Editing LeviathanTempest:RitualsDevelopmentPage (section)

==== Sacrileges ====
The rites and worship of the Tribe are terrible things. They incorporate bronze age ideals of power and dominance, life becomes the toxic fecundity of the Tribe. Performing a Ritual often requires the participants to betray their sense of self and their ethics. Mechanically speaking every Ritual is a Tranquillity disruption of seven minus the Rituals dots. Yet the Tribe don't have to perform horrific rites, with time and effort (or rather, the Cult's time and effort) it is possible to find "ethical alternatives". Virgin sacrifice, well there's virgins everywhere, but an black bull with pure unblemished skin, that's kind of rare. It would take time to find one. In practice what this means is that every additional Task Point spent upon a Ritual can increase the Tranquillity level by one. The Storyteller may allow the Leviathan to personally track down the supplies needed instead of spending Task Points.

Not all cultists are willing to kill for their god. Assume that a cult will happily perform anything with a Tranquillity rating above (5 - Zeal). Committing worse acts will require the Leviathan to bully their cult into compliance: Roll Presence + (Persuasion or Intimidation) + Zeal – (The Zeal required for the cult to agree). A Leviathan who frequently persuades his Cult to perform hideous rituals should expect to see his Cult's Zeal rise. When measuring if a cultist would be willing to sacrifice themself treat Zeal as two dots lower, however asking cultists to sacrifice each other incurs no penalty.  Leviathan's rarely need the sacrafice to be willing, and anyway, with the wake no one is ever really agreeing of their own free will.