The Boyar’s Caul

(Level-One Crúac Ritual)

Vampire the Requiem - Bloodlines the Chosen

To perform this prophetic ritual, an Acolyte smears a quantity of her own Vitae on her face before lying down to sleep for the day. As the hours of daylight pass, the Blood is transformed into a thin membrane that attaches itself to the flesh of her head. When she wakes, the Acolyte tears the membrane away, seeing the likeness of an individual who may be important to her situation from the shape, texture and pattern of dark and light spots on the skin in the moments before it collapses into ash. The number of successes on the activation roll determines the clarity and usefulness of the vision imparted. On an exceptional success, the shape of the torn membrane and the pattern of spots on it may form recognizable features of a face that even appears to move and mouth a few relevant words as the dead skin disintegrates; whereas a single success might only show an abstract representation symbolizing the individual’s name or affiliation.
This reading grants a +2 dice bonus on any dice pools to locate or identify the individual in question in the future. If the character using The Boyar’s Caul has Auspex, it may be applied to rolls made in an attempt to spot an obfuscated subject.
Note that the Acolyte has no control over who the Caul selects. The subject revealed is someone who is currently important to the Acolyte’s situation (whether friend or foe), and one who the Acolyte might wish to seek out. The subject of the ritual is chosen at the Storyteller’s discretion.

Related Discipline

Crúac

Level

1

Related Ethnicity
Yagnatia