The Tremere maintain that Blood Sorcery, or “Thaumaturgy” as they call it, was their invention, and other clans make similar statements - but while the origins of Blood Sorcery are murky, its dreaded nature is not.īlood Sorcery is defined by its Tradition, the style and belief system of the adherent. Necromancy borrows from the mystical traditions of the Mortis Discipline of the long-destroyed Cappadocian clan, though even in modern times the Giovanni are not its only practitioners. The most prominent form of non-Thaumaturgical blood magic in the modern nights is the Necromancy of the Giovanni clan. ![]() Instead they adapted their knowledge of Hermetic magic into a new tradition of blood sorcery known as Thaumaturgy, whose secrets they jealously guard from all those outside of their clan. Through a powerful ritual, they became vampires, founding their own Clan, but afterward discovered they could no longer work magic as they once did. The Tremere were originally a House of mages belonging to the Order of Hermes. Though Dur-An-Ki and many other older styles have survived into the Modern Nights, without doubt the most prolific and famous practitioners of blood sorcery in recent history are the members of Clan Tremere. In ages past, Dur-An-Ki (now known as " Assamite Sorcery") was the most prominent type of blood magic. These arts have been practiced in many forms throughout Cainite history. While Disciplines are powers which stem from the nature of vampirism, or in stranger cases, the exotic natures of their creators, blood sorcery seeks to achieve almost any effect imaginable by focusing the magical power of blood through an act of will. The various forms of blood magic are distinct from Disciplines though they are blood-based powers, and paths are learned in tiers as Disciplines are, such knowledge is neither passed on to one’s childer nor amenable to elder-level manifestations. Unlike other disciplines, which could be described as advancing organically through the victims chosen by the vampire, practitioners of Blood Sorcery require teachers. These could have longer-lasting or more powerful effects. ![]() The ways of the Blood Sorcery are generally learned as paths, collections of related magical effects which superficially resemble Disciplines, though the early blood magicians learned they could also create special rituals thematically connected to any paths they studied. Any form of this power reminds a vampire that they’re far from human, as no mortal could wield magic in this way. ![]() To practice Blood Sorcery is to twist one’s own Blood into submission. Through the practice of blood magic, a Cainite can summon fire, control the weather, and do many other things which are unnatural even by vampiric standards.
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