few years of research, I was able to produce a real variant - Oath of Orcus. {BZ}
• -- Puppet -- This Sabbat ritual eases ghostly possession, facilitating communication with the dead or just to torture a mortal. The ritual 'Puppet', I gained while childe and assistant to the Sabbat thanatologist Molly 8 - during the 2nd Iteration. {BZ}
• -- Sympathetic Rigor -- A paralytic curse.
• -- Voice of the Ventriloquist -- The spell that allows the caster to speak across the Shroud.