Tome of Rituals

The Tome of Rituals is a utility featured in Call of Duty: Vanguard Zombies mode. It allows the player to spend Sacrificial Hearts in exchange to upgrade their Field Upgrades. The utility was added on January 12th, 2022, with the release of Season One Reloaded.
==History==
===Creation and Separation===
The Tome of Rituals is a spellbook of Dark Aether rune magic written and compiled by the Société Occulte over centuries, with only their most inner circle being able to see and read it. The Société used it as a way to call upon Dark Aether entities, such as Kortifex, in an effort to increase the wealth and influence of its members. After a crisis in the 1920s, the Société took the book apart entrusting some of its members to hide the pages in sacred places around the world.
===Die Wahrheit===
At the onset of the Second World War, Wolfram Von List, the leader of the SS unit Die Wahrheit, acquired several pages from a patron of the who was a member of the Société. Von List had him arrested and tortured, learning about the location of other members of the Société. Soon after, Von List forced the demonologist Gabriel Krafft to help Die Wahrheit and reconstituate the Tome of Rituals. With his help, the SS unit discovered several artifacts around the world but proved little to no use to further the Nazis ideology of the .
On March 7th, 1944, the incident at the Projekt Endstation in Poland awoke the artifacts. Von List took one of them and bonded with Kortifex who gave him the power to rise corpses from the dead, creating Revenants. Von List soon gathered all the pages from the Tome of Rituals and locked them away preventing anyone to access them. He then immediately launched an operation in Stalingrad. Fearing for his life, Krafft used one of the pages from the Tome of Rituals to seal himself in a room away from the revenants. As Krafft contacted Allied Special Forces to deal with the situation, they would come to use the Tome of Rituals after bonding with their respective bonded Dark Aether entity. At some point, they would venture into Von List's office and teleport to a Japanese Die Wahrheit outpost, where they encountered a lost page of the Tome that was sealed behind a Void spell. After surviving a brief attack of Revenants, the Special Forces returned to Stalingrad where they encountered a portal opened by Vercanna the Last, which sent them to the Eastern Desert of Egypt.
===Recovering the Lost Page===
After arriving at the Eastern Desert, Special Forces went to work with the assistance of Vercanna in freeing the trapped Decimator, in hopes to use his shield to break the Void spell containing the page. After freeing and awakening him, they would travel to the Corrupted Lands of the Dark Aether and use the Decimator Shield to break the anchors making up the Void spell. 
It was then they realized the page contained information on how to separate a Dark Aether entity from their human hosts, detailing an incident where priests and officials in Japan were contaced by Kortifex to separate Saraxis from her human host (at that point, their feudal lord), and their use of a Relic Mirror to do the deed. Krafft intended to use this against Kortifex, which led them to return to the Japanese Die Wahrheit outpost - Shi No Numa, the "Swamp of Death".
==Gallery==
TomeOfRituals Utility CloseUp CODV.png
TomeOfRituals DerAnfangLoadingScreen CODV.png|The Tome of Rituals in Der Anfang loading screen.
TomeOfRituals Promo CODV.jpg
TomeOfRituals Opened CODV.png|The Tome of Rituals, opened.
TomePage FrontSide CODV.png|A page from the Tome of Rituals.
TomePage BackSide CODV.png|Back side of the same page.
Tome of Rituals Emblem CODV.gif|"Tome of Rituals" Emblem from the Dark Aether Mastercraft Bundle.
==Trivia==
*The Tome of Rituals can be seen in the loading screen of Der Anfang.
*The runes of Kortifex, Saraxis, Bellekar, Inviktor, and Norticus are featured on the cover of the book.
Category:Call of Duty: Vanguard Zombies Utilities