• Buttress the Soul

Vampire the Requiem - Ancient Bloodlines

With a word of prayer and a quick ritual of protection (usually the Passionate crosses herself), the Septemi can focus her supernatural defense against outside forces, heightening it for a brief moment.

Effect

Upon activating Buttress the Soul, the character gains a bonus to her defense equal to her rating in the Abjurism Discipline (whether rolled by the Septemi or subtracted from her attacker’s pool) against any powers that target her for a single turn. This power is reflexive and needs to be activated only once in a given turn to defend against all powers used against the character during that turn. The bonus remains until the end of the turn during which it was activated, though it can be activated as a defensive action (like going prone or Dodging, the character can use the power prior to her own point in the initiative roster). This power can be activated after an enemy declares that he will use a power against the Septemi but before the roll is resolved.
Buttress the Soul involves some small ritual that can always be seen by onlookers but involves no blatantly supernatural display. Use of this power almost never constitutes a Masquerade violation, and only enemies with a strong knowledge of the Septemi will identify this power for what it is.

Material Components

Cost: 1 Vitae

Gestures & Ritual

Dice Pool: This power involves no roll.

Related Discipline

Abjurism

Effect Casting Time

Reflexive

Level

1