Sacred Host
The Host brands Mina's contaminated flesh yet sterilizes Dracula's earth, turning each refuge into a sealed tomb he cannot enter.
Story so far
Van Helsing uses the Sacred Host as barrier and test. When he touches it to Mina Harker's forehead, the wafer burns her and leaves a livid scar, proving the blood bond has begun a physical spiritual change.
At Carfax and the London lairs, the hunters place a fragment in each box of earth. The consecrated matter sanctifies the native soil and makes the refuge unusable to Count Dracula.
Appearance
Thin consecrated wafers carried in a white napkin or protective envelopes, broken into fragments and laid within boxes of earth.
Role
The Host simultaneously diagnoses Mina's contamination and neutralizes Dracula's most important material resource.
Relationships
Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter
- Consecrated Host seals the tomb against the Un-Dead and gives Van Helsing a holy barrier portable enough for the coming hunt.
- The Host brands Mina's contaminated flesh yet sterilizes Dracula's earth, turning each refuge into a sealed tomb he cannot enter.