The Message

Trust is a rare commodity, among those Kindred who value it enough to even consider such a thing a commodity at all. This power was concocted between Shadows and Lords in the Dark Ages as a means of verifying that the message sent by one Kindred was, in fact, the same that reached the other. In those cities and outposts that made use (or still make use) of this power, it has the added value to the local Mekhet of making them advantageous to the local Ventrue.

Effect

This power simply imprints the user’s intent onto the subject messenger, who then bears that intent bound within his words and heart (and aura) for a number of months equal to the successes scored on the activation roll. Thereafter, the messenger’s aura and sense of “the truth” reflect the user’s intentions. This doesn’t prevent the messenger from lying, but it does help a scrutinizing vampire weed out the messenger’s lies from the master’s message. The messenger’s soul gives off a kind of mystic signal that can be read and interpreted by other Kindred with mystical abilities.
Simply put, this power reveals whether or not the subject messenger has delivered his lord’s genuine message in full. For the purposes of any other Kindred power that reveal, provoke, or discern truth – whether through mystical telemetry like Aura Perception or coercion like Majesty – the master’s message “reads” as authentic. To be clear, this does not reveal whether or not the master has sent along an intentionally deceptive message – this reveals whether or not the messenger has delivered the whole message his master did intend to send.

Material Components

Cost: –

Gestures & Ritual

Dice Pool: Presence + Expression + Dominate

Related Discipline

Dominate ••, Auspex ••

Effect Casting Time

Instant

This power costs ten experience points to learn.