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OAK OF SANGUINE ROOT (• • Correspondence, • • Prime, • • • Life, • • • Matter) Blood Treachery 89 |
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Subverting the power of the blood, this Rote creates life out of death, paralyzing a massasa with the legendary bane of the wooden stake. A sapling of oak springs with frightful swiftness from the vampire's own flesh and bone, and out of the mystic power of her blood, spreading its roots in the heart and splitting free from the torso to sprout bloodied branch and leaf. System: Correspondence 2 and Prime 2 allow the mage to latch onto the power of Quintessence in the vampire's heart. Life 3 and Matter 3 build the Pattern of the swift-growing sapling out of that Quintessence and unliving flesh. If successful, this Rote inflicts standard damage for a Life Effect, in addition to transfixing the vampire's heart with wood automatically. Without the normal nutrients needed by trees, the sapling will eventually die. Removing the "stake" will almost undoubtedly inflict an additional health level or two of lethal damage, as the heart is gouged and bones are split to free the roots. |