Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Presence 1 Dominate 1
Leader's Mentality
3XP

Player may expend a mental trait and gain an additional retest with dominate challenges. This power would function in the terms of awe but for dominate instead of presence.

Einherjar Only

The Great wolf Fenris was a terror to all, twice it was bound in iron and steel and shattered it with its great strength. Only when Tyr risked his hand as a show of trust to Fenris, to guard against the trickery of the Gods, did the silken band of Gleipinir ensnare him.

What the tales do to honor the greater memory of Tyr is to say he risked his ungauntleted hand but the old skalds remember that it was his plated fist not his bare hand, he placed within the mouth of Fenris.

The Einherjar who honored the great wolves were known to terrorize even the heaviest armor clad warriors of the southern lands rending steel as easily as flesh.

System:

Player activates Fenris Talons as per normal and gains the same benefits. Additionally the user's attacks with the talons gain Armor Piercing and automatically wins the simple challenge to inflict an additional damage.

Requires a Ghouled Horse.

Antitribu version: Appropriately Prepared Motorcycle, Protean x5, Obfuscate x4; 14xp 

Description: In modern nights, the term “Ghost Rider” elicits imagery of a ghostly rider mounted on horseback forced to forever hunt in the old west. An earlier story would have people believe in a “headless horseman.” Earlier tales from Europe talk of whole hosts of ghostly huntsmen on a wilde jagd or “wild hunt.” This often presaged a great battle or plague and those who crossed path with it are never seen again. In many cases this host was on the edge of a great storm. The Norse called it Odin’s Ride. After Christianity paganized it, the story became of a demon on horseback preying on the souls of the dead.

All these tales have one thing in common; they are based partly on truth. Using this power, a rider and mount become the embodiment of this legend. Both become incorporeal as with the Protean power of Mist Form, but their movement is fixed at a ghostly gallop. The pair takes on a spectral appearance and some say the wind caused by their passing carries a faint cackling laughter or the hooves of multiple riders can sound like the front of an incoming storm.

In recent nights, a more perverted version of the power has been developed by the antitribu using blood to coat an “iron horse” to travel in this spectral fashion.

System: The rider has to stay mounted on the ghouled animal while at a gallop. During this time three traits of blood and one trait of willpower are spent to activate this power (as limited by the character’s generation). At the end of the round in which all the necessary expenditures are completed, the “ghostly form” takes effect. The rider may change back instantly at any time with the mount. The pair is immune to mundane physical attacks in this form, and they take one less level of damage from fire and sunlight automatically. They are still affected normally by mystical attack, though of course they have no blood in this form, so some Thaumaturgy is useless against them. Though the pair cannot affect the world physically, the rider can still use Disciplines that do not require a physical form (the rider cannot use Dominate, for instance, because it has no eyes, but the rider could exert Presence). The rider must remain mounted and the mount must move at a “gallop” (12 steps per round) in order initiate and maintain this power. This means it is not possible to activate in enclosed spaces where a galloping pace cannot be reached. This power only lasts until the end of the scene or one hour, whichever is shorter.

The antitribu version uses a motorcycle instead of a ghouled beast of burden. The rider must spend one month occasionally putting a trait of his blood on the motorcycle to attune it to him. This attunement period can be shortened by using human sacrifices. In other respects, this version works the same as the animal one.

The core principle of this power is to permanently remove Out of Clan Temporis from a willing subject. Whether the subject was misled and learned it in error through misinformation or misconception of the power or them willingly wanting to relinquish their ability to manipulate time.

~Mechanic: The subject must be willing to give up their Out of Clan Temporis. The subject must be of equal or higher (weaker) generation to the user. The subject may not be coerced or manipulated into it through use of any powers or disciplines. The user must make physical contact with the subject. The user then spends as much temporary willpower as the subject has levels of Temporis (1:1). This will permanently remove the discipline and any blood bonds as a result of learning it from the subjects sheet. It will then be up to the subject's Home Chronicle's ST's whether the XP will be refunded for it.