Bind the Accusing Tongue
Ritual · Vampire · Level 1
This ancient ritual is said to have been one of the first developed by the Tremere and a primary reason
for the lack of cohesive opposition to their expansion. Bind the Accusing Tongue lays a compulsion upon the subject that prevents him from speaking ill of the caster, allowing the thaumaturge to commit literally unspeakable acts without fear of reprisal.
System: The caster must have a picture or other image or effigy of the ritual’s target, a lock of the target‘s hair, and a black silken cord. The caster winds the cord around the hair and image while intoning the ritual’s vocal component. Once the ritual is complete, the target must score more successes on a Willpower roll (difficulty of the caster‘s Thaumaturgy rating + 3) than the caster scored in order to say anything negative about the caster. The ritual lasts until the target succeeds at this roll or the silk cord is unwound, at which point the image and the lock of hair crumble to dust.
See also 2
Clan Lore
- Tremere — Lore of the Clans vampire/faction/clan_lore/the-tremere
Disciplines
- Thaumaturgy vampire/power/discipline/thaumaturgy