Rituals

This ritual imbues a male caster or target with sexual potency and fertility until he next sleeps. He can participate in and enjoy sexual relations normally, and his fertility is supernaturally enhanced—all such unions will prove fertile (see above for the implications of this). It is little known, but this ritual has an identical effect upon female vampires. The symbolism and ritual is so obviously male that few realize this, but it imbues a female with the power to impregnate others.

This ritual prepares a vampire female to carry a child, and renders her fertile until she next sleeps. She is fully able to conceive after relations with a mortal. See above for the difficulties and special rules for a pregnant vampire.

A lengthy and intense ritual in which the subject’s body is used as an altar upon which animal sacrifices are made, the corpses then burned. Prayer and the laying on of hands follow. This ritual may target female mortals or vampires. Mortal subjects become pregnant with the caster’s half-Damned child, but female vampires become pregnant with Dampyr of their own bloodline unless a ritual vessel filled with the Vitae of another clan is used in the ritual, a practice allowing the parent clan of the child to be chosen. This implies that the purpose of this ritual was to forge Dampyr to use as weapons against enemies of other clans.