Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Description: A Kindred utilizing this power has learned to harness the awesome power of his toughness and extend that to his mind.

Mechanics: The vampire adds 1 trait for basic fortitude, 2 for intermediate, and 3 for advanced or beyond. Defensively to resist mental challenges, this power is always active once learned even in torpor.

This power allows you to track a being whose blood you have ingested for that specific purpose (activate this power at the time of ingestion). This power does not protect you from the supernatural effects of any blood you ingest.

Spend a willpower to activate this power and then expend 1-3 social traits. You gain 2 bonus traits in all tracking challenges related to the individual whose blood you ingested. Additionally, each trait spent allows additional tracking information. Each trait spent allows for the previous information as well.

1 trait gives you general direction
2 traits gives you an approximate distance
3 traits gives you an idea of the relative power level compared to your own; additionally, if you have a lore appropriate to the creature type you will know what type of being it is.

Cost: 10 XP

Members of clan Malkavian developed this unique combination discipline to attack their victims and drive them even further into madness.  Those unlucky enough to be assaulted by a Malkavian with this power find their very will to live to driven away. Worse off, those who suffer from active insanity find its effects even more potent..

System: The Malkavian character spends 1 blood trait and engages the target in a contested mental challenge retested with Empathy.  If you succeed the target loses 3 temporary willpower traits and an additional willpower per trait per active derangement they have at the time this power is used.

Requires Magic Resistance

There are some that can naturally resist magic. For those, this is only a minor benefit in the long run against blood mages and undead Necromancers. The kindred whom learns this power becomes a force of nature that reviles undead magi and juggernauts through their magic barriers as if it were nothing. The user of this power can literally shrug off any kindred magic thrown at them the same way a Gangrel or Ventrue shrugs of damage. However, there is a price for learning and using this power.

System: This power functions as advanced Fortitude Aegis. However, when using your Aegis you become immune to the challenge in which you utilize Aegis within.  Any further times you are targeted by magic that round, you are up an additional 3 traits in comparison of ties.  Examples include: if you activate Aegis while controlled by Movement of mind you regain control of your body, if you were Soul Stolen by Path of Bones your soul returns to your body, or if you have any fetishes or magical items made by blood magic they turn off and must be reactivated in a round this power has not been used in. This power must be used before the challenge is thrown.

Possess Self-Control as a Virtue
Path/Code of Honor Requirement
In order to benefit from this combo, the character must either follow a path or possess a Code of Honor with the following (or similar) tenet
"fighting the Beast when you should not; not fighting the Beast when you should"
In place of making a Self-Control challenge to resist Frenzy, the character may relent and automatically enter Frenzy. For the duration of this
Frenzy, the character may treat their Self-Control (Including all sources that would modify the character's Self Control) as if it were Instinct,
allowing the character to "Ride the Wave" and all other benefits of possessing Instinct as a Virtue.
This combo may also be activated (Player's discretion) if the character would be forced to Frenzy without a Self Control Challenge, even if the
character did not relent to the challenge that would cause this Frenzy. For example, the character may attempt to resist Drawing out the Beast, fail
the challenge, and still activate this combo.
At the conclusion of this Frenzy, for the rest of the night, the character is treated as being one Self Control less for the purposes of Frenzy
Challenges or subsequent activations of this combo. The penalty is cumulative with each activation of this combo.