Custom Path of Enlightenment
Some chronicles allow for their players to develop customized powers for their characters. The following is a compilation of player created custom content in OWBN. At this time, custom content that is created and/or used by vampire PC's is required to be listed.
Custom Content Category: Path of Enlightenment
XP Cost: 0XP
MET Mechanics:
Path of the Guru's Embrace.
Created by Sir Leo Caster
Virtues: Conviction/Self Control
About the path:
Members of the Path of the Guru's Embrace (P.O.G.E) value logic and power of the mind. Often when the vampire condition is gifted to an individual they become lost to the power they try so hard to cling to with all their might. Members of P.O.G.E use the power of the mind to live in a symbiotic relationship with the beast inside, Proving that even the beast knows the power of logic. They are often cold and calculating, preferring to measure every situation and person my the merit of their mind over the power of the body.
Ethics of the path:
- Test the limits of the mind
- Think before you speak or act
- Covet knowledge, but share what you can. above all seek it out
- Show your beast it's logic, control if need be
- Understand and seek what you do not.
- Know that others may not be as knowledgeable as you, aid the less enlightened
- Lore is lore, Observe it but be not of it.
Following the path of P.O.G.E:
Channel you mind, focus towards logic and enlightenment. Know that your beast seeks, in it's own way, to embrace logic. Guide it as you would anyone else. Threw knowledge and logic all things are possible, and every problem can be solved. Above all, let those that are around you find their own logic. You can lead a horse to water but you can not force them to drink from the well.
** Vampires on this path follow the guide lines set forth by Conviction/Self Control. Keep in mind this paths version of Conviction does not include remorse as logic is often cold and unyielding.
" logic, knowledge above all else"
Hierarchy of sins:
5- Failing to learn/pursue dangerous knowledge; Failing to share knowledge even to the undeserving.
4- Refusing to participate in rituals or ritae; Failing to purse lore/knowledge even at risk of self.
3- Failing to resist the Beast; Failing to pursue new lore/knowledge, and expanding what you know.
2- Failing to test the logic of others; Allowing emotion to overcome rationality.
1- Willful destruction of knowledge;Refusing to share what you can.
Focus of the path:
The path focuses on the ability of the vampire condition to rise above the constraints of mortal understanding. The world is full of lore and wondrous things. As such the members of this path focus on Academics, Lore, Philosophy, and other mind expanding abilities.
A few speak of the powers of the blood called Dementation, as it provides unique views on the world. Other disciplines include any that allow for an expanded view on the vampire condition. For example: Thaumaturgy, visistitude, chimestry, obtenebration and so on
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
Date of Archival: 12-Jul-2017
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