Impurity
To the mind of Victor Spanos and his Deucalion bloodline, every vampiric clan is flawed save for the Ventrue. The “impurities” in the blood of the other clans do not and cannot drown out individual will and greatness, but they are there, and thus the greatest Nosferatu, Gangrel, Daeva or Mekhet can never hold a candle to the greatest Ventrue.
The Impurity Discipline allows the user to impose the weaknesses of the five clans upon other Kindred. A practitioner can show other Kindred exactly what it feels like to lose mental acuity as aSavage or fear the touch of fire as much as the Mekhet do. Interestingly, though, these powers do not work on the clan to which they correspond, leading Spanos to theorize that all Kindred (even the Ventrue) carry the “seeds” of these weaknesses within them, and that one such “seed” is fully realized in each of the clans (except, of course, the Lords). Therefore, a Daeva cannot fall victim to the Depraved Succubus power, since he is already a slave to his Vices, but can have the seed of vulnerability to fire activated for a short time and thus suffer the Feeble Shadow power.
As the Deucaliones are a young bloodline, Impurity is a new Discipline and hasn’t been fully realized or tested yet. Spanos is under the impression that mastery of the Discipline comes with Stupid Savage. The idea that a higher power that mimics the Ventrue clan weakness exists never occurred to him because, to his mind, the Ventrue don’t have a weakness. Likewise, many Deucaliones don’t believe that their Discipline affects other members of the bloodline or even members of clan Ventrue, and don’t bother attempting it. In truth, however, the Discipline works normally on both (except for the Mad Lord power, which no Deucalion to date has manifested anyway).
Impurity has no effect on mortals or other nonvampiric supernatural beings. In order to use most applications of Impurity, the Kindred must make eye contact with his target, though Feeble Shadow requires touch. Note that in terms of game systems, the powers of Impurity do not precisely match the clan weaknesses. In effect, however, they are very close, and so the Deucalion bloodline can legitimately be said to infect Kindred with the scourges of the clans.
The Impurity Discipline allows the user to impose the weaknesses of the five clans upon other Kindred. A practitioner can show other Kindred exactly what it feels like to lose mental acuity as aSavage or fear the touch of fire as much as the Mekhet do. Interestingly, though, these powers do not work on the clan to which they correspond, leading Spanos to theorize that all Kindred (even the Ventrue) carry the “seeds” of these weaknesses within them, and that one such “seed” is fully realized in each of the clans (except, of course, the Lords). Therefore, a Daeva cannot fall victim to the Depraved Succubus power, since he is already a slave to his Vices, but can have the seed of vulnerability to fire activated for a short time and thus suffer the Feeble Shadow power.
As the Deucaliones are a young bloodline, Impurity is a new Discipline and hasn’t been fully realized or tested yet. Spanos is under the impression that mastery of the Discipline comes with Stupid Savage. The idea that a higher power that mimics the Ventrue clan weakness exists never occurred to him because, to his mind, the Ventrue don’t have a weakness. Likewise, many Deucaliones don’t believe that their Discipline affects other members of the bloodline or even members of clan Ventrue, and don’t bother attempting it. In truth, however, the Discipline works normally on both (except for the Mad Lord power, which no Deucalion to date has manifested anyway).
Impurity has no effect on mortals or other nonvampiric supernatural beings. In order to use most applications of Impurity, the Kindred must make eye contact with his target, though Feeble Shadow requires touch. Note that in terms of game systems, the powers of Impurity do not precisely match the clan weaknesses. In effect, however, they are very close, and so the Deucalion bloodline can legitimately be said to infect Kindred with the scourges of the clans.
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