Rasputin's Reliquary

A dying priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia confesses that the canonization of the Romanovs in 2000 was actually a containment ritual —the family’s sainthood was meant to trap Rasputin’s influence. But the Reliquary has been moved, and the seal is cracking. The players must re-inter the relics at the Convent of St. Catherine in Ekaterinburg before the next full moon, when “the peasant will rise.”

The players attend a black-market auction. The other bidders include: a necromancer from the French Service d’Action Civique , a ghoul who serves a Tzimisce elder, and a YouTube ghost hunter with 40 million subscribers. The auction is interrupted when the Reliquary opens by itself and begins to sing the “God Save the Tsar” in reverse. rasputin's reliquary

If the vial is held while making a Persuasion or Intimidation roll, the user gains advantage. However, for the next 24 hours, anyone who meets the user will describe them as “unsettlingly damp” and “smelling of stable liniment.” A dying priest in the Russian Orthodox Church

The Reliquary is not a single object but a nested set of vessels, each more profane than the last. Catherine in Ekaterinburg before the next full moon,

It is effectively a "Rasputin cache" hidden away in the Awoken's sacred city. The terminal itself features Rasputin’s signature amber/orange lighting and AI interface, contrasting sharply with the ethereal, bluish aesthetics of the Dreaming City.

– During the chaos of the USSR’s collapse, a corrupt FSB colonel sells the Reliquary to an oligarch with a hemophiliac son. The oligarch dies of a sudden aneurysm while reading Rasputin’s diary. The Reliquary vanishes into the global black market of the occult.