This ritual allows a necromancer to stare into the eyes of a corpse and see reflected there the last thing the dead man witnessed. The vision appears only in the eyes of the cadaver and is visible to no one except the necromancer using Insight. The player rolls

as normal as the vampire stares into the target’s eyes for five minutes. The number of successes on the roll determines the clarity of the vision. A botch shows the necromancer his own Final Death, which can provoke a Rötschreck roll (see p. 299).

This power cannot be used on the corpses of vampires who have reached Golconda, or on bodies in which both eyes are missing or advanced decomposition has already occurred.

Successes Result

1 success A basic sense of the subject’s death

2 successes A clear image of the subject’s death and the seconds preceding it

3 successes A clear image, with sound, of the minutes preceding death

4 successes A clear image, with sound, of the half-hour before the subject’s demise

5 successes Full sensory perception of the hour leading up to the target’s death