This Ceremony allows a vampire to create a tear in the veil through which wraiths can pass. Wraiths who enter our world via this method take to haunting locations and people, indulging in their passions, and possess mortals if their powers allow for it. Some treat the vampire with gratitude for splitting the veil, while others enjoy tormenting the ones responsible.
- Prerequisite Power: Necrotic Plague
- Ingredients: A blade that’s been used to cut into someone living, chalk or charcoal, a silk sheet, and ahuman sacrifice.
- Process: The vampire hangs a silk sheet over a wall in a place where the veil density (see p. 88) is standard, thin, or frayed. They then perform a human sacrifice against the sheet, and as blood coats the sheet, cut it open with a blade. The Ceremony widens the portal between the world of the living and the world of the dead.
- System: The caster performs the sacrifice, which may result in Stains depending on the chronicle Tenets and the Storyteller’s discretion. When cutting the silk sheet, their player makes the Ceremony roll). Due to the amount of blood spilled in this Ceremony, the caster must roll to resist hunger frenzy (Difficulty 2). For every success on the Ceremony roll, the veil’s density reduces by one level, down to being absent (see Where the Veil Thins on p. 87).
Importantly, if the veil rating is reduced to absent, wraiths can spill into the physical world for the remainder of the session (or night). Once that period concludes, a veil density of absent increases to frayed and the gateway for wraiths closes.