Ritual Variation: Dreaming the Other

To prepare for this ritual, the Sipán Acolyte must sit before his open-air Altar, facing outwards. After a short vocal entreaty to gain the attention of the Decapitator, a living animal sacrifice is presented and slain. The blood of the sacrifice is caught in a clay bowl. The sorcerer begins to chant a prayer to his god, standing and facing the subject of the ritual. The Acolyte opens his own veins with a stone blade, letting a quantity of his Vitae mix with the blood of the sacrifice before pouring the mixture over the Altar.
In ancient nights, the ritual would be performed on a hill or mountain overlooking the assembled mortals of the village, allowing the practitioner to select his subject without her knowledge. Now, the subject must be brought into the sorcerer’s view by force or guile, but is no more likely to be aware of what’s happening to her.
The ritualist recites a terrible prayer to the Decapitator, begging for the power to use the enemy’s eyes and ears in order to rip the truth from her and thereby empower the god’s true servants. At the climax of the ritual, blood flows from the eyes and ears of the Sipán sorcerer, brought forth by the magickal energies of the prayer. The blood dries and cakes upon his face and neck, and there remains for the duration of the ritual’s effect. When the effect fades, the blood cracks and flakes, falling away from his flesh.