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After Haqim tore out al-Ashrad's eye and Ur-Shulgi Embraced him, al-Ashrad replaced his missing eye with an enchanted diamond. It was rumored to give him visions of worlds beyond. As a member of his line, you have gained a fraction of this power. You may activate one of the Auspex powers, "Heightened Senses" or "Sense the Unseen", for one hour once per game, even if you don't possess the power. You must still pay all activation costs. In addition, twice per game, you may activate one of your non-amalgam Auspex powers without Rousing the Blood.

Like al-Ashrad, you are a renowned researcher and academic. Gain a two-dot Haven. You also gain four bonus dots of Haven Advantages that can be spent on the Laboratory, Library, Luxury, or Workshop advantages.

Al-Ashrad's hatred for malevolent spirits is legendary. You have learned to channel his hatred through your own sorcery. Your Blood Sorcery powers and rituals may affect spirits even if they do not manifest, as long as you can see them. This also allows you to strike spirits and wraiths with weapons affected by Scorpion's Touch and Baal's Caress. This is an exception to the rule that says wraiths and other spirits cannot be attacked unless they manifest into solid form, or if the attacker is in the dead lands. In addition, you may target wraiths or spirits with Blood Sorcery powers and rituals as if they were a vampire. Powers that cause Hunger in wraith or spirit targets instead cause one normal damage per Hunger that would have been gained. This is in addition to the other normal effects of the power used. For example: You may target a wraith with Theft of Vitae to Slake two Hunger. Instead of gaining two Hunger, the wraith takes 2 normal damage. Cauldron of Blood does two aggravated damage and causes 1 Hunger, normally, but when targeting a wraith or spirit, they would take two aggravated damage and 1 normal damage.

Like Durga Syn, you have the powers of prophecy. Once a game session you may ask the Storyteller for insight into a scene, if the Storyteller deems it appropriate, they may ask if you wish to Rouse the Blood. If you choose to and succeed on the Rouse Check, the Storyteller will give you a hint to aid you in some way. This could be a clue to progress a plot, a warning about your proposed plan, or something similar. This hint manifests as a sudden vision in your mind. In addition, you gain the first three dots of Insight for free.

Possessing a sliver of Durga Syn's prophetic insight allows you to move mortals like pieces on a board, arranging events so subtly that no one ever sees your hand at work. You may choose five dots from the Allies and/or Contacts Backgrounds or their associated Advantages. Once per session, you may direct one of your Contacts or Allies to perform a secret action on your behalf. When acting under this effect, their involvement cannot be traced back to you by non-supernatural means. Clues simply fail to link, witnesses misremember, and paper trails refuse to converge. This advantage emphasizes subtle manipulation, quiet orchestration, and the prophetic foresight for which Durga Syn is known, allowing you to influence the world without ever appearing in the story.

Durga is actually a name commonly used in India, not Russia. In Sanskrit, it means "inaccessible place" and refers to immortal or unstoppable aspects of certain gods and goddesses, including Durga, a powerful protector goddess. Physical attacks do not prevent a character with this advantage from declaring Fair Escape, unless the Ravnos is Grappled. Characters who are physically restrained or imprisoned, but not Grappled, may study their surroundings (using 1 simple action) after which they find a way to escape their bonds, even if there is no explainable way they could escape. In addition, once per night, a character with this benefit may enter any enclosed building or room without tripping any mundane surveillance, and while bypassing any mundane security, as long as they are not observed. The character may do this without a test and without a definitive explanation as to how they entered.

The descendants of Ilyes are said to be dispassionate and cold, even to the point where they find displaying or understanding emotions to be difficult. When making a Remorse check, should you fail, you may attempt the Remorse check a second time.

As a dedicated scholar, you understand that learning is a lifelong process without beginning or end. Knowledge is a living body, constantly growing and evolving. Gain the Phenom Merit for free and apply it to the Academics skill. In addition, gain the first two dots of the Linguistics Merit and the Loremaster Merit for free.

Once a night during a combat scenario, you can take your turn at any point in the initiative order instead of at your normal initiative. If you have not taken any actions in the current turn, you may choose to interrupt another person's turn after their actions have been declared. If you do, your actions are processed first. Then, the interrupted actions proceed as originally declared unless they are no longer possible. If a previously declared interrupted action is no longer possible, then the interrupted action is lost. Example: Titus has declared his action to take 3 steps towards you and strike you with a fire axe. You declare the use of Borrowed Time. You have not taken either of your actions and choose to spend your Simple and Standard Actions to take six steps around a corner, breaking line of sight. Titus must then take his 3 steps, and since you are no longer in range of the declared strike, Titus loses his standard action.

You may not even know your true heritage and who you descend from. You have not yet chosen to betray your clan (or have you?). Your true ambitions have yet to take form in your mind, or are still very much a secret to anyone else. Regardless, the blood of Kemintiri flows through you. Gain the Unbondable Merit for free.

Kemintiri is one of the most notorious and nefarious vampires in all of history. Her relentless nature and indomitable will are often forgotten or ignored in favor of the crimes she has committed. You have fully embraced your lineage. You share all of Kemintiri's goals and beliefs. That has gifted you with a small factor of her supernatural resiliency. You may choose one of the following benefits each night: • Once per night, when you are targeted by a Dominate power, it fails. You cannot be targeted by the same Dominate power for 15 minutes. • Once per night when you Frenzy, you may Ride the Wave for the remainder of that Frenzy without spending Willpower. Once you have benefited from one of these effects in a night, you may not benefit from the other.

Your lineage provides you with remarkable knowledge of missing, dead, and Beckoned Kindred. Between this information and your skill in the Obfuscate Discipline, you are an exceptional infiltrator. Gain the first three dots of the Subterfuge skill. Uses of Sense the Unseen against your Mask of a Thousand Faces fail if you have more dots in the Obfuscate Discipline than the user has in Auspex. Your Mask of a Thousand Faces also continues to function even when you are in torpor or asleep.

Your blood bond is exceptionally potent. When their thralls attempt to defy the aims and desires of their Regnant when you are not present, they must make a Defiance test as if they are in their Regnant's presence.

Michaelites build power bases of fervent followers, and you are no exception. You may select five dots worth of Allies, Contacts, Resources, Backgrounds, and their associated Advantages.

Your Blood is truly blessed by Michael. You may have twice the number of vampiric thralls as your Blood Potency allows. As well, your Thralls universally become more beautiful by consuming your blood. Their hair becomes lustrous; their skin perfect; their blemishes gone. Your ghouls gain the ability to use the power Awe without having to spend experience to learn it. Vampire thralls are less ravished by the loss of Humanity. A vampire who is Blood Bound to you only suffers half the usual penalties for low Humanity, rounded down. Nosferatu can even benefit from being bound to you. Their Clan Bane penalty on mundane social challenges is also halved as Michael's blessings reduce the weight of their hideousness. Note that a person suddenly changing in appearance by this blessing ought to take care, as their sudden shift in appearance may breach the Masquerade.

You have been taught to recognise the unseen markers of the Integrum. When you are paying close attention, you can sense the signs of supernatural manipulation. Once per game session, you may ask the Storyteller if a person, place or event is being observed, manipulated or influenced by supernatural means. The answer will be "yes" or "no". This power does not identify who or what is responsible, only that something unnatural is at play.

You have been entrusted with the defense of a leyline node, a place of power tied to global magical equilibrium. You have formed a Chapterhouse there: a touchpoint for Integrum activity where members of the Integrum network might reside and work. You gain three dots of the Haven Background with two free Haven Advantages representing your Chapterhouse. Once per game, you may call upon the magics of the leyline node to provide a supernatural sanctuary effect: anyone who performs Blood Sorcery, Oblivion, or supernatural effects involving summoning or crossing the Veil within your Haven without your permission suffers a -2 penalty to their test pools.

Your access within the Integrum is deeper than most, and you are permitted access to secrets from the Wyrd that are too dangerous for most. Once per game session, you may ask the Storyteller a lore-based question about Kindred history, Antedeluvians, Bahari, Gehenna, leyline activity or supernatural locations. You will receive a factual, helpful answer to your question. This power does not reveal secrets, but Agents of the Integrum at this level find this power very helpful for revealing historical or occult information that has been lost to time that would be otherwise very difficult for modern vampires to know. The Storyteller has discretion as to what information is available.

Having bathed in the light of the moon, you have joined the heresy of Caitiffs, either as a descendant of Nerissa Blackwater, a convert, or a true believer. All powers that attempt to determine your creature type reveal you to be human and not vampire. You are also instinctively aware of other characters that possess this benefit when you are within 5 steps of them. You must discretely ask your Storyteller for this information.

You have tasted the blood of Nerissa's lineage or are her direct descendant, and a seed of her garden grows within your soul. Regardless of your Humanity rating, you have a heartbeat when you wish to, can eat food, and even fight the need to sleep during the day. Gain the Eat Food, Light Sleeper, and the ability to Blush of Life three times a night without Rousing and regardless of their current Humanity.

You have learned how to temporarily emulate some modicum of power from another vampire by drinking their Blood. Once a night after feeding from a non-Caitiff vampire, you gain the ability to use a level 1, 2, or 3 dot Discipline power from one of their in-Clan Disciplines once. You suffer the Clan Bane of the vampire whose power you stole until the end of the night. The vampire does not need to know the power for you to use it. This does not allow you to use a Ritual, Ceremony, or thin-blood Alchemy formula. However, you may choose an amalgam power only if you possess the prerequisite second Discipline on your character sheet. The ability to use their power fades at the end of the night from when you drank from them.

You no longer follow the Healer path. Your empathy has been destroyed by years of betrayal. Replace your clan Compulsion with the following: Righteous Wrath: When a Salubri suffers a Compulsion, the Kindred becomes consumed by an unshakable need to confront a perceived injustice in their presence. The Salubri must take decisive action to address or avenge the wrong. Any action not directly aimed at alleviating this injustice suffers a -2 penalty. The Compulsion lasts until the wrong is righted, a greater crisis demands attention, or the scene ends.

Your lineage is defined by the conflict with Clan Tremere. You have learned to defend yourself from their powers. Once per game session, when you are called upon to resist a challenge involving a Dominate or Blood Sorcery power, you may choose to gain one Hunger to win the challenge automatically.

The history of the Salubri clan is rife with stories of strife and betrayal from duplicitous warlocks and bloodthirsty Sabbat. The voracity of these ancient stories is hard to prove, but they drive the descendants of Samiel. Once a night, you may trigger your Clan Bane on purpose to automatically succeed in a test to pierce a power such as Obfuscate that obscures the visual truth from your eyes. This includes other supernatural powers similar to Obfuscate. When your eye opens from the use of this benefit, it cannot be hidden by any means; even mundane coverings are burned away when your eye opens.

Gain a three-dot Familiar of the animal of your choosing. You may train it to be a blood-hound, allowing it to track and identify other Kindred. By spending a simple action to sniff, then, using their Awareness pool (which is a 6), a blood-hound can identify any Kindred within 5 steps by successfully making a challenge versus a difficulty of 3. If the target is mundanely hiding, the challenge is contested versus the vampire's Composure + Stealth.

Your lineage taught you the fundamentals of flesh-shaping, specimen handling, and the careful maintenance of bio-occult laboratories. Jolán herself oversaw your early instruction, ensuring you learned not only the theory of revenant husbandry but also the precise environmental conditions required for cultivating mutable flesh. Gain a 2 dot Haven with one free dot in the Cell, Laboratory, Surgical Ward and Walk-in Freezer advantages.

You have learned the forgotten rituals used to create a superior war ghoul known as a szlachta. The term szlachta is a Polish word meaning noble, as szlachta are considered superior to other ghouls. You may choose one of the following benefits for any Retainer or Familiar you purchase or gain. • Loyalty: Your Retainer, or Familiar, is immune to any level 2 or lower powers of Dominate. • Cold Blooded: Your Retainer, or Familiar, is immune to any level 2 or lower powers of Presence. • Tyrant: In addition to any other Discipline powers, your Retainer or Familiar can employ Feral Weapons. Szlachta are more powerful than regular ghouls, but the process of making them renders them hideously deformed and obviously supernatural in nature.

There are countless permutations of Kindred faith. While not all evolve into cults or religions, you have cataloged many of them for future reference. Gain two dots of the Haven Background, and three dots of the Library advantage, representing the countless files you have curated studying vampiric cults and religions.

You have proven your worth as an investigator. You have exposed a cult, possibly even helped destroy some of its members. Gain the first two dots of the Occult skill and the first two dots of the Investigation Skill for free. In addition, when you correctly suspect the work of a vampire cult you've never investigated before, your Storyteller will provide a small clue.

Observing and hunting vampire cultists has put you in a unique position of seeing their faith at work. You can't deny that vile and self-serving cultist beliefs can produce a number of unique phenomena. You have decided to utilize your extensive knowledge and claim some of the misguided power for yourself. Once every three months, after extensively studying a vampire cultist or successfully vanquishing them, you may choose to append this Loresheet benefit with one benefit from that cult's Loresheet. You may only ever have one Cult Loresheet benefit at a time. If you choose to take a new one, you lose the previous one.

You fear becoming a disease vector, and have taken great measures to limit this possibility. You gain a three-dot Herd that is immune to disease, as long as you never allow another character to utilize it. You may choose to purchase an additional Herd that you can share normally. This is an exception to the rule preventing you from purchasing Herd more than once. In addition, whenever you succeed in a Medicine roll pertaining to a mortal, living or dead, you can discern any vampiric diseases that may have been carried, even if they displayed no symptoms.

Throughout your extensive study of vampire and mortal disease, you have kept tabs on mortals who lead their field in disease pathology. You have kept them from discovering the true nature of some of the diseases they have encountered, preserving the Masquerade and possibly even advancing their careers for their silence in such matters. You gain a free three-dot Contact and a 3 dot Ally in the Health Sphere of Influence.

You would never admit it, and you keep it guarded and hidden, but you have managed to secure yourself a sample of a FIRSTLIGHT-designed disease or parasite. Once every six months, you can attain or synthesize one dose of BGMA, C. Hydeii, EV-H07, KOL-05 or Necrophage Cocktail. You understand how to maintain this sample safely and how to use it as a weapon.

Through your connections with the winery, you have learned how to uniquely infuse blood with flavor and longevity and form it into blood wine. You may package your wine effectively for transport and consumption. The blood wine does not slake Hunger, or hold Resonance or Dyscrasias, but its shelf life is considerable, and any Kindred can consume it without difficulty. Your Storyteller has the final say in how much of this product you can create at one time. In addition, your sommelier training has taught you about the principles of Blood Resonance, Dyscrasias, and public presentation. You gain the first two dots of the Occult and Etiquette skills.

Known for its exquisite vintages and deep ties to the blood trade, the winery bottles both blood from the finest mortal vessels and Kindred Vitae alike. You have access to this network. Gain four points of the Herd Background and its associated Advantages. In addition, once per game, you may arrange for a bottle of blood wine created from mortal blood or Kindred vitae to be delivered by a representative of the winery.

You have been recognized as a talented enough sommelier to be allowed to run your own winery affiliated with the Sangre Pura Vida brand and its extensive network in the blood trade. You may select five dots of Allies, Haven, Resources, or the associated Advantages. In addition, once per month, you may securely transport goods or a torpid vampire from one franchise to another without risk to the Masquerade and without having the shipment discovered or tracked.

As a member of the Waters Foundation, you have a solid understanding of how to avoid being discovered by hunters. Once per game session, you may ask your Storyteller how to most effectively avoid breaching the Masquerade, how to cover up a Masquerade breach, or for a piece of information about Hunter Organizations that may be relevant to an active story in your domain.

Sometimes, a Masquerade breach is imminent, and a safe alternative gathering site must be secured. Once a game session, you can secure an area the size of a large warehouse or a small office building. For the remainder of the night, the location gains three dots of the Location and Security traits as if it were your Haven. Any characters you invite specifically, do not trigger these traits.

Solving a Masquerade breach is one thing, but preventing them altogether is even better. Members of the Foundation are adept at erasing themselves from the prying eyes of Humanity and disappearing other vampires who may have drawn too much attention to themselves. Gain a three-dot Mask, the Zeroed Merit, and the Cobbler Merit. In addition, when spending downtime actions to improve or create a Mask for another character, you spend 1 fewer downtime action.