Elder vampires have forever flaunted their powers over their lessers, the ancillae and neonates. With the approaching threat of Gehenna, young Kindred actively pursue ways to circumvent the stranglehold these powerful elders possess in the Jyhad. With this desire driving their ambitions, a few rogue Pander and Caitiff thaumaturges gathered together and developed this thaumaturgical path as a means of ousting those above them.

These rebels resorted to a very basic concept for this path of thaumaturgy by exposing the inherent disadvantages that accompany the vampiric Embrace. The elders’ paranoia has only increased exponentially due to this movement toward a new method of usurping their power and vitae. These new thaumaturges give rise to the whisperings of the Day of Reckoning soon at hand in the courts of Elysium.

1 • Ravages of the Beast

From the moment a Kindred is Embraced, he suffers the rage and instincts of a primal Beast; it is the first bane to accompany the Change.

2 • Weight of the Sun

A concomitant curse of the Embrace is an inability to remain awake during the daytime. This power allows a thaumaturge to invoke the same type of lethargy that the sun imposes during the long hours of the day.

This power lasts for one scene per success on the thaumaturge’s Willpower roll. Suffering the same penalty as if awake during the daytime. Characters who have achieved Golconda are immune to this power.

3 • Abated Tooth

By invoking this, a thaumaturge mystically dulls, a subject's fangs, robbing him of the ability to use them effectively. His fangs become so severely blunted that it becomes nearly impossible to effectively pierce flesh.

(one night)

4 •Treacherous Bonds

The thaumaturge invoking this power incites an instaneous, hate induced emotional state within the bond. One night per success. This can effect the bonds of ghouls, childer, and any bonds that the target has also, such as with their Sire.

5 • The Withering of Ages

This devastating power warps the blood within vampires, temporarily suspending the properties sustaining their immortality. A thaumaturge making physical contact with a victim may strip of her of her agelessness and render her briefly decrepit.

(5 BP, 1WP to resist; one night)