Quare morietur?
Description: As the title suggests, this ritual is a divination about death, specifically why a specific mortal died. Normally, such divinations are the province of necromancy, which is far better suited to illuminate these kinds of questions. But thaumaturgy is a very flexible discipline that can overlap with the pale arts of death from time to time. Obviously since thaumaturgy is so generalized it cannot give the kind of detailed information in breadth or depth that a similarly ranked power of necromancy might. But it can still reveal simple information, perhaps enough to answer the thaumaturge's question. The ritual is longer and more complicated than most thaumturgic rituals and takes thirty minutes to cast. The thaumaturge requires a cup of river water which is poured upon the corpse, a coin which is placed in the mouth and a simple Greek mantra to be recited over the body.
System: The player rolls intelligence + occult at a difficulty of four (4). If the ritual is botched, the caster will be plagued by the last thoughts of the deceased for the remainder of the night. If it fails, it must simply be cast again at a higher level of difficulty. If the ritual is successfully cast, the thaumaturge hears the cause of the mortals death in dead person's voice. Its important to remember that even if the ritual is cast successfully, the answer will be short and succinct. Most importantly, the deceased may have had only limited awareness of his or her cause of death, then again...
Origin: Czere Ubireg
Reference: Learning the Mind Enslumbered -- Level 1 ritual that reveals how a vampired died or why it is in torpor.
