Lordly Palette
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Your character possesses a keen palette for blood, either through training or raw talent. She is able to discern details about kine and Kindred through nuances in the taste of their Vitae. When your character attempts to discern parentage, power, or other details about a subject by tasting its blood, add your dots in this Merit to the dice pool.
You also gain this bonus on perception rolls that would otherwise involve scent or taste if your character is able to taste blood from the area. At the Storyteller’s discretion, characters with two or more dots in this Merit may make a Wits + Medicine + Lordly Palette roll, with a –2 penalty (or greater), to detect known toxins or diseases in sampled blood. The character swishes the sample about like wine and then, hopefully, spits it out. Other unusual perception rolls may also be possible through this Merit on a case-by-case basis, as the Storyteller sees fit. A vampire machinist may be able to use a Wits + Crafts dice pool to detect the presence of industrial toxins in a subject’s blood. Not just anything can be sampled and analyzed through the lordly palette, however – this Merit reflects only a knack for discerning things present in blood.
Despite its name, and the Ventrue reputation for well-honed palettes, this Merit is available to Kindred of any clan.
You also gain this bonus on perception rolls that would otherwise involve scent or taste if your character is able to taste blood from the area. At the Storyteller’s discretion, characters with two or more dots in this Merit may make a Wits + Medicine + Lordly Palette roll, with a –2 penalty (or greater), to detect known toxins or diseases in sampled blood. The character swishes the sample about like wine and then, hopefully, spits it out. Other unusual perception rolls may also be possible through this Merit on a case-by-case basis, as the Storyteller sees fit. A vampire machinist may be able to use a Wits + Crafts dice pool to detect the presence of industrial toxins in a subject’s blood. Not just anything can be sampled and analyzed through the lordly palette, however – this Merit reflects only a knack for discerning things present in blood.
Despite its name, and the Ventrue reputation for well-honed palettes, this Merit is available to Kindred of any clan.