••••• The Earth Rejects Thee
When a character achieves full mastery of Despond, the Discipline takes a strange and terrible turn. Death no longer ends pain. At this Discipline’s greatest power, Despond can reach beyond death to deliver the Embrace to a suicide who is really, truly dead. As long as the body remains intact, a master of Despond can call the suicide’s spirit and force it back into the fl esh the spirit spurned, to rise again as a vampire. A suicide remains susceptible to the Embrace until the next sunrise. Thus, a mortal who kills himself during the day can be Embraced the next night, long after the body has cooled. Some Children of Judas see a connection to the old religious prohibition against burying a suicide in consecrated ground.
Material Components
Cost: 1 Willpower (see below)
Gestures & Ritual
Dice Pool: Unlike the other powers of Despond, The Earth Rejects Thee does not involve dice pools. If the victim meets its requirements, the power always works. As with any other Embrace, passing undeath to a suicide costs a dot of Willpower in addition to the Willpower spent to activate this Discipline power. At the sire’s discretion, the Discipline’s added power may repair some damage to a suicide’s body, such as slit wrists or even the broken neck of a properly conducted hanging (though some sires leave these imperfections in order to keep their childer humble). This power cannot restore lost body parts, such as brains blown away by a shotgun blast. If a suicide’s self-infl icted wound would have destroyed a vampire, or at least instantly forced him into Torpor, the body is too damaged to sustain the Embrace.
Related Discipline
Effect Casting Time
Instant
Level
5