Love Like Blood

(Dominate ••, Resilience ••)

Vampire the Requiem - Nomads

The Ventrue who discovered and perfected this Devotion was an unfortunate nomad who faced “opposition” from the Kindred whose territory through which he passed (and poached on). Battered and injured by the fists, bullets and blades of his foes, he confronted his rivals in parley nonetheless — entrancing and fascinating the attackers with the blood that welled and dripped from his own wounds. The Ventrue’s injuries held a strange, primal beauty for the other Kindred, whose resistance to the Lord’s influential powers was eroded by sanguine desire.

Effect

A vampire who has learned this capability has developed a special link between his force of will and the potency of his blood. When he is wounded, the blood flowing from his injuries manifests a strange “resonance,” partially psychic and partially physical, that draws the attention of other Kindred. If the character suffers a wound penalty, his player may spend a Vitae and that penalty is not applied to any attempts to use the Dominate Discipline for the rest of the scene. Instead, the player gains a bonus equal to the normal penalty. Thus, a Ventrue reduced to 2 Health suffers a –2 penalty to all dice pools except for those relating to Dominate. For those actions, he actually gains a +2 bonus.
Only vampires are affected by Love Like Blood. Mortals, Ghouls and other beings are unaffected. Love Like Blood applies to only Dominate actions made upon a vampire in the immediate vicinity, and who can see or smell the character’s wounds.

Material Components

Cost: 1 Vitae

Gestures & Ritual

Dice Pool: This power involves no roll to invoke

Related Discipline

Dominate ••, Resilience ••

Effect Casting Time

Reflexive

This power costs 10 experience points to learn.