Blood Sacrifice: The Thaumaturgy Companion

Blood Sacrifice: The Thaumaturgy Companion is a sourcebook on blood magic for Vampire: The Masquerade. While is companion volume, Blood Magic: Secrets of Thaumaturgy, focused on the Discipline of Thaumaturgy, Blood Sacrifice focuses on other, non-Hermetic forms of blood sorcery.

Blood Sacrifice features the Disciplines of Akhu (Setite sorcery), Dur-An-Ki (Assamite sorcery), Sadhana (Indian blood magic), and Wanga (Vodoun blood magic). An appendix introduces the Tlacique bloodline and their Mesoamerican blood sorcery Discipline, Nahuallotl, as well as several new rituals for non-Thaumaturgical forms of blood magic. The appendix also introduces the concept of spontaneous talismans: magical artifacts that defy origin and classification.

Summary
From the White Wolf catalog:


 * Hidden Sorcery...
 * While the Tremere have potent magic at their command, Hermetic tradition isn't the only source of mystic power. The ancient ways of Egyptian magic, the Sufic trances of the Middle East, sacrificial Hindu rotes and the natural magic of Caribbean craft can all be used affect the modern nights. But what are these thaumaturgies capable of?


 * Blood Sacrifice: The Thaumaturgy Companion includes:
 * New schools of blood magic, including rituals and paths
 * A multicultural look at a predominantly Western magical style
 * Residuals and anomalies: magic that is unique or waning in the world

Background Information
All page numbers on the table of contents are erroneously given as "XX". (The Prelude begins on page 6, the Introduction on page 10, Chapter One on page 16, Chapter Two on page 32, Chapter Three on page 52, Chapter Four on page 68, and the Appendix on page 84.)