A Sourcebook for

Beast: The Primordial

By Chris Falco
 Credits
Author: Chris Falco
Developer: Chris Falco
Editor: Chris Falco
Artist: White Wolf art packs
Cover from http://www.maxpixel.net
Special Thanks
Shane DeFreest, for providing the needed templates
and reaching out about this to begin with.

Requires the use of Beast: the

Primordial and the Beast
Player’s Guide

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 Mother’s Magic

Table of Contents

Chapter One:
Obcasus Rites 5
Basic Rites 6
Intermediate Rites 8
Advanced Rites 9
Epic Rites 10

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 Beast: Player’s Guide introduced Obcasus Rites, dark rituals that call upon the Dark Mother to inflict
some level of Her nature on the world. These Rites are best performed among large broods, especially those
that that have the assistance of the various Kin of the Begotten; Vampires, Werewolves, Changelings, and
other Children of the Dark Mother.
What follows are some new Rites, allowing Beasts to reach into strange corners of the cosmology of the
Chronicles of Darkness, draw upon their connection to their Kin, and otherwise use their magic in new ways.
All of the following Obcasus Rites use the systems presented in Beast: Player’s Guide, starting on page 103;
that supplement is required to make use of the following rituals.
In addition, a new “Kinship” entry can be found with some of the following Rites; these are special bonuses
the Rite’s activation or effect receives when performed alongside a particular power or ability used by those
the Beast has Family Ties to, which might require a specific ability or may allow any of a certain type to qualify.
Both powers need to be successfully activated to gain the bonus. Storytellers should feel free to come up with
additional Kinship options for existing Rites.

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 Basic Rites HERALD RITUALISTS
Heraldry
Dice Pool: Power + Survival or Occult –
character’s Composure
Time Per Roll: 10 minutes
Duration: Permanent
Bonus: +2 if the Herald is fully aware of what’s
going on
Cost: None
This alternative rite works to more “carefully”
empower a mortal with the abilities of a Herald. So
long as the Beast doesn’t already have a Herald, this
rite allows them to change a mortal character into
one, without suffering a loss of Satiety or causing
damage to the mortal; the process still likely causes a
breaking point if the mortal isn’t already fully “in the
know,” however.
Exceptional Success: Any breaking point roll gains
a +2 dice bonus.

Hunting Grounds
Dice Pool: Finesse + Survival or Occult – 3
Time Per Roll: 30 minutes
Duration: One month
Bonus: +2 if the Beast has the Starving condition
Cost: None
This ritual lets the Beast declare the area (about a
neighborhood or a few city blocks in size) around the
temple as their hunting grounds, bringing the
Primordial Dream just a touch closer to reality in
that region. For the duration of the Rite, the
Begotten, their cult, their Kin, and their brood gain Inanimate Dreams
a +2 bonus to any rolls made for the sake of feeding Dice Pool: Finesse + Crafts or Occult – object’s
or hunting in the area; these actions must be Availability
purposely made towards that end, rather than Time Per Roll: 10 minutes
coincidentally allowing for it. This applies not only Duration: Permanent
to Begotten seeking to regain their Satiety, but also Bonus: +2 to all rolls if the object was crafted by
to Vampires feeding, Werewolves on the Sacred the ritual leader
Hunt, and even Awakened attempting to satiate Cost: The copied object
their Obsessions. This ritual allows the Begotten to destroy a
Exceptional Success: The grounds last for a full physical object within the temple and then allow it
season. to reform within the minds of those present. The
Kinship: If performed alongside a Werewolf physical object, which can have a size no greater than
performing the Pack Rite of the same name at the the Begotten’s Lair rating, is destroyed as part of the
same time, the dice bonuses each ritual grants ritual, but an ephemeral copy of it manifests from
increases by +1, and the two stack with each other. the stuff of Nightmares within the Beast’s Lair, as
well as the Lair, Oneiros, or other Astral equivalent

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of any other participant, becoming easily accessible
by their Dream Forms. These chimerical copies
cannot be used outside of dreams or the Astral, lest
they fade away, but within such realms they’re
perfectly functional.
Exceptional Success: The chimerical copies are
particularly high quality, having an equipment
rating, armor rating, or damage rating 1 higher than
normal.
Kinship: If performed alongside a Mage casting a
ritual that calls upon or affects the Astral, the
object’s Durability increases by 2, and the Mage’s
own “copy” of it forms immediately alongside them
as they enter the Astral, even if not in their Oneiros.

Primordial Empowerment
Dice Pool: Power + Expression or Occult – 3
Time Per Roll: 10 minutes
Duration: One chapter
Bonus: +2 to all rolls if the entire cult is present
Cost: The Beast must have the Primordial Cult
merit
This potent but simple ritual is often performed
by the Heralds of the Begotten, but can just as easily
be performed by the Begotten themselves, and
is used to strengthen the cult and its members. At
least one other member of the Beast’s cult must be
present in the temple for this Rite to be successful.
They act as a sympathetic vessel to the rest of the cult,
empowering those within it and increasing the
benefits reaped by the Begotten themself.
Upon completion of the ritual, the Begotten’s
Primordial Cult merit is treated as 1 dot higher for
all purposes for the duration, allowing them to gain
an additional 1 dot benefit, and all cultists are
treated as if their Mystery Cult Initiation (or
Influence) merit was 1 dot higher for the sake of
benefits gained or any supernatural abilities
dependent on the rating (but not social standing
among the cult). Those that reach 6 dots of
Initiation gain the 9-again benefit to any rolls
involving their other Initiation benefits.
When this Rite is performed by a Herald, their
Beast still gains the normal benefit, and their own
Initiation raises for the purposes of social standing,
too (which will potentially add 9-again to social rolls
with the Cult, if they reach 6 dots).
Exceptional Success: The rating of the Primordial
Cult merit is treated as 2 dots higher.

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Intermediate Rites
Masked Workings
Dice Pool: Finesse + Subterfuge or Occult – 4
Time Per Roll: 30 minutes
Duration: Permanent
Bonus: +2 to all rolls if the Temple’s not been seen
by an outsider since its last consecration
Cost: Boundary stones or other markers around
the border costing Availability •••
While the Secret Ways Rite shields the Temple
from mundane intrusion, this ritual is used to keep
prying supernatural eyes away from it, diverting
them elsewhere.
For so long as the ward holds, any attempt to use
supernatural powers to scry on the area, divine it,
learn about it from afar, or otherwise use
supernatural abilities to gather information about
the Consecrated Temple or the area immediately
around it, must defeat the caster in a Clash of Wills
to be successful. If the Beast wins, the prying
individual is instead given a vision of the Beast’s
Horror, which immediately makes its displeasure
known in a gruesome display, inflicting the Spooked
condition on the offender. However, that image
does remain on their mind, allowing them to
potentially track the Begotten down later.
This ritual immediately ends if the Temple is ever
profaned, although can be used again once it’s re-
Consecrated.
Exceptional Success: The Horror causes the
Frightened condition instead of Spooked on any
offenders.
Kinship: If used alongside another character
casting a ward or protection of their own on the area,
such as a Promethean using the Mystic Fortress
Distillation, the Clash of Wills gains a +2 bonus, and
the other power’s duration is doubled if not already
permanent.
Share Your Brother’s
Blessings
Dice Pool: Power + Academics or Occult – 4
Time Per Roll: 30 minutes
Duration: Varies
Bonus: +2 to all rolls if the target has Family Ties
with the Beast
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Cost: Activation of an appropriate supernatural
power by the target, who must be present
This ritual allows the rite leader to share in the
blessings of their brood and kin. At the completion
of the Rite, the target character activates a
supernatural ability with an impermanent duration
that normally would only affect themself. If the Rite
was successful, the Begotten then gains the benefit
of this power for the normal duration as well, as if
they were the original target for it, so long as it
doesn’t rely on traits the Beast lacks (such as a
Vampiric ability that affects Vitae), and this does not
prevent it from benefitting its original user.
Exceptional Success: The utilized power is an
exceptional success on three successes instead of five,
if not already.
The Mother’s Claws
Dice Pool: Power + Intimidation or Occult – 4
Time Per Roll: 30 minutes
Duration: 24 hours
Bonus: +2 to all rolls if the target is the Beast’s
Herald
Cost: An expenditure of Satiety, and a non-
Begotten participant
This ritual lets the Begotten share one of their
Atavisms with the target. They must expend Satiety
as part of the Rite, whether successful or not, and
the target must be present and participating in the
ritual itself. Upon completion of the ritual, they gain
access to the Atavism, as if they had the Satiety (and
other Beast-only traits) the Begotten currently has at
the time of casting. They may use the Satiety
Expenditure option one time over the course of the
duration, which is effectively paid for by the cost of
the Rite itself.
Exceptional Success: The duration increases to a
full Chapter.
Kinship: If cast while simultaneously receiving
access to another supernatural creature’s power
through a similar ability (like a Vampire using the
Shared Sight Devotion), the duration of both powers
is doubled.

Advanced Rites
Servant of the Dark
Mother
Dice Pool: Finesse + Science or Occult – 6
Time Per Roll: One hour
Duration: 24 hours
Bonus: +2 to all rolls if the creature is sacrificed
for its body as part of the Rite
Cost: A small creature sacrificed for the body
Beasts are capable of birthing Horrorspawn to act
as companions and assistants, and may even break
off pieces of their own Horror more temporarily to
fuel such a creation, but sometimes, the limits of
one’s own Horror and the connection inherent to
the Beast makes this an ill-suiting or risky process.
This Rite, then, allows the Begotten to call upon the
Primordial Dream for a scrap of goetic essence to
fuel a brand new creation, one that’s immediately set
upon a mission decided by the Beast.
The Horrorspawn so created by the ritual forms
within the body sacrificed for the Rite’s purpose. It
isn’t too powerful, having a Potency of only one,
with exact traits decided by the Storyteller, but it
should inherently be built to be well-suited to the
task named, which it will immediately start upon its
birth. However, it’s not under the Begotten’s direct
control, nor is any connection to it formed, and so
it’s blindly set off to its task, lacking other abilities
being used to track or control it.
Exceptional Success: The Horrorspawn is Potency
2 instead.
Kinship: If performed alongside a Vampire
utilizing Blood Sorcery to create or animate a
creature of their own (such as a “zombie” or
gargoyle), both creatures gain an additional health
level.
Wellspring
Dice Pool: Power + Medicine or Occult – 6
Time Per Roll: One hour
Duration: Permanent
Bonus: +2 to all rolls if at least three “points” of
the energy type are used
Cost: A point or more of supernatural energy
(other than Satiety)
While Begotten are capable of sharing in the
benefits of the feeding of their Kin with Family
Dinner, this Rite allows them to give back, creating
a wellspring of energy in the Temple whenever the
Begotten sates their Horror. Whenever the Beast
feeds, after marking the Temple with this Rite, twice
the gained Satiety in points of the supernatural
energy used in the Rite trickles into the area, in a
form appropriate to it; Mana might form into Tass,
Vitae might simply form into a bloody pool, and
Essence likely flows freely around the area in an
intangible form. That energy can then be consumed
through appropriate means by any supernatural
creature capable of making use of it.
This only works when feeding by satisfying the
Beast’s Hunger, not through any alternative means
of gaining Satiety (especially not Family Dinner). As
well, only one version of this Rite can be performed
on a given Temple at a time; it can’t be recast to
cause multiple types of energy to well up.
Exceptional Success: The wellspring produces
thrice the gained Satiety in energy each time.
Kinship: If a supernatural creature that the Beast
has Family Ties with directly and willingly provides
the energy for the Rite, the wellspring produces one
energy per chapter even if the Beast doesn’t feed.
We’re All Her Children
Dice Pool: Finesse + Subterfuge or Occult – 6
Time Per Roll: One hour
Duration: 24 Hours
Bonus: +2 to all rolls if the Beast activates the
appropriate Passing Resemblance beforehand
Cost: Must have previously used Passing
Resemblance to mimic that type of creature before
While Beasts can fool the senses and even
divinatory abilities with Passing Resemblance, their
supernatural nature remains the same, preventing
them from benefiting from certain magics that affect
other children of the Dark Mother. With this ritual,
they can “fool” magic itself, allowing them to benefit
from supernatural powers that normally can only
target a specific type of supernatural being, even if
they lack traits that are normally required (in which
case the power works as closely as possible for the
Begotten, at Storyteller discretion).
This could allow the Sacred Hunt rite to be
performed on a Begotten that’s supernaturally veiled
as a Werewolf, letting them directly take part in the
Hunt instead of just assisting from the sidelines, for
instance, or allow a Vampire using the Flesh Graft
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 Treatment Scale to heal the Begotten’s aggravated
wounds like they were a Vampire (using Satiety
instead of Vitae).
Exceptional Success: For the duration, if Passing
Resemblance of the same type is active, the character
gains the rote action on any Clash of Wills to avoid
their true nature being detected.
Epic Rites
Primordial Wall
Dice Pool: Power + Stealth or Occult – 8
Time Per Roll: One hour
Duration: 24 Hours
Bonus: +2 to all rolls if the Gauntlet rating in the
Temple is at least 4
Cost: 4 marking stones of at least Availability
•••• painted with the ritualist’s blood
This rite closes off the supernatural from the
mundane world in a marked area no larger than a
small town or a district within a larger city. The
marking stones must be painted with the caster’s
blood (and potentially that of any other participants)
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before being placed in the area to be affected, which
must include the Consecrated Temple itself.
If the Rite’s successful, the supernatural realms are
cut off from the mundane. The Gauntlet becomes
impossibly thick, gateways to other realms don’t
function (even to Skeleton Key), and the Begotten
are even cut off from their Lairs; they still retain
awareness of their Horrors via Soul Communion,
but cannot create a Primordial Pathway or use
Skeleton Key to get into their Lair and merge with
them. Supernatural powers treat any gateways as
nonexistent and the rating of any barrier between
worlds as infinitely high for the sake of any
mechanics, gates to or from any realm are treated as
if they simply don’t exist for the duration, and if they
have a way to directly “teleport” to another realm,
they must defeat the ritualist in a Clash of Wills to
do so.
Obviously, this Rite can cause no small amount of
hostility from rival Begotten or other supernatural
beings that rely on access to other realms. As well,
this Rite can be ended early with the death of the
ritualist, making them an immediate target to
anyone that knows how the magic works. Typically,
it’s reserved for cutting off the escape of powerful
supernatural enemies of the Brood, ideally in
otherwise isolated areas.
Exceptional Success: The ritualist gains the rote
action benefit on any Clash of Wills made to prevent
others from traversing realms.
Unity of Purpose
Dice Pool: Power + Empathy or Occult – 8
Time Per Roll: One hour
Duration: Permanent
Bonus: +2 to all rolls if all of the cult are present
Cost: Each beneficiary loses a point of Willpower,
and the Beast must have the Primordial Cult merit
This powerful Rite allows the Begotten to
reinforce the bond between members of their cult,
making it more difficult for outsiders to turn
members against each other or work to betray their
fellows, even with supernatural abilities, turning
them all supernaturally towards the cult’s purpose.
This provides the following mechanical effects:
• Members gain a supernatural tie to each other;
in Mage’s terms, this works akin to a Strong
level of Sympathy. Vampires gain a form of
Blood Sympathy to other cultists, equivalent
to a Thrice Removed connection. Similar
sorts of supernatural ties might be formed or
altered at Storyteller discretion.
• Being forced to work against other cultists, or
the cult’s ideals, causes a form of intense
spiritual duress, which helps members shake
off supernatural influence. When affected by
a power that would force or even encourage a
cultist to cause any sort of harm or
impediment to other cultists, the cult as a
whole, or the group’s goals, or reveal cult
information, the character may roll a Clash of
Wills (using the Beast’s pool) against the user
to ignore the effect. However, the character
suffers a condition/other drawback as if he’d
failed a Breaking Point roll, as appropriate to
the character type (but doesn’t lose Integrity
or similar traits).
• Willingly betraying the cult/cultists causes an
immediate loss of Satiety, Integrity, or other
equivalent trait. In addition, the character
loses all dots of Mystery Cult Initiation in the
group (Sanctity applies), and takes an
unavoidable resistant aggravated damage per
dot lost.
This Rite ends if the Beast ever betrays their own
cult or causes their Herald to become a Hero.
An alternative version of this Rite exists that
instead affects the local Hive, rather than a cult, and
must be performed by the Apex or in their presence.
Exceptional Success: No condition or drawback is
suffered by those shaking off supernatural betrayal
or information-gathering.
Kinship: If performed alongside the swearing of
another sort of supernatural oath or ritualized bond,
any resultant Clash of Wills for either power, or any
roll/trait used to prevent them being dispelled or
undone, gains a +2 bonus. Both become tied
together, and if either would be broken, both are.
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Obcasus Rites are a useful, if not always wholly reliable source

of power for the Begotten, calling upon the Dark Mother and
their own nature to enact change upon the world. Still, Obcasus
Initiates are almost always found in at least small numbers
within a Hive. Mother’s Magic includes 12 new Obcasus Rites for
use by these Initiates.