Descendant of Ilyes
Enemies of the Night
The Brujah Antediluvian, known as Ilyes, is the grandchilde of Caine and the founder of the Brujah clan. He Embraced a spirited individual named Troile, who is described variably as male or female. Over time, they formed a strong bond, and Brujah placed great trust in Troile, possibly even loved them. However, his action of embracing Troile broke a fundamental rule set by Caine. Misunderstanding Illyes's intentions, Troile instigated a revolt among the fourth-generation progeny, killed Ilyes, and took leadership of Clan Brujah. Few details, even the aforementioned generalities of the clan Brujah's history, are known in the modern nights outside the descendants of Ilyes. Descendants of Ilyes gain respect not from combat, but through victory in debate and scholarly works. They value the mind over the body, viewing the former as the superior tool. Although the Embrace enhances physical abilities, it has little impact on mental growth. Achieving mental excellence is more challenging and requires access to a diverse range of knowledge across various subjects, including philosophy and science. This lineage seeks knowledge for its own sake and aspires to master their fields. The descendants of Ilys are known to struggle during times of crisis. They are not used to strong emotions, making shocking events disorienting for them.
●Stunted Emotions
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.
●●Renaissance Mindset
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.
●●●Borrowed Time
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.