Schampo
rör ner i hett vatten:
riven olivtvål
kanelmandelolja
Balsam
massera in äppelcidervinäger
tandkräm:
Gurkmeja
torsdag 30 april 2015
Hostministeriet
Schampo
rör ner i hett vatten:
riven olivtvål
kanelmandelolja
Balsam
massera in äppelcidervinäger
tandkräm:
Gurkmeja
måndag 13 april 2015
Kvickrotskaffe
5 dl maskrosblommor (kronbladen)
5 dl vatten
3 dl (sylt)socker
1 st lime
1 st citron
Skala lime och citronen
skär skalet i tunna strimlor
Skär limen och citronen i skivor, lägg i skål med maskrosblomblad
Koka vatten och slå över, låt stå och dra 30 minuter
Sila av och häll i kastrull
tillsätt socker och citruskal
koka upp och sjud 15 minuter
Skumma väl och häll upp marmeladen i urkokta glasburkar
förvara kallt
Från en häxa till inkvisitorn om blåkulla; flygsalva:
fladdermusblod, Belladonna, olja
lika delar, i blå eller gula påsar. Även för jobbsökande
Är du mycket nervös kan du smörja in dig med lite johannesörtsolja
Tongabönor
Latin: Coumarouna
Engelska: tongabeans
Växtdel: bönorna
Element: vatten
Planet: Venus
Egenskaper: kärlek
Tongabönor som bärs om halsen främjar kärlek, fruktbarhet och önskeuppfyllelse. Krossas de och blandas i rökelse är de beskyddande och kan även främja kärleken beroende på örtblandningen.
Bönorna symboliserar livmodern och har sedan urminnes tider burits som fruktbarhetsamulett.
-DD
Engelska: tongabeans
Växtdel: bönorna
Element: vatten
Planet: Venus
Egenskaper: kärlek
Tongabönor som bärs om halsen främjar kärlek, fruktbarhet och önskeuppfyllelse. Krossas de och blandas i rökelse är de beskyddande och kan även främja kärleken beroende på örtblandningen.
Bönorna symboliserar livmodern och har sedan urminnes tider burits som fruktbarhetsamulett.
-DD
The Evil Eye
Since that night I'm not the same
Desire breeds an ugly stain inside me
Satisfaction never comes
It's always dark and yet still I run
Even when I close my eyes
You torture me...
Waking in a chilling sweat
Pounding heart inside my chest I'm screaming
- Melissa Etheridge, "I Want You"
The Evil Eye has caused great fear throughout history. Even today, many people make gestures or buy charms to ward off the Evil Eye and its effects. Often thought to be possessed only by certain ancient and evil women, it has been used as an excuse for numerous atrocities committed against both Gypsies and women. Many of the women accused of witchcraft during the Inquisition were said to have cursed their neighbors by employing the Evil Eye. Of course, almost all the women accused, tortured and killed were utterly incapable of using this powerful method of attack. They were simply unfortunate victims of the paranoia and misogyny of the times.
Certain Gypsies, both male and female, possess the Evil Eye ability, but it also tends to isolate the individual so gifted. Others, even the Romani, are nervous around these people. More then most other Gypsies, the Romani who have the power of the Evil Eye also possess an aura of strangeness and fear.
Gypsies with the Evil Eye receive a +1 difficulty to all Social rolls involving gaje or Romani. This modifier is in addition to any other modification the character may have due to her degree of Blood Purity. Note that this difficulty does not apply to vampires and the like.
Characters attempting to use the Evil Eye should state what they wish to happen to their victim, e.g.: "Bad fortune befall you!", "Hope you get one wicked case of athlete's foot!", or what have you. The effects of the Evil Eye can vary, but should include consequences such as automatic botches, the Storyteller taking away dices from an affected character's roll, or temporary loss in appearance due to the sudden emergence of clumps of fungus on unfortunate areas of a character's anatomy. The downside to all of this for the Romani using the Evil Eye is that if she botches, she affects herself instead!
Characters using the Evil Eye must make an Evil Eye + Manipulation roll (difficulty of the target's Willpower + 2).
As indicated below, the number of successes rolled when using the Evil Eye determines both the intensity and duration of the curse. A character who uses the Evil Eye may remove its effects at any time (unless she is the one affected).
One Success: Curse affects victim for one week. Victim is mildly affected (loses one die one some Skill rolls, grows a wart on her cheek, botches one roll, etc.).
Two Successes: Curse affects victim for one month, loses one die on 10 different Skill rolls, receives 3 automatic botches, etc.
Three Successes: Curse affects victim for six months, 6 automatic botches, lose 1-2 dice from half of her Skill rolls for the duration, or loses all her hair.
Four Successes: Curse affects victim for one year, 12 automatic botches, 2-3 dices from half her Skill rolls for the duration, or receives a severe disease or injury.
Five Successes; Curse affects victim indefinitely. Effects are similar to four successes above, except that the results of the Evil Eye are permanent if not removed by magical or miraculous means.
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The Evil Eye may be warded off through the use of a piece of draba designed for that purpose, with the strength of the draba negating the number of Evil Eye successes. However, once the draba has been overcome by a Gypsy using the Evil Eye, it is rendered useless. See the Draba section for more information about this Romani art.The Evil Eye may only be reserved by the cursing Gypsy or by any other Gypsy with skill in the Evil Eye. The cursing Gypsy may automatically cancel the effects of the Evil Eye. Another Gypsy skilled in the Evil Eye must make an Evil Eye + Charisma roll (difficulty 3 + the number of cursing successes originally achieved). The player must subtract the number of successes the Gypsy attempting to cure him. The Gypsy rolls from the initial strength of the curse (4-3=1), and so Jusa will only be forced to trip once in combat. If he has already tripped once or more, the curse is lifted.Any Gypsy can only make one attempt to remove a particular curse. if a Gypsy attempting to reverse the Evil Eye botches his roll he must make a second test. Any successes made on this test actually increase the severity of the curse by that number of successes.
Desire breeds an ugly stain inside me
Satisfaction never comes
It's always dark and yet still I run
Even when I close my eyes
You torture me...
Waking in a chilling sweat
Pounding heart inside my chest I'm screaming
- Melissa Etheridge, "I Want You"
The Evil Eye has caused great fear throughout history. Even today, many people make gestures or buy charms to ward off the Evil Eye and its effects. Often thought to be possessed only by certain ancient and evil women, it has been used as an excuse for numerous atrocities committed against both Gypsies and women. Many of the women accused of witchcraft during the Inquisition were said to have cursed their neighbors by employing the Evil Eye. Of course, almost all the women accused, tortured and killed were utterly incapable of using this powerful method of attack. They were simply unfortunate victims of the paranoia and misogyny of the times.
Certain Gypsies, both male and female, possess the Evil Eye ability, but it also tends to isolate the individual so gifted. Others, even the Romani, are nervous around these people. More then most other Gypsies, the Romani who have the power of the Evil Eye also possess an aura of strangeness and fear.
Gypsies with the Evil Eye receive a +1 difficulty to all Social rolls involving gaje or Romani. This modifier is in addition to any other modification the character may have due to her degree of Blood Purity. Note that this difficulty does not apply to vampires and the like.
Characters attempting to use the Evil Eye should state what they wish to happen to their victim, e.g.: "Bad fortune befall you!", "Hope you get one wicked case of athlete's foot!", or what have you. The effects of the Evil Eye can vary, but should include consequences such as automatic botches, the Storyteller taking away dices from an affected character's roll, or temporary loss in appearance due to the sudden emergence of clumps of fungus on unfortunate areas of a character's anatomy. The downside to all of this for the Romani using the Evil Eye is that if she botches, she affects herself instead!
Characters using the Evil Eye must make an Evil Eye + Manipulation roll (difficulty of the target's Willpower + 2).
As indicated below, the number of successes rolled when using the Evil Eye determines both the intensity and duration of the curse. A character who uses the Evil Eye may remove its effects at any time (unless she is the one affected).
One Success: Curse affects victim for one week. Victim is mildly affected (loses one die one some Skill rolls, grows a wart on her cheek, botches one roll, etc.).
Two Successes: Curse affects victim for one month, loses one die on 10 different Skill rolls, receives 3 automatic botches, etc.
Three Successes: Curse affects victim for six months, 6 automatic botches, lose 1-2 dice from half of her Skill rolls for the duration, or loses all her hair.
Four Successes: Curse affects victim for one year, 12 automatic botches, 2-3 dices from half her Skill rolls for the duration, or receives a severe disease or injury.
Five Successes; Curse affects victim indefinitely. Effects are similar to four successes above, except that the results of the Evil Eye are permanent if not removed by magical or miraculous means.
The Evil Eye may be warded off through the use of a piece of draba designed for that purpose, with the strength of the draba negating the number of Evil Eye successes. However, once the draba has been overcome by a Gypsy using the Evil Eye, it is rendered useless. See the Draba section for more information about this Romani art.The Evil Eye may only be reserved by the cursing Gypsy or by any other Gypsy with skill in the Evil Eye. The cursing Gypsy may automatically cancel the effects of the Evil Eye. Another Gypsy skilled in the Evil Eye must make an Evil Eye + Charisma roll (difficulty 3 + the number of cursing successes originally achieved). The player must subtract the number of successes the Gypsy attempting to cure him. The Gypsy rolls from the initial strength of the curse (4-3=1), and so Jusa will only be forced to trip once in combat. If he has already tripped once or more, the curse is lifted.Any Gypsy can only make one attempt to remove a particular curse. if a Gypsy attempting to reverse the Evil Eye botches his roll he must make a second test. Any successes made on this test actually increase the severity of the curse by that number of successes.
- Teeuwynn
fredag 10 april 2015
Vallmo
Latin: Papaver
Engelska: poppy
Växtplats: åkrar och vägrenar
Växtdel: blomma, frö och frökapsel
Insamlingtid: måndagar och torsdagar kring midsommar
Element: vatten
Planet: månen
Andar och gudar: mångudinnorna Artemis och Diana, Hypnos, Morfeus, Thanatos och Hel
Egenskaper: fruktbarhet, välstånd och drömmar
Giftighet: opiumvallmon är giftig
Vallmon är månens ört. Den skänker djup sömn och sköna drömmar och kan bana vägen för dolda djup och längtan. Vallmon har fått sitt namn av det gamla ordet vale som betyder dvala och djup sömn. Saften, i synnerhet från vita och ljuslila vallmor har förbindelse med sömnens gud Hypnos, hans son Morfeus och dödens gud Thanatos. Det sägs att vallmon blommar och växer där jorden fuktats med blod från stupade soldater.
Att omge sig med fröna skänker fruktbarhet och pengar.
-DD
Engelska: poppy
Växtplats: åkrar och vägrenar
Växtdel: blomma, frö och frökapsel
Insamlingtid: måndagar och torsdagar kring midsommar
Element: vatten
Planet: månen
Andar och gudar: mångudinnorna Artemis och Diana, Hypnos, Morfeus, Thanatos och Hel
Egenskaper: fruktbarhet, välstånd och drömmar
Giftighet: opiumvallmon är giftig
Vallmon är månens ört. Den skänker djup sömn och sköna drömmar och kan bana vägen för dolda djup och längtan. Vallmon har fått sitt namn av det gamla ordet vale som betyder dvala och djup sömn. Saften, i synnerhet från vita och ljuslila vallmor har förbindelse med sömnens gud Hypnos, hans son Morfeus och dödens gud Thanatos. Det sägs att vallmon blommar och växer där jorden fuktats med blod från stupade soldater.
Att omge sig med fröna skänker fruktbarhet och pengar.
-DD
The Lifestyle
The Fabulous freaks are leaving town
They are driven by a strange desire
Unseen by the human eye
- Dead Can Dance, "The Carnival is Over"
The Gypsies have been a traveling people ever since Daenna and Sarrath first fled the Ivory City amid a vast sea of refugees. Over the years, various families and factions have formed as the Gypsies spread and multiplied, each becoming more specialized in the process. Yet each family continues to hold dear the freedom of the road.
For many years, Gypsies traveled from town to town in wagons known as vardos. A few Gypsy families maintain this practice even today, but most Gypsies have been forced to adjust their old lifestyle to the onset of technology. In fact, many Gypsies have been unusually creative, cleverly adapting new technologies to their own advantage. Modern Gypsies travel North America in caravans consisting of trailer homes, Cadillacs and Harleys; some even have computer systems to enhance their eclectic businesses. Laptops and other forms of portable technology have become particularly valued among many Gypsies.
Gypsies have grown particularly fond of modems, traveling the burgeoning information highway with the same panache they do the cracked blacktop of the interstates. Although Gypsies are, as yet, a minor presence on the net, they are beginning to make an impact by running electronic scams and creating magically altered modems, which can crack security measures or even pilfer information from any computer that has ever hooked into the net. Many other electronic devices have been altered or refined to extract money from automatic teller machines, charge items on gaje credit cards, and perform other useful business dealings.
During the past century, many governments have stepped up efforts to coerce, bribe, or even force the Gypsies to give up their traveling lifestyle (when they aren't busy trying to kick the Gypsies out altogether!) Governments can't stand a large group of individuals that refuses to be labeled, marked and categorized. A Gypsy changes her Social Security number (if she even has one) as easily as your average American would change a tire. This type of behavior and constant movement make it extremely difficult for governments to monitor Gypsies, and just about impossible for governments to control them.
Most governments also try to force Gypsies to keep their children in normal schools - which the Gypsies refuse to do, preferring to educate their children in their own manner. The education received by young Romani is usually quite different than that of most children, and this separation helps the Gypsies maintain their own traditions and culture amidst the pressures of modern civilization.
- Teeuwynn
They are driven by a strange desire
Unseen by the human eye
- Dead Can Dance, "The Carnival is Over"
For many years, Gypsies traveled from town to town in wagons known as vardos. A few Gypsy families maintain this practice even today, but most Gypsies have been forced to adjust their old lifestyle to the onset of technology. In fact, many Gypsies have been unusually creative, cleverly adapting new technologies to their own advantage. Modern Gypsies travel North America in caravans consisting of trailer homes, Cadillacs and Harleys; some even have computer systems to enhance their eclectic businesses. Laptops and other forms of portable technology have become particularly valued among many Gypsies.
Gypsies have grown particularly fond of modems, traveling the burgeoning information highway with the same panache they do the cracked blacktop of the interstates. Although Gypsies are, as yet, a minor presence on the net, they are beginning to make an impact by running electronic scams and creating magically altered modems, which can crack security measures or even pilfer information from any computer that has ever hooked into the net. Many other electronic devices have been altered or refined to extract money from automatic teller machines, charge items on gaje credit cards, and perform other useful business dealings.
During the past century, many governments have stepped up efforts to coerce, bribe, or even force the Gypsies to give up their traveling lifestyle (when they aren't busy trying to kick the Gypsies out altogether!) Governments can't stand a large group of individuals that refuses to be labeled, marked and categorized. A Gypsy changes her Social Security number (if she even has one) as easily as your average American would change a tire. This type of behavior and constant movement make it extremely difficult for governments to monitor Gypsies, and just about impossible for governments to control them.
Most governments also try to force Gypsies to keep their children in normal schools - which the Gypsies refuse to do, preferring to educate their children in their own manner. The education received by young Romani is usually quite different than that of most children, and this separation helps the Gypsies maintain their own traditions and culture amidst the pressures of modern civilization.
- Teeuwynn
Blåklint och örtknyten
God,
ätbar
Superlugnande bad
När du exprimenterat med en ny form av magisk besvärjelse och sett något du aldrig väntat dig att möta eller du har prövat ett nytt recept för att bli osynlig och inte kan se dig själv i spegelen gör detta bad susen. Ta 1 del taggbräken som skördats på midsommarnatten, 1 del renfana skördat den 2 augusti och 28 droppar eukalyptusolja. Vattnet ska vara svalt, men inte så kallt att du får lunginflammation. Bada gärna i solskenet. -DD
Gråbo får dig att minnas dina drömmar. Plocka vid fullmåne, lägg under huvudkudden en torsdag.
Ros, mynta, citronmeliss och nejlika ger sköna drömmar.
Angelika förljuvar drömmarna.
Örtknyten till massage
onsdag 8 april 2015
Purity vs. Contamination
The Gypsies harbor a strong belief that maintaining purity is critical. All Gypsies are extraordinarily careful to never eat food that is dirt, and Gypsies almost never refer to bodily fluids or functions. If a Gypsy is so unfortunate as to sully herself by becoming somehow contaminated, she must perform elaborate cleansing rituals before she can eat with, touch or truly socialize with other Gypsies. It is not unheard of for a Gypsy to kill herself of she believes she has been forever contaminated.
The views on purity and contamination held by the Romani have been formed as protective measures. On the surface, most gaje researchers regard them simply as beliefs developed to keep Gypsies from eating bad food, to prevent disease, etc. This is eminently logical, but it is not the only reason the Gypsies hold on to their taboos.
Gypsies keep secret the special abilities passed on to them through their Blood. Few of today´s Romani know the reason behind the taboo against referring to Blood and other bodily fluids. Daenna and her descendants knew it was imperative that the heritage passed through the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge not be discovered by those such as the Antediluvians, or by any of a number of paranoid leaders among the gaje, lest every Rom be hunted down. The taboos help preserve the sanctity of the Gypsies´ secrets; thus, the ancient knowledge only surface during times when it is needed.
Many of the Phuri Dae believe that Hitler had discovered the power of their Blood and was thus committed to destroying the Rom. The purity and superiority of the Gypsies´ Blood may have intrigued as well as enraged Hitler and the SS. Rumors also speak of terrible torture and experimentation performed on some of the Rom held in concentration camps, in which large amount of Blood were extracted from the prisoners. This Blood may have been intended for use in the dark rituals of certain high ranking officers of the SS, who were also said to be dark mages.
- Teeuwynn
The views on purity and contamination held by the Romani have been formed as protective measures. On the surface, most gaje researchers regard them simply as beliefs developed to keep Gypsies from eating bad food, to prevent disease, etc. This is eminently logical, but it is not the only reason the Gypsies hold on to their taboos.
Gypsies keep secret the special abilities passed on to them through their Blood. Few of today´s Romani know the reason behind the taboo against referring to Blood and other bodily fluids. Daenna and her descendants knew it was imperative that the heritage passed through the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge not be discovered by those such as the Antediluvians, or by any of a number of paranoid leaders among the gaje, lest every Rom be hunted down. The taboos help preserve the sanctity of the Gypsies´ secrets; thus, the ancient knowledge only surface during times when it is needed.
- Teeuwynn
Vildkaprifol
Latin: Lonicera periclymenum
Engelska: honeysuckle
Växtplats: skogar och snår
Växtdel: blad och blommor
Insamlingtid: blomman efter och bladen före midsommar. Skördas vid tilltagande måne.
Element: jord
Planet: Jupiter
Egenskaper: skönhet, äventyr, glädje och pengar
Giftighet: lätt giftig
Kaprifolen kryper fram i snårskogen och sprider en doft av älskog när daggen faller på dess blommor.
Plocka blommorna och låt dem dra i olja när du vill ut på äventyr i storstadens snårskog. Kaprifolen drar speciellt till sig kvinnor.
Doften skänker klarsyn när du smörjer in pannan med den krossade blomman.
-DD
Engelska: honeysuckle
Växtplats: skogar och snår
Växtdel: blad och blommor
Insamlingtid: blomman efter och bladen före midsommar. Skördas vid tilltagande måne.
Element: jord
Planet: Jupiter
Egenskaper: skönhet, äventyr, glädje och pengar
Giftighet: lätt giftig
Kaprifolen kryper fram i snårskogen och sprider en doft av älskog när daggen faller på dess blommor.
Plocka blommorna och låt dem dra i olja när du vill ut på äventyr i storstadens snårskog. Kaprifolen drar speciellt till sig kvinnor.
Doften skänker klarsyn när du smörjer in pannan med den krossade blomman.
-DD
söndag 5 april 2015
The Tsurara
"As the mother wept it was then I swore
To take my life as I would a whore
I know I´m better than before
I will not be reconstructed
Just wanna stay right here
On the sunnyside of the street"
- The Pogues, the sunnyside of the street
The Tsurara, or "Knife Tribe," is a new and radical family. First gathered together in the late 1940s by a young Gypsy mage known as Korasca, the Tsurara believe in the superiority of the Rom over all others, and the superiority of the Knife Tribe over all Rom. Believing themselves to be the finely honed epitome of all that the Blood brings the Rom, the Tsurara see their fledgling family as the zenith of the pentagram: the rarefied spirit that forms the highest level of Romani evolution.
Claiming to be the new Guardians of Bonnerin, the Seed of the Balanced Scale, (and in some cases claiming control of all the Seeds), the Tsurara believe the Convergence is just around the corner. They also believe that they shall be the the driving blade that slices the string of power held by all others, but most specially the vampires ...
The first Tsurara, Korasca, was the only member of his family to survive the genocide of the Holocaust. Bitter and alone, he wandered Europe searching for other isolated Rom like himself. Eventually he met up with a vampire neonate who told Korasca how she and other Rom had taken part in an uprising at Glodker, one of the Nazi concentration camps. The shilmulo neonate Trinka, went into detail, explaining how other shilmulo had Embraced many of the Rom of the camp and how they had risen against their imprisoners, destroying the camp for good.
Although at first gladdened by Trinka´s news, Korasca became more and more horrified as he heard Trinka speak of the sharing and drinking of blood. Questioning the young vampire, Korasca discovered she and all the others had been drained of their Romani Blood in order to become shilmulo. Disguising his horror at her story, Korasca agreed to guard Trinka while she slept within the Earth´s embrace.
Korasca spent half day thinking on the new horrors revealed to him by Trinka. Not only had she spoken so freely of the Blood, but she and others had freely given away their Blood, their heritage, to be free of the concentration camp. The Rom of the camp had sold their heritage in order to free themselves and save their own skins. To Korasca´s way of thinking, Trinka and the others had committed an even greater form of genocide than the Third Reich by turning against themselves and destroying their own Blood.
Soon Korasca knew what he must do. Taking up a shovel and pick, the traditional weapons of the righteous and downtrodden, Korasca exposed Trinka to the purifying rays of the sun, thus destroying his first "traitor to the blood."
Known variously as the Tsurara, the Knife Tribe, and the Slayers, the family begun by Korasca is dedicated to keeping the Romani Blood pure. The family is convinced that when the Convergence arrives, Romani of the true Blood must stand ready to play their crucial role of purification. If the Urmen see the Rom as midwives to a new era, the Slayers view themselves as surgeons wielding a gleaming scalpel.
The Tsurara look forward with fevered imaginings to the time of the Convergence, when they can lash away with the white-hot surgeon´s blade, cutting away the impure, cancerous growths, leaving only the truly pure and healthy behind, in this case, only the true Rom and those gaje destined to support them).
Who is pure and who is marhime, or impure, is a fiercely debated subject among members of the family, but almost all agree the vampires, and all Ravnos shilmulo in particular, must be excised. The Slayer view the Ravnos shilmulo as the worst of traitors, and do not even consider them to be Rom, for the vampires sacrifice their Blood for power, and without Blood, there can be no Rom. Humans and the Ravnos family are seen as almost as bad, although the Tsurara concede that some of their particularly pure Blooded may be salvageable.
Very different from their near-unanimous convictions about the vampires is the debate now thriving among members of the Tsurara over the status of the werewolves of their kin. Some insist that werewolves embody the physical rage and power of the Rom and are of the purest Blood, while other members disagree vehemently, saying the werewolves, being part animal, have their own peculiar allegiances and thus cannot be pure Gypsies in both mind and soul. Others point out that they are the children of incest, and sullied by this heritage. Still other Tsurara think the Silent Striders and other Garou, though not as pure Blood as the Rom, may still be meant to serve the Rom as guards, just as dogs travel with most Romani families (and all Tsurara kumpaniyi).
The Slayers agree that Rom must only lie with Rom, so that the blood can remain as pure as possible. Producing children with a gaje is thus considered a crime against the Blood and carries severe penalties among the Tsurara, up to and including death.
The Knife Tribe vigorously encourages its members to hone all Abilities, most especially those tied to the Blood; all branches of the family constantly seek to improve their powers. This is the main reason why the Slayer, although a particularly isolated grouping of families, emphatically encourage young members to go on tour with Gypsies from other families (even Ravnos). The elder Tsurara see this as the most convenient way to glean information about what the other families (particularly other families of power) are thinking and doing, as well as enable young Slayers to learn some of the skills peculiar to other families. However, in recent years many young Gypsies have begun refusing to accept youths of the Tsurara into their kumpania.
When a Slayer is accepted on a tour, she is usually watched very closely for the same reasons encourage their young to go on tour. Because of this suspicion, many Slayers pretend to be from a different family, usually a lesser family, in order to gain easier admission to a tour.
The Tsurara actively search out all vampires, but most especially Ravnos, as they are convinced that destroying all shilmulo is a vital cause. The Tsurara´s demographics are disproportionatley young and male. These Slayers wander from city to city looking for trouble. The most radical of these youths believe that all gaje are fair game, not just to con and steal from, but to kill.
Young Slayers often either shave and tattoo their heads or wear their hair long and unkempt. Many experiment with drugs and other forms of mind-alteration in order to tap into, or heighten, the specific powers of their Blood. Although members of the clan encourage such behavior, claiming the Knife Tribe´s mission is important enough to warrant such extreme methods.
Unfortunately for those young Rom, many of these users soon reach a point where they are only able to tap into their Blood-given abilities while using drugs. This set up a vicious cycle of drug addiction that all too often leads to an early grave for these Tsurara, and may eventually lead to the clan´s death as well.
Blood sense
At some point in his work, Korasca discovered that the Blood provided him with a method for discerning both the purity of a Rom´s Blood and the Blood of others. Over the years of Korasca learned how to sense the blood of others and determine its very nature. In the last few years before his disappearance, Korasca was said to be able to smell a Ravnos several miles distant ("reeking of gangrene and poison"). Knowing the advantage such an ability was to his cause, Korasca taught some of the Slayers how to use this ability to know their enemies.
This ability is strictly guarded skill. Slayers who learn how to sense blood must swear on their own Family that they will not reveal its secret to any not of the clan. The only Slayer known to have revealed this skill to an outsider (one of the Phuri Dae) was subjected to the Tsurara ritual known as the Cleansing.
This ritual consists of hoisting the subject over a large fire in a spread-eagled position and making small, but deep, cuts at the pulse points (wrists, throat, groin). The Blood of the subject is cleansed by the fire. Normally the ritual ends in death and the body´s cremation. Occasionally, if there is a possibility of the traitor repairing the damage to the Rom, the ritual is stopped prior to death and the traitor given a chance to redeem herself.
The ability to sense blood enables a Slayer to sense the quality and nature of blood itself. Spending one point of Willpower, the Tsurara rolls a Perception + Blood sense (difficulty of 6) to determine success. If the Slayer is unsuccessful, she simply can´t tell anything about the subject´s blood and heritage. The level of skill determines the amount of sensitivity the Rom has.
Level One: The Slayer is able to determine whether or not a given individual has Romani Blood. Additional success enable the Slayer to determine the purity of the Blood (number of Blood Purity points). This ability can also detect a vampire who currently has Romani Blood in her veins (although she cannot necessarily tell the target is a vampire).
Level Two: The Slayer can determine if an individual is a mage. Additional successes enable the Slayer to determine the general nature of the mage´s abilities.
Level Three: The sensor can determine if the subject is a vampire or werewolf. Vampires with the Obfuscate Discipline are more difficult to detect. Each level of Obfuscate increase the difficulty level by one. A Slayer attempting to sense the blood of a vampire with two levels of Obfuscate would need to roll a nine to succeed.
Level Four: Once the blood of a vampire, Rom or werewolf has been first sensed, the Slayer can "smell" the person´s blood from up to one mile distant simply by concentrating on it.
Level Five: At this level the Slayer can sense a known quarry up to three miles distant. Additionally, the sensor can determine what physical state the subject is in: active, wounded, asleep, etc.
Tsurara in a Chronicle
The Tsurara are particularly vicious, hatemongering family of Gypsies that has quickly grown in power since Korasca destroyed his first Ravnos. Although information on the Tsurara and their special abilities is given in this book, Storytellers are advised to use Tsurara as antagonists in Chronicles. Storytellers may even wish to prevent players from creating such characters.
In a very real sense the Slayer represent the lurking danger of the Gypsies´ heritage. The Gypsies have been set apart by both their Blood and their great knowledge. In addition, they have been persecuted simply for being different and a minority, and because others recognize that they possess something the rest of the world does not. Such conditions have served to unify the Gypsies in a way that only the intimacy of a threatened minority, cast adrift on a hostile world, can do.
The Gypsies cherish their unique knowledge, heritage and abilities, protecting these from the cultural octopus that is the world of the gaje. However, in the Slayers, the power-in-self and communal identity of the Gypsies has festered and turned into power-over mentality. Believing what the gaje fear, that any who have superior (or exclusive) access to power and knowledge will feel others inferior and worthy of abuse, the Tsurara sink into a cycle of fear and insecurity. Those having this type of mind-set constantly fear that if they are not grinding others into the dirt, thus proving their superiority by pain, they will be the once at the bottom.
Such a mentality feeds on itself, turning all who do not fit exactly into the rigid specifications of the group into enemies to be tortured and destroyed. Soon, even those members of the group who are not of exactly the same hatemongering mind-set and abilities (such as the other families of Rom), also become the enemy. From this cancerous cycle of pain, domination and subjugation, there is little hope for redemption.
- Teeuwynn
To take my life as I would a whore
I know I´m better than before
I will not be reconstructed
Just wanna stay right here
On the sunnyside of the street"
- The Pogues, the sunnyside of the street
The Tsurara, or "Knife Tribe," is a new and radical family. First gathered together in the late 1940s by a young Gypsy mage known as Korasca, the Tsurara believe in the superiority of the Rom over all others, and the superiority of the Knife Tribe over all Rom. Believing themselves to be the finely honed epitome of all that the Blood brings the Rom, the Tsurara see their fledgling family as the zenith of the pentagram: the rarefied spirit that forms the highest level of Romani evolution.
Claiming to be the new Guardians of Bonnerin, the Seed of the Balanced Scale, (and in some cases claiming control of all the Seeds), the Tsurara believe the Convergence is just around the corner. They also believe that they shall be the the driving blade that slices the string of power held by all others, but most specially the vampires ...
The first Tsurara, Korasca, was the only member of his family to survive the genocide of the Holocaust. Bitter and alone, he wandered Europe searching for other isolated Rom like himself. Eventually he met up with a vampire neonate who told Korasca how she and other Rom had taken part in an uprising at Glodker, one of the Nazi concentration camps. The shilmulo neonate Trinka, went into detail, explaining how other shilmulo had Embraced many of the Rom of the camp and how they had risen against their imprisoners, destroying the camp for good.
Although at first gladdened by Trinka´s news, Korasca became more and more horrified as he heard Trinka speak of the sharing and drinking of blood. Questioning the young vampire, Korasca discovered she and all the others had been drained of their Romani Blood in order to become shilmulo. Disguising his horror at her story, Korasca agreed to guard Trinka while she slept within the Earth´s embrace.
Korasca spent half day thinking on the new horrors revealed to him by Trinka. Not only had she spoken so freely of the Blood, but she and others had freely given away their Blood, their heritage, to be free of the concentration camp. The Rom of the camp had sold their heritage in order to free themselves and save their own skins. To Korasca´s way of thinking, Trinka and the others had committed an even greater form of genocide than the Third Reich by turning against themselves and destroying their own Blood.
Soon Korasca knew what he must do. Taking up a shovel and pick, the traditional weapons of the righteous and downtrodden, Korasca exposed Trinka to the purifying rays of the sun, thus destroying his first "traitor to the blood."
Known variously as the Tsurara, the Knife Tribe, and the Slayers, the family begun by Korasca is dedicated to keeping the Romani Blood pure. The family is convinced that when the Convergence arrives, Romani of the true Blood must stand ready to play their crucial role of purification. If the Urmen see the Rom as midwives to a new era, the Slayers view themselves as surgeons wielding a gleaming scalpel.
The Tsurara look forward with fevered imaginings to the time of the Convergence, when they can lash away with the white-hot surgeon´s blade, cutting away the impure, cancerous growths, leaving only the truly pure and healthy behind, in this case, only the true Rom and those gaje destined to support them).
Who is pure and who is marhime, or impure, is a fiercely debated subject among members of the family, but almost all agree the vampires, and all Ravnos shilmulo in particular, must be excised. The Slayer view the Ravnos shilmulo as the worst of traitors, and do not even consider them to be Rom, for the vampires sacrifice their Blood for power, and without Blood, there can be no Rom. Humans and the Ravnos family are seen as almost as bad, although the Tsurara concede that some of their particularly pure Blooded may be salvageable.
Very different from their near-unanimous convictions about the vampires is the debate now thriving among members of the Tsurara over the status of the werewolves of their kin. Some insist that werewolves embody the physical rage and power of the Rom and are of the purest Blood, while other members disagree vehemently, saying the werewolves, being part animal, have their own peculiar allegiances and thus cannot be pure Gypsies in both mind and soul. Others point out that they are the children of incest, and sullied by this heritage. Still other Tsurara think the Silent Striders and other Garou, though not as pure Blood as the Rom, may still be meant to serve the Rom as guards, just as dogs travel with most Romani families (and all Tsurara kumpaniyi).
The Slayers agree that Rom must only lie with Rom, so that the blood can remain as pure as possible. Producing children with a gaje is thus considered a crime against the Blood and carries severe penalties among the Tsurara, up to and including death.
The Knife Tribe vigorously encourages its members to hone all Abilities, most especially those tied to the Blood; all branches of the family constantly seek to improve their powers. This is the main reason why the Slayer, although a particularly isolated grouping of families, emphatically encourage young members to go on tour with Gypsies from other families (even Ravnos). The elder Tsurara see this as the most convenient way to glean information about what the other families (particularly other families of power) are thinking and doing, as well as enable young Slayers to learn some of the skills peculiar to other families. However, in recent years many young Gypsies have begun refusing to accept youths of the Tsurara into their kumpania.
When a Slayer is accepted on a tour, she is usually watched very closely for the same reasons encourage their young to go on tour. Because of this suspicion, many Slayers pretend to be from a different family, usually a lesser family, in order to gain easier admission to a tour.
The Tsurara actively search out all vampires, but most especially Ravnos, as they are convinced that destroying all shilmulo is a vital cause. The Tsurara´s demographics are disproportionatley young and male. These Slayers wander from city to city looking for trouble. The most radical of these youths believe that all gaje are fair game, not just to con and steal from, but to kill.
Young Slayers often either shave and tattoo their heads or wear their hair long and unkempt. Many experiment with drugs and other forms of mind-alteration in order to tap into, or heighten, the specific powers of their Blood. Although members of the clan encourage such behavior, claiming the Knife Tribe´s mission is important enough to warrant such extreme methods.
Unfortunately for those young Rom, many of these users soon reach a point where they are only able to tap into their Blood-given abilities while using drugs. This set up a vicious cycle of drug addiction that all too often leads to an early grave for these Tsurara, and may eventually lead to the clan´s death as well.
At some point in his work, Korasca discovered that the Blood provided him with a method for discerning both the purity of a Rom´s Blood and the Blood of others. Over the years of Korasca learned how to sense the blood of others and determine its very nature. In the last few years before his disappearance, Korasca was said to be able to smell a Ravnos several miles distant ("reeking of gangrene and poison"). Knowing the advantage such an ability was to his cause, Korasca taught some of the Slayers how to use this ability to know their enemies.
This ability is strictly guarded skill. Slayers who learn how to sense blood must swear on their own Family that they will not reveal its secret to any not of the clan. The only Slayer known to have revealed this skill to an outsider (one of the Phuri Dae) was subjected to the Tsurara ritual known as the Cleansing.
This ritual consists of hoisting the subject over a large fire in a spread-eagled position and making small, but deep, cuts at the pulse points (wrists, throat, groin). The Blood of the subject is cleansed by the fire. Normally the ritual ends in death and the body´s cremation. Occasionally, if there is a possibility of the traitor repairing the damage to the Rom, the ritual is stopped prior to death and the traitor given a chance to redeem herself.
The ability to sense blood enables a Slayer to sense the quality and nature of blood itself. Spending one point of Willpower, the Tsurara rolls a Perception + Blood sense (difficulty of 6) to determine success. If the Slayer is unsuccessful, she simply can´t tell anything about the subject´s blood and heritage. The level of skill determines the amount of sensitivity the Rom has.
Level One: The Slayer is able to determine whether or not a given individual has Romani Blood. Additional success enable the Slayer to determine the purity of the Blood (number of Blood Purity points). This ability can also detect a vampire who currently has Romani Blood in her veins (although she cannot necessarily tell the target is a vampire).
Level Two: The Slayer can determine if an individual is a mage. Additional successes enable the Slayer to determine the general nature of the mage´s abilities.
Level Three: The sensor can determine if the subject is a vampire or werewolf. Vampires with the Obfuscate Discipline are more difficult to detect. Each level of Obfuscate increase the difficulty level by one. A Slayer attempting to sense the blood of a vampire with two levels of Obfuscate would need to roll a nine to succeed.
Level Four: Once the blood of a vampire, Rom or werewolf has been first sensed, the Slayer can "smell" the person´s blood from up to one mile distant simply by concentrating on it.
Level Five: At this level the Slayer can sense a known quarry up to three miles distant. Additionally, the sensor can determine what physical state the subject is in: active, wounded, asleep, etc.
The Tsurara are particularly vicious, hatemongering family of Gypsies that has quickly grown in power since Korasca destroyed his first Ravnos. Although information on the Tsurara and their special abilities is given in this book, Storytellers are advised to use Tsurara as antagonists in Chronicles. Storytellers may even wish to prevent players from creating such characters.
In a very real sense the Slayer represent the lurking danger of the Gypsies´ heritage. The Gypsies have been set apart by both their Blood and their great knowledge. In addition, they have been persecuted simply for being different and a minority, and because others recognize that they possess something the rest of the world does not. Such conditions have served to unify the Gypsies in a way that only the intimacy of a threatened minority, cast adrift on a hostile world, can do.
The Gypsies cherish their unique knowledge, heritage and abilities, protecting these from the cultural octopus that is the world of the gaje. However, in the Slayers, the power-in-self and communal identity of the Gypsies has festered and turned into power-over mentality. Believing what the gaje fear, that any who have superior (or exclusive) access to power and knowledge will feel others inferior and worthy of abuse, the Tsurara sink into a cycle of fear and insecurity. Those having this type of mind-set constantly fear that if they are not grinding others into the dirt, thus proving their superiority by pain, they will be the once at the bottom.
Such a mentality feeds on itself, turning all who do not fit exactly into the rigid specifications of the group into enemies to be tortured and destroyed. Soon, even those members of the group who are not of exactly the same hatemongering mind-set and abilities (such as the other families of Rom), also become the enemy. From this cancerous cycle of pain, domination and subjugation, there is little hope for redemption.
- Teeuwynn
lördag 4 april 2015
Vinruta
Latin: Ruta graveolens
Engelska: rue
Växtplats: odlas i trädgårdar, växer vild i Medelhavsländerna
Växtdel: blad, blomma och stängel
Insamlingtid: vår och sommar, som beskydd: torsdagar
Element: eld
Planet: solen
Andar och gudar: Diana och Aradia
Egenskaper: renar, skyddar mot dålig karma och negativ påverkan från stjärnorna, vänder olycka till lycka, skärper hjärnan och främjar mentalt arbete
Giftighet: giftig
Denna egendomligt doftande växt intar en särställning som renande och beskyddande trolldomsväxt.
I pesttider höll man plantan i handen eller bar den för näsa och mun. I katolska kyrkor använder man kvistar av vinruta och rosmarin till att sprida vigvatten med. I övrigt används den i blandningar mot onda ögon, demoner, dålig karma, svart magi och negativ påverkan från stjärnorna.
Bär man den om halsen håller man ormar borta och äter man lite av den är den ett motgift mot alla slags gifter.
Dess doft skyddar mot sjukdom.
Saften eller oljan från vinrutan kan ge upphov till utslag som kan ta flera månader att läka. Använd handskar när du plockar den. Utslagen blir värre av solljus. Efter beröring med saft eller olja bör huden tvättas med tvål och vatten och sköljas grundligt och eventuellt efterbehandlas med salviavatten.
- DD
Engelska: rue
Växtplats: odlas i trädgårdar, växer vild i Medelhavsländerna
Växtdel: blad, blomma och stängel
Insamlingtid: vår och sommar, som beskydd: torsdagar
Element: eld
Planet: solen
Andar och gudar: Diana och Aradia
Egenskaper: renar, skyddar mot dålig karma och negativ påverkan från stjärnorna, vänder olycka till lycka, skärper hjärnan och främjar mentalt arbete
Giftighet: giftig
Denna egendomligt doftande växt intar en särställning som renande och beskyddande trolldomsväxt.
I pesttider höll man plantan i handen eller bar den för näsa och mun. I katolska kyrkor använder man kvistar av vinruta och rosmarin till att sprida vigvatten med. I övrigt används den i blandningar mot onda ögon, demoner, dålig karma, svart magi och negativ påverkan från stjärnorna.
Bär man den om halsen håller man ormar borta och äter man lite av den är den ett motgift mot alla slags gifter.
Dess doft skyddar mot sjukdom.
Saften eller oljan från vinrutan kan ge upphov till utslag som kan ta flera månader att läka. Använd handskar när du plockar den. Utslagen blir värre av solljus. Efter beröring med saft eller olja bör huden tvättas med tvål och vatten och sköljas grundligt och eventuellt efterbehandlas med salviavatten.
- DD
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