Sanguine Lodestone

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Level 1.

By soaking a small lodestone in his blood for an hour, a thaumaturge with this ritual can attune the stone to the sympathetic resonance of his own vitae. Until the next dawn, the stone points unerringly at the largest source of the caster's vitae, other than the caster himself. As such, the stone can follow the sorcerer's ghouls or point to a sealed flask planted on a rival as a tracking device. Like normal magnets, lodestones attuned with this ritual must be suspended from a string so that they can freely turn.

System: If the ritual succeeds, the lodestone behaves as described for the duration of the enchantment. It has a maximum range in miles equal to the successes scored. A Level Three version of this ritual exists that can attune a lodestone to any Cainite, provided the caster has at least one point of the subject's vitae available to bathe the stone.

Errata: This ritual lasts for one scene per success