Dukhan

The Dukhan were once Mekhet, but they embroiled themselves in the affairs of Beasts and split off into their own clan centuries ago. Tonight, they stalk humanity’s soul instead of shadows. While it is rare to find divs haunting the Primordial Dream, the Dukhan are the clan most common and most comfortable within the Astral.

Why you want to be us

You can see the realms beyond, all the wonders and horrors that ever were, fantastic and vile. Once you know them, you become them. You are the nightmare. Free from the world of flesh and pain, your imagination knows no bounds. Be any kind of terror you like. Be all of them.

Why you should fear us

The Mekhet may watch you sleep, but we watch what’s beyond sleep. We know humanity’s brightest desires and darkest dreads. We drink deep from the well of the collective soul and learn things about you that you didn’t even know were there to learn. And if that’s not enough, we have other monsters inside us. We are never alone. The Begotten claim Chambers within our blood. You haven’t known terror until you’ve seen a three-headed horse the size of an elephant force itself through a ribcage like an erupting meat volcano.

Why we should fear ourselves

When you’re a vessel for something scarier than you are, you have to wonder where you went wrong. What are the Begotten, really? They say they’re kin, but they’re no Kindred. They say you hunt and feed together, but what if they’re just using you? When you travel in the Primordial Dream, it’s their territory you’re in, but you keep doing it because the world seems so empty without those wonders. Addicted to blood, sure, but addicted to dreams? What do you do when your supplier’s a 20-foot-tall cyclops with anger-management issues?

Not to mention coming face to face with the exaggerated mirror of your own Beast, for those of us who dig far enough into the Dark Dream to linger where the collective soul of the Kindred dwells. Some claim to have seen the Blood itself as a marauding Dreamborn monster, ever-evolving and always hungry.

Nickname: Succubi, Incubi

Clan Bane (The Curse of Reverie)

The Dukhan have strange urges, even by div standards, and can’t sustain themselves on blood alone. If a Dukhan goes (Humanity) nights without visiting the Astral for at least a full scene, whether through a Primordial Pathway, the Nightmare Journey Devotion (p. 143), or some other method, he gains the Languid Condition (Vampire: The Requiem, p. 304). It resolves when he either succumbs to torpor or spends a full scene in the Astral.

Favored Attributes: Wits or Stamina

Disciplines: Auspex, Obfuscate, Protean

Vitae Chambers

A Beast can use a Dukhan div who shares Family Ties with her, rather than a location, as the basis for a new Chamber to add to her Lair. The div need not have any traits in common with her Lair, but he does need to have lost Humanity via a breaking point in the Beast’s presence. A Chamber created this way is a Vitae Chamber, pulsating with congealing blood and rotten flesh. The Beast’s Lair Traits take on a vampiric cast in these Chambers; Slick might lubricate every surface with blood, for instance. The external end of the Chamber’s Primordial Pathway is the host div’s body. Jaws distend to vomit up the bloody Beast, cavities stretch in a mockery of birth, or a grisly portal tears open in the div’s chest for the Beast to squeeze her way out. It sickens witnesses, usually prompting rolls to resist repulsion, but leaves the host unharmed. Whenever the Beast uses the div’s body to open a Primordial Pathway, the div himself can step through it to bodily visit her Lair without the Beast having to Hold the Door. To outsiders, it looks like the Dukhan implodes or eats himself from the inside, vanishing from sight in a spatter of gore.