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Video games have powerful blood magic abilities, allowing players to use rituals, vampirism, and forbidden spells.
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Titles like Skyrim, Guild Wars 2, and Dragon Age showcase unique abilities and transformations of blood magic.
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Players can experience the dark allure of blood magic in games like Vampire: The Masquerade and Divinity: Original Sin
The power to manipulate blood, whether for ritual, vampiric self-preservation, or directly as a tool or control of destruction, has a dark, undeniable appeal. Painting walls and floors red was a common game mechanic in video games, and many games featured magic users and otherworldly entities capable of mastering the art of blood magic.

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Many games, especially role-playing games, have given players these sanguine powers, allowing them access to a forbidden world of ritual sacrifice and blood-filled nightmares. Each title has its own take on the red arts, from vampirism to crafting ungodly spells fueled by plasmatic life force.
Young Ball's Blood Gift of Eternal Thirst
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November 11, 2011
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Bethesda game studio
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Strong
After three days of suffering from Sanguinare Vampiris after encountering a vampire in the wild, Skyrim players may find their character frowning at the rising sun and wanting to quench a thirst that mead or fresh water can't quench. Depending on their level of bloodlust, vampires can magically drain the blood of their enemies, reanimate the dead, and hide in the shadows.
If players choose to side with Clan Volkihar during the main quest in Dawnguard, they will gain greater blood magic abilities from the Vampire Lord, one of the The Elder Scrolls' the most iconic supernatural transformations. While transforming, they hover above the ground and gain access to an area of effect spell that drains the blood from any life form and returns it to the Vampire Lord. They also possess the divine power to manipulate the blood in the veins of living creatures, allowing them to lift and toss their enemies like toys.
Guild wars 2
The Dark Servants of Grant, Raven, and the Aspects of Death
Given the huge variety of outfits, weapon skins, and cosmetic options available in Guild wars 2players can easily handcraft almost any archetype imaginable. However, the necromancer's abilities, especially their dagger skills, utility skills, and summonable Blood Fiend minion, make them ideal for vampiric action and RPG fans.

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The Blood Magic trait line further embellishes their blood-drinking abilities, allowing them to passively freeze the open wounds of bleeding allies, rapidly drain the life force from multiple enemies, or imbue allies with a necromantic health-draining power. Useful thing in Guild wars 2 to aid necromancers in their roleplay is the Bloodstone Ascender, which allows its user to rise from the ground and glide from high places with blood effects.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
Clan Tremere's incredulous aumaturgy
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
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November 16, 2004
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Three games
It may not be surprising to hear this Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlinesan RPG about occult vampirism in the modern age will contain a bit of sanguine sorcery, especially if the player chooses Father Tremere. Clan Tremere highly values the discipline of thaumaturgy, a type of blood magic that can be used to absorb a sweet red substance or inflict damage on enemies.
Tremers can use their target's blood to interfere with the body's workings. Instantly, they can make their enemies very sick, or, at later levels, they can heat their enemies' blood to boiling point, causing them to explode and deal damage to anyone nearby.
Dragon Age: Origins
Demonic Keeping Magic Exiles Company


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November 3, 2009
Has magic in Dragon Age series (incl Dragon Age Origins and Dragon Age 2) dangerous to health, and not just because of the sentiment of the masses against mages, especially the blood mages variety. This fanaticism is somewhat justified, given their association with the Blythe, demons, dream-watching, and possession of the whole body.

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Freely making a pact with a demon, blood mages can sacrifice their own health points to gain more powerful magic. The downside of this is stopping their own incoming healing, but luckily if blood mages feel too drained, they can always steal their party mates' life force to bring color back to their cheeks.
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Slip Warning: Wet is dangerous
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September 14, 2017
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Powerful
Terrain and environmental effects are a big part of combat Divinity: Original Sin 2as magic users and certain items can cover the battlefield with water, ice, fire, or poison. Those who practice necromantic magic can use blood splatters to heal themselves.
This naturally goes well with the hydrosophist spells Blood Rain and Blood Storm. Blood surfaces can be used to create blood elemental summons, fill mosquitoes with an insatiable thirst for fresh blood, and summon cursed souls to latch onto victims.
Pathfinder: Wrath Of the Righteous
Fueling profane magic with undead blood
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September 2, 2021
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Owl games
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Strong
Wizards of a necromantic magical bent in the Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous can choose a cruomancer specialized subclass to increase his lethality. While cruamancy wizards can use their magic for any moral alignment, the secret to their special recipes for necromancy is their innate dhampir blood.
Dhampirs are one of the twelve playable races in the The wrath of the righteousa monstrous hybrid between humans and vampires. Cruomances do not use the blood of their victims, but solely their own corrupted undead blood to enhance their rituals.
Guild wars
Mastery of body, soul and blood
Leaning towards both vampires and sacrificial cults, Guild wars“the necromancer wields a grotesque power over both the living and the dead. With their touch or gaze, necromancers use blood magic to damage their enemies and increase their health. Besides using corpses as raw material for their minions, they can drain their blood to heal themselves and their allies.
Many blood magic spells require necromancers to sacrifice health. This is a dangerous trade-off in the hands of a novice, but reason enough for necromancers to forego the rich blood banks around them on the battlefield. Thanks to the opportunities it gives them Guild wars“class combination mechanic (or secondary profession system), necromancers can augment their parasitic builds with the skills of any other profession, including holy warriors, assassins, or rangers.

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