Rites & Rituals

The ritual of the Last Rites is typically performed on a vampire who is entering a situation in which they are about to die. This ritual may only be performed by an Orthodox member of the Sabbat, but may be cast on any individual to whom the caster has a Vinculum.

System

To cast this ritual, the Orthodox faction member melts a small bar of silver in a brazier, and the target must press their fingers into the molten metal, taking a point of unsoakable lethal damage. Healing this wound ends all effects of the Last Rites.

If the target of this ritual dies, the caster becomes immediately aware of the death. So long as the death does not include their diablerie, the target’s soul may be “reclaimed” by the caster of this ritus by simply willing it to join with her own. Although the caster does not gain any mechanical benefit, it is in all other ways as though she had performed the diablerie upon her companion. In the moment that the soul is “reclaimed,” the caster gains a vision from the dead vampire’s point of view, allowing them to see the last moments of the target’s existence. The effects of this ritual last until the next sunrise; if the target dies after the sun has cleared the horizon on the morning after the ritual was enacted upon them, the caster will not know.