Wooden Tongues: Speak with the spirit of an inanimate object.Elemental Strength: Draw greater strength and resilience from the earth.Known in the Dark Ages as Rego Elementum, this path grants control over and affinity with inanimate objects. Cognizant Construction (Revised): Grant an animated creature rudimentary intelligence.Supernatural Experimentation (Pre-revised): As Human Experimentation, except works on supernatural creatures as well.Greater Animation (Revised): As Lesser Animation, except works on large animals and humans.Human Experimentation (Pre-revised): As Animal Experimentation, except works on humans.

Lesser Animation (Revised): Animate dead plants or small animals that will follow instructions.

Thaumaturgical Surgery (Pre-revised): Repair damage to all sorts of creatures, including supernatural ones.

Thaumaturgical Surgery ( Revised): Convert a level of damage to a lesser form.

Animal Experimentation (Pre-revised): Can alter life forms less complex than a human.

Thaumaturgical Forensics: Gain information from a tissue sample.

Complicated changes to an object's form.

Many paths were once known by names which reflected the Tremere's previous magical heritage. Thaumaturgy has a large number of paths though it is not the oldest tradition of blood magic, the Tremere were magical scholars long before they were vampires, and toil ceaselessly to push their studies ever further. The afflicted rarely has any idea they are doing anything unusual, and sometimes become unable to translate more mundane language. Afflicted persons under stress speak only in thaumaturgical symbology, but often the mind of the individual seems to shift into a different state of thought – almost like magical aphasia. While other traditions chafe at this misnomer, it shows the long-lasting effect of the Tremere on blood magic in general, since they have worked hard to incorporate most forms of pre-existing blood magic into their hermetic system.Īdept thaumaturges have sometimes been diagnosed with Thaumaturgical Glossolalia, a mental derangement that stems from over-expenditure and heavy reliance on Thaumaturgy. They can be incredibly powerful, particularly when senior thaumaturges join forces it was a thaumaturgical ritual that cursed the entire Assamite clan.Īmong the Camarilla, all practitioners of blood magic are sometimes lumped together as a generic 'thaumaturgists'. Rituals can take hours, days or even months to perform, but - if successfully completed - will always produce the same result. They often require the trappings of Hermetic magic – circles drawn in chalk, locks of the victim's hair, meditation, chanting ancient words of power, and the like. Rituals vary in complexity, and require varying levels of thaumaturgical knowledge to complete successfully. Rituals, by contrast, are elaborate, sophisticated and codified instructions for producing set magical effects. It was not always so, however before the Final Nights, paths were less difficult to use and did not carry the possibility of harm to the thaumaturge. If their concentration is not complete, if they falter, then the magic will fail, and in extreme cases such failure can have a lasting effect on the thaumaturge, draining their mental resources. Unlike the 'natural' powers of Disciplines, however, thaumaturges must concentrate their will, forcing the power of their blood to unnatural ends. Paths are learned expressions of thaumaturgical principles developed into reliable, repeatable effects. Thaumaturgy uses a system of paths and rituals to focus the thaumaturge's will. While it is certainly powerful and versatile, it is organized very differently to the Spheres Thaumaturgy is largely unknown to mages, and universally distrusted and reviled by those who have encountered it. Created by exhaustive research and extensive experimentation, Thaumaturgy utilizes the principles of Hermetic magic used by House Tremere when it was still a cabal of mages, adapted to be fueled by the inherent magical power of Vitae rather than Quintessence.

Mortal shell character creation