Grimoire

Blood Amplification

The amplifiers are one of the main things that makes blood magick so different from any other system of magick. Fundamentally the amplifiers are magical constructs of blood that increase the energy output of the sorcerer using them. A possible metaphor for the amps would be that each amp is a personally significant rune or sigil inscribed in blood upon the aura of the sorcerer. The sorcerer meditates in order to establish a stable visualization of his or her own aura or spell sphere, and grafts the amp to it. Whatever ritualization the sorcerer feels is personally relevant will increase the amp’s potency. The ritual could be as complex as drawing sigils in blood upon the sorcerer himself, or a elaborate as the spilling of large quantities of blood as a ritual sacrifice in exchange for power. So when the sorcerer pushes energy outwards through a spell, the spell passes through the amplifier, unlocking the power of the blood that makes up the amp, and its power is increased.
An imaginary numbering system, which begins with 1 and has the potential to increase ad infinitum, has been developed to illustrate and explain amplifiers. In essence these numbers and notations mean nothing, but they are convenient illusions that will aid in the teaching and defining of the blood amplifiers. Each amplifier has a designation such as B1.  Each generation of amplifier is based on the relative power of the sorcerer that creates it, thus as the sorcerer grows in power new generations of blood amps must be created.  That makes every amp different from any other amplifier, which is why it gets another B number.  Each successive amp in the below list, normally increases one's power exponentially over the previous one, though for each individual the increase may differ.  Once again, the numbers below are imaginary and relative to the individual sorcerer who possesses the amp.

B1 - This simply provides  +5 to +12 power. This is common in other magical systems, and might be referred to as a focus rune/spell.
B2 x3 power
B3 x10 power
B4 x100 power
And so on towards power unimagined…

              In operation, according to the theoretical model above, they give you an effective ability of movement of power times your base level.  In essence, the ability to channel more raw power into a spell.  For example, a sorcerer with a personal power of 24 using a properly powered B2, would cast spells at 72 power. Though the sorcerer is still a 24 power being, the magical output that the sorcerer is capable of is significantly increased. 

The main difference between the B2, B3 and B4 application is that each can only efficiently use so much power before it can't use any more power to apply to the amplification process.  This is because as a sorcerer grows in power over time, the amps will cease to be advantageous. For example, once the sorcerer at 24 power gains enough skill, focus, and power, he will be able to craft a much more potent amp for himself. Thus the sorcerer discards the B2 and creates a B3 because he is now able to do so. These amplifiers only scale your power, it really doesn't give you greater detail control within that larger power. This is why a sorcerer cannot simply go from a B1 to a B4 over night, it takes time, patience, and discipline.
However, the benefits of even the smallest amp are beyond measure.  Because these amps are permanent constructs, they remain active unless the sorcerer chooses to power them down for a time. Once again, visualizing the amps as runes or sigils of blood that have been etched or grafted to the sorcerer’s aura is useful indeed.  The casting ability increases, simply because you can put more power behind things (so your shields are bigger, your will against other spells and such is greater, your spells are exponentially more potent, etc.).
At their most basic level, blood amps are external modifications of the sorcerer’s aura. When the sorcerer casts a spell it must pass through the aura, or spell sphere, on it’s way towards the target. It is during this passage that the amp further multiplies the power of the spell. In many ways, amps could be seen as magical rail guns, charging up the already powerful spell projectile and sending it on it’s way. However, regardless of how powerful the amps become, their power output depends totally on what power the sorcerer is able to put in, and thus are limited by the sorcerer’s own personal power. This is where the IBAs come in.
Internal Blood Amps function the same way as the external blood amps, though they are internal. These amps are grafted to the actual soul/avatar of the sorcerer. Once you start to play with the workings of one's own soul, your base power starts to increase on it's own.  The IBAs actually go inside the soul to take the raw energy residing in blood in order to amplify the base personal power levels of the sorcerer. The process of their creation is the same as the externals, though it must be done with a significant amount of focus, self-awareness, and skill. The sorcerer hoping to accomplish this feat must be a master of meditation, biofeedback, and the creation of external amps. 

              IB1 (otherwise known as InternalB1) is the combination of the techniques of B1 and the modification of the inner soul/avatar of the sorcerer.  IBAs  are a transformation of one's own soul.  To transforms one's own soul requires as much power as can be mastered, thus knowledge and use of powerful external blood amps is a prerequisite. As far as the numerical model, the IBAs provide power amplification at the same ratio as the external blood amps.
              So combined with the external amps, the sorcerer is powerful beyond what is possible in most other traditions. For example, a sorcerer with personal power 50 creates a B2. Now her spells are cast at power 150. Then she successfully grafts an IBA2 to her soul/avatar, and is able to transfigure her inner self to use the IBA2. Her personal power remains at a 50, but when she wants to cast a spell she has a personal power output of 150. Then her spell goes through the B2, making her spells cast at 450. Thus, if she were of any other non-blood tradition, her spells would only be as powerful as her personal power. Through blood she is powerful beyond measure.