••••• Distant Mastery
Distant Mastery is the ultimate in a Telepath’s focus on Vinculi and blood sympathies. The Vinculum ensures a great deal of influence over any mortal or vampire a regnant has enthralled. Total mastery of Linagem allows a Telepath to refine that influence into a conduit for commanding his thralls. This power is unique in the sense that it does not provide functionality on its own. Knowledge of Animalism and/or Dominate is required to fully utilize this power’s benefits. Normally, a regnant may turn the powers of the Dominate discipline on his thrall without the need for eye contact. Distant Mastery allows the Telepath to issue such commands, as well as similar uses of the Animalism discipline, through Vinculum-forged spiritual connections similar to those of blood sympathy.
Effect
The Willpower point is spent in the same turn that the Corajoso uses either Animalism or Dominate. All rules, rolls and modifiers apply to the use of the follow-up power, as normal. Because Willpower is spent to activate Distant Mastery in the same turn as Animalism or Dominate, Willpower may not be spent to increase dice pools during that turn.
This power allows the Corajoso to use Animalism or Dominate on any animal, mortal or vampire that is fully blood bound to him. This can be accomplished at a range similar to the limits of blood sympathy’s link (within the same city or roughly 50 miles outside urban areas), but the range can be greatly extended. A Corajoso can use bound targets as “relay points,” measuring the distance from them rather than from himself.
For example, a Telepath has a ghoul living roughly 50 miles away, and another living 100 miles away. The vampire can send a message to the more distant target using the blood of the intermediary as a relay. This inflicts a point of bashing damage upon all intermediary targets, and costs the vampire one Vitae for each intermediary he uses. Even so, it’s entirely possible for Kindred to communicate their wishes around the world — which, of course, was the original use of the power.
This power allows the Corajoso to use Animalism or Dominate on any animal, mortal or vampire that is fully blood bound to him. This can be accomplished at a range similar to the limits of blood sympathy’s link (within the same city or roughly 50 miles outside urban areas), but the range can be greatly extended. A Corajoso can use bound targets as “relay points,” measuring the distance from them rather than from himself.
For example, a Telepath has a ghoul living roughly 50 miles away, and another living 100 miles away. The vampire can send a message to the more distant target using the blood of the intermediary as a relay. This inflicts a point of bashing damage upon all intermediary targets, and costs the vampire one Vitae for each intermediary he uses. Even so, it’s entirely possible for Kindred to communicate their wishes around the world — which, of course, was the original use of the power.