Temple Construction
& Consecration
Kari-neter
(Chapter Temple and/or haven)**Note - there are mortal or
ghoul priests**
1. Purchase or acquire a small
house or similar structure. (if building from scratch spend
10 accumulated influence actions in industry or finance).
2. Spend 10 accumulated influence actions in Occult to Bless
the temple and get items for the ritual etc.
3. Spend 10 accumulated influence actions in Bureaucracy
to help hide the temple.
4. Spend $2,500 into fine tuning the temple.
5. Sacrifice the total blood pool of the person creating
the temple (not from the person consecrating the
temple of course.)
Khem-neter (Domain
Temple)
1. Purchase or acquire a large
house or similar structure. (if building from scratch spend
20 accumulated influence actions in industry or finance).
2. Spend 20 accumulated influence actions in Occult to Bless
the temple and get items for the ritual etc.
3. Spend 20 accumulated influence actions in Bureaucracy
to help hide the temple.
4. Spend $25,000 into fine tuning the temple.
5. Sacrifice one human per Follower using the Temple on
a regular basis.
Per-neter
(Regional Temple)
1. Spend 40 accumulated influence
actions in industry or finance to build the temple.
2. Spend 40 accumulated influence actions in Occult to Bless
the temple and get items for the ritual etc.
3. Spend 40 accumulated influence actions in Bureaucracy
to help hide the temple.
4. Spend $250,000 into fine tuning the temple.
5. Sacrifice one kindred. An NPC may not commit the diablerie
it must be done by the Setite who is fulfilling the role
of Neb-hemu-tep-neter. *note: No one said it was going to
be easy, nor is Diablore REQUIRED. Some path interpretations
say this is acceptable because you are bringing yourself
closer to Set…
Hewet-neter
(Continental Temple)
1. Spend 80 accumulated influence
actions in industry or finance to build the temple.
2. Spend 80 accumulated influence actions in Occult to Bless
the temple and get items for the ritual etc.
3. Spend 80 accumulated influence actions in Bureaucracy
to help hide the temple.
4. Spend $500,000 into fine tuning the temple.
5. Sacrifice five Kindred *note: see above note
There
no longer is a ritual for Anti-Astral Projection. This was
desanctioned in 5.0 but…..if you wish to have something
of this nature for your temple still you could apply for
a magical item with RST approval that would do the same
thing. Here is a good idea for the cost of the item and
what it can do.
Note
that a few changes have been made. First of all, the word
diablerie has been removed. We are attempting to move the
idea of the Followers of Set away from diablerie for the
most part. What it now says, is SACRIFICE. However, this
does not mean that if Vinnie Ventrue upsets you, that you
can't "remove" something he may need… Diablerie
is not clan policy. We don't punish you for it, we just
punish you if you get caught.
Anyone
wishing to claim a position in the Temple Hierarchy must
first build an appropriate Temple for that position before
claiming it. Building the Temple and consecrating it is
the litmus test of the head(s) of the Clan for those who
wish to rise in the ranks on the Hierarchy.
Consecration Ritual
A
small temple/haven consecration ritual isn't as intensive
as a Regional temple or similar structure would be. Naturally
a player(s) doesn't have to actually act out the ritual
unless the person/people in question is/are MAJOR role player(s)
and wants to spend a game evening doing it (and is a little
touched in the head maybe), but the option is there. The
main idea is that the ritual is something that takes time
(minimum of two weeks) to set up and perform (One full evening).
For something the size of a regional temple it might be
fun to save the ritual for a Regional game and get all the
Setites in the region involved. For the purpose of brevity
I've used the term Hem (fem. Hemet) for Officiating (High)
Priest/ess.
Elements Required:
· A bowl of Natron (easily obtainable at your local
Chemist or Drug Store)
· A large bowl of pure water (Nile flood water if
you can get it)
· A piece of virgin linen (Linen that has never been
used for anything else)
· Ritual Robes (White starched linen kilt, shoulder-draped
leopard skin; fake or real)
· A jar of virgin oil (vegetable oil will do in a
pinch)
· White Sandals
· Incense (jasmine and honeysuckle)
· Incense burner
· Mask of Set (as elaborate as you can afford)
· A vial of Myrrh oil (obtainable from any occult
shop)
· Assistant (A ghoul or a Hem if the Setite performing
the ritual is of higher rank than Hem)
· green dye, food colouring or paint
· brush
· razor
· Figurine of a phallic Osiris (or statue depending
on the size of the temple)
· Ritual knife or ritual sword (depending on the
size of the Osiris figurine)
· Domain Level - One human sacrifice
· Regional Level - One Kindred sacrifice
· Continental Level - Five Kindred sacrifices
Purification;
The
assistant having been warned never to speak during the ritual
(if the assistant goofs this up at any point the ritual
fails), shaves all bodily hair of off the officiating Hem.
The assistant then washes the Hem with the pure water (every
orifice as well) and dries him/her off with the virgin linen.
When
the Hem's feet are washed, the Hem intones: "My feet
are washed on a rock at the side of the lake of Sutekh".
When
the inside of the Hem's mouth is washed, the Hem intones:
"The words that shall emerge from my mouth shall be
pure".
The
assistant then hands the incense burner with lit incense
to the Hem and then pours the virgin oil over the Hem.
The
assistant then anoints the Hem with the myrrh oil, then
with the natron and dresses the Hem in the ritual robes
and white sandals. Next the assistant paints the hieroglyph
for Ma'at on the Hem's tongue. The Hem then intones: "I
am now in the chamber of the two Ma'ats, the two truths
of Macrocosmic and Microcosmic order. I am in Balance! I
am a Great One! I am a seed which is born of Sutekh! I am
His Servant, I am a Childer of His Servant! I have many
names and many forms, and my form is in Sutekh!"
Ritual;
The
Hem faces the Altar and says: "It is to you I speak,
Sutekh the turbulent, Sutekh the bringer of storms, Sutekh
of the red hair and typhon's face! Hear me and pay heed,
for I know your secret name!"
The
Hem then puts the Set mask on (still facing the altar) and
shouts: "I am Sutekh! I am Sutekh! I am Sutekh! I am
Sutekh! I am he who has divided that which was reunited!
I am he who is full of vigour and great in power! Sutekh!
Sutekh! Sutekh!"
The
Hem then takes the ritual knife or sword and faces the phallic
Osiris figurine and says: "I am a Great One, the Childer
of a Great One, I am a flame, the Childer of a flame, to
whom life eternal was given after life had fled! But the
phallus of this my enemy shall be cut off forever! It shall
not be knit together, for I am Sutekh, the Lord of his suffering!
He shall become corrupt! He shall have the worms! He shall
be distended! He shall stink! He will become putrid! He
will not exist, he will not be strong, his viscera will
be destroyed, his eyes will rot, his ears will not hear,
his tongue will not speak, his hair will be cut off! His
corpse is not permanent! He will perish in this land forever,
for I am Sutekh, Lord ofthe Gods! I am Sutekh, whose vengeance
is just! Die the second death! Die! Die! Die!" The
Hem then hacks the phallus off the Osiris figurine with
the ritual weapon.
Sacrifice;
Chapter Level: The
Hem/Hemet removes the Set mask and then takes the ritual
knife and cuts him/herself, pouring his/her total blood
pool on to the altar Saying: "Accept my gift Great
Sutekh and may you be always welcome in this thy Kari-neter!"
Domain Level:
the assistants bring in the human sacrifices. All Setites
present, then approach the altar bringing with them one
human sacrifice each and drain their victims before the
PC acting as the Hem-neter/Hemet-neter of the temple. The
Hem-neter says: "Accept our gift Great Sutekh and may
you be always welcome in this thy Khem-neter!"
Regional Level: the
assistants bring in the kindred sacrifice and the Hem-tep-neter/Hemet-tep-neter
performs the sacrifice. (*note: no one said this was going
to be without a hitch). All Followers present, then approach
the altar and open their veins and pour one blood point
each onto the altar. The Hem-tep-neter says: "Accept
our gift Great Sutekh and may you be always welcome in this
thy Per-neter!"
Continental Level:
the assistants bring in the kindred sacrifices and the Neb-hemu-tep-neter/Nebet-hemu-tep-neter
performs the sacrifice. (*note: see previous note). All
Setites present, then approach the altar and open their
veins and pour one blood point each onto the altar. The
Neb-hemu-tep-neter/Nebet-hemu-tep-neter says: "Accept
our gift Great Sutekh and may you be always welcome in this
thy Hewet-neter!"
Congratulations! You're now
the proud operator of a gen-u-wine Setite temple. Let's
hope those regional and above types have soul mask.
