Grell wrote:No such spell exists in canon, to my knowledge. Time to cook up one youself, I reckon!
exactly my point... thus the reason for this post... to see if anyone had any ideas/comments/randon thoughts/rants for such a creation. And as long as I'm on the thought... here's what I can come up with on my own...
Create VampireLevel 13
Range: Touch
Duration: Exists until destroyed
Saving Throw: None
PPE: 1200 or 1500 (see below)
This invocation is a necromantic ritual used to turn a corpse into one of the undead, specifically, a vampire! The caster needs a recently deceased body (dead for no longer than 6 hours) placed in a pentagram drawn in the blood of a demon. (Special PPE Note: If the blood of a Greater Demon is used, the result of the ritual will create the equivalent of a Secondary Vampire and requires 1500 PPE to cast. Using a Lesser Demon's blood will result in a Wild Vampire being created and requires only 1200 PPE) The ritual may only be performed once per month on a moonless night. During the ritual, the mage burns 5 black candles at the points of the pentagram while reciting the ritual incantation and mixing 3 drops of his own blood with three drops of the demon blood in a chalice. At the end of the ritual, the blood in the chalice is poured into the mouth of the corpse. At this point, the corpse becomes a Vampire, swallowing the blood in its mouth, which awakens its Vampiric hunger, and the caster is permanently drained of 6 Hit Points.
As previously noted, only Wild or Secondary Vampires may be created with this ritual and, regardless of the type created, the thing will regard the caster as its only Master, obeying any and all commands issued. The creature functions as a normal Vampire of its type, possessing all normal Vampiric abilities, powers and weaknesses including Supernatural PS, Mesmerizing Gaze, Slow Kill Bite, vunerabilities to silver, garlic, etc. There is a rare chance that a Secondary Vampire created with this ritual will turn on its creator, effectively becoming an independant Vampire, (roll percentile once for every month of existance, 15% chance per month of turning) but this is largely dependant on how the creature is treated by its Master.
(Note: A mage of Good alingment will almost
never use this ritual except under the direst of circumstances and even then, they will often encourage the creature toward basically Good behavior. Remember, Vampires are intelligent creatures, particularly Secondary types, and are capable of being basically Good, or at least Unprincipled alignment. More often than not though, if a Good aligned mage finds this ritual, they will often destroy it rather than make use of it due to the inherrently foul nature of the creature it creates.)
My apologies on the lack of Vampire statistics as the appropriate books containing said info are currently unavailable to me. But I'm relatively certain most of you out there have the info you need for it anyway. As soon as my books are returned to me, I shall make the appropriate editting changes needed.
Until then... questions, comments, compliments, complaints, suggesstions?
Sure, lions and tigers are stronger...
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