Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Sometimes words cannot express an experience in a way that does it justice. Some experiences are too sublime or too awful and no matter the skill of the orator the true impact cannot be conveyed. Through use of this technique, the vampire can share his most precious or awful secrets with those he trusts.

MET System: The character is able to share his memories with a willing target. The character must spend one blood trait and one willpower trait. The user of this combination discipline must maintain concentration while sharing the memory. The target of the power may break free from the illusion at any time by spending a mental trait if they wish to end it early (or if they are attacked/facing imminent danger). The target experiences the memories from the point of view of the user including the senses and emotions they experienced. The real world fades away as they are drawn into the story, though it remains just within reach, like a daydream that they can wake up from at any moment. This power cannot be used as justification for the target to spend experience points to purchase something because they experienced the memory of the user learning it. Anyone going through the targets mind and encountering a memory of this power being used will immediately identify those memories as having been created, and not belonging to the target of the power.

Anima Elementorum (Soul of the Elements)
Dur-An-Ki Elemental Mastery: 4
Cruscitus: 5
Experience Cost: 7xp

A warrior who has unlocked the powers of the old blood is without a doubt a force to be reckoned with but when bolstered through an ascension through the heavens and a keen understanding of the world's true structure they come to a realization. All objects and all of reality is but a reflection of the Umbra and its spirits. All objects have a will among them and through combining the mastery of the old ways with ascension of self along the Ladder of Heaven the Warrior has learned to allow these spirits to inhabit his body briefly to exert their power on the world like the Sorcerers of old

System: Expend a Willpower Trait and a Blood Trait. As you do so you welcome the elements to house themselves within your own body to extraordinary efficiency. You may combine up to Two Elements within yourself to produce different combinations of effects based on the table below and last for a Scene. This is considered a form power and follows rules for such.

Air: Gain a retest on all Stealth Challenges
Earth: Gain 3 Levels of armor that cannot be Ignored
Water: Gain an extra 3 Steps of Movement per Action
Fire: When physical contact make a simple test, on a win or tie deal an additional Fire Based Damage

Additional effects for other elementals are at ST Discretion

Anticipatory Fear allows the Kindred to appear as whomever the target most fear to see in a given circumstance . The character herself has no control over who she appears to be, and may not even be immediately aware of what form she's taken . 

MET System: Expend a Blood Trait and makes a static Mental Challenge versus the target, retesting with Investigation. If successful, you assume a Mask of a Thousand Faces of someone the target fear the most for that situation. You are not aware of the mask you wear, nor do you gain any insight to the personality or memories of the person you are disguised  as  through  use of this power. It can be pierced just like a normal Mask of a Thousand Faces.

Magic is the power of will made manifest, and magic is channeled through the power inherent in symbols of all types. Those symbols can be used to identify, create, bolster, or destroy the things they are linked to. By completing his understanding of the unchanging nature of the Kindred body, and the power inherent in vitae, the thaumaturge can protect himself from the creation and strengthening of those connections, most often referred to as sympathetic links.

Sympathetic magic, the magic involved in accessing and manipulating the connections between things, can be a great boon to a thaumaturge, and a great hindrance when it is used against him. This power renders almost all such connections useless; and unless specifically noted below, covers all such supernatural connections created after the power is learned, as well as all connections from mundane sources. Rituals and powers that specifically create such a connection, like the ritual “Enchant Talisman” or “Transubstantiation of Seven” will still create that connection.

Hair, fingernail clippings, blood (as in DNA sequencing used by mortals) cannot be forensically traced back to the possessor of this power, if the item is question is harvested before the power is learned.
Those mundane connections are not strong enough to maintain themselves in the face of the Apathetic Link. Blood from the possessor of this power cannot be used to ghoul or embrace unless this power is deactivated for a number of turns equal to the time involved to perform the action, plus one, or unless the blood was removed and stored before this power was learned. The cost to temporarily deactivate
this power is a temporary Willpower per turn. For example, to ghoul or to embrace generally takes a minimum of two turns worth of deactivation (plus the blood needed). On the first round the power of
the symbolic connection is re-established, on the second, the actual ghouling or embrace occurs. Additional time may be necessary as per the ST.

A ghoul that is already blood bound that is fed by the possessor of this power will remain a ghoul, and will maintain the blood bond, as that connection is being maintained and not created, and the power of
blood to maintain someone as a ghoul is inherent to vampiric vitae, not to any inherent supernatural connection.

Blood taken from the thaumaturge by supernatural means (such as Theft of Vitae) is still lost, and still counts as blood, but will not increase (or create) any blood bonds.

Mechanics: This power is active once learned, unless a temporary Willpower is spent to negate the power for a single turn.
This power does not stop someone from Blood Bonding the possessor of this power (Blood Bonds, LotN:R, p.211). All mechanical effects of a Blood Bond take effect. However, the RP aspects of the Bond
are considered to be at one drink less, and while this power is active, it counts as “having absolutely no contact” regardless of the contact that occurs. It is the full 12 months, regardless of the amount of
permanent Willpower the thaumaturge possesses, and does not begin until a full (3pt) blood bond is established. Permanent connections of this nature are not affected by this.

Acts that would create a new, supernatural connection from the possessor, require at least two turns to enact, more at Storyteller discretion.

This power does not negate already existing supernatural connections (blood bonds, the Kindred’s blood stored somewhere, etc.) it simply prevents any new supernatural connections from forming (blood
bonds to the possessor, new ghouls, new embraces).

The sorts of connections found using mortal forensics (DNA, etc.) are not capable or being maintained in the face of this power, from links taken after this power is learned. For example, if, for some reason, a Kindred’s DNA were on file, and two blood samples taken from a crime scene were tested, both samples would test as coming from the same individual, but would not be able to be traced back to the Kindred.

Aphrodite's Blessing (11-pt Combo)
Requirements: Dominate 4; Fortitude 4; Denial of Aphrodite's Favor; optional Presence 3

MET: When a Cainite with this combination Discipline is successfully targeted by any kind of emotionally-affecting power, he may spend a Social Trait to receive an automatic retest, even if the power normally does not allow a retest. Regardless, he is automatically aware of any attempts to influence his emotions as described above, even if he does not defend against them successfully, though the source is not necessarily obvious. In addition if the user has the requisite Presence and has been instructed in the advance techniques of this Discipline by a suitable tutor, he may spend an additional Social Trait whenever he successfully defends against such a power to reflect it back against the original wielder. (The wielder receives a normal test to resist the reflected power and is considered to win all ties in such instances.)