THAUMATURGY

[Skir]

Path of Corruption

• Although sharing a name with a known path of Dark Thaumaturgy (Rego Venalis), this path is not infernal. Its origins actually lie among the Followers of Set and their magic of Akhu, but has been appropriated by the Tremere in their early years as vampires. The Tremere of course vehemently deny this fact, claiming it as their own invention stolen by those untrustworthy snake-worshippers, but reports of this Path’s uses predating the appearance of clan Tremere contradict these tales.

• This Path is considered a mind-affecting discipline for other effects that grant resistance against such powers.

• Much of this path relies on the victims to appropriately roleplay the effects. As such Storytellers should keep a close eye on those who this path has been used on to ensure that the effects are being accurately portrayed.

• The effects of this Path are subtle and other than level 1 which has its own system for noticing the effects; victims of this power will need to score 3 successes on a Perception + Occult roll at difficulty 10 to notice any effect as with effects from the Presence discipline. This roll does not benefit from Auspex.

O Contradict

• The effects of this power will always take the form of a more negative action than the subject wished to perform. More negative action is subjective to the desires of the victim of the power. For a mass murderer, letting a victim go would be a more negative action. A good guideline is to perform the exact opposite of whatever the intended action was, with completely inverted thoughts on the subject as well.
• The Perception + Subterfuge roll to resist this power does benefit from Auspex.


OO Subvert

• For the duration of this power, the Storyteller should treat the victim as though he had a Path Rating of 4 or less in that he may approach the victim at any time and require him to spend a Willpower point to avoid committing some heinous act.
• The course of action followed by the victim should be one that regularly provokes Degeneration checks at least once per night as the baser instincts of the victim are brought to the forefront.
• The roll to resist this power does benefit from Auspex.

OOO Dissociate

• Similar to the Vinculum ratings reducing by three for the duration of the effect, ordinary blood bonds to the victim will seem to reduce in severity by one step during this power’s duration. This does not actually reduce the bond, only target the emotions generated by the blood tie.

OOOO Addiction

• This power must be used immediately after the victim has been exposed to the desired sensation, substance, or action.
• The dice pool penalty from not indulging in the Addiction applies to all dice pools, even reflexive checks not normally subject to penalties with the exception of damage soak, including the roll to resist indulging in the Addiction when the opportunity arises.
• Once the victim indulges in the Addiction, all previously acquired dice pool penalties fade immediately.
• A botch on the roll to attempt to break the Addiction sends the victim into a mad compulsion to indulge at any cost.


OOOOO Dependence

• A victim of Dependence halves his current Willpower to set the difficulties of mental or emotional powers used by the caster.
• Unless the victim sleeps next to the caster, he will not regain Willpower for rest during the duration of this effect.

[Skir]

Path of Curses

•Effects of this Path require either some piece of the target’s body or the victim’s True Name. If the True Name is being used it must be invoked as part of the Curse. If a body part is being used, said body part must be brandished at the victim as part of the Curse.
•A victim may only attempt the reflexive Willpower roll to resist this path if he understands what is happening. If he understands the language being used in the curse this knowledge is reflexive. If not, he must succeed at a Perception + Occult roll at difficulty 8 and score at least 3 successes to understand what is happening.

O Stigma

•This increase in difficulty applies to Disciplines that use Social Attributes as well.


OO Malady

•This reduction in Physical Attributes also reduces the effective Attribute maximum that can be maintained by the victim with blood expenditures. For example, a victim of 9th Generation who has his physical Attributes reduced by 3, will only be able to increase those attributes to a maximum of 3 and be able to maintain them for the scene, and to a maximum of 7 overall.
•A victim afflicted with Malady may make a new resistance roll nightly beginning on the night after the effect is invoked even if he was not able to make a resistance roll initially due to not understanding the effect.


OOO Pariah

•This is a primarily roleplay power and difficult to enforce in a LARP. The affected character must wear a card announcing that they are a pariah. Other characters are required by the terms of the power to treat them with hatred and suspicion for the power’s duration. Every character who sees someone affected by Pariah believes them to be their enemy and must treat them as such.
•Those who see a Pariah do not believe him to be a different person than he actually is, only that this person is now your direst of enemies.
•Any frenzy checks provoked by or targeting a victim of Pariah are made at +3 difficulty. Storytellers and players are encouraged to call for more frenzy checks at lesser provocations than normal while this power is active.


OOOO Corrupt Body

•The duration scale of this power is reduced for LARP play. One success is a scene, 2 is a night, 3 is a week, 4 is a month, and 5 is 3 months.
•The Attribute loss of this power sets the victim’s generational maximum to 1 for the full duration. Thus the relevant attribute will only be able to be raised to 2 with blood for the scene and only to 6 at all.
•The Attribute is not reduced until the end of the 3-round transformation. The 3-dice penalty lasts for the 3 rounds of transformation. After the transformation is complete, the victim’s Attribute is cursed as per the power AND he suffers a -1 die on all rolls as a phantom wound penalty that cannot be healed until the power ends, though it can be negated with other wound penalties for the turn by spending a Willpower point.


OOOOO Fall From Grace

•The Willpower resistance granted in this power is also subject to the general restriction of this path of knowing what is happening.
•While this power is in effect, the character may still spend Willpower for an automatic success, although such Willpower expenditures no longer grant immunity from botches.
•For the duration of this power the character starts at one success lower than they ordinarily would before testing. This means that any task a character starts at a fail is considered to start at a botch.
•The effects of this power apply only to actions taken by the character. Reflexive rolls such as soak rolls are not affected.
•The duration scale of this power is reduced for LARP play. One success is a scene, 2 is a night, 3 is a week, 4 is a month, and 5 is 3 months.

[Skir]

Path of Father’s Vengeance

•The victim must be able to understand the Thaumaturge’s words to be affected by this power. The medium the words are delivered through doesn’t matter; speech, writing, telepathy, all work fine as long as the victim understands the message. This does not allow these powers to be used outside of the Thaumaturge’s line of sight by passing the message in writing. The invocation in whatever form is part of the power and the message must be delivered by the Thaumaturge himself as part of the activation of any power from this path.
•The Thaumaturge must have at least Noddist Lore 1 to make use of this path.

O Zillah’s Litany

•The knowledge gained by this power comes to the Thaumaturge’s mind after completing the invocation. There is no obvious manifestation of this power.
•The Thaumaturge gains the knowledge of the identities of all those the target shares a blood bond with, whether as regnant or thrall, as well as any vinculums to or from the target. This power reveals the identities of each of these people and whether the bond is to them or from them, but not the level of the bond involved, nor does it distinguish between blood bond and vinculum.
•The Thaumaturge gains the real names of the individuals who share a bond with the target, not necessarily the names or identities they are currently using. This does not reveal their True Names, only the name that they personally identify as themselves. The Thaumaturge also gets an image of them in their true form, whatever that might be.

OO The Crone’s Pride

•While at Appearance 0, the target gains the Nosferatu clan flaw, automatically failing all Appearance based rolls.
•While this power lasts, the target suffers +2 difficulty on all Social rolls except to Intimidate.

OOO Feast of Ashes

•The victim of this power no longer craves blood. He is not subject to hunger frenzy at the sight, smell or taste of blood.
•The victim of this power does not instinctively know that he is able to consume ashes. He is however subject to hunger frenzy while at low blood pools at the sight, smell or taste of ashes while this power lasts, so it may become apparent to him quickly.
•Ash points may only be used to rise. Other than spending them to rise each night, the only way an ash point is removed from a vampire’s blood pool is to be forcibly drained. If drained, all real blood points are drained first. The Path of Blood power Theft of Vitae cannot steal ash points.
•This power continues to affect the victim for the game session following the one in which it is used.

OOOO Uriel’s Disfavor

•Any light brighter than a candle flame causes a level of aggravated damage. The Storyteller should increase the soak difficulty for this damage with the brightness of the light, and the damage with the amount of light. This should continue to a maximum of the damage dealt by the sun (3 health levels of aggravated damage at difficulty 9 to soak) in a situation where the victim is in a full flood of something as bright as LEDs.
•With even a small amount of light of any kind present, the victim is uncomfortable and distracted, suffering a -1 die on all actions taken.
•This power continues to affect the victim for the game session following the one in which it is used.

OOOOO Valediction

•This power only affects generation changes due to diablerie. It has no effect on temporary changes in generation such as those from Blood of Potency, nor to permanent changes brought on by magical means such as those from the rituals From Marduk’s Throat or Quenching the Lambent Flame.
•This power only affects a victim’s Attributes, Abilities and Disciplines if his generation maximum is affected by the change in generation, and then only to lower those traits that sit above the current generational maximum to that score. All traits that are lowered by this power return to their original scores when the power expires.
•During the three turns it takes to cast this power, the Thaumaturge must split his dice pools in order to take any other action.
•This power continues to affect the victim for the game session following the one in which it is used.

[Skir]

Prey on Soul’s Fear

• This path was one of the early successes by the Tremere’s Horned Society, converting the Dark Thaumaturgy Path of Phobos. Though many outside observers may believe it to be Infernal, Prey on Soul’s Fear operates on purely Hermetic principles and is no more Infernal than Lure of Flames.

• With the rise of Dark Thaumaturgy in the Sabbat, the effects of this path were often confused with the Path of Phobos, leading to a number of Tremere incorrectly branded Infernalists. That combined with its inherently unsubtle and masquerade breaking effects have caused this path to fall into disuse around the 18th century. Younger characters should have a good reason for acquiring knowledge of this path.

O Startle the Superstitious Mind

• This effect lasts for the remainder of the scene.
• Multiple uses of this power stack for effect.

OO Rout the Charging Hordes

• Victims of this power must flee the vampire using any and all powers they possess to get away as fast as they can.
• The effects of this power end when the victim has completely left the vicinity of the caster (left the scene).
• Victim’s of this power may take no action other than to flee and to take defensive actions such as Dodge, Block, or Parry. No retaliation is possible under the effects of this power.

OOO Wrath of God

• Victims of this power may still take defensive actions such as Dodge, Block or Parry.
• This power targets the subconscious fear of some kind of eternal torment, and does not literally give visions of hell. The visions are shaped by whatever eternal torment is feared most by the victim, and thus works perfectly well on victims of all faiths or of none at all.
• If the Courage roll is successful, this allows the victim one full turn of actions to act as he chooses for each success scored in excess of those scored by the Thaumaturge. Unless he makes the check again the turn after his final round of clarity, the irrational fear takes him again. A roll made the turn after a round of clarity is made at -2 difficulty, the remembered logic of those few moments of rationality bolstering the psyche against the irrational fear of damnation.

OOOO The Inner Demon

• This power is wholly narrated by the Storyteller, and dependent on the victim’s own fears. A good guideline is 2x the successes scored by the Thaumaturge as dice pools for all actions used against the victim by the apparition. The apparition is real to the victim and can inflict real damage in the same way that Chimerstry 5 can.
• No one other than the victim can sense the apparition by any means.
• The apparition lasts until the end of the scene.

OOOOO Demonic Horde

• The effects of this power last for the remainder of the scene.
• When targeting a group, those people with the lowest current Willpower are affected first.
• For every success gained above 5, the maximum number of people to be affected increases by 20.
• Those who successfully resist this power with the Courage roll may not be affected by this power again for the remainder of the scene.

[Skir]

Path of Alchemy

This path is significantly changed from the original path of Alchemy which was seen as a failure by the Tremere who could never get it to work right. Turning to the arts of Transmutation for converting states of matter, the alchemists of the Tremere instead turned to imbuing power into potions, powders and metals, which proved a far more fruitful endeavor. This path is taken from the Alchemy Hedge Magic as printed in Hunter's Hunted II.


Each use of Alchemy requires 5 days to complete, reduced by 1 day for every level of Occult Library possessed by the Thaumaturge. If the Thaumaturge has Occult Library 5, the time needed is reduced to 1 hour.

Concoctions (elixirs and powders) are good for a single use and a single purpose. A character may only be under the effects of a single concoction within a twenty-four hour period, unless she also has the Occult and Medicine Abilities. In that case, she knows enough about her body's interactions with pure and altered substances, and can be under the effects of a number of concoctions equal to the lower of her dots in either Occult or Medicine in a given twenty-four hour period. Similar effects (such as multiple healing potions) do not stack upon one another.

Metals can also be imbued with powers, as purification leaves room in the material for other effects to be placed within. Metals last longer than concoctions, but are generally less powerful.

The potency (or "shelf life" as younger alchemists call it) is determined by the number of successes on the activation roll.

All uses of Alchemy still require the usual Willpower roll and blood expenditure as the Thaumaturge enforces his will upon the alchemical process to make it cross the boundary from science to magic. As they are created with the power of vampiric vitae, all alchemical concoctions may be taken by Kindred normally.

Unless specifically stated otherwise, the default duration of any alchemy concoction should last the scene. All specific uses of Alchemy are up to the Storyteller's discretion and may require research to learn a new formula.


O Minor Alchemy

The alchemist can create minor elixirs and powders, including simple poisons, tranquilizers, anesthetics, stimulants, and lesser healing concoctions. A healing elixir reduces the die pool penalty due to injuries by 1 (minimum 0), and halves the healing time for bashing and lethal damage currently taken by a mortal subject.

Tremere spies and Assamite assassins have other uses for these creations: liquids that erase short term memory, powders that counteract the intoxicating effects of alcohol, elixirs that aid in restful sleep with no memories of dreams, etc. (Many will offer their resources and services in exchange for a peaceful night's rest.) As always, whether an alchemical effect can be attempted is up tot he Storyteller.

OO Basic Understanding

The Alchemist better understands how reagents interplay, crafting stronger effects that harmonize with the body and mind. This includes powders that grant symbolic visions in dreams (possibly of the future or of some unknown aspect of what's at hand), liquids that allow one to go an entire week with only one hour of sleep a night (this does not apply to Kindred who still suffer the Weight of the Sun), and elixirs that can alter physical elements (such as skin, hair, or eye color) for a few hours.

A two-dot healing elixir works as the one-dot version, but also heals two bashing or lethal levels immediately. Along with this, the Alchemist can devise an elixir that can enhance s user's natural abilities for a given situation. She chooses the Ability and Specialization when creating the effect, such as Empathy with the specialty of Insight (for reading emotions) or Subterfuge with the Specialty of Charm (for person magnetism). The user gains that Specialty; if he already had that specialty, he instead gets an additional die when that specialty comes into play, in addition to the one already granted for his natural specialty. This lasts for a number of hours equal to the number of successes on the activation roll.


OOO Moderate Alchemy

The Alchemist's abilities with concoctions are proficient enough to grant superhuman abilities. Different formulae can grant the mortal drinker a specific Psychic Numina (at its most basic level) for the remainder of the scene. Such formulae are usually baroque or call for bizarre components; one alchemist uses the remains of a burnt Cuban cigar, ash and all, mixed with the filament of an old light bulb that died in Canada as the base for a Pyrokinesis elixir. The Alchemist can only create effects that are of a level lower than her dots in Alchemy, and the drinker must pay any costs associated with the effect.

The Alchemist can also imbue metals with strange properties, removing impurities and bringing out elements of the platonic ideal. Among other uses, the alchemy can cause small weapons (daggers or a handful of bullets) to do aggravated damage against supernatural creatures. Metals can be imbued with some two-dot Alchemy effects as well.

At this rank, the Alchemist can create a normal one-dot concoction far easier, only needing a small travel kit (along with the appropriate materials). This lowers the time needed to gather materials and create the effect to one hour without the need of utilizing an Occult Library or specified Laboratory.


OOOO Master of Natural Philosophy

The Alchemist has mastered all lesser forms of Alchemy. More powerful versions of lesser formulae can be created, as well as concoctions that temporarily increase an Ability by two dots or an Attribute by one dot. Formulae that grant dots last until the end of the scene. Such formulae are esoteric, as the Alchemist delves into substances that represent platonic ideals and emotional purity as much as physical purity.

More than a few Thaumaturges have gone to fetch strange things for such formulae, such as urine from those who are nearly blackout drunk as a component for a powder that grants the user a dot of Manipulation for the rest of the scene.

At this rank, the Alchemist can also create a normal two dot concoction with a travel kit in as little as an hour.




OOOOO Master Alchemist

Along with the more dramatic versions of lower formulae, the master of Alchemy can create transcendent effects that grant vast abilities on par with the supernatural creatures that fill the World of Darkness. Nearly all such formulae require some piece of a creature as a catalyst. These typically lasts for one turn per success, and cannot exceed the third level of the Discipline or other power in question. Elixirs of vampiric Disciplines require at least five points of vampiric vitae. Elixirs of Werewolf gifts, Changeling Arts, Mage Spheres, or other supernatural arts require a significant portion of the creature themselves, though usually blood will suffice. This art cannot recreate the powers of Wraith Arcanoi or Spirit charms as they do not have a physical existence on this plane.

The Alchemist can create a regenerative powder which, when in the blood stream (usually by applying it to a messy wound) stitches the user together. He regenerates one level of damage every other turn until the end of the scene.

At this rank, the Alchemist can also create a normal three dot concoction in one hour with only a travel kit. Any three dot metallic effects last longer, as though she rolled an additional success.



Durations of Concoctions

The duration of the potency of an elixir or powder depends on the level of successes earned during the activation roll. After this time, the concoction becomes inert and (depending on what was used to create it) dangerous to drink. If the concoction is left out to open air for more than half and hour, it becomes inert.




1 Success One Day

2 successes One week

3 successes One month

4 successes Three months

5 successes Six months




Durations of Metals

The duration of the potency of an alchemical effect on a metal depends on the level of successes earned during the activation roll. Note that if the metal is severely altered or destroyed, the effect ends. Metals fade back to their impure states quicker than sealed concoctions.




1 success Two hours

2 successes One day

3 successes Three days

4 successes One Week

5 successes One month

[Skir]

Mastery of the Mortal Shell

O Vertigo
•Any derangement incurred by the effect of this power lasts only as long as the power does.

OO Contortion
•Targeting a limb is done at +1 difficulty. Targeting the head is done at +2 difficulty.
•Any items held in a targeted limb are immediately dropped.
•The increased difficulty to break the grasp or hold applies to attempts to break a hold or clinch maneuver as well as on an attempt to disarm.

OOO Seizure
•The bashing damaged suffered by this power has no effect on Kindred due to the fact that bashing damage is halved.

OOOO Body Failure

OOOOO Marionette
•While this power is active the Thaumaturge has full control over the victim, dictating the victim's actions on the victim's own initiative. Should the the victim wish to attempt a mental action he does so at split dice penalties. Unlike normal split actions, this does not reduce the dice pool for the physical actions directed by the Thaumaturge.
•The control granted by this power is purely physical. The Thaumaturge cannot make his victim spend blood or activate any non-physical discipline.

[Skir]

Gift of Morpheus

This path of Thaumaturgy allows the vampire to put others to sleep and enter their dreams. The path does not allow the vampire to enter a real dream dimension, but rather the mind of the sleeping mortal via some unexplained type of telepathic link. The path has a mental effect, and other mind-influencing Disciplines, such as Auspex, Dominate and Obfuscate, may be used in conjunction with this path.


* Cause Sleep
The vampire is able to make a person within her line of sight sleepy just by concentrating. The person may still be awakened by loud noise or someone trying to rouse him.
System: The vampire must make the activation roll (difficulty equals her opponent's Permanent Willpower + 3, to a maximum of 10). Three successes put the target to sleep, while one or two reduces the victim's Dice Pools by that amount for the next turn. This power only affects vampires if the user spends a point of Willpower.
　
* * Mass Slumber
The vampire can put several individuals to sleep at once. This power only affects mortals, and only those the vampire can see.
System: The vampire makes his roll at difficulty 8. The number of successes indicates the amount of sleepiness as per Cause Sleep, but each target is affected to the same extent.
　
* * * Enchanted Slumber
The vampire can cause mortals and even Kindred to fall into an enchanted slumber from which they cannot awaken until a certain task has been performed (such as a kiss from Prince Charming). The vampire must decide what special condition must be met for the victim to awaken. While the condition does not have to be easy, it should not be impossible.
System: This spell only affects already sleeping characters, whether put down with earlier levels of this Path or in their natural state of rest. The vampire must roll to determine how long the person can be kept under the enchantment before it wears off on its own. The number of successes on the activation roll (difficulty equal to the victim's Permanent Willpower) determines the maximum duration should the task to break the enchantment remain unfulfilled. The user must also spend a point of Willpower to affect vampires.
Any character that touches the subject may make a Perception + Occult test, difficulty of the thaumaturge's Permanent Willpower. Three successes yields knowledge of the conditions under which the spell will break, while one or two successes gives only a more vague impression.
1 success....................One Turn
2 successes.................One Night
3 successes.................One Week
4 successes.................One Month
5 successes.................One Year
　
* * * * Dreamscape
This power lets the vampire telepathically project his own image into the mind of a sleeper. The vampire has no real control over the dream, but may utilize any Disciplines or Abilities he possesses in real life while inside the dream, though nothing he does may physically harm the dreamer, he may still use mental powers such as Dominate or Telepathy upon the dreamer. Sleepers sometimes have trouble remembering dreams of this nature; they roll their unmodified Wits score upon waking at difficulty 7, and need three successes to remember the dream clearly. Less than that yields hazy memories that only hint at the content.
System: The vampire must possess something belonging to the target and succeed in the activation roll, difficulty equals the target's Permanent Willpower, even if the victim is willing. The effect lasts for the length of one dream. Note that the thaumaturge must be awake while the dreamer sleeps to use and control this power, perhaps incurring penalties from staying awake.
　
* * * * * Master of Dreams
The Master of Dreams controls the dreams of the sleeper, shaping them as she wills. The vampire is able to make the person remember or forget the dreams. She may manipulate them in any way she can imagine, even inducing the death of the dreamer from sheer terror. Combat for both characters uses the same rules as Auspex 5: Psychic Projection for the purposes of Attribute use, health levels, etc. If either party dies in the dream, they suffer a similar fate as being destroyed in Astral form, trapped inside their own dreams, possibly to never awaken.
System: After succeeding at the activation roll, the vampire enters the dream as per Dreamscape. The Master of Dreams must spend a point of Willpower to enter the dreams of other Kindred (and must make a Humanity or Path roll to remain "awake" during the day).

At the start of every turn, all parties roll Manipulation + Expression (difficulty of their opponent's resistance to Telepathy) to affect the way the dream takes shape. Any attempt to change the dream by either party is a contested roll with the other. Whoever has the most accumulated successes in any one turn determines what course the dream will take.

Manipulations of the dream can do such things as summon assistance from representations of allies, create volcanoes, make the character grow to enormous sizes, etc. Regardless of the actual form the change takes, the person in control may use any net successes on the control roll over their opponent as health levels of damage directed at their foe. They can describe the action in any way they choose to, but the damage or misfortune afflicted upon them cannot exceed the net successes in efficacy. Alternately, the player may choose to change the features of the dream such as weather, terrain, or other circumstances to add their net successes as additional difficulty to their opponent's actions (though this modifier never changes the difficulty of the Manipulation + Expression roll to control the dream), or choose to lower the difficulty on their own actions. For example one character might trap the other in quicksand with their 3 net successes, increasing the difficulty of all actions taken by 3 until it can be reversed on a subsequent round with their own control of the dream. These bonuses or penalties should make at least crude sense for the kind of rolls they impede or benefit, but the dream nature of the encounter means that the rules don't always have to make the most concrete of sense.
The Thaumaturge may end the dream at any time on their own turn as a mental action by spending a point of Willpower.

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Path of Shadowcrafting

•This path was created by Tremere seeking to mimic the powers of Obtenebration. With the exception of level 5, this path has nothing to do with the Abyss and can manipulate only mundane light and darkness.
•This is an extremely obscure path, sealed away by its creators after they succeeded at developing the 5th level. Players should have a very good reason for acquiring this path.

O Out Light
•As the Thaumaturge increases his mastery of this path, greater light sources may be extinguished with this power. At level 2, he may target a light up to the size of a car headlight or a campfire. At level 3 he may target a streetlight or small bonfire. At level 4 he may target a heavy duty theatrical light or large bonfire. At level 5 he may extinguish any fire up to a burning building or quench a light up to the size of a stadium floodlight.


OO Shadow Taunt
•Only the controlled shadow's movement changes, not its location. The controlled shadow still remains connected to the casting object or person.


OOO Coruscating Shadow
•The Thaumaturge may attempt to fool onlookers into thinking he is using Arms of the Abyss through a use of this power. The Thaumaturge makes a Manipulation + Occult roll at difficulty 6 opposed by all onlookers' Perception + Occult at the same difficulty. Observers who possess any level of the Obtenebration Discipline automatically pierce this deception.
•At the conclusion of this power, the stolen shadows flit back to their natural places.


OOOO Night's Veil
•Those under this power do not count as being under the night's sky for effects that require such.
•The shadow extends a yard per success scored on the casting roll. The Thaumaturge may continue extending the shadow in successive turns with an additional blood expenditure and Willpower roll.

OOOOO Abyssal Pact
•The Shades called by this power come from the Abyss. This is the only power of the Path of Shadowcrafting that touches that realm of primal emptiness.
•The damage from the shades is considered unsoakable lethal.
•When used to counter Obtenebration, this power will reduce the size of a Shroud of Night, and eliminate Arms of the Abyss, and dispel Nightshades as per its successes. This power has no effect on Shadow Play, Black Metamorphosis, or Tenebrous Form. This power can also be used to counter Abyss Mysticism rituals as long as they are currently active.

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Path of Transmutation / Thaumaturgical Alchemy

•Thaumaturgical Alchemy should be treated as identical to Path of Transmutation.

Path of Transmutation 1: Fortify the Solid Form

•Hardening an object can be used either defensively or offensively, and the Thaumaturge must invoke either aspect in the material. Both aspects cannot be invoked at the same time for the same object, even with two activations.
•When used on a piece of armor, this power adds soak dice equal to the Thaumaturge's successes to a maximum of +5.
•Used offensively, the total BONUS cannot exceed +5, not the weapon’s total damage. A Strength +4 sword that has this power used on it at 4 successes becomes a Strength + 6 sword for the scene.

Path of Transmutation 2: Crystalize the Liquid form
•This power may be used on blood to make it undrinkable, but not inside the body for damage. Vampires cannot consume solidified blood.
•The liquid must be totally visible and available to be solidified with this power – thus, unless the Thaumaturge has a held action at better initiative, they cannot prevent a vampire from feeding directly from a vessel. However, if used directly upon a bite wound, they may prevent feeding from that wound for one round per activation success instead.
•The solidified liquid does not change in temperature, so theoretically a kindred with proper preparation and handling could make a sword out of molten metal, which would deal Strength + 3 Aggravated Damage on its attack, but have a +2 difficulty to hit with and provoke a Rotschreck test in both the wielder (dif 6) and the victim (dif 8) each attack.

Path of Transmutation 3: Liquefy the Solid Form
•Objects do not reform perfectly after using this power. Liquefying any sensitive equipment like a computer erases all of the data stored on the device. The same goes for tapes, CDs, flash drives, etc. Even books would be too smeared to be legible after using this ability. For crafted objects with fixed successes, the item reforms with 1 less success than it had originally. Items lowered to less than 1 success are useless. Any item with magical properties will lose those properties after reforming unless the properties were solely due to the substance and not to the item.
•The Thaumaturge targeting an item must score enough successes to liquefy the entire item. It takes 4 successes or more to Liquefy a weapon or piece of armor being wielded by another character. You can Liquefy just a helmet at 2 successes.
•It requires the Quickened Sight discipline technique and better Initiative to Liquefy bullets in midair, though if they do, the Thaumaturge may liquefy an entire grouping of bullets such as those fired with Autofire or Strafing.


Path of Transmutation 4: Gaol
•A Thaumaturge may not Gaol just part of a person, like their head or legs – the Goal must enclose them completely.
•The size of the object to be enclosed depends on the Thaumaturge's successes. 1 success will target something the size of a brick, 2 successes will get a sword, 3 will get a child or a mid-size dog. It takes 5 successes to fully capture a person in motion (or combat), and 4 successes if they standing still.
•The Gaol is opaque, which means that Line of Sight cannot be achieved through a Gaol. A Thaumaturge may neither cast spells at someone within a Gaol, nor aim spells at others from within a Gaol himself.
•The Gaol cannot be moved once it is created. It exists in a fixed point in X-Y-Z space and cannot be carried, knocked aside, broken through, or disturbed in any way.
•A Gaol may be liquefied from the inside or outside with Liquefy the Solid Form. It may also be bypassed with Ghost Wall. Any effect that would allow the trapped victim to become immaterial can be used to bypass a Gaol.


Path of Transmutation 5: Ghost Wall
•Vapor objects are totally invisible, not hazy or translucent, though they keep their approximate shape and location. An object in motion, like a car, hangs roughly around the point where it was vaporized.
•Unlike Liquefy the Solid Form, this effect does not damage the item at the end of the effect.
•When this power ends, the vapor reforms slowly, over the course of a minute, and people trapped within the intervening space only take the damage if they have no way to get out of the area, but they have plenty of time to escape under normal circumstances.

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Path of Warding


•All uses of this path require that the thaumaturge paint a sigil using a point of his own blood on the affected object, specifics determined by individual power. This counts as the blood expenditure for the use of this path.


O Bar the Common Passage
•The portal is immune to damage while this effect persists. The only way to open the warded portal is to apply Strength equal to double the successes on this power to the warded portal.
•This power may only be used on an actual portal such as a door or window. It cannot be applied to a wall or other ordinarily impassible structure.
•The Glyph may be applied to either side of the portal.

OO Glyph of Scrying
•This is considered a scrying effect for rituals and other effects that prevent scrying.
•It does not take a mental action to establish a connection with a Scrying Glyph.


OOO Runes of Power
•The ward suspends its power while in sudden motion, such as being swung at a person, and the damage cannot be delivered to any person who touches it involuntarily.
•Unlike ordinary warding rituals, there is no automatic sense that the object in question is dangerous, though like all Path of Warding effects, a physical rune is drawn on the object.


OOOO Glyph of Enlightenment
•Using this power counts as line of sight for all uses of Thaumaturgy paths and rituals.
•In the case of obvious attacks that have a physical manifestation such as Lure of Flames of Theft of Vitae, the source of the attack appears to be the Glyph itself.

OOOOO Secure the Sacred Domain
•This power can secure any single structure up to the size of a modern skyscraper office building.
•Unless a door or window is completely destroyed, it will not open.
•The ward at the exact center may be disguised or covered in any way the Thaumaturge wishes.

[Skir]

Thaumaturgical Countermagic


•This is the only version of counter magic left to the Tremere in the modern nights. The breaking of the Hermetic Paradigm left them without access to the older form of Perdo Magica which does not function in the modern world.
•This is not truly a part of Thaumaturgy, but its own complete discipline. It is always out of clan, though it is bought for the same costs as a Thaumaturgy Path, and it may be taught up to the mastery of the teacher.
•Use of Thaumaturgical Countermagic is a free action and does not require the user to split his dice pool.
•This power may target any form of blood magic as well as any Mystical discipline with half dice pools.
•Anyone who acquires this discipline outside of clan Tremere gains the flaw Clan Emnity Tremere IF IT IS KNOWN THAT THEY POSSESS IT. Should this become known to clan Tremere the one with this discipline will likely be having a rather unpleasant meeting with an Astor in very short order.
•This power can be used repeatedly on the same effect, each time stripping successes from the effect until the effect is reduced to 0.
•Even though this is not technically a part of thaumaturgy, this power qualifies for the Combination Discipline Thaumaturgical Sight. If used in conjunction with Thaumaturgical Sight, the Thaumaturge may pick and target specific magical effects on a target. Otherwise this power will target the effects with the least successes first.
•The countermagic dice are alway rolled at a difficulty of 3 + the level of the effect they are targeting.
•ECC uses the V20 scale for this power as described below:


1: Two dice of countermagic. The character can attempt to cancel only those powers and rituals that directly affect him, his garments, and objects on his person.
•Wards count as affecting the user if he is touching them for the purposes of this power.

2: Four dice of countermagic.

3: Six dice of countermagic. The character can attempt to cancel a Thaumaturgy power that affects anyone or anything in physical combat with him.

4: Eight dice of countermagic.

5: Ten dice of countermagic. The character can now attempt to cancel a power or ritual that targets anything within a radius equal to his Willpower in yards or one that is being used or performed within the same radius.

[Skir]

Transitus Velociter/Way of Passage


•This power has greatly fallen out of use in the modern age. With the advent of cars and planes, most can move far faster than 30 miles per hour and see no need for this path anymore. As such, this path is seldom practiced anymore. Yet it does still have its uses. Characters should have a good reason for taking this path.
•This path does not require a road, but does require relatively easy and unobstructed terrain to function.
•For conversion to the modern nights, where this path says mounts, apply this to individuals including modern mounts such as bicycles or motorcycles. Where the path says laden wagons, apply this to cars. Where this path says Siege engines, apply this to cargo trucks.
•A vampire affected by this power who also possesses the Forced March combination discipline may activate that combination to multiply the 30 miles per hour speed by his Celerity rating. He cannot grant this speed to the others affected by this power however.
•The caster need not be one of the targets affected by this power.

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