Vampire Disciplines
Core Disciplines
| Name | Rank | Cost | Prerequisites | Book/Description | Dice Pool | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animalism | Second Edition Corebook 126 | |||||
| Feral Whispers | (•) | - | Speak with and command animals. | Manipulation + Animal Ken + Animalism | ||
| Raise the Familiar | (••) | ● | Turn dead animal into a loyal proto-vampire | - | ||
| Summon the Hunt | (•••) | ●● | Call animals to a location or target with spilled blood. | Presence + Animal Ken + Animalism | ||
| Feral Infection | (••••) | ●● | Drives animals, humans and vampires into a frenzy. | Presence + Intimidation + Animalism | ||
| Lord of the Land | (•••••) | ●●●○ to ●●●●●●●●●○ | Mark territory as own, intruders take penalties. | - | ||
| Auspex | Second Edition Corebook 128 | |||||
| Beast's Hackles | (•) | - to● | Answer questions about weaknesses and danger. | Wits + Empathy + Auspex | ||
| Uncanny Perception | (••) | - to ● | Answer questions about the targeted characters secrets | Intelligence + Empathy + Auspex | ||
| Spirits Touch | (•••) | - | Answer questions about the targeted objects secrets | Wits + Occult + Auspex | ||
| Lay Open the Mind | (••••) | ● | Telepathy and mind-reading. Invoke conditions. | Intelligence + Socialize + Auspex vs. Resolve + Blood Potency | ||
| Twilight Projection | (•••••) | ●● | Project own senses into twilight | Intelligence + Occult + Auspex | ||
| Celerity | Second Edition Corebook 130 | |||||
| Celerity | (•) to (•••••) | (●) | Persistent improved defense or dodge. Activate for supernatural speed benefits. | |||
| Dominate | Second Edition Corebook 131 | |||||
| Mesmerize | (•) | - | Imposes "Mesmerized" Condition. Control with short commands. | Intelligence + Expression + Dominate vs. Resolve + Blood Potency | ||
| Iron Edict | (••) | (●) | Mesmerized | Imposes "Dominated" condition. Give long, detailed commands. | - | |
| Entombed Command | (•••) | - | Mesmerized | Establish triggers for other dominate powers. | Intelligence + Subterfuge + Dominate - victim's Resolve | |
| The Lying Mind | (••••) | ●● | Mesmerized | Imposes "Amnesia" or "False Memories" condition. | - | |
| Possession | (•••••) | ●○ | Mesmerized | Control victims body. | Intelligence + Intimidation + Dominate - victim's Resolve | |
| Majesty | Second Edition Corebook 133 | |||||
| Awe | (•) | - | Become center of attention. Subjects become "Awed". | - | ||
| Confidant | (••) | - | Awed | Imposes "Charmed" condition. | Presence + Empathy + Majesty vs. Resolve + Blood Potency | |
| Green Eyes | (•••) | ● | Charmed or Enthralled | Shift emotions by spending Vitae. Subjects will perform requests. | - | |
| Loyalty | (••••) | ●● | Charmed | Imposes "Enthralled" condition. | Manipulation + Empathy + Majesty vs. Resolve + Blood Potency | |
| Idol | (•••••) | (●●○) | Awed | Enhances Awe's effect (free) or immediately (at cost). Cannot be harmed. | - | |
| Nightmare | Second Edition Corebook 135 | |||||
| Dread Presence | (•) | - | Conjure brief illusions. Improves intimidation. Prevents foes spending willpower. | |||
| Face of the Beast | (••) | ● | Imposes "Frightened" condition. Causes fleeing. | Presence + Empathy + Nightmare vs. Composure + Blood Potency | ||
| Grand Delusion | (•••) | ●● | Imposes "Delusional" condition. | Manipulation + Empathy + Nightmare vs. Composure + Blood Potency | ||
| Waking Nightmare | (••••) | ● | Create and control hallucinations. | Presence + Empathy + Nightmare vs. highest Composure + Blood Potency in group | ||
| Mortal Terror | (•••••) | ●○ | Frightened or Delusional | Imposes "Broken" condition. Do lethal damage with fear. | Presence + Intimidation + Nightmare – victim’s Composure | |
| Obfuscate | Second Edition Corebook 137 | |||||
| Face in the Crowd | (•) | - | Blend into surroundings, visible but unnoticeable. Hides predatory aura. | |||
| Touch of Shadow | (••) | ● | Cast Face in the Crowd on object or person. | Wits + Larceny + Obfuscate | ||
| Cloak of the Night | (•••) | ● | Become invisible. | |||
| The Familiar Stranger | (••••) | ●● | Disguise self or other as a desired person. | |||
| Oubliette | (•••••) | ●●●○ to ●●●●●●●●●○ | Designate an area. May use obfuscate at a distance on anything in the area at discount. | |||
| Protean | Second Edition Corebook 139 | |||||
| Unmarked Grave | (•) | Varies | Merge with soil | |||
| Predatory Aspect | (••) | ● | Take on animal traits. | |||
| Beasts Skin | (•••) | ●● | Transform into predatory animal. | |||
| Unnatural Aspect | (••••) | ● | Take on a horrific trait | |||
| Primeval Miasma | (•••••) | ●●● | Transform into smoke | |||
| Resilience | Second Edition Corebook 141 | |||||
| Resilience | (•) to (•••••) | (●) | Downgrade damage and increase stamina. Improves armor and defenses. | |||
| Vigor | Second Edition Corebook 141 | |||||
| Vigor | (•) to (•••••) | (●) | Improve strength. |
Devotions
| Devotion | Prerequisites | XP | Cost | Dice Pool | Description | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undying Familiar | Animalism ••, Resilience •• | 1 | ●● | None | Animal ghoul rises from death as an undead familiar. | VTR 2e 148 |
| Vermin Flood | Animalism •••, Celerity ••, Vigor •• | 4 | ●●●●● ●●●●● | Presence + Animal Ken + Animalism | Massive swarms of vermin deal lethal damage en masse. | VTR 2e 149 |
| Reason's Salon | Animalism ••••, Resilience •• | 3 | ●●●●● | None | Dampen the Predatory Aura and frenzy rolls in an area. | VTR 2e 146 |
| Subsume the Lesser Beast | Animalism ••••, Dominate •• | 3 | ● | Manipulation + Animal Ken + Animalism - Resolve | Take control of an animal's body | VTR 2e 147 |
| Null Space | Animalism ••••• or Obfuscate •••••, Vitiate ••• | 4 | See Description | None | Pay half again the Vitae(rounded up) spent on Lord Of The Land or Oubliette, gain the ability to use Vitiate without touch. | NH-SB 89 |
| Legion | Animalism •••••, Auspex ••• | 4 | ●(●) | Composure + Animal Ken + Animalism | Use the senses of all animals of a certain type within (Blood Potency) miles, can spend extra vitae to focus on the senses of individual animals of this. | TY 74 |
| Riot | Majesty •••••, Animalism •••• | 5 | ●●●●● ●●●●● | Presence + Animal Ken + Majesty | Spread the aspects of the Beast everywhere for half a mile. | VTR 2e 146 |
| Pierce The Veil | Auspex • | 1 | - to ○ | None | Use Auspex to perceive ghosts, and with Willpower affect them with other Disciplines. | NH-SB 85 |
| Quicken Sight | Auspex •, Celerity • | 1 | ● | None | See the world in bullet time. | VTR 2e 145 |
| Gargoyle's Vigilance | Auspex •, Resilience •• | 1 | ●(○) | None | Remain static within your Haven to monitor it with Auspex, taking bonuses to defend from intruders. With Willpower, monitor while asleep. | VTR 2e 144 |
| Gargoyle's Vigilance | Auspex •, Protean •••••, Resilience •• | 4 | ●(○) | None | As above, but you may become a stone statue, immune to fire and sunlight. | VTR 2e 144 |
| Shatter the Shroud | Auspex ••, Vigor • | 2 | ●● | None | Shut down Obfuscate with a Clash of Wills. | VTR 2e 146 |
| Seance | Auspex •••, Vigor •• | 2 | ○ | Resolve + Occult + Auspex vs. Resistance + Rank | Force a ghost to Materialize by there Anchor. | NH-SB 85 |
| Preternatural Instinct | Auspex ••••, Celerity • | 2 | ● | None | Be alerted to danger before it happens and pick up traces of intent from your opponents mind. | TY 76 |
| Annals of Death | Auspex •••• | 1 | — | Intelligence + Occult + Auspex | Answer questions about death in a location. Can foresee deaths. | TY 72 |
| Shared Sight | Auspex ••••, Dominate • | 2 | ●● | Intelligence + Empathy + Auspex | Lend your Auspex to another. | VTR 2e 146 |
| Ghost Skin | Auspex ••••• | 2 | ○ | None | Perceive and interact with ghosts while using Twilight Projection | NH-SB 85 |
| Nightmare Journey | Auspex ••••• | 3 | ●○ | None | Astrally project into the Primordial Dream, and feed from dream forms there. | DE2 143 |
| Hint of Fear | Celerity ••, Nightmare •• | 2 | ● | None | Use Face of the Beast reflexively. | VTR 2e 145 |
| The Wish | Celerity ••, Majesty ••••, Vigor •• | 2 | ●●●●● | Manipulation + Persuasion + Majesty | Gift vampiric strength and power to a subject for three days, then enthrall them to serve you. | VTR 2e 148 |
| Spontaneous Ignition | Celerity •••••, Resilience • | 4 | ●●●●● ● | Dexterity + Athletics + Celerity - Stamina | Set fire to a touched target | TY 76 |
| Touch of Deprivation | Dominate ••, Obfuscate •••• | 3 | ● | Intelligence + Medicine + Auspex vs Resolve + Tolerance | Removes a sense with a touch | VTR 2e 148 |
| Unbridled Force | Dominate ••, Vigor ••••• | 4 | ●●●●● | None | Perform feats of raw strength at a distance. | TY 76 |
| Chain of Command | Dominate •••, Vigor • | 2 | ●● | Intelligence + Persuasion + Dominate vs Resolve + Tolerance | Dominate effects activate later. | VTR 2e 142 |
| Stalwart Servant | Dominate •••, Resilience • | 2 | ● | None | Lend your Resilience through your Vitae. | VTR 2e 146 |
| Conditioning | Dominate •••• | 2 | — | Wits + Subterfuge + Dominate vs Resolve + Tolerance | Suppress the target's will, commanding them even without Dominate active. | VTR 2e 143 |
| Consumption | Dominate ••••• | 4 | ●○ | Intelligence + Intimidation + Dominate vs Resolve | Possess victim over any distance with just your voice. | TY 74 |
| Kin Maker | Dominate •••••, Protean ••• | 4 | ●●●●● ●●●●● ○ | None | Used by the Pijavica to infect vampires with a gestating childe. | TY 120 |
| Summoning | Dominate or Majesty •••• | 2 | ● | Manipulation + Persuasion + Discipline vs Composure + Tolerance | Force subject to come to you. | VTR 2e 147 |
| Cross-Contamination | Majesty •, Nightmare • | 1 | — | Presence + Empathy + lower Discipline | Spread an unsettling fascination that commands attention and lowers social defenses. | VTR 2e 143 |
| Enfeebling Aura | Majesty •, Resilience • | 3 | ● | Presence + Intimidation + Majesty vs Composure + Tolerance | Temporarily sacrifice Majesty dots to suppress a target's dots of Celerity, Resilience or Vigor. | VTR 2e 143 |
| Celebrity | Majesty •• | 2 | ●●● | Presence + Empathy + Majesty vs Resolve + Tolerance | Have a fan talk about you, giving you a temporary dot of Allies, Fame, Herd, Retainer, Staff or Status. | TY 73 |
| Wet Dream | Majesty ••, Nightmare •• | 2 | ● | Manipulation + Empathy + Majesty vs Composure + Tolerance | Inflict ambiguous dreams that eerily fascinate and entice. | VTR 2e 148 |
| Crush of Years | Majesty •••, Nightmare •••• | 3 | ●●●●○ | Presence + Expression + Nightmare vs Composure + Tolerance | Press the weight of existing for centuries upon the target.. | TY 127 |
| Enchantment | Majesty ••••, Obfuscate •• | 2 | ● | Manipulation + Empathy + Majesty vs Composure + Tolerance | Enthrall the target with another subject instead of yourself. | VTR 2e 143 |
| Cult of Personality | Majesty ••••, Vigor ••• | 4 | ●●●●● ●●●●● | Presence + Socialize + Majesty | Enthrall a crowd in a mass display of Majesty. | VTR 2e 143 |
| Foul Grave | Nightmare •, Protean • | 1 | ● | None | Exert the Predatory Aura while in your Unmarked Grave. | VTR 2e 144 |
| Pass Into Yesteryear | Nightmare •, Obfuscate ••• | 2 | ●●○ | None | Cause those under Vinculum towards you to be forgotten by others. | TY 76 |
| Wraith's Presence | Nightmare •, Obfuscate ••• | 2 | ● | Wits + Subterfuge + Obfuscate | Conceal a subject's presence and conjure an illusion of them elsewhere. | VTR 2e 149 |
| Sun's Brutal Dreamscape | Nightmare •••••, Resilience •• | 4 | ● | Manipulation + Empathy + Nightmare vs Composure + Tolerance | Victim takes sunlight damage for you. | VTR 2e 148 |
| Dead Man's Reprieve | Obfuscate • | 1 | ● | Unspecified | Brews a precious reagent into a ritual bath which cloaks the presence of bathers. | TY 128 |
| Not So Special | Obfuscate ••, Vigor ••• | 2 | ●+ | Resolve + Occult + Vigor vs. Blood Potency + Stamina | Suppress another vampires Clan-specific Disciplines. | NH-SB 105 |
| Cloak the Gathering | Obfuscate ••••• | 2 | ● | None | Make a group disappear. | VTR 2e 142 |
| Aerial Cocoon | Protean • | 1 | — | None | Use Unmarked Grave between walls of concrete or metal, turning it into a protective cocoon. | GTN 133 |
| Bones of the Mountain | Protean ••••, Resilience •••, Vigor ••• | 5 | ●●● | Stamina + Survival + Protean | Become living stone for a turn, adding Protean to Resilience, dealing lethal unarmed, and activating Resilience and Vigor for free. | TY 73 |
| Force of Nature | Protean ••••, Resilience ••••, Vigor •• | 5 | ●●●●● ●●● | None | Make use of Beast's Skin and Protean Aspects freely. Shift Physical Attributes. | VTR 2e 144 |
| Malignant Smog | Protean ••••• | 3 | ●● | None | Enhance the effect of Primeval Miasma, transforming the vampire from a cloud of hungry smoke to a cloud of toxic gas that inflicts tilts. | TY 75 |
| Body of Will | Resilience •••, Vigor • | 2 | ● | Stamina + Survival + Resilience | Ignore wound penalties, free Vigor effects. | VTR 2e 142 |
| Juggernaut's Gait | Resilience •••••, Vigor •• | 4 | ●●●●● | None | Negate all damage for a turn. | VTR 2e 145 |
| Carthian Devotions | ||||||
| .22 Solid | Protean ••, Resilience • | 1 | ● | None | Increase the downgrading power of Resilience. | Post/Pastebin |
| Aegis of Defiance | Dominate •••, Resilience •• | 2 | ● | Resolve + Intimidation + Dominate | Shrug off mind-altering effects by forcing yourself to act contrary. | Post/Pastebin |
| Aura of Cursive Seduction | Majesty •••, Vigor •• | 2 | ● | Presence + Subterfuge + Majesty | Inflict Enthralled and Quelled Conditions when someone lashes out at you. | Post/Pastebin |
| BFFs | Majesty ••, Dominate •• | 2 | ● | Manipulation + Empathy + Majesty vs Composure + Tolerance | Offer a facade of a long-term friendship and meaningful acquaintance. | Post/Pastebin |
| Call Me Maybe | Majesty ••, Resilience • | 1 | — | Manipulation + Socialize + Majesty | Make temporary Herd that lasts for some time. | Post/Pastebin |
| Hekireki | Celerity •, Vigor • | 2 | ○ | None | Lets you spend blood on multiple turns before unleashing the benefiting attack. | Post/Pastebin |
| Holdout | Protean •, Resilience • | 1 | ●/Size | None | Meld objects within yourself. | Post/Pastebin |
| If You Can't Duck It | •••• divided among Celerity, Resilience and Vigor | 2 | ●○ | None | Bless an object with some of your own physical power. | Post/Pastebin |
| Manic Depression | Majesty ••, Nightmare •• | 2 | ● | Manipulation + Empathy + Nightmare vs Composure + Tolerance | Force a victim into a rapidly shifting state of mental extremes. | Post/Pastebin |
| Natural Born Killer | Celerity •••, Auspex •• | 3 | ● | None | Let you intuitively senses opponents and answers with powerful gunfire. | Post/Pastebin |
| Preserved Blood | Resilience •••, Protean • | 2 | ●● to ●●●●● ● | Stamina + Occult + Protean | Store your Vitae for latter use. | Post/Pastebin |
| Psycho Mantle | Nightmare ••, Resilience • | 2 | ● | None | Retaliate with a terrifying Predatory Aura. | Post/Pastebin |
| Punching and Fucking | Majesty ••, Vigor • | 2 | ○(●●) | None | Exert Majesty through an unarmed attack. | Post/Pastebin |
| Sudden Strength | Celerity ••, Vigor •• | 2 | ● | None | If Celerity is activated, let you add your Celerity to your Strength. | Post/Pastebin |
| Rapidity | Celerity • to ••••• | 1-3 | ● | None | Modify another Devotion, letting you activate it reflexively. | Post/Pastebin |
| Rock Is Dead | Vigor ••, Majesty • | 1 | ○ | None | Improve your Awe, dulling other powerful presences. | Post/Pastebin |
| Slow and Steady | Resilience • to ••••• | 1-3 | ● | None | Modify a Devotion or Discipline power, slowing its activation to convert the dice pool's Attribute from dice to successes. | Post/Pastebin |
| Straight Up Fucking Murderer | Celerity ••, Resilience •• | 2 | ● | None | Use a maneuver that would normally sacrifice your Defense without doing so. | Post/Pastebin |
| Talking Circles | Celerity •••, Majesty • | 2 | ● | None | Speed up a conversation and shut down an opponent before he speaks. | Post/Pastebin |
| The Gun Show | Vigor •••, Majesty • | 2 | ●○ | None | Improve your next use of Majesty after performing a feat of strength. | Post/Pastebin |
| Tune In, Tune Out | Auspex ••, Obfuscate •• | 2 | — | None | Turn off all senses but one to hyperextend the remaining sense. | Post/Pastebin |
| Under My Skin | Protean •••, Majesty •• | 2 | ● | Manipulation + Empathy + Protean | Take the appearance of someone who is under your Majesty. | Post/Pastebin |
| Under My Skin | Protean ••••, Majesty ••• | 3 | ● | Manipulation + Empathy + Protean | As above, but your subject may instead take your appearance. | Post/Pastebin |
| Violent Coercion | Majesty ••, Vigor • | 1 | ● | Presence + Intimidation + Majesty vs Composure + Tolerance | Hang the threat of violence over a subject to coerce them into a task. | Post/Pastebin |
| Invictus Devotions | ||||||
| Colossus | Vigor •••••, Resilience •••• | 5 | ●●●●● ● | Stamina + Athletics + Resilience | Massively increase the power of your strikes. | Post/Pastebin |
| In Vitae Veritas | Majesty •••••, Dominate or Nightmare •••• | 5 | ●●●●● ●●●●● | None | Send ripples of your Disciplines through Kindred lineages. | Post/Pastebin |
| Kissing Cousins | Majesty ••, Vigor •• | 2 | ● | Manipulation + Occult + Majesty vs Composure + Tolerance | Makes two vampires become like relatives. | Post/Pastebin |
| Knight Commander | Majesty ••, Vigor •• | 2 | ● | Presence + Brawl or Weaponry + Majesty | Inspire the charmed to utter greatness. | Post/Pastebin |
| Strength of Empire | Dominate ••••, Majesty •••, Vigor or Resilience •• | 4 | ○ | Intelligence + Occult + Dominate - Resolve | Temporarily steal dots of Celerity, Resilience or Vigor from a thrall to your Vinculum. | Post/Pastebin |
Coils of the Dragon
| Name | Rating | Description | Book |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coils of the Dragon | |||
| Mystery of the Ascendant | |||
| Surmounting the Daysleep | • | Ignore the call of daysleep when the Blush of Life is active. | VTR 2e 155 |
| The Warm Face | •• | The Blush of Life lasts a full day. | VTR 2e 156 |
| Conquer the Red Fear | ••• | Fire and sunlight don't provoke frenzy. | VTR 2e 156 |
| Peace with the Flame | •••• | Take lethal damage from fire when the Blush of Life is active. Resilience reduces this damage to bashing. | VTR 2e 156 |
| Sun's Forgotten Kiss | ••••• | Feed the Blush of Life with Vitae to pass under sunlight as if your Blood Potency were reduced. | VTR 2e 156 |
| Mystery of the Quintessence | |||
| Forever Mine | • | Claim a domain you've been a presence in for a hundred years. Sense Kindred feeding or killing in your domain without permission. You may lash out at them remotely with the Predatory Aura. | TY 81 |
| Home Turf | •• | Residents of your domain must spend Willpower to resist your feeding. | TY 81 |
| Smother | ••• | Suppress the natural ignition of fires in your domain. +1 to resist or contest supernatural flames there, and spend three Vitae to exert a Clash of Wills to extinguish them. | TY 82 |
| In the Motherland's Arms | •••• | Apply half your Blood Potency as a supernatural Safe Place and Haven effect when sleeping within your domain. In a Haven, add +1 each to the effective Merit ratings. | TY 82 |
| Fingers on a Dead Pulse | ••••• | Spend Vitae to intuit a domain resident's Vice and ignominious Conditions. Experience blood sympathy visions tied to your domain as a whole. | TY 82 |
| Mystery of the Voivode | |||
| Taste of Fealty | • | Your blood becomes the focus of an addiction twice as powerful as normal. | VTR 2e 158 |
| Into the Fold | •• | Form blood sympathy through the Vinculum. | VTR 2e 158 |
| Call to Serve | ••• | Share more Vitae to advance the Vinculum multiple steps at once. | VTR 2e 158 |
| Voivode Undisputed | •••• | Deny blood sympathy bonuses to target you with Disciplines, and add them to contest bonding and your thralls' Predatory Auras. | VTR 2e 158 |
| The Vast Dynasty | ••••• | The Embrace risks but no longer guarantees detachment. | VTR 2e 158 |
| Mystery of the Wyrm | |||
| Stir the Beast | • | Spend Willpower to enter a directed frenzy. | VTR 2e 157 |
| Beast's Hunger | •• | During frenzy, use Kindred Senses and the Predatory Aura as if your Blood Potency were increased by your dots in this Coil. | VTR 2e 157 |
| Leash the Beast | ••• | Ride the wave without spending Willpower, with a bonus from dots in this Coil. | VTR 2e 157 |
| Beast's Power | •••• | Lock an oncoming frenzy to last until its goal is complete to add Blood Potency to your Defense, Health, and Speed during the frenzy. | VTR 2e 157 |
| Eternal Frenzy | ••••• | During frenzy, don't fall torpid from damage. When you end a scene in a frenzy, choose whether to extend it into the next. | VTR 2e 157 |
| Mystery of Zirnitra | |||
| Opening the Third Eye | • | Each dot in this Coil unlocks access to a mortal Supernatural Merit, which must be fed with Vitae and risk dramatic failure. | SotC 200 |
| Unleash the Mind | •• | Willpower costs for Supernatural Merits don't count for your per-turn Willpower use. | SotC 200 |
| Embolden Potential | ••• | Supernatural Merits cost fewer experiences and no Vitae, and may be enhanced with Physical Intensity. | SotC 200 |
| The Dragon's Breath | •••• | Supernatural Merits no longer court dramatic failure, and Willpower can be spent for extra bonus dice. | SotC 200 |
| Ascendancy | ••••• | Suffer aggravated damage to grant the rote quality to a Supernatural Merit. Supernatural Merits no longer need to be unlocked by Coil dots. | SotC 200 |
| Mystery of Ziva | |||
| Denying the Bane | • | Banes aside from fire and sunlight treat your Humanity as increased by dots in this Coil. | SotC 201 |
| Buttress the Soul | •• | Spend Vitae for a bonus against detachment. | SotC 201 |
| Enliven the Anima | ••• | Spend Willpower to take Raptured instead of a detachment Condition. | SotC 201 |
| Embracing the Banes | •••• | Callous your Humanity with up to your Willpower in banes. | SotC 201 |
| Shedding the Beast's Skin | ••••• | Spend Willpower to shed your vampiric skin, temporarily becoming a living mortal. | SotC 201 |
| Scales of the Dragon | |||
| Mystery of the Ascendant | |||
| Day-Wake Conditioning | • | Use directed insomnia to invert a subject vampire's circadian rhythm. | VTR 2e 156 |
| Flesh Graft Treatment | •••• | Soak skin grafts in human blood to enhance a subject's ability to heal through Vitae. | VTR 2e 156 |
| Epidermal Shielding Bath | ••••• | Submerge a subject vampire in an alchemical bath of blood and reagants to shield them from sunlight as if they possessed higher Humanity. | VTR 2e 156 |
| Mystery of the Quintessence | |||
| Cold of the Grave | ••• | Mix a tithe of local Kindred's Vitae with your own and a slurry of ground corpses to share Smother with resident Kindred. | TY 82 |
| Codependency | ••••• | Bury ghouls alive across your domain, anointed with Vitae, to attune the domain to your Aspirations subconsciously and share Fingers on a Dead Pulse with resident Kindred. | TY 82 |
| Mystery of the Voivode | |||
| Blood Cleansing Ritual | • | Wash a subject of the blood bond with blood and viscera. | VTR 2e 158 |
| Sanguinary Invigoration | •• | Inject a living vessel with an alchemical solution of your blood to permit vampires to feed from the vessel as if at lower Blood Potency. | VTR 2e 159 |
| Fealty's Reward | ••• | Ritually drain and feed a thrall to transform them into a proprietary ghoul for a year. | VTR 2e 159 |
| Mass Embrace | ••••• | Exsanguinate a roomful of people and mix their blood with your own to raise all of them as hungry vampires. | VTR 2e 159 |
| Mystery of the Wyrm | |||
| Kindred Sense Endowment | •• | Apply a compound of blood and bone to a mortal subject, imbuing them with temporary Kindred Senses. | VTR 2e 157 |
| Augmented Vitae Draught | •••• | Draw your Vitae out into sterilized equipment to store Physical Intensity in it for mortal drinkers. | VTR 2e 157 |
| Surgical Heart Removal | ••••• | Bypass a vampire subject's circulatory system. The heartless vampire cannot feed, but is immune to staking and may regenerate so long as their heart is intact. | VTR 2e 158 |
| Mystery of Zirnitra | |||
| Psychic Lobotomy | • | Surgically damage a subject's brain. They lose any Supernatural Merits, but add your dots in the Coil of Zirnitra to resist mental probing or influence. | SotC 200 |
| Grafting Unholy Flesh | •••• | Graft a supernatural being's body part onto a vampire or ghoul subject to steal the use of one of the being's powers. | SotC 200 |
| Mystery of Ziva | |||
| Bleed the Sin | •• | Maintain a subject drained of blood to offer them a discount on a dot of an Integrity trait. | SotC 201 |
| Siphon the Soul | ••• | Nearly diablerize a vampire subject to consume a dot of the subject's Humanity. | SotC 202 |
Theban Sorcery
| Miracle | TN | Opposition | Sacrament | Description | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Apple of Eden | 5 | — | ●, apple | Infuse a fruit with Vitae. A human who eats the fruit suffers a breaking point, but distributes bonus dots between Intelligence and Wits and can safely perceive supernatural beings on sight for a matter of days. | SotC 194 |
| Blandishment of Sin | 5 | vs. Resolve + Tolerance | Victim's written name | Upgrades the next strike of bashing damage against the victim before sunrise to lethal. | VTR 2e 153 |
| Blood Scourge | 6 | — | ● | Before sunrise, conjure a 2L whip of Vitae for a scene. | VTR 2e 153 |
| Marian Apparition | 5 | vs. Humanity | Cloth stained by menstrual blood | Bless the cloth. When torn, the cloth induces shame through a sacred vision, causing Kindred to risk detachment more easily for a scene. | SotC 194 |
| Revelatory Shroud | 5 | — | Shroud | Display the face of the last person to touch an object or area. | SotC 194 |
| Vitae Reliquary | 5 | — | Small object | Infuse an object with Vitae for a month, which can be extracted as if feeding. | VTR 2e 153 |
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| Apparition of the Host | 6 | vs. Resolve + Tolerance | Holly switch | Bless the switch for a month. When snapped, the switch terrorizes a victim with angelic phantasms, which can be displayed or hidden from other witnesses. | SotC 194 |
| Bloody Icon | 6 | — | Statue of a saint | Detach from Humanity in a religious reverie wherein the statue weeps Vitae, then crumbles. | SotC 195 |
| Curse of Babel | 6 | - Resolve | Tongue | Prevent a victim from communicating until sunrise | VTR 2e 153 |
| Liar's Plague | 5 | vs. Resolve + Tolerance | Carapace | Subject a victim for one scene to a curse of beetles if they lie | VTR 2e 153 |
| The Walls of Jericho | 6 | Horn | Mark a horn with the name of a Kindred subject. For a week, blow the horn and roll Presence + Academics + Theban Sorcery to damage inanimate surfaces between you and the subject. | SotC 195 | |
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| Aaron's Rod | 8 | — | Rod | Bless the rod. When cast, it becomes a serpent which either obeys its wielder or instructions you gave during the blessing. | SotC 195 |
| Baptism of Damnation | 6 | vs Resolve + Tolerance | Silver baptismal font | Conceives a healthy dhampir child to a participating vampire and mortal. | HD 14 |
| Blessing the Legion | 6+ | — | Armor | Bless the armor with either your Vitae or the subject's. The subject wearing the armor may heal with its Vitae without counting towards per-turn maximums. | SotC 195 |
| The Guiding Star | 8 | — | Star chart, gold coins | Bless the coins. A person carrying a coin may navigate by the stars to an exclusive place of refuge and blood bounty for a matter of nights. | SotC 196 |
| Malediction of Despair | 13 | vs. Resolve + Tolerance | Lock of victim's hair | Name an action to curse. The victim's next attempt within the month takes a -5 penalty. | VTR 2e 154 |
| Miracle of the Dead Sun | 6 | — | Silver jewelry | Bless the jewelry. When destroyed at the cost of a user's Humanity, the domain is shrouded in rainy night for ten minutes per remaining Humanity dot. | SotC 196 |
| Pledge to the Worthless One | 8 | — | A contented mortal | Swear your soul to Belial for eternity. Choose a deadly sin. Active sinners nourish for twice the Vitae, but those innocent of the sin nourish for half. Always take bonuses as if mid-frenzy. Acquire a familiar, manifest the devil's mark, and lose the benefits of Touchstones. | SotC 196 |
| The Rite of Ascending Blood | 7 | — | Baptismal font filled with Vitae | Harrowing mortification rebirths a revenant as the Kindred childe of a participating sire. Her Humanity returns to 7, her Disciplines are refunded, and she may instantly spend the experiences on appropriate purchases, including clan Disciplines and Blood Potency. | HD 78 |
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| Blandishment of Sin | 8 | vs. Resolve + Tolerance | Victim's written name | Upgrades the next strike of lethal damage against the victim before sunrise to aggravated. | VTR 2e 153 |
| Curse of Isolation | 15 | vs Resolve + Tolerance | Edged weapon | Elder miracle. Strip a vampire of their bond to a present Touchstone, stealing the Touchstone for your own use. | Thou 79 |
| Gift of Lazarus | 8 | — | Communion wafer | Raise a fresh corpse as a dead servant for a month. | VTR 2e 154 |
| Great Prophecy | 8 | — | Saint's body part | Issue a prophecy to a group of people, foretelling the thrust of their fate within the month, and how it can be averted. | SotC 196 |
| Stigmata | 5 | - Stamina | Crucifix | Curse a victim to temporarily bleed from stigmatic wounds, causing lethal damage or sapping Vitae. | VTR 2e 154 |
| Trials of Job | 10 | - Resolve | Ox or ram horn | Curse a victim to suffering, failure, abandonment, and sickness for a night per Potency. | DE2 339 |
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| Apocalypse | 10+ | — | Ancient text | Exposes signs of supernatural beings' true nature for a week, disrupting obfuscatory and illusory powers. | SotC 197 |
| The Judgment Fast | 15 | — | Rotten feast | Curse the domain for a month. Vampires there only sustain up to their Humanity in Vitae. | SotC 197 |
| Orison of Voices | 8 | — | Rosary | Elder miracle. For three nights, hear speech that invokes your name. | Thou 79 |
| Sins of the Ancestors | 6 | — | Quantity of victim's blood | Elder miracle. For each Potency, ask the Storyteller a simple question about a member of the victim's blood lineage. | Thou 79 |
| Transubstantiation | 8 | vs. Stamina + Tolerance | Drop of gold | Transmute one substance or being into another until sunrise. | VTR 2e 154 |
Crúac
| Rite | Target | Opposition | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| • | ||||
| Ban of the Spiteful Bastard | 6 | - Composure | Revenants only. Curse your sire to rise without Vitae for your Potency in nights. | HD 78 |
| Mantle of Amorous Fire | 5 | — | Dance to exhaustion. Add Crúac as a Presence bonus for the night. | SotC 184 |
| Pangs of Proserpina | 6 | vs Composure + Tolerance | A victim up to a mile away suffers feelings of intense hunger, provoking frenzy in Kindred. | VTR 2e 152 |
| Pool of Forbidden Truths | 5 | — | The caster gains the Primeval Truths Condition and experiences a vision. Roll Wits + Investigation + Crúac to interpret. | SotC 184 |
| Rigor Mortis | 5 | - Composure | A vampiric victim within a mile stiffens and suffers a -3 Physical penalty. | VTR 2e 152 |
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| Cheval | 5 | - Composure | Borrow a touched subject's sight and hearing for the rest of the night. | VTR 2e 152 |
| Mantle of the Beast’s Breath | 5 | — | Dance to exhaustion. Gain the Raptured Condition and add Crúac as a bonus to ride the wave for the night. | SotC 184 |
| Hydra's Vitae | 5 | — | Transform blood in your system into a poison causing lethal damage, yielding no Vitae when drank. | VTR 2e 152 |
| Shed the Virulent Bowels | 6 | vs Stamina + Tolerance | Use a lock of hair or sympathetic link to hang a curse over a living victim for a month. Trigger the curse to cause enough lethal damage to fill the victim's Health. | SotC 185 |
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| Curse of Aphrodite’s Favor | 6 | vs Composure + Tolerance | Concoct enough potion for three drops to feed a victim over three nights, inflicting a Vinculum to another chosen subject. | SotC 185 |
| Curse of the Beloved Toy | 6 | — | Slay a victim and trap their soul in a keepsake of theirs, rendering it a cursed item which expends the sorcerous Vitae to plague owners with dramatic failures. | SotC 185 |
| Deflection of Wooden Doom | 6 | — | Caster becomes immune to staking for one night. | VTR 2e 153 |
| Donning the Beast’s Flesh | 7 | — | Flay a beast and craft its skin into a garment. Spend Vitae while wearing the skin to approximate the beast's form. | SotC 184 |
| Mantle of the Glorious Dervish | 5 | — | Dance to exhaustion. Until sunrise, the caster gains a point of armor against all attacks, cannot be ambushed or surprised, and deals an extra point of damage when striking. | SotC 185 |
| Touch of the Morrigan | 6 | — | Prepare a deadly touch to inflict Potency in lethal damage within the night. | VTR 2e 153 |
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| Blood Blight | 8 | vs Stamina + Tolerance | Inflict Potency in lethal damage or Vitae loss by scouring blood, often provoking frenzy. | VTR 2e 153 |
| Blood Price | 8 | vs Composure + Tolerance | Steal up to Potency in ingested Vitae from a present vampire or ghoul victim for the night. | VTR 2e 153 |
| Bounty of the Storm | 10 | — | Consume a precious item to prepare a storm that awaits a crowd to strike, dealing your Crúac in bashing damage to the victim and slaying a third of the rest, leaving behind massive wealth. Risk detachment at Humanity 2. | SotC 185 |
| Feeding the Crone | 10 | — | Deal aggravated damage with your bite, but ingest no Vitae, until sunrise. End early by spending Vitae. | VTR 2e 153 |
| Gorgon’s Gaze | 7 | — | Roll Presence + Occult + Crúac – Stamina against the first person to see your eyes, petrifying a fifth of their body per success. Petrified Kindred may heal petrifications as severe damage. | SotC 185 |
| Manananggal's Working | 8 | — | Elder rite. Dismember yourself, willfully animating the severed body parts independently for the night. | Thou 78 |
| Mantle of the Predator Goddess | 8 | — | Dance to exhaustion. Add Crúac as a feeding bonus and as bonus Herd dots. Any character fed from gains the Raptured Condition. | SotC 186 |
| Quicken the Withered Womb | 8 | — | Guarantee fertile conception when coupling for the night. | HD 14 |
| Willful Vitae | 7 | — | Prevent the onset of blood addiction or the Vinculum for the night. | VTR 2e 153 |
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| Birthing the God | 15 | — | Gather body parts to violently birth an undead flesh-eating god with Size a fifth of the Vitae used, Blood Potency a third of the Vitae, and one Skill rating inherited from each celebrant. Spend used Vitae to assign the god dots of Attributes and Disciplines. | SotC 186 |
| Denying Hades | 8 | — | Disgorge Vitae and suffer a point of aggravated damage to trap a deceased spirit in its days-old body, hung between life and death. | SotC 186 |
| Gwydion's Curse | 10 | — | Elder rite. Animate plants and trees for a yard per Potency for the night, which roll your Blood Potency to attack and can spend the rite's Vitae to heal themselves. | Thou 78 |
| Mantle of the Crone | 10 | — | Dance to exhaustion. For the night, inflict Primeval Truths with your visage, and aggravated damage with your touch. Spend Willpower to transmute objects into animals temporarily. | SotC 186 |
| Scapegoat | 12 | - Resolve | Elder rite. Feed the ritual Vitae to a mortal vessel. For one night, the mortal suffers any breaking points or inured banes, not you. | Thou 78 |
Bloodline
Bloodline Disciplines
| Name | Rank | Cost | Dice Pool | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEC 112 | Cachexy (Morbus) | |||
| Diagnose | • | — | Intelligence + Medicine + Cachexy | Sense carriers of disease. |
| Contaminate | •• | ● | None | Render a space a contagion vector for a given disease. |
| Inflame | ••• | ● | Wits + Survival + Cachexy - Stamina | Inflict penalties by exacerbating a disease's symptoms. |
| Plague-Bearer | •••• | ●/turn | Intelligence + Medicine + Cachexy | Quickly infect nearby victims with a given disease. |
| Accelerate Disease | ••••• | ○ | Wits + Survival + Cachexy - Stamina | Inflict lethal damage by worsening even a mild sickness. |
| DE2 119 | Crochan (Bron) | |||
| Swift Flows the Blood | • | ● | Intelligence + Medicine + Crochan | Spend up to your successes in additional Vitae this turn on healing. |
| Blooding the Hunter | •• | ● | Wits + Survival + Crochan | Sample your quarry's blood to apply successes as a bonus for the night to track and pursue them. |
| Sealing the Covenant | ••• | ○, ●/oathmate | None | Mix blood to swear a shared oath of loyalty, taking a symbol or focus as an added Touchstone. |
| Blood of My Blood | •••• | ●+ (○) | None | Touch blood to a subject to spend Vitae to heal them immediately. |
| Conquering the Challenge of the Axe | ••••• | ●●○ | None | Swear not to be moved, and suffer no damage for the scene so long as you take no aggressive action. |
| NH-SB 23 | Dead Signal (Jharana) | |||
| Analyze Signal | • | — | Wits + Composure + Dead Signal | Diagnose Radio Sickness and stigmata. |
| Minor Repairs | •• | ●+ | Wits + Medicine + Dead Signal | Heal a subject's non-Persistent Condition or bashing damage per Vitae. |
| Receive Transmission | ••• | ○ | Intelligence + Occult + Dead Signal | Shoulder another vampire's Radio Sickness for a night. |
| Configure Receiver | •••• | ●●/dot, ○ | Intelligence + Medicine + Dead Signal | Anoint a subject with blood to enhance their Skills for a night. |
| Broadcast | ••••• | ● | Manipulation + Persuasion + Dead Signal | Issue a friendly summons to beings touched by the God-Machine. |
Bloodline Devotions
| Devotion | Prerequisites | XP | Cost | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onyx Path blog | Obtenebration (Khaibit Devotions) | |||
| Udjat | — | — | (●) | You can see in total darkness and can't be blinded by injury or supernatural imposition. Spend Vitae to perceive beings in Twilight for one scene, during which you can't be possessed by strix. |
| Ba | Obfuscate •• | 2 | ●●● | Grasp a shadow large enough to contain you and don it, becoming darkness yourself. You're treated as a being in Twilight, able to touch (and be touched by) anything else in Twilight. Half your Speed and, whenever you're hurt, take an extra two lethal damage in this state. The Ba offers no protection against fire or sunlight. |
| Iteru | Celerity •• | 2 | ● | Slip reflexively into a shadow and back out of any contiguous shadow. Once per scene, using the Iteru can grant the rote quality to a Dodge. |
| Pseshkf | Vigor •• | 2 | ●+ | Coat an object in frozen darkness. Add Blood Potency to its Durability and Vitae spent to its Structure. Coated weapons add one to their weapon rating against physical targets, and apply a weapon rating equal to your Blood Potency to the noncorporeal. You can wield a coated object at a distance through the Tyet, even while immaterial through the Ba. |
| Tyet | Vigor •• | 2 | ●+ | Expel darkness out for your Blood Potency times Vitae spent, in yards. You can shape the cloud of shadow, including preexisting shadows within the space of the cloud. |
| NH-SB 32 | Nosoi Devotions | |||
| Infectious Bite | — | — | ● | Contest Manipulation + Medicine + Protean vs Stamina + Supernatural Tolerance to infect a mortal with your blood sickness. |
| Plague Doctor's Mask | Obfuscate •• | 1 | ● | Use Touch of Shadow to mask the symptoms of a blood sickness. |
| Tiny Guardian | Protean ••• | 1 | ●/bug | Requires Swarm Form. Bud off intelligent, loyal insect servants. |
| NH-SB 44 | Scions of the First City Devotions | |||
| City Attunement | — | — | ● | Touch hands with the surface of your city to see through its eyes. This is required to use other Scion Devotions in a particular city. |
| Incriminating Evidence | Auspex ••• | 1 | (●) | Roll Wits + Empathy + Auspex to search your city for clues of wrongdoing by a touched subject. Use for free once each scene. |
| Our Mother's Mind | Auspex ••••• | 3 | ●● | Walk barefoot through your city and contest Intelligence + Occult + Auspex vs Resolve + Tolerance to seek and impede quarry. |
| NH-SB 27 | Siphon (Lidérc Devotions) | |||
| The Give-and-Take | Celerity or Vigor ••• | 1 | ●● | Gift a feeding vessel with two dots of your Physical Disciplines for a night, but steal any Willpower they recover from Vice. |
| The Look | Majesty •• | 1 | ○ | Use exceptional success to provoke emotion to psychically drain Vitae from a victim's will. |
| The One That Got Away | Obfuscate •••• | 2 | ● | By feeding on a sleeping victim, conflate yourself with their ideal, inflicting yourself as a temporary Vice. |
| The Pledge | Majesty •• | 1 | ○ | Pledge yourself to a consenting vessel. They gain your Majesty in fawning Social Merits, and you recover Willpower from rousing their passion, but cannot target anyone else with Siphon. |
| NH-SB 49 | Vardyvle Devotions | |||
| Shapeshifting | Protean ••, Obfuscate • | 1 | ●/feature | Copy features from the appearance of a vessel for a night. |
Bloodline Sorcery
| Rite | Rank | Target | Opposition | Penumbrae Crúac | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanguine Augur | • | 6 | — | Dream cryptic revelations about the last vessel you fed from. Spend Vitae to broaden or clarify the vision. | NH-SB 40 |
| Wisdom of the Blood | ••• | 6 | — | Read prophecies about a subject in the dreams of a torpid vampire. | NH-SB 40 |
| Clotho's Skein | ••••• | 9 | vs Resolve + Tolerance | Dreamwalk the threads connecting Kindred through the daysleep to implant a suggestion in a vampire's sleep. | NH-SB 40 |
Bloodline Merits
| Merit | Rating | Maneuver | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| NH-SB 15 | Icelus Merits | ||
| Psychognosis | Psychognosis requires Medicine (Psychology). Each Psychognosis technique costs Willpower, has its own Discipline requirement, and must draw on the stolen dreams of a hypnotic sleeper. | ||
| • | Hypnotic Precognition | Requires Dominate ••. Using Mesmerize or Iron Edict also draws insight as per Dream Visions. | |
| •• | Diagnostic Dreaming | Requires Auspex ••. Upgrade Beast's Hackles successes to exceptional, and spend Vitae to ask additional questions with Uncanny Perception. | |
| ••• | Waking Prescience | Requires Auspex •••. The Spirit's Touch succeeds automatically, and you may spend Willpower to ask additional questions. | |
| •••• | Morphean Blackmail | Requires Dominate ••••. Spend an extra Vitae on Dominate to half any resistance or contest. | |
| ••••• | Shared Minds | Requires Auspex ••••. Spend an extra Vitae on Lay Open the Mind to share a subject's senses. | |
| Onyx Path blog | Kerberos Merits | ||
| The Three Heads of Kerberos | This is actually three Style Merits which can be purchased separately, one for each aspect of the Beast: monstrous, competitive, and seductive. | ||
| • | Honing | When you lash out with this aspect of the Predatory Aura, add your dots in this Merit as bonus dice. | |
| •• | Internalizing | You can voluntarily take on the aspect's corresponding Condition (Bestial, Competitive or Wanton). | |
| ••• | Cowing | When you lash out with this Merit's aspect, you can substitute a form of the Subservient Condition that applies to commands in line with the aspect. | |
| •••• | Striking | When your actions touch a victim, you can spend Willpower to reflexively lash out with this Merit's aspect. | |
| ••••• | The Fires of Hell | When you lash out with this Merit's aspect, you can target a number of victims up to your Blood Potency. This is compatible with Striking, but the vector action must touch upon each victim. | |
| NH-SB 33 | Parliamentarian Merits | ||
| Denouncement | •••• | Spend Willpower on an accusatory harangue as a contested Social action to inflict an isolating scandal on a victim. | |
| Recruitment Tactics | ••• | Once per story, apply Blood Potency as bonus successes to sway others through arguments, but suffer Competitive or Obsession. | |
Bloodline Gifts
| Bloodline | Gift | Description | Book |
|---|---|---|---|
| Icelus | Dream Visions | As the Mekhet Merit. | NH-SB 15 |
| Kerberos | Hounds of Hell | When you inflict the Predatory Aura, increase the dice bonus to pursue your aspect of the Beast to your Blood Potency. | Onyx Path blog |
| Neglatu | Agah | Easily create and sustain a brood of revenants. | Onyx Path blog |