Sands of Troile

Kaitlin's Spell Book

Description: This rather unique ritual creates a false temporal signature of Celerity, to confound the detection related abilities of the Discipline of Temporis. The sorcerer begins the ritual by lighting some poplar based incense and chanting to a Mesopotamian god with influence over the passage to time. While doing these things, she tips a golden dish holding sand and pouring that sand onto the ground. As the sand falls, the sorcerer blows on the incense stick towards the falling sand. Each piece of sand that is blown out of the stream, is quickly picked with silver tweezers and placed in tiny glass vial. When all the sand has poured onto the ground, roughly five minutes, the caster pricks her thumbs with a silver needle a number of times equal to the number of celerity she wishes to imply that she can possess and uses at the time of the ritual's release. The few drops of blood that the sorcerer wills forth are dripped into the vial, turning the sand red. The vial is sealed with warm bees wax. The ritual is released when the sorcerer breaks the glass vial

System: Roll ritual, and he number of success is the number of rounds this effect is in play. At the beginning of the round, the caster chooses their "celerity" as if they actually had the discipline. The ritual will portray that number to anyone skilled in the use of temporis. The minimum is 0 max is the number of times the caster pricked themselves when the ritual was first cast.

Example. Mina wishes to fool Numarius into believing she has a 3 celerity. When she cast the ritual she pricked herself 5 times, so she can fake up to a level 5 celerity when she releases the ritual. Numarius would roll perception + occult. Any success gained o that roll would sence the ritual as celerity. If they gain more success than the caster they would have a chance to try and pierce the majic. As such they would have to roll again, and again gain more success than the caster to tell this is not true celerity.