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Merits/Flaws

*Searching through Merits and Flaws
Merits and Flaws are alphabetical. The only exception is for Vampire Clan, Garou, Kinfolk, Ghoul and Inquistor.

I.E. Your looking for a Clan Specfic Ravnos Merit. Go to the R section for Ravnos. ~If~ Looking for a Garou merit go to G section and then look for your tribe.

Disciplines/Gifts

Different Backgrounds etc...

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Merits: G-K

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Garou - Ancestor Ally (1pt Merit)
You are strongly linked to one particular Past Life; the diff to channel him is -2. Create the ancestor, give him a name, abilities for which he was known and decide how renowned he was among other Garou. You must have the Background: Past Life to purchase this Merit.

Garou - Animal Magnetism (1pt Merit)
You are especially attractive to others of your breed. You receive a -2 diff on seduction or animal attraction rolls.

Garou - Bad Taste (2pt Merit)
You’re just plain nasty. Your flesh exudes oils tasting so bad that anyone whose mouth parts touch you becomes nauseated. The would-be biter must make a successful Willpower roll each turn for the remainder of the scene or be unable to act while he is retching. Lupus and wolves may react poorly to you, they obviously won’t lick you. These oils aren’t odorous in any way, but you must, constantly wipe oily sweat from yourself.

Garou - Compensatory Senses (3pt Merit)
If your metis deformity involves weakened senses, such as being hard of hearing or lacking a sense of smell, another sense group has gotten a bit stronger in order to compensate. Choose another sense group and lower the diff by 2 for any rolls that involve that sense.

Garou - Elemental Affinity (7pt Merit)
You are tied to one of the four elements, earth, air, fire or water. You feel especially attuned to that element and can derive certain powers from that bond. Storytellers who wish to emphasize this connection may add other benefits, but should also require greater maintenance of the tie such as services to be rendered.

Garou - Fair Glabro (2pt Merit)
Your Glabro form can pass for Homid, albeit a large and bulky one. You lose no Social Attributes when in Glabro.

Garou - Favor (1-3pt Merit)
An elder Garou owes you a favor for some reason. The extent of the favor depends on the Merit’s value. 1pt being a minor favor, 3pt being the elder owes you their life.

Garou - Immune to Wyrm Emanations (6pt Merit)
You have a special boon from Gaia: You are immune to the toxins of the Wyrm. You receive no penalty from supernatural radiation, balefire, Wyrm elementals and the like. Likewise, you are immune to Bane possession. Your sept recognizes this invulnerability and thrusts you into many dangerous perils with the expectation that you will use your immunity for the good of others.

Garou - Intertribal Fosterage (1pt Merit)
You are of one tribe, but were fostered in another. You may choose your tribal Gifts from among those available to either tribe and may learn skills usually only known to nations associated with the other tribe.

Garou - Local Ties (1-3pt Merit)
You have both influence over and contacts in local circles of some sort. This can be from government to business, the level of the Merit will determine what it is. Please speak with your Storyteller about taking this flaw.

Garou - Longevity (2pt Merit)
Gaia has blessed you with a long life. You do not suffer aging effects until you are 90 years old or more. You can expect to reach 120 to 130 years of age barring death in combat.

Garou - Mixed-morph (1pt Merit)
It is easy for you to transform certain body parts only, such as a hand to a claw while you remain in Homid form or changing your Lupus vocal cords into a human voicebox. Your diff for such changes is only at 6.

Garou - Metamorph (6pt Merit)
You find it extremely easy to change forms and can do it even in your sleep. You do not need to roll to shift forms nor do you need to spend a Rage point to instantly assume a desired form. In addition, if ever you were knocked unconscious you can make a roll of Wits + Primal Urge (diff cool to assume whatever form you wish instead of reverting to your breed form.

Garou - Moon-Bound (2pt Merit)
You are especially tied to your auspice, and when Luna is in the waxing phase of your auspice, you receive an extra die on all rolls. However, when your moon phase is waning, you lose one die on all rolls.

Garou - Natural Channel (3pt Merit)
You find the Gauntlet between worlds thinner than most Garou do. Your diff to step sideways is one less, and spirits react a bit more favorably to you. Even if you aren’t a Theurge, you won’t find it difficult to obtain training from the Garou shamans.

Garou - Phantom Mask (2pt Merit)
Your metis deformity is concealable with some work. For example, you may be able to hide your third eye under a scarf. This serves you just fine, unless the other werewolves find out. They’ll hate you for being a coward in addition to whatever prejudices they have against metis, and you’ll be the object of particular scorn by other metis.

Garou - Prosthesis (3pt Merit)
If your character has a physical deformity or missing limbs, you’ve somehow obtained prosthetics to compensate. This does not mean your deformity is cured. However, these prosthetics may help offset some of your penalties when worn.

Garou - Silver Tolerance (7pt Merit)
You have an immunity of sorts to silver. You are able to soak silver, although it still causes you aggravated damage. Also, any Gnosis loss from carrying silver items is halved for Garou with this Merit. Instead of losing one Gnosis for every silver item you possess, you lose one Gnosis for every pair of silver items.

Garou - Unnoticed (2pt Merit)
Maybe they’re just being polite, or else your deformity doesn’t matter to them. Whatever the reason, humans, including Kinfolk, tend to ignore your metis deformity. Some may even find it enticing or exotic. Werewolves, on the other hand, tend to look at you askance. Wolves are even less forgiving.

Garou - Black Furies - Caern Child (5pt Merit)
A Garou character with this Merit, was born during a Rite of Bearing the Caern. This birth alone is considered to be a very strong positive omen; the character receives +1 die on all Social rolls when dealing with Garou of her home sept. Additionally, the totem spirits of the caern to which the character was born pay special attention to her; she receives 1 point in the Totem background for free, so long as her pack’s totem is one of the sept’s totem spirits. This background does bring negative attention to the character as well. Should she fail in any task the Theurges and Galliards of her home sept are likely to wail and gnash their teeth, as the character’s fate is said to be linked to that of the caern. The character may receive a mentor or two that she didn’t seek out or ask for, due to the sept’s need to keep her safe and strong. She is certain to receive unwelcome attention from the local Wyrm population, who believe - probably quite rightly - that the first step to corrupting the new caern is to force the character down the Black Spiral, corrupting her rather than killing her outright.

Garou - Black Furies - Camp Affinity/Enmity (2pt Merit OR Flaw)
Camp Affinity indicates that a particular camp of Black Furies has a particular fondness toward you. Perhaps you did them a great favor, or perhaps they are trying to sway you to join their group. Regardless, you have a -1 diff on Social rolls when interacting with that camp. You should not be a member of this camp when you first take this merit, although you can shift into that camp during play as the chronicle permits. - Camp Enmity indicates that a particular camp of Black Furies has it in for you. This works best when the character is a member of a particular camp to which the other camp already has some opposition, like the Sisterhood and the Order of Our Merciful Mother, or the Bacchantes and the Amazons of Diana. Or perhaps you’re not in a given camp, but you have done something to give offense to one. No matter the cause, this Flaw gives you a +1 diff on Social rolls when interacting with that camp.

Garou - Black Furies - Infertile (1pt Merit OR 3pt Flaw)
Your character is infertile, for whatever reason; perhaps she contracted a virulent disease as a youth, suffered from battle scars to the abdomen, or was the victim of a botched abortion before her First Change. She cannot bear any children. This is the cause of some lowering of status within the Black Furies; she loses 1 point of Honor Renown. If the character has never borne any children, then she will be considered a Maiden until such time as she goes through menopause and becomes a Crone - this is the 3pt version of the Flaw. She cannot learn any Mother Gifts or rites. If the character has had children, and simply can have no more, this is only a 1pt Flaw. At the Storyteller’s option, depending on the traditions of the sept, the latter version of this Flaw may lead to the character’s being considered a Crone.

Garou - Black Furies - Unusually Fertile (1pt Merit)
The character with this merit is far more likely to become a parent than another Garou is. While Garou are not substantially less fertile than humans are, a Garou with Unusually Fertile is twice as likely as an average human to either become pregnant or cause a pregnancy after a single unprotected sexual encounter. The children of a character with this Merit are no more likely to be Garou than are the children of another character not so blessed. The specific effects of the Merit are best left to the Storyteller and player involved, especially if the character is female. For obvious reasons, metis may not take this Merit.

Garou - Bone Gnawer - Ratkin Buddies (3pt Merit)
You poor b*****d. Ratkin like you. For some reason, an entire pack of them has taken a personal interest in you. On a good day, they’ll swarm into your life and solve one of your pesky little problems, sometimes however making it into another problem all together. Sometimes even taking care of an enemy for you. However on bad days, they might show up at your place for shelter, east all your food, borrow your stuff or generally raise hell. No more than one Garou in a pack can take this Merit.

Garou - Bone Gnawer - Shame (2pt Merit)
Your distant Garou ancestors weren’t Bone Gnawers. The good news is that you can still draw upon the strength of a few of your more esteemed ancestors. The bad news is that elders may learn of or even recognize your shameful lineage. Each time you meet an elder for the first time..roll perm Glory against a diff of (your Rank +5). If the roll scores even 1 success, your family’s dark past is revealed. You then gain +2 diff on all Social rolls with elders in that sept.

Garou - Bone Gnawer - Struggling (1pt Merit)
By hard work and diligence, you’ve gotten yourself off the streets. You can’t have points in the Resources Background, thus mustering up just a few bucks is difficult for you. At the start of each chapter, the Storyteller rolls your Wits (diff 6) for every 2 successes you gain a temporary 1 point in Resources for the rest of that chapter. Whether through a botched roll or negligence, you can fall through the cracks again at any moment.

Garou - CoG - Distant Sire (1pt Merit)
Children of Gaia adopt so many pups that some Children maintain family ties with Garou parents in other tribes. This Merit simply means that you know of a parent who is Garou (not kin) in another tribe. (Male Children may claim sire-right among the Black Furies). The tribe needs to be specified and the Storyteller needs to give permission for you to choose the tribe that you specify. In some cases he may refuse. The Storyteller will create your parent, but will not reveal everything about them to you. In general, this Merit functions as a dot of Allies within another tribe, although it will also tend to spawn its own subplots.

Garou - CoG - Supporter (2pt Merit)
You inspire all around you to greater efforts. Whether by speaking, writing or leading by example, you give anyone who works with you reason to go on and hope of success. You have a -2 diff to Social rolls and you give any group effort +1 to its total dice pool.

Garou - Get of Fenris - Alcohol Tolerance (1pt Merit)
The Fianna pride themselves on their brewing, but the Get are still able to show the Fianna a thing or two about drinking. With a successful Stamina roll (diff 7), a Garou with this Merit can shake off the effects of intoxication, suffering no coordination penalties that might normally affect a drunken fighter. This Merit works against all natural intoxicants, through not against poisons. Naturally, a werewolf with this level of tolerance has a much more difficult time getting drunk, which may spoil her fun a bit.

Garou - Red Talons - Homid Ancestor (2pt Merit)
The character must have at least 1 dot in the Ancestors Background to purchase this Merit. Somewhere in the far-flung mists of the past, you have a human-born relative. Maybe a homid relative of yours bred with a wolf that was Kin to the Red Talons, perhaps a more recent relative was actually born to another tribe. Either way, you have a slightly better grip on human thought than most lupus. Reduce the diff on rolls involving logic and abstract thinking by 1 and the diff on using Ancestors to access Abilities such as Crafts, Melee, Etiquette, and Politics likewise drop by 1. On the minus side, if word of your lineage gets out, you might lose some temporary Honor depending on what kind of sept you live in.

Garou - Red Talons - Winter Garou (4pt Merit)
You have been chosen as one of the Winter Garou. Unless you are a member of an all-Red Talon pack, you are probably a spy and instigator for your tribe, and are acting under orders from a superior. In game terms, you effectively have Mentor 3, and can expect favors from your tribe. You may also learn Winter Pack Gifts, and receive extra Renown from your tribe for your efforts. However, you are expected to kill humans at any opportunity, and the only excuse that the tribe will except for failing to do so is that your pack was watching and would have discovered your allegiance. If you are ever found out, the Red Talons will either spirit you away or kill you rather than allow the truth of the Winter Council to become common knowledge in the Garou Nation.

Garou - Silent Striders - Long Distance Runner (3pt Merit)
You must have a minimum Stamina of 4 to purchase this Merit. When running, you may double your normal speed for one hour per point of Stamina. Gifts improving movement are calculated from the new speed. Thus, possession of this Merit and movement-improving Gifts allows you to travel at amazing velocity.

Garou - Silent Striders - Noted Messenger (3pt Merit)
Your reputation as a reliable and incorruptible messenger precedes you. You can enter most septs unchallenged, as long as you have a message for someone residing there. In addition, few Garou will attempt to hinder you in your duties, and most will let you cross their territories unmolested. However, the mere word of your presence will sometimes stir up rumor and intrigue, as the locals wonder what message it is that you carry.

Garou - Silver Fangs - Notable Heritage (2pt Merit)
You come from a distinguished family, even by Silver Fang standards. Your family epitomizes the high ideals of your tribe by word and deed. This is not Pure Breed; the noblest families may be of humble birth. Most Garou who know of your family respect it. You are at -1 diff on all Social rolls dealing with Garou who are aware of your family’s reputation.

Garou - Stargazers - (1 or 2pt Merit)
The character has been officially recognized as the reincarnation of a famous Garou hero or sage. He thus begins with 3 extra points of temp Renown. If the previous life was a Stargazer, the cost of this Merit is 2pts, for there is a certain amount of social status that comes with it.

Garou - Uktena - Human Tribal Status (2-4pt Merit)
You not only maintain an active part in the human community you came from, but you have attained a position of status within that society as a spokesperson, healer, medicine worker or council elder. The number of points you spend determines your relative authority. You must come from a Native American tribe or reside in a distinct ethnic community to purchase this Merit. Lupus and metis Garou may not take this Merit.

Garou - Wendigo - Heart of Sasquatch (3pt Merit)
You have a gentler spirit than most of your tribe. Those who know you claim that you are a throwback to the manitou of Sasquatch, before he grew bitter and became the cannibal-monster known as Wendigo. You often act as a go-between for fighting Kinfolk or Garou tribes. You get 1 additional success when trying to resist your rage, and have one less effective success on any Rage roll only for the purpose of determining frenzy.

Garou - Wendigo - Spirit Parent (6pt Merit)
Your mother or father was a spirit. While it was probably a Wind-spirit, it may have been an animal spirit, a plant spirit or any type of spirit. If the spirit was your mother, you may not know the truth immediately. - The character begins with 2 extra points of temp Renown allocated according to the spirit parent - Banes hate the character more than usual and single him out of a pack for assault or punishment - The character has a spiritual boon - The character must take a mild drawback, some not-so-beneficial trait - The cost of the character’s pack to take the parent as its totem is 1 point less than usual.

Gangrel - Without a Trace (2pt Merit)
The wilderness is your friend, working to hide your passage. You leave no trail to follow as the earth swallows your footprints, and the trees and grasses cover your scent. Even magical means of tracking you are inhibited. You pass through places like the wind, leaving nothing behind but a whisper. Even Lupines have trouble following you. Normal means of tracking you (with Survival, the use of dogs etc) fail automatically. Supernatural methods of tracking you, such as with Auspex, have a chance, but with greater difficulty (+2 diff).

Ghoul - Pale Aura (1pt Merit)
Due to some quirk of fate or your reaction to the Blood, your aura is naturally pale. Vampires reading your aura via Auspex assume you to be Kindred unless they have strong reason to suspect otherwise. This Merit can be of great use if you wish to impersonate a vampire, but can also cause some very dangerous misunderstandings.

Ghoul - Blood Flaw Immunity (3pt Merit)
For some reason, you are resistant to the bloodline flaws of any vampire from whom you drink. You can guzzle Nosferatu vitae until your stomach bursts, and your complexion won't suffer a whit.

Ghoul - Benevolent Domitor (3pt. Merit)
You must purchase the Domitor Background to buy this Merit. For whatever reason, your domitor is actually rather fond of you. Perhaps your service has been exemplary, or perhaps you simply remind him of someone in his past -- given the alien nature of the vampire mind, you may never know for sure. Your domitor treats you with some measure of compassion and does not casually endanger your life. Of course, he still expects you to give your life for his if need be, but until that night, the two of you are something akin to friends.

Ghoul - Kinfolk (4pt Merit OR Flaw)
Whether you know it or not, you are kin to a werewolf tribe. You carry the blood of the Garou in your veins, and your own children may be Garou.
For ghouls, being Kinfolk can be an advantage or a hindrance. If purchased as a Merit, then you are still on amicable terms with your relatives (Garou 'and Kinfolk alike). Although they will never allow you to bring any vampire "friends" into their territory (and may well use lethal means to enforce their privacy ), they have an interest in your well-being and give you aid so long as this doesn't compromise their principles. Of course, your kin do not want you to be a ghoul forever, as they would like you to return to their society and raise a family of your own. Typically, only independent ghouls may purchase Kinfolk as a Merit.
However, it's more likely that the Garou consider a ghoul Kinfolk to be a serious threat. If bought as a Flaw, then your extended family believes you may compromise their security. They seek either to remove you entirely from your diet and/or domitor's influence, or to kill you as a favor to your corrupted soul. This Flaw earns you dangerous enemies, one from whom your domitor (if any) is very unlikely to intercede and rescue you. This Flaw is more appropriate for vassal ghouls, as no werewolf would agree to let one of their precious Kin be sworn to a vampire. Revenants cannot be Kinfolk, either as a Merit or as a Flaw.

Ghoul - Supernatural Companion (4pt Merit)
You are allied with a supernatural being, but not a vampire. This may be a werewolf comrade, the ghost of a relative, or even a friendly mage. You may ask for her help in times of need, but she may not always be able to help. She may also require your help at inconvenient times (such is the cost of friendship). It is highly improbable that your allegiance is looked on favorably by her kind, and any Kindred who discovered your relationship would almost certainly disapprove. The Storyteller will create your companion, be it werewolf, wraith, mage or something else entirely, and won't reveal her full capabilities.
(Note: This Merit supersedes those of Werewolf Companion and Spirit Mentor in The Vampire Players Guide.)

Ghoul - True Gypsy (5pt. Merit)
The blood of the Rom runs true in your veins. Perhaps you have a Ravnos domitor who chose you for your potential, or perhaps you simply acquired a taste for Kindred blood in your travels. You may purchase Blood Affinities, or other Gypsy only abilities from World of Darkness: Gypsies. Your relatives may or may not approve, depending on the whys and wherefores of your ghouling. Revenants may not purchase this Merit under any circumstances.

Ghoul - Unbondable (6pt Merit)
You cannot be Blood Bound to a vampire, no matter how often you drink from his veins. This Merit is obviously very useful for one whose powers depend on vitae, and its cost is accordingly high for ghoul characters.

Ghoul - Vicissitude Modifications (1-7pt Merit)
Although you may not be talented at the Tzimisce forms of fleshcrafting and boneshaping, at some point you have been... modified into a more warlike form. Generally speaking, you're a szlachra, and most modifications necessitate the purchase of the Flaw: Monstrous (The Vampire Players Guide, p. 19). As a role, the Tzimisce make sufficient cosmetic alterations to rain the looks of all their battle-ghouls, even those whose modifications are not in and of themselves hideous. These modifications are permanent unless shaped away by further Vicissitude. Although dangerous, any weaponry causes normal damage only; despite its horrid appearance, your arsenal is still only mortal flesh and bone. You may purchase as many modifications as you can afford, but your social abilities are probably doomed.

Ghoul - Digestive Modifications (2pt Merit)
You are able to digest any organic material that you can break up and swallow. Your Stamina is treated as two points higher for purposes of resisting ingested poisons.

Ghoul - Spurs (2pt Merit)
Long bone spurs protrude from your forearms, back and/or legs. You may slash with these for Str + 2 damage; however, they are hard to conceal, and you must subtract three dice from any Social Dice Pools save those involving intimidation.

Ghoul - Carapace (3pt Merit.) You are covered with bony or horny plates that protect you from attack. You may add two soak dice to your pool, but you must take the Monstrous Flaw.

Ghoul - Patagia (4pt Merit)
Your bones have been hollowed, and flaps of skin (from yourself or another hapless soul) have been grafted onto your arms, giving you the appearance of a human pterodactyl. You may use these flaps to glide, though you may not actually fly. While gliding, you may not use your arms. Furthermore, you subtract one from all soak pools to resist strikes from fists and blunt weapons, or any other force of concussive damage ( your bones are hollow)
. You must take the Monstrous Flaw.
Note: Ghouls may never heal Vicissitude modifications, not even with vampire blood. In this respect they are as helpless as mortals. The exceptions are ghouls who themselves possess Vicissitude, though a lowly Zantosa may well find herself helpless to repair the mutilation inflicted by a seventh-generation Tzimisce (to repair Vicissitude alterations, a ghoul must have a level of Vicissitude superior to that of the vampire who inflicted the mutilation).

Ghoul - Virulent Strike (1pt Merit)
Through strange Thaumaturgical sorcery, unknown rituals or even an odd quirk of your ghoul physiognomy, you have been imbued with the power of the supernatural. You can cause aggravated damage to supernatural creatures by striking them, biting them, raking them with bonecrafted spurs whatever. This is considered standard Brawl damage against mortals, and should normally apply to only one attack form (bite, bone claws, etc.). You should work with the Storyteller to find an explanation for this Merit, and the Storyteller may disallow this Merit entirely if she so chooses.

Giovanni - Sanguine Incongruity (5pt Merit)
Giovanni manifesting this peculiar trait are quite rare - there are fewer than a dozen reported instances. Those possessing it do not ear the Curse of the Lamia; their Kiss causes no more damage than the blood loss itself. However, these vampires acquire a peculiar pallor upon their Embrace - they look like corpses, and no among of ingestion will flush their features (as other vampires are able to do). Giovanni with this Merit are afforded wide berth, as their Trait is reminiscent of the Cappadocians clan weakness and the Giovanni tend to be quite superstitious about it.

Guardian Angel (6pt Merit)
Someone or something watches over you and protects you from harm. You have no idea who or what it is, but you have an idea that someone is looking out for you. IN times of great need you may be supernaturally protected. However, one can never count upon a guardian angel. The Storyteller must decide why you are being watched over, and by what (not necessarily an angel, despite the name).

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Harmless (1pt Merit)
Everyone in the city knows you, and knows that you’re no threat to their plans. While that sort of estimation may seem insulting, it’s also what kept you from being killed. No one considers you worth their time to deal with, and that low opinion keeps you safe. Of you start acting in a way that demonstrates that you are not longer harmless, others’ reactions to you will likely change as a result.

Harpy (5pt Merit)
You count yourself among the harpies, the vampires who rule the roost in Elysium. Yours is one of the voices that mock, exalt or humble the Kindred of the city.. Your opinion is very influential, which means that you’re going to face all sorts of attempts - from bribes to threats - to change it. You are at -1 difficulty on all Social rolls when acting in your official capacity.

Healing Touch (1pt Merit)
Normally vampires can only seal the wounds they inflict by licking them. With but a touch, you can achieve the same effect.

Hidden Diablerie (3pt Merit)
The tell-tale black streaks of diablerie do not manifest in your aura.

Higher Purpose (1pt Merit)
You have a goal that drives and directs you in everything. You do not concern yourself with petty matters and casual concerns, because your higher purpose is everything. Though you may sometimes be driven by this purpose and find yourself force to behave in ways contrary to the needs of personal survival, it can also grant you great personal strength. You gain two extra dice on all rolls that have anything to do with this higher purpose. You need to decide what your higher purpose is. Make sure you talk it over with the Storyteller first. (If you have the Flaw Driving Goal, you cannot take this Merit).

Holder of Office (3-5pt Merit)
You currently hold one of the official Camarilla positions in your city. The degree of the power you possess depends on the cost of the Merit.

Holdings (1-5pt Merit)
You own a number of properties that have been in your possession for years. These have all been modified to provide you with protection, numerous places to rest and emergency escape routes. Although such holdings are often ancient castles, museums and the like, they can also be specifically prepared apartment complexes, mountain lodges, old churches, etc. For every point taken in this Merit you have two such holdings, which can almost anywhere in the world. While the rights to this territory are yours, there are responsibilities that come along with it. If those responsibilities are not met, the prince may well strip you of your holdings.

Holy Aura (2pt Merit)
Your aura, no matter what color it takes, is unusually brilliant to those who can see it; you're practically a beacon among other mortals, burning w/ a religious devotion. Even those who cannot see auras are immediately drawn to your presence.

Huge Size (4pt Merit)
You are abnormally large in size, possibly over seven feet tall and 400 pounds in weight. You therefore have one additional Health Level, and are able to suffer more harm before you are incapacitated. Treat this extra Level as an extra Hurt Level, with no penalties to rolls.

Humanity's Window (3pts)
Although otherwise monstrous in appearance, you retain one striking feature from your mortal life. Beautiful eyes are the feature most commonly presserved this way, but Humanity's Window can encompass any aspect of what you once had, such as a wonderful voice or sensitive fingers. This merit adds one die to the character's dice pool for social interactions with others encountering the character for the first time. It can be purchased only by characters of Appearance 0, such as Nosferatu and Gargoyles.

Hypersensitive Palate (2pts)
You have an almost supernatural ability to analyze the blood you drink. Any sip of blood you are able to sample allows a single Perception roll (difficulty 7 + [the age of blood in hours]) to detect familiar tastes or distinction. If any successes are scored, the Storyteller may require a second roll to correctly identify the flavors tasted (water from the Thames, French merlot, Lingenwald factory soot, a particular family's blood).

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Inconnu Associate (4pt Merit)
You're friends w/ another Kindred who belongs to the Inconnu. Though you may call upon your friend in times of need, she may call on you as well. Neither of your sects appreciate such relationships, & your leaders would punish you if your friendship were discovered. Arranging methods of communication & meeting places will be difficult.

Innate Magical Ability (5pt Merit)
You have some sort of magical ability that makes you unique. this ability is different from any normal vampiric power or Discipline. The exact nature of your ability should remain mysterious to you, though you have some say in what that ability is.

Inoffensive to Animals (1pt Merit)
Animals do not fear or distrust you the way they do most of the Kindred. They treat you as they would any mortal and do not shy from your touch.

Inquisitor - Bitter Blood (1pt Merit)
The Lord has made your blood bitter to the foul tongues of the undead. One taste of your blood and a vampire will never feed from you again. There’s nothing preventing a vampire from bleeding you just for the fun of it, of course, but you’re the last vessel from which a nightwalker would willingly choose to drink. A vampire taking even one blood point from you must make a Willpower roll (diff 9) to continue doing so, even if starving. A vampire in hunger frenzy, however, will drain you dry without batting an eyebrow.

Inquisitor - Callous-Sensitive (1pt Merit)
You know well that inquisitors aren’t always the paragons of piety that others expect them to be. Furthermore, when other inquisitors have become Callous, you can sense it. Roll Perception + Empathy (diff 6) any time the character is in the presence of a Callous cohort. Even one success reveals who it is who has fallen to Callousness. At the Storyteller’s discretion, more successes may reveal other information, including the duration of this period of Callousness or just how Callous he is.

Inquisitor - David’s Arm (3pt Merit)
Your aim is blessed, like David’s when he let loose his sling stone against Goliath. Your perception of distance and understanding of other relevant factors give you a clear advantage on all ranged attacks. Double all benefits gained from aiming.

Inquisitor - Divinely Favored (4pt Merit)
You are the beneficiary of an extraordinary degree of divine grace. While others seem to suffer Curses as some form of atonement or punishment for their access to divine power, you seem to bear that burden lightly, only rarely gaining the Curses that befall other inquisitors. In addition to whatever other modifiers may come into play, all rolls related to acquiring new Curses are subject to a -2 diff.

Inquisitor - Evangelist (2pt Merit)
Your joy in your faith is a palpable thing that others can sense. Good Christian folk enjoy being in your company and often come away with their own belief renewed by conversation with you. You have a knack for remembering apt Biblical quotations that help people through their days. You receive a -2 to all Social difficulties when interacting with other God-fearing Christians.

Inquisitor - Gifted Exorcist (5pt Merit)
You have a talent for forcing demons and other possessing spirits out of physical bodies that do not belong to them. You are probably well known and highly sought after for your abilities in this context. The diff on all exorcism rolls decreases by 3. Furthermore, if conducting the exorcism in conjunction with other inquisitors and one of them botches, you may take the burden upon yourself and expend a permanent Willpower point to prevent the loss of the group’s accumulated successes.

Inquisitor - Grace (2pt Merit)
Not only do you take great pride in doing God’s work, but you also have the compassion and humanity to avoid the hazards associated with such high levels of Conviction. Your conviction can be up to two points higher than your Piety before you show signs of Callousness. An inquisitor with this Merit will never become Callous if her Piety is 8 or higher.

Inquisitor - Hale (2pt Merit)
God has granted you a strong constitution, so you may better serve His cause. You are rarely less than robust health and take ill infrequently. Subtract 2 from all difficulties to resist disease, whether natural or supernatural in nature.

Inquisitor - Halo (5pt Merit)
You are blessed, and it’s unmistakable. You have a halo, not a traditional halo of light so much as a divine aura, actually, but it serves you well. Characters with this merit radiate a sense of divine serenity. While it’s possible to take aggressive action against such a character, those agents of the Devil who would do so must spend 1 Willpower point each time.

Inquisitor - Holy Aura (2pt Merit)
God’s touch upon you has an odd effect on the people around you. They sense that there is something different about you. The religious are drawn to you and the criminal or heretical tend to avoid you instinctively. However, everybody finds it hard to lie to you or hide his true nature from you. All difficulties on rolls to lie to you or conceal something from you are increased by 2.

Inquisitor - Holy Art Natural (5pt Merit)
One of the paths of the Holy Art comes very easily for you. For some reason, the Lord has blessed you with a particular aptitude, so that you may serve him better. Whatever the cause, the experience cost for your chosen path is (current rating x4). You need not begin with any dots in your chosen art; if you choose not to, the cost to buy the first dot is 8 experience points.

Inquisitor - Initiate (3pt Merit OR Flaw)
You have agreed to take on a young inquisitor as your student. He does not have any Blessings yet, but he is showing a fine aptitude for the business of inquisition and a firm resolution in the face of the enemy. This is a heavy burden, though, for you are responsible for this child’s soul as well as his life. If Initiate is taken as a Merit, the student is intelligent, faithful and diligent in his studies and prayer. He will fight for you only in the most extreme of circumstances, but willingly does research or runs errands for you when called upon to do so. He may well yet be blessed by the Lord. If taken as a Flaw, the Initiate is a problem who hinders your work. He’s incompetent, lazy, petulant and he lacks dedication to his faith. He can be a danger and a liability to the safety of your chapter.

Inquisitor - Inviolate (4pt Merit)
Your body is so filled with the Holy Spirit that invading spirits cannot worm their way in. You cannot be possessed by demons, ghosts, vampires, or any other creature. This merit only protects from Dominate 5.

Inquisitor - Order Prodigy (3pt Merit)
You are perfectly attuned to the wisdom and tenets of your order, so much so that your almost intuitive grasp of your order’s Endowments prevents you from suffering Curses when learning them. Even under difficult or rushed circumstances, you do not acquire Curses from learning your order’s Endowments. Learning the Endowments of other orders, however, still puts you at risk. Murnau and Red Order Characters cannot take this Merit.

Inquisitor - Orthodox (1pt Merit)
While others adopt Catholicism with one or two tiny private changes that make them feel better about the religion, you accept Catholicism entirely on its own grounds. You are a complete and utter true believer, happily ignoring any evidence that might give you second thoughts about the Church’s theology or its earthly hierarchy. The Powers That Be like you because you accept as God’s own truth whatever they tell you. It’s easy to get along when you accept everything you are told. All social rolls pertaining to representatives of the Church are made at -2 diff, so long as you do as you’re told and wholly embrace the Catholic Church’s stance on everything.

Inquisitor - Pain Resistant (2pt Merit)
The disciplines of faith, self-denial and mortification have granted you an unusual resistance to pain. Let Satan’s spawn do their worst: The flesh matters not. All wound penalties are reduced by one. (So at the Wounded health level your character loses one die, not two.)

Inquisitor - Pure (5pt Merit)
Most inquisitors begin play with an Acolyte-level Curse. You, however, do not - Either you have atoned for your sins sufficiently to negate the need for divine retribution, or you simply lead such a blameless life that no contrition is necessary. Whatever the case, you begin with an order Endowment, but no Curse. Obviously, this Merit is not available to characters beginning with their order benefit and drawback in lieu of an Endowment.

Inquisitor - Religious Heritage (1pt Merit OR Flaw)
When taken as a merit, Religious Heritage indicates your family has a history of dedicated service in the Church, with many of your relatives gaining prominent positions through the years. That reputation works to your benefit as well. If taken as a Flaw, however, your family has a dark reputation as heretics, demon thralls or pagans, a problem that taints your name. You receive a -2 to Social difficulties when interacting with members of the Church or anyone else who would be impressed by your lineage (if taken as Merit) or a +2 difficulty on such rolls (if Flaw)
. House Murnau characters may not take this Trait.

Inquisitor - Saint’s Conscience (3pt Merit)
Like all Christians struggling with life, you can make mistakes. On occasion, however, in times of great moral ambiguity, you can pray to God for guidance and receive it. Once per game session when the character is in a morally confusing situation, he can pray and get a clear answer directing him to one course of action that is the most moral. Characters may use this Merit to keep themselves from acting in ways that would lead to Callousness or other similarly negative outcomes. The Storyteller determines which path the character is better off taking and guides him in that direction.

Inquisitor - Talented Liar (2pt Merit)
Others may give themselves away when they lie. A stammer, a glance at the ground, a quaver in the voice, they all suggest deceit to the would be duped. Not you. You can tell even brazen lies and make them sound entirely truthful. Even old priests have a hard time discerning when you’re lying. If you’re crafty, you may even be able to figure out ways around the Endowments of your fellow inquisitors. All rolls to discern whether or not you’re lying are at a +2 diff. In the case of something really obvious, it is still a +1 diff.

Inquisitor - Tough as Nails (3pt Merit)
You come from hardy, thick-skinned stock, or perhaps God has favored you. You shrug off damage easier than most. All soak rolls are made at -1 diff.

Inquisitor - Uncanny Logic (2pt Merit)
All inquisitors have to be able to separate truth from falsehood and right from wrong. You, however, have an uncanny reasoning ability that allows you to take apparently innocuous facts and ruthlessly deduce their true meaning. There is nothing supernatural in this: God has merely granted you an ordered and uncluttered mind that can work through trains of thought more fully than others can manage. All difficulties on rolls involving deduction decrease by 2.

Institutional Control (2-5pt Merit)
You begin play with absolute control over one mortal institution of your choice. Either you are the head of this institution, or you have mastered its leader. In the first case, think about how you will retain control without being able to appear to your followers during the day (it may be impossible to remain in command for long). If you control the mortal leader, then think about how you keep him loyal. (Blackmail? The Blood Oath? Dominate? Presence?) The cost of the Merit depends upon the size and power of the institution. Control of a small hermitage with six monks is a 2 point Merit. To control and opulent monastery with 200 brothers is a 5 point Merit. Plausible institutions include: monasteries, friaries (3-5 points) cathedral chapters (monks attached to a cathedral; 5 points), hermitages (2 points), hospitals (hostels for the poor and sick; 3 points), city guilds (2 to 5 points, depending on size and power), city law courts (3 points), etc.

Introspective (1pt Merit)
You have keen insight into the ulterior motives of all your actions. Through this nightly exercise, you also have incredible insight into the underlying motives of others’ actions. Add two dice to your Perception dice pool when you must take an action against someone with the same Nature or Demeanor as you.

Invisible to Kindred (4pt Merit)
Your very nature makes it difficult for Kindred to even look at you. To them, you have a Level 1 Obfuscate.

Iron Will (3pt Merit)
When you are determined and you mind is set, nothing can thwart you from your goals. You cannot be Dominated, nor can your mind be affected in any way by spells or rituals. However, the Storyteller may require you to spend Willpower points when extremely potent powers are directed at you.

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Jack-of-all-Trades (5 pt Merit)
You have a large pool of miscellaneous skills and knowledge obtained through your extensive travels, the jobs you’ve held or just all-around know-how. You automatically have one dot in all Skill and Knowledge Dice Pools. This is an illusory level, used only to simulate a wide range of abilities. If the character trains or spends experience in the Skill or Knowledge, he must pay the point cost for the first level a "second time" before raising the Skill or Knowledge to 2.

Judical Ties (2pt Merit)
You have both influence over and contacts in the justice system. You know most of the judges as well as the attorneys in the prosecutor’s department , and can affect the progress of various cases and trials with limited difficulty to intervene in a case, you can influence it in one direction or another. These ties can also make it easy to acquire search warrants.

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Kinfolk - Feral Appearance (1pt Merit)
Whether you’re more hirsute than the average person or have a lean, hungry look to your features, the werewolves like what they see. It isn’t a matter of physical beauty; there’s just something about you that stirs their animal natures. You get an extra die on all rolls involving Appearance when dealing with homid Garou, and you are considered to have an extra dot of Charisma among lupus Garou (although you can’t exceed 5).

Kinfolk - Fetish (5-7pt Merit)
You own a fetish, one you can actually use. You may have inherited this item, received it as a gift or found it on your own. In any case, the fetish is highly valuable. Fetishes aren’t common among Garou, much less Kin. You and your Storyteller should work together on constructing the item and establish how it came into your possession. 5 points equals a Level One Fetish, 6 points a Level Two and 7 points a Level Three Fetish.

Kinfolk - Gall (2pt Merit)
Audacity, guts, luck - whatever it’s called, you’ve got it. You aren’t afraid to stand up to anyone, from naughty children to tribal leaders. This isn’t brash, foolhardy behavior, you’re still polite, after all. You simply don’t get the shakes when the Silver Fang Ahroun comes over to speak to you. Many werewolves and Kin respect you for your honesty and forthrightness. Add an extra die to any Social roll involving a display of backbone.

Kinfolk - Gnosis (5-7pt Merit)
More than any other blessing, the possession of Gnosis among Kin is a special mark of Gaia’s favor. It’s extremely rare for mortals to be so gifted. Having Gnosis grants many privileges, such as the ability to learn Gifts, use fetishes and in case of a vampire’s Embrace, the chance to die with dignity and honor rather than suffer unlife. Five points spent on the Merit grants one point of Gnosis, 6pt merit gains 2 points of Gnosis and the 7pt merit equals 3 points of Gnosis.

Kinfolk - Good Old Boy (2pt Merit)
For either gender, this Merit means the same thing: You’re an intrinsically nice person and you genuinely care about your fellows. Depending upon the setting, werewolves and other Kin tend to like you and confide in you. Even lupus Garou may approach you in a friendly manner; something about you just seems trustworthy and inviting. Take an extra die on all Social rolls involving interaction with Garou or other Kinfolk.

Kinfolk - Recognize Garou (3pt Merit)
Over the years, you’ve become adept at picking out the werewolves in a crowd. Rather than having any kind of mystical awareness, you’ve simply learned what physical and personality traits tend to mark Gaia’s warriors. They just stand out to you once they’ve undergone the Change. This merit does not allow you to find those who have not had their First Change. All Perception attempts to notice which people in the room seem to have that special touch of rage or wilderness that could indicate they are werewolves are at -2 diff.

Kinfolk - Supernatural Kin (5pt Merit)
This merit is not for mortals. Supernatural Kinfolk is for vampires who are also kinfolk.

Kinfolk - Wolf-sense (1pt Merit)
This Merit is a blend of folk wisdom, practical sense and animal instincts. If you have Wolf-sense and make a successful Int roll, the ST can opt to give you advice on whether you’re about to do something stupid. It doesn’t mean she’ll tell you what you should or shouldn’t do, but at least you’ll have some warning.

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Ravnos - Charmed Samadji (1-4pt Merit)
Your family or sire has gifted you with an item of power. You are expected to carry this powerful draba until you sire your own progeny, then pass the gift to her. Power levels of samadji vary greatly; a samadji might reduce target numbers on certain actions (1-2pt), or even provide the user with effects equivalent to low-level Disciplines, such as Unseen Presence(4pt). Samadji may be activated in any a number of ways. Design your samadji with the Storyteller, who will assign a final value to it.

Ravnos - Family Allegiance (2pt Merit)
Through your travels, you have gained the favor of a mortal Gypsy family. The family aids you in your exploits whenever possible, providing shelter from enemies or acting as a method of transportation to or from a city. All difficulties numbers involving social interacting with the family in question are reduced by two. So long as you do not abuse your trust (such as using family members as steady sources of blood), the family will not turn away from you. Note: You may not take a Family Allegiance with the Tsurara or Ravnos families.

Ravnos - Phralmulo (3pt Merit)
You were Embraced from within the Rom, from one of the families of power. Because of your heritage, you may be able to regain Blood Affinities by feeding on Rome and may begin with Abilities or Backgrounds available only to Gypsy characters. In addition, phramulo characters need not pick a specific crime as their weakness; the phralmulo show a general (but compulsive) contempt and disregard for all the laws of the gaje. Note: Without this Merit, a Ravnos player character is assumed to be Georgio.

Rep (1pt Merit)
our fame has exceeded the bounds of your sect. Everyone knows who you are. What you’ve done and what you’re supposed to have done 9which might not be the same thing). The publicity can be good or bad; what matters is that everybody knows your name. Whether individuals outside your immediate social circle know enough to match your face to your name is a different matter.

Reputation (2pt Merit)
You have a good reputation among the Kindred of your chosen city. This may be your own reputation, or it may be derived from you sire. Add three dice to all Dice Pools for social dealings with the city’s Kindred. A character with this Merit may not take the Flaw Notoriety.

Resemble Kindred (2pt Merit)
You look like a Vampire - usually pale and thin like them. You can move among them as one of them, but they may force the new strange before the Prince for recognition, and he may ask for a Blood Bond. This Merit does not automatically make you aware of vampires or anything associated with them.

Rising Star (3pt Merit)
You’re one of the up and comers in your city, a rising star in the Camarilla’s firmament. Everyone wants to know you and be your friend, even as those in power groom you for positions of higher responsibility. You are at -1 difficulty on all Social rolls against any Camarilla vampire who aren’t actively opposing your ascent.

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Sabbat Survivor (1pt Merit)
You’ve lived through at least one Sabbat attack and /or attempted recruitment. Your experience helps you anticipate situations where you might potentially be endangered by the Sabbat once again. You are at -1 difficulty on all Perception rolls when it comes to Sabbat based matters. This Merit comes into play most frequently as a means of avoiding ambushes and the like.

Safe Passage (1pt Merit)
You have the right to pass through the territory of some other vampire or sect that does not normally allow others passage through their territory. Toreador often have this Merit for various hostile cities, allowing then to enjoy the Elysium of those cities without fear.

Salubri - Blooding by the Code (7pt Merit)
For some reason, you were fortunate enough to receive a blooding by the Code of Samiel in the prescribed way. Consequently, you may learn abilities granted by this blooding if you can find a teacher. You must have an excellent reason for possessing this Merit, and your good fortune may arouse some suspicions both in and out of the clan. Only warrior Salubri may take this Merit.

Salubri - Protected (2-5pt Merit)
You have some shelter from the Tremere hunt, whether from an individual who shares a vow of friendship or from an organization that find you useful. Work out the generalities with your Storyteller, but she creates the final details and most likely plays the character who has an interest in keeping you around. Why doe these people risk themselves for you? These people are not Retainers (unless you purchase the Background as well), and protection has a way of running out if you misuse it or abuse your companion’ goodwill. For two points, your shelter is likely a mortal or ghoul who whistles when he sees the torches coming. For three points, you have a weak vampire companion who has a useful Discipline. At four points, you have the security of a church or monastery (with Faith), a coterie of vampires or a vampire ancilla age, and several Disciplines. With five points, you are sheltered by a powerful vampire elder, a church or monastery with Faith, or even a mortal lord and his retinue.

Salubri - Scent of Other (1pt Merit)
For some reason, you just don’t seem like a Salubri. Maybe you carry yourself like a Brujah, or it’s just one of those inexplicable things. Whatever it may be caused by, the end result is that people need to look hard before admitting to themselves that you are in fact a Salubri, and they will rationalize away what might otherwise be suspicious behavior of yours.

Salubri - Sight Beyond Sight (5pt Merit)
Your third eye occasionally sees things that are invisible to your normal sight. You have no control over what the eyes sees, and sometimes this additional vision can get you in a great deal of trouble. Perhaps you can sometimes see through Obfuscate or Chimerstry, or though magical illusions. Some Salubri have reported seeing into the Shadowlands or occasionally glimpsing the true form of a faerie. The third eye must be open for the Merit to work, whether through Valern or through a concentrated effort (Willpower, difficulty 6).

Salubri - Warrens (3pt Merit)
It doesn’t matter that the Tremere are hunting you. You have to go to ground. Whether your knowledges covers the catacombs, Roman ruins, dockside complexes or anywhere else you can imagine, you know a place or two where you can hole up and hide, safe and sound - at least for a little while.

Samedi - Fragrant (3pts)
Perhaps the potency of your vitae keeps your rot from truly manifesting, or maybe you just don’t smell as bad as your corpse-like brethren. Whatever the reason, you count yourself among the less vomit-inducing walking corpses, and your horrid stench of decay hangs more closely about you than it otherwise would. You do still reek to those in close proximities, but you no longer stink up the entire room.

Sanctity (2pt Merit)
This Merit is sometimes called the halo effect; everyone consid4ers you pure and innocent, though not necessarily not naive. You have a saint-like quality that is hard to pinpoint but cannot be denied. You are trusted, even if you are not trustworthy. At Storyteller’s discretion, you tend to receive lesser punishments for wrongdoing, and you are liked by most.

Sanctuary (2pt Merit)
Another vampire has promised you protection from all harm should you come to her sanctuary. This may be a mentor, a sire or someone who owes you a boon. The vampire has the power to protect you from most threats.

Sanguine Humor (2pt Merit)
The flush of life still seems to fill your veins; therefore, you appear more human than other vampires. Your skin never paled w/ death, you never really stopped breathing & even sneezing comes naturally. You can make your heart beat as long as you have at least one Blood Point.

Scholar of Enemies (2pt Merit)
You have taken the time to learn about and specialize in one particular enemy of the Camarilla. You are aware of at least some of the group’s customs, strategies, abilities and long-term goals, and can put that knowledge to good use. This Merit is worth a -2 difficulty for all rolls pertaining specifically to the subject of your specialization. On the other hand, you are at a +1 difficulty when it comes to dealing with other enemies simply because you’re so thoroughly focused on your field.

Scholar of Others (2pt Merit)
This Merit functions identically to Scholar of Enemies, except that it applies to a group that is not necessarily inimical to the Camarilla.

Self-Confident (5pt Merit)
You spend a point of Willpower to gain an automatic success, your self-confidence may allow you to gain the benefit of that expenditure without actually losing the Willpower point. You do not lose the point when you spend it, unless you end the roll with only one success (i.e. you do not gain any additional successes from the dice you roll. This Merit may only be used when you need confidence in your abilities in order to succeed. This means you can use it only when the difficulty of your roll is six or higher. You may spend Willpower at other times; however, if the difficulty is five or less, the Willpower will be spent no matter what you roll.

Setites - Addictive Blood (3pt Merit)
Your blood is especially delicious to others, Kindred or Kine, containing a substance they find physically addictive. Once they have drunk it, they must drink again, or spend a Willpower point at inconvenient moments to avoid the pangs of craving. Setites with this Merit find it much easier to Blood Bond an opponent, as once they have tasted the tainted vitae, they will do almost anything to drink again.

Setites - Agent of Prophecy (1-3pt Merit)
None other than mighty Set himself has foretold your coming, and it is whispered by the elders that you figure prominently in one or more of the Prophecies of Set. This mark of great destiny carries great weight among devout Setites, but it also makes you something of a prize to be sought after by ambitious elders seeking to bask in the reflected glow of Set’s favor. The prophecies in question may not come to pass for many hundred years, but your fate will not be denied. This is a variable Merit, with cost representing the perceived importance of your role in the prophecy. Each point taken allows you to cancel a single botch during a give story, but also increases the expectations of your clan. As an added wrinkle, the Storyteller may decide that at least one of the prophecies you are intended for is soon to come, making you the locus of vast events that you may or may not have any control over. This merit does not indicate whether you have been able to translate your association with prophecy into any real authority among other Serpents. For that, you must purchase the Status Background.

Setites - Drug Resistance (2pt Merit)
You are unusually resistance to drugs. Alcohol, narcotics and similar addictive substances have little or no effect upon you. You can drink from winos with impunity, or pretend to be far drunker than you are in order to take advantage of an opponent.

Setites - Poisonous Bite (2pt Merit)
You have developed poison glands in the roof of your mouth. The poison is virulent, although Kindred and other supernatural creatures are unaffected by it. You, of course, are immune. When you bite, you always inject this poison usually killing your human victims. You must learn to feed in other ways, perhaps drawing the blood you need with a syringe or razor, if you do not wish to kill every time you feed.

Sheriff’s Friend (2pt Merit)
For whatever reason (maybe your winning smile or perhaps just your superb groveling technique), the local head lawman likes you. He’s inclined to overlook your minor trespasses and lets you in on things you’re not supposed to know about. He even gives you warnings about occasional crackdowns and times when the prince isn’t feeling generous. Of course, abusing this connection might well turn a friendly sheriff into an enemy - and the change might not be apparent until it’s too late.

Silence (1pt Merit)
You have an unusual ability to move quietly that goes far beyond the norm. Reduce the difficulty on any Stealth roll involving moving quietly by two. you are even able to move quietly over dry leaves. Should the wind blow while you're moving, there's no way to hear you.

Smell of the Grave (1pt Merit)
You exude an odor of dampness and newly turned earth, which no amount of scents of perfumes will cover. Mortals in your immediate presence become uncomfortable, so the difficulties to all Social rolls to affect mortals increase by one.

Soothe the Beast (2-5pt Merit)
The touch of your hands is calming, the sound of your voice lulling...but not to a restless body or over-stimulated mind - rather, to the Beast within all vampires. You have the ability to aid vampires in their attempts to resist the loss of their humanity. Depending on the point value of this Merit, you may be able to help preserve the serf-control of one Cainite you know well - your master, someone else you are close to, or a vampire with whom you are not particularly well-acquainted, depending on the value of the merit.

Soothing Voice (3pt Merit)
Your voice is calm and soothing, almost entrancing. You may add two dice to all rolls that directly involve use of your voice - singing, debating, leading etc.

Sorcerous Awareness (4pt Merit)
For some reason, you have been gifted with the ability to detect when any of the Devils arts (i.e.,magic) is in use or has been used recently within a 10ft radius of yourself. This also includes all supernatural Disciplines and Gifts. How much you may know about this magic depends upon the number of successes you roll using Perception + Occult (difficulty cool

Special Gift (1-3pt Merit)
Your sire gave you a valuable gift after the Embrace. The Storyteller should create something suitable or choose one item from the Mystical Items lists to gave to you (though you can ‘suggest’ something). The Storyteller will decide how much a particular item is worth.

Special Rapport (2pt Merit)
You have a special bond w/ another vampire that extends beyond any other bond you know of. You may not love the other vampire, but you have a special link to her. This link allows you to always know when she's in pain, when she's lying & when she needs you. In return, she knows the same about you as well.

Spirit Mentor (3pt Merit)
You have a ghostly companion and guide. The identity and exact powers of this spirit are up to the Storyteller, but it can be called upon in difficult situations for help and guidance.

Spy Network (2pt Merit)
You begin play with access to a group of mortals who frequently bring you information on the daylight world or on faraway places. Their information is both up-to-date and fairly reliable, and they are not likely to lie to you. However, these cannot be used as Allies or Retainers(unless you have that Background too); they have their own aims. Why do they keep you informed? Do you pay them? Perform occasional "favors" for them? Dominate their leader? Or are they mortal friends and family? Also, how much do they know about you? (The more they know, the better they can search out relevant information and pursue useful rumors - but the more damage they could do if they betray you.) A spy network might be anything from a peasant family to a coven of witches, a merchant family’s underlings to a network of wandering lepers. What they can discover will depend upon who they are; different people move in different circles, after all.

Strong Blood (5pt Merit)
Your blood's especially potent. Any Kindred who tastes your blood will find it extremely rich & potent & will recognize its great strength. Any diabolist who tastes it will lust after it. You can Blood Bond someone w/ but 2 drinks of your blood.

Student (1pt Merit)
You serve as a mentor to a younger, more inexperienced vampire. The student is most likely a neonate or an ancilla. This student will assist you as you command, but you also consider this Kindred your ward. You take responsibility for training this vampire & for protecting her from harm.

Symbol Independence (3pt Merit)
The use of True faith against a supernatural creature typically requires use of holy symbol. however, Inquisitors & other hunters w/ this Virtue are free from this restriction; they may use their Faith unfettered by any such psychological or religious crutch.

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Thick-Skinned (2pt Merit)
Kindred must make their Strength plus Potence roll versus your Stamina to penetrate your skin with their bite. This only works if you struggle though. If unconscious or unmoving, a Kindred can slowly pierce your skin and drink. This only works with feeding or biting.

Time Sense (1pt Merit)
You have an innate sense of time and are able to estimate the passage of time accurately without using a watch or other mechanical device. You can accomplish this whether you are concentrating or not. You can estimate the time of day within a minute or two, and the passage of time with the same accuracy.

Toreador - Closer Than Blood (3-5pt Merit)
You have an affinity with another Cainite (most likely a Toreador, but possibly one of another clan) not brought about by the Blood Oath or other artifice means. You would lay down your unlives for each other, and you feel empty without the other nearby. Such bonds can be same sex or opposite sex, and there is not way to predict who your "twin" will be. A 3-point Merit indicates that you occasionally can sense the other’s strong emotions (fear, joy, pain) if your "twin" is in the vicinity. A 5-point Merit means that you often sense the other’s emotions even at a distance, and can feel the other’s physical pain or peril.

Toreador - Fetch (2pt Merit)
You have access to a mortal who looks just like you. Perhaps she’s your twin sister, a long-lost relative, someone who has been Vicissituded or simply very good at disguise. Unless she is ghouled, however, she will age and eventually no longer be your double. Your fetch may move about during the day, conducting your business and keeping up your semblance of a mortal life- but also commits actions for which you will be held responsible. Remember, your fetch should be kept carefully informed regarding your relationship and business dealings. (Toreador)

Toreador - Patron (2-4pt Merit)
You have attracted the attention of another Toreador, who has made it her job to see you succeed. Perhaps you gained her attention because of your lineage, perhaps because of your artwork, or something you did or said. Whatever the reason, you have someone who will champion your work and speak up for you in the courts. She may even arrange for shelter or training. Be careful not to abuse your Patron - no one likes being taken for granted. A two-point Patron is someone who is about your own level in clan station, but is perhaps older than you and has good advice to offer. A four-point Patron has resource at her disposal and occupies a station high enough to make a significant difference in your unlife.

Toreador - Touched by God (3pt Merit)
Your art is considered truly inspired and inspiring. There is an essence of life and beauty about your work that moves others. Perhaps you were always gifted, or the Embrace might have opened you to the Almighty in ways you hadn’t expected. Your singing voice causes stones to melt, your paintings look as if their subjects might step off the canvas at any moment, or your storytelling holds people utterly spellbound. The difficulty on all Expression rolls is reduced by two. If the art being produced relates to God, the Church or similar higher ideals, the difficulty is reduced by three instead. Such perfection, however, can be engender jealously in mortal or Cainite rivals. Some suspicious clergy may believe that you sold your soul to achieve your talent, or that you are guilt of hubris by reaching too high with your endeavors.

Toreador - Vampiric Consort (5pt Merit)
You are in a relationship much like a marriage with another vampire. This pairing bestows the benefits of the Merit True Love on both of you. Taking this Merit in addition to Closer Than Blood allows you a remarkable degree of closeness - you may be even able to share Disciplines on occasion. Your consort is most likely your equal in power and status, but together you present a formidable front. You would die and kill for each other, and God help the fool who attempt to come between you or harm you lover.

Toreador - Controllable Thirst (1pt Merit)
Because Toreador spend so much time around mortals, resisting frenzy caused by the smell, sight or taste of blood is easier for them. Whenever the Kindred makes a Frenzy roll over blood, reduce the difficulty by three.

Toreador - Eye of Beauty (1pt Merit)
The Kindred is a natural critic. Reduce difficulties for Art Appreciation by 4.

Toreador - Mortal Double (2pt Merit)
You have the services of someone alive who looks just like you. This person might be your actual twin. (Other explanations are possible: a long-lost brother, a master of disguise, a victim of Vicissitude, etc.)However, unless he is made into a ghoul he will eventually age normally. Eventually, he will no longer be your exact double. The double may move about freely during the day, aiding you in hiding your vampiric nature. The double must be fully aware of your personal life, including all your relationships and activities. He must also be a good actor.

Toreador - Refined (2pt Merit)
You are a member of the elite. You are at home in high society and you never feel out of place around the "beautiful people." The difficulty on all Etiquette rolls involving high society is reduced by three. In addition, you are often invited to Toreador socials reserved for those of higher Toreador Prestige (or Camarilla Status) than yourself.

Toreador - Artistically Gifted (3pt Merit)
The difficulty on all Creativity rolls, and Artistic Expression rolls are reduced by three.

Toreador - Greater Colors (3pt Merit)
The vampire sees colors more distinctly and with greater definition. The world is far more colorful. Unfortunately, the vampire is more likely to become enraptured by colorful objects. Despite the drawback, when used in conjunction with Aura Perception, the vampire will discover far more information about her target. The difficulty for reading a target’s aura is reduced by five. The player may ask the Storyteller one question about the target for every success, and the Storyteller must provide accurate information. This may be used only once per story on a particular target. Finally, all Artistic Expression difficulties involving color are reduced by one.

Toreador - Supernatural Spouse (4pt Merit)
You share a relationship with a supernatural creature other than another Kindred. Both of you receive the benefits of the True Love Merit for one another. This creature may be a mage, a werewolf, a changeling, a wraith, or something even more unusual. Unfortunately, both of your kind would consider you threats if they knew of your relationship. You may declare your love for one another openly, although you risk becoming an outcast – or worse. You and your spouse would die or kill for one another.

Toreador - Powerful Ghoul (5pt Merit)
You have a very powerful ghoul Blood Bound to you. The ghoul has six points to put into any discipline other than Thaumaturgy, although at least one point must be put into Potence. The ghoul is also very competent, possessing fifteen points among Attributes, twenty-seven points in Abilities and five points in Backgrounds. The ghoul has reasonably good Virtues and Willpower ratings and will do anything you say, since it loves you so much. However, the ghoul may get jealous of any relationships you have with others.

Toreador - Vampire Spouse (5pt Merit)
You hold regnant over another Kindred, though she holds regnant over you as well. The two of you are in love, and you automatically have the benefit of the Merit: True Love. Your vampire spouse is your equal in terms of power and status. However, as a couple, you are very formidable. You allow nothing to get in the way of your love. You and your spouse would die or kill for one another.

Tremere - Attuned Taste (2pt Merit)
You've got a natural instinct for the favors in blood. When you taste blood, you can tell if the blood is from vampire, and you can automatically taste the generation. There is no test or cost. If the blood is not from a vampire, you only know that--you cannot specifically tell Lupine or faerie blood from human blood without other testing material.

Tremere - Natural Vicissitude (5pt Merit)
You have "inherited" more of your clan’s stolen Tzimisce blood than most of your clanmates and have thus become something of a throwback to your "parent" clan. You may, therefore choose Vicissitude, rather than Dominate, as a clan Discipline. Improving your rating of Vicissitude, however, may present difficulties. Unless you can locate another Tremere willing and able to teach you further mastery of Vicissitude’s higher levels, you must seek further instruction from a Tzimisce (most likely though coercion).

True Faith (7pt Merit)
You have a deep-seated faith in and love for God, or whatever name you choose to call the Almighty. You being the game with one point of True Faith; this Trait adds one die per point to all Willpower and Virtue rolls. You must have a Humanity of 9 or higher to choose this Merit, and if you lose even a single point, all your Faith points are lost and may be regained only when the lost Humanity is recovered. Individuals with True Faith are capable of performing magical acts akin to miracles, but the exact nature of those acts is up to the Storyteller. .

True Love (4pt Merit)
You have discovered, perhaps too late, a true love. He or she is mortal, but is the center of your existence, and inspires you to keep going in a world of darkness and despair. Whenever you suffer, the thought of your true love gives you one automatic success on all Willpower rolls, which can be negated only by a botch die. This can be a great gift and also a hindrance, for your true love may require protection and occasional rescue

Tzimisce - Dracon's Temperament (3pt Merit)
taking the notion of Azhi Dahaka to new levels, you've emulated the permutable nature of change and evolution into your very psyche. Like the protean Dracon, you are a whirlwind of temperaments. Unlike multiple personalities, whch gives you more than one identity, you are the sme person but with different and changing Natures. Essentially, you either have no anchored sense of self, or you're so mutable that you can be anybody. At the beginning of each story, until its conclusion, you may choose one Personality Archetype to function as your Nature. This oesn't changeyour identity; it simply alters the way you perceive situations and howyou deal with others. You also regain Willpower according to your new Nature and may be affected by other effects or Discipline powers as per your new Nature as well.

Tzimisce - Haven Affinity (2pt Merit)
Your territoriality rivals that of a Lupine. When acting on "home soil" (your main haven, not auxiliary havens), you gain an additional die to all Dice Pools. You may also home in on your haven by making an unmodified Perception roll (difficulty variable; 6 if across town, 8 if in another state or country, 9 if across the globe).

Tzimisce - Naturally Supple (4pt Merit)
You are attuned to Vicissitude like a fish in water (or blood, or puss…). Your difficulties are reduced by two when using Vicissitude on yourself (copying someone exactly, bonecrafting someone into an elaborate shape etc.)

Tzimisce - Pain Tolerance (2pt Merit)
Note: You must have Callousness and Morale rating of 3 or higher to take this Merit. Either because of personal proclivity or the rigors of Vicissitude, you have become acclimatized to pain. This affinity enables you to ignore one die of wound penalties. Thus, when you are Hurt or Injured, you suffer no penalties to actions. You suffer only a one-die penalty to action at the Wounded and Mauled states, and even Crippling injuries subtract four dice rather than five. You are still Incapacitated normally.

Tzimisce - Revenant Disciplines (3pt Merit)
The ties to your revenant family stayed with you well past the Embrace. As such, the Disciplines that were unnate to you as a ghoul have remained so as a Cainite. At character creation, select the ghoul family from which you hail. Instead of the Tzimisce's standard complement of disciplines, you instead draw from your three family Disciplines for your starting allocation. Also, you learn your family Disciplines at the cost of a clan Discipline. It's either or, however, meaning you cannot buy both the Tzimisce and family powers at clan cost unless they both share a particular ability.

Tzimisce - Secular (4pt Merit)
You have begun to explore the first glimmers of what awaits mankind after the renaissance. You have a dim understand of the scientific method, and while such concepts as evolution and entropy are still beyond you, you have begun to suspect that the world is much more complex than the Christians and pagan fools imagine. The difficulties to affect you with any Faith-based power (including Infernal magic!) is raised by one. Once per story, you may automatically regain a single Willpower point (you do not live with the same dread of damnation that many other Cainites do). Moreover, by spending a Willpower point and making an appropriate Intelligence + Science roll, you may formulate concepts and invent machines unknown in your time (higher mathematics, elaborate torture devices, etc.). The Storyteller must use prudence in adjudicating this; a da Vinci-esque flying machine is remotely conceivable, while a A-bomb (fun as the thought might be) is impossible. You may not follow the Road of Heaven or the Roach of the Devil. Moreover, the difficulties of all Conscience/Conviction rolls are increased by one (you are too existential to be overly concerned with your actions.

Tzimisce - Vindictive (3pt Merit)
Your personal honor is your life, and you will go to the ends of the earth to settle a score or avenge a slight. When directly opposing someone who has insulted, shamed or harmed you, you gain an additional die to all combat Dice Pools. This bonus does not apply towards casual foes, only blood enemies. For example, a Tzimisce would not get this onus against the bandit who ambushes her on the road but would receive against the Shadow Lord who slew her sire and drove her from her ancestral fief. The down side to this Merit is that you must do everything in your power to avenge such deeds or insults. Should you refrain from action, the Storyteller is within his rights to deduct temporary Willpower from your character until such time as you pursue your vengeance once more.

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Unbondable (3pt Merit)
You are immune to being blood bound.

Underworld Ties (3pt Merit)
You have both influence over and contacts in the local Mafia and organized street gangs. This provides you with limited access to a large number of "soldiers", as well as extensive links to the underworld of crime. The more often you use your ties with the criminal element, the weaker they grow.

Uncanny Sight (2pt Merit)
Either due to some innate ability or to your long exposure to vampires, you are aware on a visceral level of their inhuman nature. On meeting a vampire, possibly even at first glance, you may have an immediate sense that your new acquaintance bears the mark of Caine. This perception is not always accurate, depending on the Storyteller’s judgement.

University (4pt Merit)
You have control over a University. The trustees & important officials serve your interests. You have full access to the school & you can hunt the campus freely. The libraries & professors are useful in providing you w/ research information.

Useful Knowledge (1pt Merit)
You have expertise in a specific field that makes your conversation intriguing to an older Kindred. So long as your knowledge holds the other vampire’s attention, he has a vested interest in keeping you around. Then again, once he’s pumped you for every iota of information you possess, that patronage may suddenly vanish. (Note: This Merit should be played like a 1 - dot Mentor with a specific interest. However, unlike a Mentor, Useful Knowledge does not imply a permanent relationship.)

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Valuable Secret (2pt Merit)
Others would kill or die to know ths secret you guard. The Valuable Secret should be created & given by the Storyteller. perhaps the character knows that the Prince is & Infernal Diabolist or that the primogen are actually all Sabbat. Whatever the case, only those involved in the secret & the character know about the Valuable Secret.

Ventrue - Paragon (6pt Merit)
The Embrace has awakened within you an aspect of personality that others find particularly compelling. You may select one Background from the following group; Allies, Black Hand Membership, Clan Prestige, Contacts, Fame, Herd, Influence, Mentor, Resources, Retainers, Sabbat Status or Status. Your maximum Trait score in that Background may exceed your normal generation limit by one. For example, a 10th-generation Kindred may take this Merit and enjoy the benefits of a Contacts Background of 6. You may take this Merit for only one Background, which may drop at the ST's discretion. Players should choose this Merit only for a Background that makes sense - - a Camarilla archon is unlikely to have a Black Hand Membership Background of 7, for example.

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Weather Sense (1pt Merit)
This merit grants occasional warnings (with a Perception + Survival roll, difficulty 7) of impending inclement weather, even that which stems from unnatural causes.

Well-Placed Confessor (1-3pt Merit)
Either you or someone you control has obtained the position of personal confessor to a figure of some importance. It could be a local lord, an abbot or even a king. As confessor, or patron to the confessor, you have access to the content of the individual’s confession, which may well include tidbits of extreme political importance, blackmail material or salable intelligence. Whether you honor the sanctity of the confessional is up to you; the information is in your hands to do with as you will.

Well-Traveled (2pt Merit)
You've traveled all over the globe, seen many different cities & meet a great number of Kindred. There's a chance you'll know of a vampire from another city when you hear his name. This is an Intelligence roll.

Werewolf Companion (3pt Merit)
You have a friend and ally who just happens to be a werewolf. Though you may call upon this being in time of need, it also has the right to call upon you (after all, you are friends). However, neither your kind nor its appreciates such a relationship, and your respective societies will punish both of you if your friendship is discovered. Arranging for meeting places and methods of communication will be difficulty. The Storyteller will create the werewolf character but will not reveal to you its full powers and potencies.

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Harbinger of Gehenna (5pts)
This Flaw encompasses both the 14th Generation and Thin Blood flaws from Vampire: The Masquerade. You are more than merely week in the eyes of Victorian vampires, you are a symbol of ruin. Your presence is offensive, at least, and most likely, frightening for your fellow Kindred. You might find solace in the presence of neonates or fools, but many vampires would rather burn you than consider what you represent. Quite simply, anyone who knows the secrets of your weak blood probably despises you for it. Tread carefully.

Hard of Hearing (1pt Flaw)
Your hearing is defective. The difficulties of any dice rolls involving the use of hearing are increased by two.

Hatred (3pt Flaw)
You have an unreasoning hatred of a certain thing. This hate is total and largely uncontrollable. You may hate a species of animal, a class of person, a color, a situation - anything. You must make a frenzy roll whenever faced wit the object of your hatred. You constantly pursue opportunities to harm the hated object or gain power over it.

Haunted (3pt Flaw)
You are haunted by an angry and tormented spirit, most likely one of your first victims. This spirit actively attempts to hinder you, especially when feeding, and does its utmost to vent its anguish upon you and anyone in your presence, The Storyteller determines the exact nature of the spirit, its powers, and whether or not it can eventually be laid to rest.

Hemophiliac (3pt Flaw)
If you get cut, you will not stop bleeding without medical help. Any Kindred who bites you will find that they cannot seal the wound with a lick.

Hunted (4pt Flaw)
You have come to the attention of a witch-hunter, or some similar individual who now seeks your destruction. This hunter is beyond reason and has some form of power, influence or authority that puts you at a disadvantage. Your friends, family and associates are likewise endangered. Sooner or later, this Flaw will result in a confrontation. The resolution should not be an easy one, and until then you are in for one hellish time.

Hunted Like a Dog (3pt Flaw)
Another sect or group of vampires-e it an independent clan or the Sabbat as a whole - has decided you’re a target for extermination, and pursue you relentlessly. On the bright side, the enemies of your enemy may well wish to help you out, potentially garnering your allies in this one instance.

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Illiterate (1pt Flaw)
Through lack of education or as the result of a condition like dyslexia, you are unable to read or write.

Impatient (1pt Flaw)
You have no patience for standing around and waiting. You want to do everything now, and the Devil take the hindmost. Every time you are forced to wait around instead off acting, a Self-Control roll is required to see if you go haring off on your own instead.

Incomplete Understand (1pt Flaw)
The whole matter has been explained to you, but you’re still not quite sure how this whole Camarilla/Masquerade thing works. Your imperfect understanding of the riles and regulations of your new existence means that sooner or later, you’re going to make a mistake. It’s only a matter of time…

Inept (5 pt Flaw)
You are not attuned to your natural aptitudes, and therefore have five fewer points to spend on your Talents (the most you could take on your Talents would be eight, and the least would be 0). Of course, you can still spend freebie points to take Talents. However, you cannot at the start of the game, have any Talents at 3 or higher.

Infamous Lineage (1pt Flaw)
Your family name turns heads for all the wrong reasons. Your grandfather may have been an infernalist or your great uncle a traitor and scoundrel, but a pall of ill repute hangs over you because of it. You may still have station and substantial authority, but you play at a disadvantage in the spheres of courtly rumor and troubadour stories. You suffer a +1 diff penalty on social rolls in such circumstances.

Infamous Sire (1pt Flaw)
Your sire was, and perhaps still is, distrusted and disliked by many of the Kindred in the city. As a result, you are distrusted and disliked as well ,This is a heavy load, and one not easily shed.

Infectious Bite (2pt Flaw)
You lack the enzymes that allow most Kindred to seal the wounds caused by their feeding. You may not automatically lick the wounds of your feeding closed. IN fact, your bites have a one on five chance of becoming infected and causing mortal victims to become seriously ill. The precise nature of the infection is determined by the Storyteller.

Infertile Vitae (3pt Flaw)
For some reason you're unable to create new vampires. All those you try to Embrace die. Your vitae is faulty even beyond that of Thin Blood. You may not create any childer no matter what you do. However, unlike the Flaw Thin Blood, you can use your blood just as all other vampires can.

Inquisitor - Arrogant (1pt Flaw)
Whether or not you actually think you’re better than others, those around you consistently feel that you have a “holier than thou” attitude. You may phrase things sarcastically too often, or you may really believe that you are holier than most of those you interact with. In any case, you suffer a +1 diff modifier on all social rolls made to sway others of equal or lower social stature. This Flaw only affects the character’s friends and allies, and has no impact on his dealings with the Enemy.

Inquisitor - Convert (3pt Flaw)
Although you are Catholic, you were originally brought up in another faith. Your past as a Jew (or even a Saracen) is unmistakable and comes back to haunt you from time to time. You suffer a +1 diff on Social rolls when dealing with other inquisitors who do not know you. When dealing with inquisitors in the grips of Callousness, you suffer a +2 diff. Their prejudice is likely to be expressed in surprisingly direct and petty ways.

Inquisitor - Criminal Past (1pt Flaw)
While you are currently an honest and highly devout individual, that has not always been the case. At some point in the past, you were a known and violent criminal and may have been a hunted man for your criminal activities. All Social rolls with those who know your criminal history are made at +2 diff. Certain self-righteous clergy, in particular, will especially eager to bring you to justice should they learn of your past. Those who know you are unlikely to ever give you the benefit of the doubt unless you have truly proven yourself reformed.

Inquisitor - Curse Prone (4pt Flaw)
Some inquisitors are fated to wield great divine power with relatively little burden in their struggles against the Enemy. Others, like you, may gain the advantage of divine power, but it almost always comes with a heavy price. In addition to whatever other modifiers may come into play, all rolls related to acquiring new Curses are subject to a +2 modifier.

Inquisitor - Devil’s Puppet (3pt Flaw)
Demons and other possessing spirits find your body unusually easy to take over and use as their own. Any sort of possessing entity, whether it be demons, vampires, warlocks, or some other creature, has a far easier time taking over your body than another nearby victim. Creatures possessing you do so with a -2 diff.

Inquisitor - Ecstatic (2pt Flaw)
Sometimes, your joy in the touch of the Holy Ghost utterly overwhelms you and you speak in tongues, have ecstatic fits or starts prophesying incomprehensibly. Every time you use a Blessing or the Holy Art and score more than 3 successes, you must roll Willpower (difficulty 6) or give in to ecstatic behavior. You may spend a Willpower point to delay the effect by one scene, if you wish.

Inquisitor - Elderly (4pt Flaw)
God did not call you to his service until late in your life. Although your mind and faith are strong, your body is frail. Still, you bring experience to the Inquisition, which mean that you never question the wisdom of His choice, even though you lack the ability to stand side by side with your more active brethren. All difficulties on physical rolls increase by one, and if you ever botch such a roll, you must immediately roll the appropriate Attribute at difficulty 6. If that roll botches, you lose a dot from that Attribute. Dropping to zero in a Physical Attribute may cripple of kill, at the Storyteller’s discretion.

Inquisitor - God’s Judgment (2-5pt Flaw)
You have sinned against the Lord sometime in the past, and as a punishment upon you he has barred you from receiving some of His Blessings. A 2pt Flaw bars you from gaining Orisons; a 3pt Flaw from a particular form of Endowment or path of the Holy Art; 4pt ban you from gaining Blessings entirely. These are NOT cumulative. You suffer the penalty for the appropriate level only. That is, a character with the 4pt version may learn Orisons and the Holy Art, but not Endowments.

Inquisitor - Insomniac (2pt Flaw)
Getting to sleep is hard when you know the sorts of creatures that are roaming the night, doing the Devil’s work. Staying asleep is harder. You toss and turn and can’t sleep at night. Roll Willpower (diff 7) every night before your character goes to sleep. If the roll fails, you do not sleep and all Perception diff increase by 2. Blessings that keep the character from sleeping only make this flaw worse.

Inquisitor - Low Pain Threshold (2pt Flaw)
While you may have been generously blessed in many ways, that is not the case when it comes to dealing with physical discomfort. Your pain threshold is extremely low. What others consider a minor pain debilitates you. Although you soak damage normally, you suffer an additional -1 die pool penalty whenever you’re injured (and a -1 penalty even at the bruised stage).

Inquisitor - Malicious Zealot (2pt Flaw)
God-fearing Christians have nothing to fear from you, but you take great delight in causing pain and suffering to those who do not follow God. Heretics, witches and those following any faith but strict Catholicism are open targets for you. Anytime you have an opportunity to make a heathen suffer in any way, you’re inclined to take it. Make a Willpower roll (diff 6) when the character is in a position to cause pain or suffering to a non-believer; if even one success is rolled, the character masters her sadistic streak. Otherwise, she takes the opportunity to torment the victim as sadistically as possible. If the character is Callous, the diff of the roll goes up to 8.

Inquisitor - Reformed Heretic (3pt Flaw)
Many monastic and clerical orders have experimented with variations on Christianity, which are tolerated until such a time as a Papal Bull declares them to be heresy. You followed such a path some years ago, prior to joining the Inquisition. You were granted the chance to repent and confess your sins when your chosen faith was declared heresy, and you accepted. While you are redeemed in the eyes of the Church, many individuals, if they learn of your history, will regard you with suspicion and possibly even hatred. Should your history be revealed to other inquisitors, members of the Church or even the laity, it is up to the Storyteller to determine how they react to you, but the response should be difficult to deal with.

Inquisitor - Sickened by the Flesh (2pt Flaw)
You are easily sickened by the sight of base flesh and all things to do with it. Whenever you witness a gory scene of battle, obvious signs of corrupted flesh of the enemy or an overt display of carnal list, you must roll Willpower (diff 6). If the roll fails, you are overcome with nausea for the next few minutes. While this doesn’t mean you spend the time vomiting (unless the roll botches), it does mean that all difficulties increase by one during that time.

Inquisitor - Spiritual Cripple (5pt Flaw)
Despite your great Conviction and devotion to God and the Church, you are still challenged to gain a higher understanding of a particular Superior Virtue. One of the three Superior Virtues, is completely beyond your understanding. You may be too lazy to develop Zeal, too headstrong to develop Wisdom or too jaded to develop Faith, but regardless of the cause, you cannot acquire that Superior Virtue.

Inquisitor - Supernaturally Ignorant (3pt Flaw)
Your brief taste on inquisitorial life has made you pretty savvy when it comes to the supernatural, or so you think. Most of what you think you know is egregiously wrong. When you find out, for example, that silver weapons don’t in fact kill vampires, or that saints’ medals don’t protect you from the spells of witches, you’re likely to assume that is was something unique to that particular vampire or witch, not that your “knowledge” was wrong. The player must somehow rid himself of this Flaw before he can gain any Endowments above the Acolyte level.

Inquisitor - Unlucky (4pt Flaw)
Given how dedicated you are to doing the work of God, and the fact that you know He’s watching over you, it’s surprising how rarely things go your way. Every time an opportunity comes along that might let you shine, something comes along to ruin it. Once per game session, the Storyteller should increase the diff of a critical roll you make by 2. If you fail the roll, it’s due to some random element of bad luck.

Inquisitor - Weak Lungs (2pt Flaw)
God gives all inquisitors their own burdens to bear. Yours is a deformity of your lungs, meaning that you become winded easily. Increase the difficulties of all sustained physical activity (running, prolonged combat, climbing, etc) by one.

Inquisitor - Worship Obsession (1-4pt Flaw)
God has laid a heavy burden upon you. You sense that he demands an unusually harsh regimen of worship from you. It might be regular prayer at predetermined times, as practiced by monastic bothers (1pt flaw)
. Two points might mean that you have to stop and pray with every obvious sinner you meet. A 3pt flaw might mean that you have to give up all worldly goods of your own whenever you receive them, whereas a 4pt flaw might demand self-mortification or flagellation each evening, to drive all the impurities from your corrupted flesh. Failure to perform your chosen worship costs you two points of Conviction for each day you miss, and missing more than two consecutive days requires a roll to avoid losing Piety.

Insane Sire (1pt Flaw)
Your sire has completely lost his grip on reality, and has become dangerously insane. Any wrong committed by your sire may affect your standing, and some of your sire’s dangerous schemes may somehow involve you. Because their sires are already assumed to be insane, Malkavians cannot take this Flaw.

Intolerance (1pt Flaw)
You have an unreasoning dislike of a certain thing. This may be an animal, a class of person, a color, a situation, or just about anything at all. The difficulties of all dice tolls involving the subject are increased by two. Note that some dislikes may be too trivial to be reflect here - a dislike of White Wolf Magazine or tissue paper, for instance, will have little effect on play in most chronicles. The Storyteller is the final arbiter on what you can pick to dislike.

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Kinfolk - Airhead (1pt Flaw)
You’re so wrapped up in your own little world, you don’t have a clue about reality! Perhaps you retreat into yourself because you’re afraid or avoiding a problem, but more likely, you simply aren’t using your gray cells. Maybe you fall in and out of conversations and spout non sequiturs. Whatever the case, the werewolves and other Kin snicker at you behind your back.

Kinfolk - Barren/Sterile (4pt Flaw)
Kinfolk fill a limited number of roles in Garou society. For Kinfolk who serve werewolves as perpetuators of the species, inability to reproduce is a series Flaw indeed. Not only does it carry a social stigma, it may also call down abuse, neglect or exile. Kinfolk men or women who can’t reproduce lose a great deal of their usefulness in Garou eyes.

Kinfolk - Inferiority Complex (1pt Flaw)
Nope, you’re not worthy. Never have been, never will be. You’ll keep trying and tackle whatever task the Garou set you to, but even if you succeed and make a good job of it, it still won’t be good enough for you. In situations requiring you to take charge and strut your stuff, all your difficulties are raised by one.

Kinfolk - Masochist (1pt Flaw)
You like to suffer for the Garou! Pain, torture and ridicule are your meat and drink, so you gladly volunteer for any venture that guarantees physical or mental agony. Masochism goes beyond a desire to prove worth and loyalty; your mind finds pleasure in it. Less caring werewolves take advantage of this Flaw; wiser ones think you’re sick in the head.

Kinfolk - Outsider (2pt Flaw)
Because of false rumors, an ill-done deed or some other reason, you have a poor reputation among Kinfolk and Garou. They don’t necessarily hurt you, but they let you know you aren’t welcome in their camps or homes. Mall all Social rolls involving interaction with werewolves and Kin at +2 diff.

Kinfolk - Ulterior Motive (2pt Flaw)
Something other than love and respect for your Garou relatives and Kinfolk guides your actions. This “something” may be as simple as greed or a lust for vengeance against an enemy. Whatever the case, the cause or your secret holds your ultimate loyalty.

Kinfolk - Unscented (1pt Flaw)
For some reason, you have no discernible scent. While this might be an advantage against predators, it’s a disadvantage among werewolves. They might attack you, unaware that you are Kin. Some might suspect your lack of scent is some sort of Wyrm power. No gift can detect you as Kinfolk.

Kinfolk - Veiled (5pt Flaw)
You may believe in Gaia and the Garou way with all your heart and soul, but, for some reason, you’re not immune to the Delirium. Gifts such as Rending the Veil and the Rite of the Parted Veil have no effect on you. You do receive a +1 bonus on the Delirium chart and retain all memories of what you see, but the sight of a Garou in Crinos form still invokes some sort of instinctive, uncontrollable reaction in you.

Kinfolk - Wyrm-Tainted (4pt Flaw)
Whether through your own twisted service to the Wyrm, an unfortunate quirk of heredity or just because of a supernatural accident, you reek of the enemy’s blight. A number of Gifts allow shapechangers to notice your foul stench and most may want to kill you outright. This is a risky Flaw!

Known Heretic (2pt Flaw)
You were known and denounced as a heretic of some sort before you ever received the Embrace, and indeed has some notoriety for your blasphemies. Whether you were a Chathar perfecti, preached your own version of the gospel or denounced the Papacy, you made a name for yourself as an enemy of the true Church. Witch hunters and scions of the Church are likely to recognize you, and to show you no mercy as a result. Furthermore, if your death is common knowledge, such recognition is likely to bring down an intensive Church investigation whose results are likely to be unpleasant. Furthermore, your notoriety is such that you may find it difficult to locate converts or friendly congregations. In regions where your particular brand of heresy is unwelcome (for example, if you were known as a Cathar perfecti and tried to find adherents along the Baltic coast), all rolls relating to Social matters are at +2 difficulty. This effect is reversed when you are on friendly ground, but odds are that there is a great deal more unfriendly territory out there waiting for you.

Known to be Dead (2pt Flaw)
Communities are small, and deaths and disappearances are known to all. You originally lived in the area where the chronicle is set, and the locals know that you are dead. Perhaps they saw you die, or you were discovered in torpor and pronounced dead (perhaps even buried). At ht moment this causes you no problems - but if you use your real name or are spotted by people who knew you. Then you can expect problems. Exorcists, pious knights and others (perhaps even local Lupines) will seek to destroy you; demons, mages and others may come to offer you "assistance".

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Lame (3pt Flaw)
Your legs are injured or otherwise prevented from working effectively. You suffer a two-dice penalty to all dice rolls related to movement. A character may not take this Flaw along with Double Jointed.

Landless (2pt Flaw)
Through some reversal of fortune you have been stripped of the land that helped define you as a knight. Pagans, Moors or rival lords may have overrun your fief; plague or curse may have made it uninhabitable. Already having earned your spurs, you retain something of your status, but it is now only founded in service and action, not in wealth and position. You may not have high Resources, and high Influence. You suffer a +1 diff penalty on social rolls in the company of landed knights.

Lasombra - Cloaked in Shadows (4pt Flaw)
The shadows come to you even when you do not call them, wrapping themselves around you like a cloak in constant motion. This makes you stand out in any crowd, and you can no longer pass for "normal" even when you so wish. Other Cainites may well avoid your company, being discomforted by your strange affliction. Lasombra in particular find you unpleasant company (+2 difficulty on all Social rolls) because your inability to master your shadows demonstrate a failure of will on your part.

Lasombra - Death’s Reflection (3pt Flaw)
You cast a reflection normally, which would cancel out the clan weakness - - except that your reflection always shows the state you’d be in if you were dead. Any Lasombra more than a few decades old looks in reflection like an ambling skeleton. Younger vampires appear as rotting corpses.

Lasombra - Enmity of Shadows (4pt Flaw)
The shadows summoned by the Lasombra are unpredictable, and could possibly attack the summoner. The Lasombra must make a Willpower roll difficulty 6 each time he uses Obtenebration power of Level 3 or greater. A success indicates that the power functions normally; with a failure the summoned shadow attacks their putative master.

Lasombra - Poseidon’s Call (1pt Flaw)
Your self control varies with the weather. Make rolls to resist frenzy at -1 difficulty in completely calm weather, but +1 difficulty on rough seas, +2 in thunderstorms and +3 in hurricanes.

Lasombra - Marked for Death (2-5pt Flaw)
The Courts of Blood have found you and at least one fledgling is now hot after your blood. While you probably can defeat this threat on your own, the wait is maddening. Furthermore,. There is the implied insult bound up in the court’s decision - your peers obviously feel that you are incompetent and need to be replaced. After all, even if you defeat one would-be diablerist, there is no guarantee you won’t be hunted by a second, or third. The point cost of this Flaw varies, depending upon the strength of the Cainite who has been granted permission to hunt you, the conditions laid upon the hunt and whether or not the court has seen fit to inform you of your current status. Consult with your Storyteller to see what the details of your situation are - and how many she’ll share with you.

Lasombra - Pelagic Compulsion (2pt Flaw)
You become increasingly agitated when on land. Raise the difficulty of all Willpower rolls made when you’ve been away from the sea for more than 24 hours by one.

Lasombra - Religious Prohibition (2-4pt Flaw)
Taken from Hebrew stock, you grew up strongly religious. Part of that religion, however, is a dietary restriction forbidding you to taste blood. Even animal blood is forbidden to you by this law, and you find yourself racked by pangs of conscience every time you feed. This is a variable Flaw. At 2 points, you simply restrict yourself to feeding on animals or blood that has been drained by a ritual butcher. At 4 points you abstain from feeding unless it is absolutely necessary (3 Blood Points or less), and even then you may well fall into pits of self-flagellating despair.

Lasombra - Unable To Swim (2pt Flaw)
The character has never learned to swim, or has been taught but reverts to helpless flailing. Consider this character's Athletics rating to be zero for purposes of the movement rules (see "Blood-Dimmed Tides"). A character cannot take this flaw unless he has at least one dot in Athletics, and a character with the Secondary Ability: Swimming cannot take this Flaw for obvious reasons. At the storyteller's discretion, a character who takes swimming lessons after game play begins may buy off this Flaw at the cost of six experience points after using experience to raise his Athletics score at least one dot.

Lasombra - Uncontrollable Night Sight (2pt Flaw)
Light and dark are permanently inverted for you. Pitch black darkness seems bright and uniformly lit to you, while any light brighter than a hundred watts bulb creates a zone of pure darkness. The penalties for partial darkness apply to weak illumination instead. This Flaw doesn’t allow you to see through Obtenebration created darkness, which glows with pure white light that obscures all details.

Laughingstock (5pt Flaw)
Somehow you’re draw the scorn of the local harpies, who make you their favorite and reflexive target. You are at +2 difficulty on all Social roll in Elysium and a +1 anywhere else in the city. In addition, you are at +2 difficulty to use Intimidation or any Dominate powers on anyone who has heard the stories mocking you.

Lazy (1pt Flaw)
You're simply lazy. you don't like to do anything that requires a lot of effort on your part. You prefer to let others do the hard work. You like to lie around and, by vampiric standards, you're certainly a coffin potato.

Leper (3pt Flaw)
Before you were Embraced you suffered from leprosy or a skin disease which might be easily confused with leprosy. Your Appearance may be no higher than 2, and your flesh is marred by rashes, pale patches, festering sores, scars etc. Your skin disease whatever it actually is, is obvious to any who look upon you. Mortal authorities refuse you entry to any city, and you will be treated with fear and revulsion. Very likely (Storyteller’s discretion) your condition is still contagious, though being undead it cannot have any further effect on you. This Flaw is worth only 1 point to Nosferatu, and then only if the disease is contagious.

Light Sensitive (5pt Flaw)
You are even more sensitive to sunlight than other vampires are. Sunlight causes double damage, and even moonlight (which is, after all, the reflected light of the sun) harms you. Indeed, even bright lights can be painful, but the pain can be mitigated by wearing sunglasses. When the moon is shining, the light it casts will cause wounds in the same way sunlight does for normal individuals. However, the wounds caused by the moon are not aggravated, and can be healed normally. Remember, even on nights when the moon is full, it may have already set when you venture outside, or be obscured by the clouds.

Loathsome Regnant (4pt Flaw)
Not only are you blood bound, but you are also in thrall to a vampire who mistreats you hideously., perhaps you are publicly abused or humiliated; perhaps your master forces you to commit unspeakable acts for him, In any case, existence under the bond is a never-ending nightmare, with your regnant serving to conduct the symphony of malice.

Lord of the Flies (2pt Flaw)
Buzzing harbingers of decay swirl around you everywhere. Their constant presence makes it difficult for you to interact socially (+1 difficulty when appropriate) and nearly impossible to sneak up on someone or hide effectively. The buzzing of the files inevitably gives you away - all Stealth rolls are at +2 difficulty.

Low Self-Image (2pt Flaw)
You lack self-confidence and don’t believe in yourself. You have two fewer dice in situations where you don’t expect to succeed (at Storyteller’s discretion), though the penalty might be limited to one die if you help the Storyteller by pointing out times when this Flaw might affect you). At the Storyteller’s option, you may be required to make Willpower rolls to do things that require self-confidence, or even to use a Willpower point when others would not be obliged to do so.

Lunacy (2pt Flaw)
You are affected by the phases of the moon, increasing your chances of frenzy. Under the crescent moon, difficulties to avoid frenzy increase by one. Under the half or gibbous moon, difficulties rise by two. When the moon is full, difficulties increase by three.

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Magic Susceptibility (2pt Flaw)
You are susceptible to the magical rituals of the Tremere, as well as to spells of mages of other creeds an orders. The difficulty to cast a spell upon you is two less, and all spells cast have twice normal effect on you.

Malkavian - Glossolalia (3pt Flaw)
Your delirium has not only infected your senses, but your ability to communicate with others. During moments of stress, or whenever the Storyteller deems it appropriate (such as after botching a social roll or entering frenzy), you can only speak in tongues. No matter how hard you try, everything comes out as gibberish. A willpower point can be spent to utter a single sentence, but after this you can only babble for the duration of the scene.

Malkavian - Infectious (3pt Flaw)
Your bite transmits the madness of your clan. Whenever you feed from a mortal, the power of the Kiss hods them in place as normal. However, your mortal prey gains a temporary derangement for every three blood points you take from them; the madness lasts for a week or so. Malkavians with this Flaw are often the ones you hear about infesting asylums; its the most lowkey place for them to feed.

Malkavian - Stigmata (2 or 4pt Flaw)
You constantly seep blood from phantom wounds; even though your flesh remains unbroke, you bleed. The bleeding is fairly slight, but is incessant, costing you an extra blood point each evenig. If you bleed from visible locations, you are at +1 diff to all Social rolls, although certain vampires will probably take your reputation as a seer more seriously. The 4pt version of this Flaw indicates that you bleed from your eye sockets. All Social Rolls raise to +2 difficulty. In addition, the constant bleeding interferes with your vision, adding one to the diff of all visual Perception rolls.

Malkavian - Touched by the Ancients (2pt Flaw)
Old blood flows through your veins and something about you makes elders nervous or curious. This attention is usually unwelcome and comes in the form of mistrust, fear or obsession. Whether you want it or not, you are the focus of elder attention. Some whisper that you are a harbinger of Caine, others see Malkav’s madness on you and give you a wide berth. The player suffers a +1 difficulty penalty on all social actions with elders that depend on trust, because they fear the character.

Masquerade Breaker (2pt Flaw)
In your first nights as a member of the Kindred, you accidentally broke the Masquerade - and were spotted doing so. Someone else covered for your mistake, but holds the favor over you. Now you exits in fear that your error will be revealed. In the meantime, you "savior" takes pitiless advantage of you.

Matricide/Patricide (4pt Flaw)
You have committed diablerie upon your own sire. If this information becomes known among elder vampires you will be shunned, or perhaps even put to the sun. You are most certainly an easy target for blackmail, and you must always be alert to the signs of other Kindred searching for information about your sire and his untimely demise (or "disappearance").

Methuselah’s Thirst (7pt Flaw)
You're no longer capable of drinking mortal blood to sustain yourself & must feed upon the vitae of other Kindred.

Mistaken Identity (1pt Flaw)
You look similar to another Kindred, and are mistaken for her, much to your chagrin. This individual’s allies will approach you and tell you things you do not want to hear, her enemies will attempt to do away with you, and other will treat you in odd ways. Ultimately you might be able to sort out things, but it will take tremendous effort.

Monstrous (3pt Flaw)
There is something wholly monstrous about you, something that makes you even more hideous than a Nosferatu. You scarcely look human, but the manner in which you differ is up to you. Perhaps you have grown scales or warts all over your body, or perhaps the scream you issued when you died has been permanently frozen on your face. Not only is your Appearance a zero, but you make even the Nosferatu uneasy. Nosferatu may take this Flaw, but only gain one point for it.

Mute (4pt Flaw)
You cannot speak. You communicate with the Storyteller and describe your actions, but cannot talk to player or Storyteller characters unless everyone concerned uses Linguistics dots to purchase a commonly understood sign language or you write down what you wish to say.

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Technophobic (4pt Flaw)
The blossoming of technology over the last 150 years, and the way it reaches into every part of life, makes you very uneasy. You see technology as a dark, unpredictable force, far more inexplicable and threatening than the familiar magic and superstition you grew up with. Some of the newer contraptions seem to be controlled by some malign intelligence, and few of them seem as though they’re out to get you personally. You have a two-dice penalty to all attempts to deal with devices powered by steam, internal combustion or electricity.

Territorial (2pt Flaw)
You are extremely territorial, staking out a particular area as your hunting ground and reacting aggressively to trespassers. If another vampire enters your territory, you must make a frenzy roll. If you fail, you immediately attack the interloper and continue attacking until the intruder is dead or has left your hunting grounds. You are reluctant to leave your territory except in desperate circumstance.

Thin Blood (4pt Flaw)
Your blood is thin, weak and does not sustain you well. All blood points costs are doubled (e.g. using blood-related Disciplines or healing damage), and you are unable to create a blood bond. Furthermore, efforts to sire other vampires succeed only 20% of the time.

Thirst for Innocence (2pt Flaw)
The sight of innocence - of and sort - arouses in you a terrible bloodlust. Roll Self-Control, or else frenzy and attack the source of your hunger.

Toreador - Démesuré (3pt Flaw)
Démesuré refers to sinful pride that results in extraordinary (and sometimes horrendous) costs to the possessor and those around him. The most famous example is that of Childe Roland, who refused to allow his men to retreat as the Moors slaughtered them, his pride goading him to remain so that he would not appear as a coward. A player who takes this Flaw should select one (maybe more) things that his character takes great pride in - his clothes, his horsemanship, his fighting, etc. When that pride is insulted or threatened, the player must make a Willpower roll (difficulty 9). If he fails, he pursues the salvation of his "honor" to the exclusion of all other business. This obsession can result in lost allies, plans gone completely awry, loss of loved ones or even Final Death. Each time the character achieves goals relating to his obsession, he may make a Willpower roll (difficulty 7) to see if he can let the obsession rest for the remainder of the night.

Toreador - Disparaged (2pt Flaw)
You married someone beneath your station, and thus have lost social standing yourself. An example, would be a countess who has married a knight or a duke who married a baron’s daughter. Among your own social class, you are treated with disrespect or eve actively snubbed, while your spouse is ignored or treated rudely. Your spouse’s peers don’t know how to behave with you, resulting in a further awkward relations or standoffishness. A +2 difficulty is added to your Social rolls when dealing with your peers. Your marriage may be a happy one, but you have paid a terrible price for it.

Toreador - Rivalry (1-3pt Flaw)
You have an ongoing rivalry with someone (perhaps another Toreador, another Cainite, or even a mortal). You may or may not remember how the competition started, but now you and your rival are inseparable. This rival takes advantage of every opportunity to slander you and advance himself at your expense. There may be ways to cool or end this quarrel, but doing so will take a long time. A 1-point rival is at your own power level, and is often annoying but not too dangerous. A 2-point rival occasionally takes harmful action against you, or his words have some measure of influence. A 3-point rival has no qualms about occasionally attempting to have you killed or has some serious clout with someone of higher standing than you (a mortal authority or clan elder). For him, your rivalry has become a matter of death or dishonor.

Toreador - Used and Abused (2pt Flaw)
For some reason, you have incurred the wrath of those higher in station in your clan. These Cainites have the power o make your life miserable - injuring your reputation, spreading nasty gossip, slandering your lovers - and all for reasons that you can’t understand. However, just because you’re being abused doesn’t mean you necessarily have to endure it meekly. You may be able to find assistance from others who disbelieve the slander - but you may have to prove yourself several time over first.

Toreador - Vulgar (2pt Flaw)
You are rude and socially unacceptable. You seem constitutionally incapable of saying or doing the right things, in spite of all attempts to teach you. Your sire is criticized and ridiculed for choosing you, and you are frequently left off guest lists. You may eventually work off this Flaw, but the Storyteller should make it particularly difficult. At Storytellers option, you may be at +2 difficulty on all Social rolls.

Toreador - Poor Taste (1pt Flaw)
You can never have the Art Appreciation Skill. You are forever a Poseur, and you have no ability to judge a masterpiece from trash. In fact, if you had the choice, you would choose the trash.

Toreador - Tortured Artist (1pt Flaw)
You must suffer for your work. Your work is never good enough to suit you. You often suffer ennui for extended periods of time, preventing you from working steadily. In addition, you constantly find yourself in heartbreaking positions; perhaps you subconsciously lead yourself into those situations to acquire the experience you need to work.

Toreador - Vulgar (1pt Flaw)
You will never fit into high society. You are crude, rude, and socially unacceptable, forever a Philistine. You are treated as having one less level of Status when invitations to Toreador socials are prepared. You will never be fully accepted as a Toreador. Many will question your Sire and possibly ridicule him for choosing you.

Toreador - Artistically Inept (2pt Flaw)
You must work harder than most artists to accomplish great work. You are still capable for creating a masterpiece, but it is tougher for you than for someone else with equal training. All difficulties on Creativity rolls and Artistic Expression rolls are increased by two to a maximum of nine.

Toreador - Social Outcast (3pt Flaw)
You have severed your ties to the Artistes and Poseurs. You no longer play their silly games. You will never rise in Clan Prestige, and you are thee equivalent of an Anarch. However, the anarch’s won’t accept you due to some past transgressions you have committed against them. You have no place in the world of the Damned.

Touch of Frost or Taint of Corruption (1pt Flaw)
Plants wither as you approach and die at your touch. Your touch leeches heat from living beings, as though you are made of ice.

Tremere - Bound to the Council (3pt Flaw)
Whenever you want to do something that violates the commands of the Tremere hierarchy, you must expend a willpower trait. Violating this oath is literally as difficult as a blood bound thrall trying to betray her regnant. Your actions will be highly constrained, you may be thrust into unpleasant situations against your will. You'll be in a world of hurt if you ever manage to get past the blood.

Tremere - False Third Eye (4pt Flaw)
For reasons unknown to you or your sir, your Embrace left you with the imprint of a third eye upon your forehead. This remainder of Tremere’s diablerie of Saulot renders you both an embarrassment to other members of your clan and a figure of distrust to all except those who know you. The "third eye" does not open or function. Unless you conceal it under a hood or beneath your hair, the stigma is obvious to all who see you. All Social rolls ate at +2 difficulty whenever interacting with any Cainites other than your coterie or closest allies. Attempting to pass as a Salubri is not advisable.

Tremere - Thaumaturgically Inept (5pt Flaw)
Your character finds Thaumaturgy to be his worst subject. As a result, this adds one trait to the difficulty of any Static test, and adds five minutes to the casting time of any effect (because you're fumbling with the words, you mis-drew the circle, etc). You are one Social Trait down on resolution of challenges when dealing with Tremere of higher ranks than yourself.

Twisted Upbringing (1pt Flaw)
Your sire was quite malevolent and taught you all the wrong things about Kindred society. All your beliefs about how vampires interact are wrong, and your faulty beliefs are likely to get you into a great deal of trouble. Over time, after many hard lessons, you can overcome this bad start (the Storyteller will tell you when). But until then, you will continue to believe what you were first told, no matter how others try to "trick" you into thinking otherwise.

Twitch (1pt Flaw)
You have some sort of repetitive motion that you make in times of stress, and it’s a dead giveaway as to your identity. Examples include a nervous cough, constantly wringing your hands, cracking your knuckles and so on. It costs one Willpower point to refrain from engaging in your twitch.

Tzimisce - Ancestral Soil Dependence (2pt Flaw)
Dependence on their native soil hampered the Tzimisce's flight from Eastern Europe. Even a few childer sired elsewhere required the soil of a homeland they had never visited, making them particularly vulnerable to enemies who knew of this weakness. In the modern nights, rapid transportaion makes such a threat much less severe, but even childer sired generatins after their ancestors relocated occasionally manifest this Flaw. The will of the spirits from the ancestral Tzimisce homeland weighs heavy on your blood - - soil from a place important to you as a mortal won't do. You actually need two handfuls of the tainted Eastern European soil of the Tzimisce homeland.Ancestral Soil Dependence most commonly manifest in the childer of koldun and the branch of the clan thought to be descendant from Yorak. Characters Embraced in Easter Europe can't take this Flaw.

Tzimisce - Consumption (5pt Flaw)
Portions of the Antediluvian are not only within you, they're active and act like a cancer that devours you from the inside out. Your very blood is wrought with a corrosive, flesheating bacteria. At the beginning of each evening, you suffer one health level of bashing that cannot be soaked nor heald with blood. The only way to counteract the effect is by ingesting one-tenth of your body-weight in flesh to supplement your depleted carcass. Whether you kill and devour the skin from humas or raid the biohazzard containers of liposuction clinics for sipoed fat, you need your ration of human flesh in order to survive. If you try and ingest this macabre meal before damage is done, you'll simply vomit it out like any other food -- this does not impart the benefits of the Eat Food Merit.

Tzimisce - Privacy Obsession (3pt Flaw)
You carry the Tzimisce respect for privacy to extremes. You must make a Willpower roll (difficulty 6) to enter another being’s dwelling without being invited (though you will go to fiendishly clever lengths to garner an unwitting invitation). When disturbed in your manse by an uninvited guest, you must make a Self-Control or Instincts roll (difficulty 7) to avoid frenzy.

Tzimisce - Revenant Weakness (3pt Flaw)
You were once part of a revenant family. Following the Embrace, you suffered the double-whammy of your clan's weakness and your revenant family's limitation.

Tzimisce - Scarface (2 - 4pt Flaw)
You're a walking mess of scars. Although you heal damage with Cainite efficieny, the manner in which you do so is all too human. For some reason, the regenerating flesh returns as scar tissue. Vicissitude doesn't help; in fact, it aggravates your condition with stretch marks and cicatrices anywhere your skin breaks. While this doesn't hamper you physically, it does affect your interactions with oter people. For 2 points, all Social roll difficulties increase by one. At 3 points, your face and body are so horribly blemished that your Appearance ratig can never exceed 2. At 4 points, the swath of scars is thick enough to hinder your actions through skin-resistance. All Dexterityroll difficulties also increat by one in addition to the other level's penalties.

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Unconvinced (1pt Flaw)
You fail to see the need for the Masquerade, and have gone on record as saying so. Taking your stand has made you suspect in the eyes of your elders, and may have attracted the Sabbat’s attention as well.

Uneducated (5 pt Flaw)
You have received absolutely no education, and have five fewer points to spend on you Knowledge Abilities (with eight being the greatest you could have, and 0 being the least). You can still spend freebie points to take Knowledges. As part of this, you cannot have any Knowledge higher than 3 at the beginning of the game.

Uninvited (3pt Flaw)
A Kindred with this Flaw is barred from entering any private residence for which he has not been given an express invitation by the person who dwells within. This invitation need not necessarily come from the owner of the home, but a vampire cannot bypass the power of this Flaw by having any old stranger invite him into a home for which they have no intimate connection. If the character gains an invitation, the invitation must be spoke aloud, he may enter that home freely from there on.

Un-Retractable Fangs (1pt Flaw)
You're unable to retract your fangs. you should be very careful, lest the wrong mortals see them. Vicissitude 3 (Bonecraft) can be used to forcibly cause them to shrink, but the process is painful & the fangs will return the next night.

Unskilled (5 pt Flaw)
You have never trained extensively in any skill or craft, and therefore have five fewer points to spend on you Skills (with eight being the greatest you could have, and 0 being the least). While freebies can be spent to raise your Skills, no Skill may be higher than 3 at the beginning of the game.

Uppity (2pt Flaw)
You are proud of your new status and clan - so proud that you’ve shot your mouth off to other Kindred and made some enemies. Wiser vampires laugh at you and chalk your rudeness up to youth, but others regard you as arrogant and insulting. These enemies will take action to embarrass or harm you. Furthermore, you are at +2 difficulty on all Social rolls against any vampires you have alienated through your yammering - and you may not know who they are. At Storytellers discretion, you may also be required to make a Willpower roll (difficulty 6) to keep your mouth shut any time the opportunity presents itself for you to brag about your lineage, your clan or your status.

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Vainglorious (1-3pt Flaw)
You are boastful and know that you deserve any praise you receive. You are particularly found of Kindred who realize their lesser standing in the face of your obvious superiority, although you tend to view any who speak well of you as more intelligence and deserving than most. Due to your arrogance and love of sycophants, you receive an increase of one to three points on the difficulty level for resisting any attempts at Manipulation using flattery (the modifier is doubled if the flatter has a flattery specialty). The modifier is determined by the rating of this Flaw.

Vengeful (2pt Flaw)
You have a score to settle, incurred either during your mortal days or after your Embrace. You are obsessed with taking your revenge on an individual or group, and it is your overriding priority in any situation where you encounter the object of your revenge. You may temporarily resist your need for vengeance by spending Willpower point.

Victim of the Masquerade (2pt Flaw)
The Camarilla’s propaganda machine did too good a job on you. Even after your Embrace you refused to believe you were a vampire. You remain convinced that there is some logical explanation for your condition, and spend as much time as you can searching for it. You also have problems feeding, and may insist on trying to eat regular food. None of these habits makes you particularly pleasant company for other Kindred. This Flaw must be roleplayed at all times.

Virtueless (2pt Flaw)
Chivalrous culture places more and more importance on the observation of a pantheon of virtues. Knights must display these virtues. You have gained the unfortunate reputation for being lacking in one of the major virtues. Perhaps you made inappropriate advances to the wrong lady, broke your word, consistently lose at tourney or even fled the field of battle. This black mark hangs around your neck, hampering your career. You suffer a +1 diff on all social rolls among knights and nobles. Eliminating this Flaw is a task both long and hard. You must prove that you were slandered or have made amends and that you are now a paragon of the virtue you supposedly lacked.

Vulnerability to Silver (2pt Flaw)
You suffer aggravated wounds from silver, just like a werewolf.

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Ward (3pt Flaw)
You are devoted to the protection of a mortal. You may describe your ward, though the Storyteller will actually create her. This character id often a friend or relative from your living days. Retainers do not count as wards, as they "pay their own way". Wards have a talent for getting caught up in the actions of stories, and are frequently target’s of a character’s enemies.

Weak-Willed (2pt Flaw)
You are highly susceptible to Dominate and intimidation by others; you are, in fact unable to use your Willpower freely. You can employ your Willpower only when survival is at stake or it is appropriate to you Nature.

Woman in Disguise (4pt Flaw)
You are one of those rare women who have decided to live the knight’s life. The opinions of your fellows - both male and female - have forced you to assume the role of a man, changing your name and appearance as best you can. You life your life in a careful subterfuge, doing everything you can to avoid the discovery of your secret, while still appearing at tourney and at court. You likely have trusted aids who share your secret and help you keep it. If your secret were revealed, you would, in all likelihood, be utterly disgraced as a liar and a woman who doesn’t know her place. This Flaw does not grant you the ability to maintain the disguise.

Woman in Spurs (5pt Flaw)
A Joan of Arc long before the day, you flout convention and publicly act as a knight without hiding your gender. This closes many doors to you, and most mortal knights will refuse to treat you as anything resembling an equal - most think you insane, evil or possessed, in fact. Only by proving yourself to each and every man you face will you gain even a modicum of respect. In Cainite circles, you are treated more fairly, but masquerading as a mortal is nearly impossible unless you shed your arms.

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13th Generation (2pts)
You were recently sired by a 12th-generation vampire. Few of your kind exist. You are considered to be part of an unofficial social step forming at the bottom of vampire society. You still bear the distinctions and predilections of your clan, but are largely overlooked by elders, ancillae, and many 12th-generation neonates. You have to shout twice as loud to be heard and work twice as hard to be noticed. Neither entitles you to respect or responsibility, yet. It's a strange era for you. Most of your generation has not arrived yet. When they do, perhaps things will be different. As a 13th-generation vampire, you have a maximum blood pool of 10 and may spend a single blood point per turn. Victorian and Dark Ages only.

14th Generation (2pt Flaw)
You were created five or fewer years ago by a member of the 13th generation. Though you have 10 blood points in your body, only eight of them may be used to heal wounds, power Disciplines, raise Attributes etc. Obviously, taking this Flaw precludes you from taking the Generation Background, and you may not start with Status, either. You are likely a clanless Caitiff, for your blood is probably too thin to pass down the distinguished characteristics of a clan. Most 14th generation vampires should also take the Thin Blood Flaw.

15th Generation (3pt Flaw)
You are the scum on the gene pool of vampirism. This flaw can only be taken by a caitiff. Vampires this far removed from Cain show no signs of any clan (you may not take any merits or flaws that are related to being a member or implying membership in a clan {like casts no reflection}). You must take the flaw Thin Blooded. You have 10 blood points, 6 of which are inactive (may only be used for waking up). Starting willpower for a 15th gen is 1, with a max of 4 willpower. You can never create blood bonds, ghouls, or sire a childe. You may never raise any discipline above the first intermediate level. Sunlight does normal damage to you, not aggravated damage (It’s still likely to kill you in a mater of seconds). You can hold down mortal food for up to an hour by winning a static test (Difficulty varies). The food will be vomited back up later.(Assuming you don’t have the Eat Food Merit.)

You know, you're missing G for the flaws? It goes from A-F to H-I.