Call upon the Shadow's Grace

Level IV Rituals

Description: Use of this invasive ritual allows the Giovanni to peer into the aura of death that surrounds all living beings. Those who are familiar with the subtleties of wraithly existence speak of the Shadow, the "dark side" of a wraith's personality. This ritual temporarily opens a channel for discourse with the nascent Shadow of its subject (which will fully emerge if the subject in question later becomes a wraith). Though not quite so powerful or malignant as the Shadow of a wraith, the Shadow of one who still walks the physical world can nonetheless reveal damning aspects of the person's actions, and may often drive the person to acts of desperation.
System: By enacting this ritual, the Giovanni brings the self-destructive aspects fo her subject's psyche to the fore. If used successfully, this ritual causes its subject to reveal her darkest secrets to the Giovanni. The subject will reveal any plots in which she is involved, treacheries she has committed and the lies she has told. The subject may resist with a Willpower roll against a difficulty equal to the caster's Intelligence + Occult. At the Storyteller's discretion, a botch may result in tremendous feelings of remorse and despair in the subject, which result in the subject's attempted suicide. Naturally, nothing may be learned in this situation.