Purchasing Blood Sorcery

  Prerequisites

Membership in a Covenant with a Blood Sorcery Discipline

For example Circle of the Crone or Lancea et Sanctum

Covenant Status 1 or Covenant Path 1

Joining a Covenant with Status 1 or Path 1 is a Humanity 5 Breaking Point

  Select Covenant & Discipline

Circle of the Crone & Cruac

Lancea et Sanctum & Theban Sorcery

  Gain Themes

Gain 2 Linked Themes

Gain 1 dot in Linked Theme 1

Gain 1 dot in Linked Theme 2

Gain 1 dot in a Theme of your choice

  Fallen Member

If you have fallen from Status or Path for example

Path Suspension or Path Revoked

This will effect your ability to continue training or advancement

   

XP Advancement

   

Examples

 

Blood Sorcery Casting Summary

Choose Ritual
Choose Ritual Type

 

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Blood Sorcery Casting Steps

Choose Ritual

Choose ritual or ...

Select Theme and

Select Motif and

Remember Limitations

  Choose Ritual Type

Improvised

Learned

Mastered

 

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  Focus Will

Action

Sagacity + Attribute

Difficulty 3

Successes converted to Will

Cast

Action

Expend Required Will

Lower Defense after casting

-1 per tier

Penalty lowers each round

Can Focus & Cast be a Flurry

Sagacity

  Understand academic and historical teachings, languages, occultism, and medicine.
 

Sagacity

  The characters ability to understand the academic/historical teachings and the ability to comprehend the mystical realities of Creation, as well as medicinal practice.

1: Average — Your peers respect you as a knowledgeable person.

3: Capable — You are a learned scholar, familiar with much of Creation’s strange workings. You may also be a sorcerer of some regard.

5: Exceptional — You are a renown sage, capable of curing any disease and well-versed in the mysteries of the world.

 

Example Difficulties

Difficulty 3: Identify the needs of a local spirit.

Difficulty 5: Cure a plague ravaging a city.

Difficulty 7: Solve a forgotten First Age riddle.

 

Special uses

It is the prerequisite for learning sorcery, as well as curing diseases. Sorcerers use Sagacity to Focus Will (p. XX).

Casting a Spell

  Sorcerers and necromancers shape their Spells through raw force of Will, sharpening their resolve until the world has no choice but to conform to their expectations. This requires a Focus Will action; the character rolls any Attribute + Sagacity at a default difficulty of 3, adding any extra successes to her current Will pool. A character can hold up to 10 Will at a time, but unspent Will is lost at the end of the scene.   On their turn, a character can use an action to cast a Spell by spending the required Will. This effort drains their Defense by one point for Spells of the first circle, two points for the second circle, and three points for the third. At the start of each of her turns, this penalty lowers by one.

Shaping Rituals

  No two sorcerers walk identical paths. Even the most devoted students stray from their teachers, discovering some divergence in their understanding of spellcraft. Each time the character initiates into a new level of sorcery or necromancy, she gains a shaping ritual to reflect her particular path to greater mastery. Unless otherwise specified, each Initiation can only be used once per session. Will generated from shaping rituals lasts until the end of the session and does not count towards the sorcerer’s normal maximum.   Blazing a New Path   Players should feel free to work with the Storyteller to devise new Initiation rituals that reflect their character’s journey. Most rituals describe a circumstance the sorcerer can use to bank Will in advance, with more Will offered for difficult or inconvenient tasks.