Final Sight
Description: This rite allows a Graverobber to look into a corpse's eyes, assuming they are still intact, and see the last static image that the person saw while he was alive. The rite entails extracting the last vision from the eyes themselves, a process that consumes the organs, leaving the sockets empty and pitted. The ritualist must have access to at least one eye (so skeletons or corpses from which the soft tissues have been consumed by animals are not usable). Just what she does to the orbs varies from version to version. In some instances, the Graverobber eats the eyes themselves; in others, she drips a few drops of vitae onto them and they rot away. In any case, the ritual cannot be used on the same eye twice, so it is useful at most twice on the same corpse.
System: The player rolls as normal while the Graverobber spends five minutes enacting the ritual. With even a single success, the character sees the last image the deceased did before before her death. The ritual gives neither particular insight into the late target's state of mind, nor analysis of the image presented. Although most people close their eyes under great stress, the final image is never darkness, it is the last thing the victim saw before closing his eyes. Additional successes can convey greater details at the Storyteller's discretion.
Note: This ritual is a Cappadocian creation as references are regularly made to the 'Graverobber', it is not a Giovanni creation, but with the embrace of the necromancers into the clan, this ritual passes into their possession.
Reference: Dark Ages Core Book 2nd Edition - Mortis Ritual - Page 196.
