Vampiric Disciplines
Disciplines are special vampire powers. Like in the books you read, Dracula could control people's minds...kinda like that. Only these have special names.
All clans start out with three set disciplines (except Gargoyles, who have four). These are the easiest to learn. All other disciplines are out of clan disciplines. Some out of clan disciplines are relatively easy to learn, like Auspex and Fortitude, because many clans have them as in-clan disciplines. Others are much harder to learn because they are something of a clan secret (i.e. Chimerstry and Vicissitude.) Some clans will react harshly to outsiders who seem to have knowledge of a clan discipline. (see: Tremere, thaumaturgy, relationships with Assamites, Setites and Tzimisce.) If the discipline has a clan name in parentheses next to it, that means it is sort of a clan/bloodline secret, and you wouldn't know it unless you were a member of that clan. Or you had a really good excuse, like you were pretending to be a member of that clan and you had conned some idiot into teaching you the discipline.
NOTE: some games will disallow the use of many of these disciplines. It is always a good idea to ask if it's okay before you build a character with a powerful and unusual discipline.
The disciplines of Thaumaturgy (including Koldunic Sorcery) and Necromancy are divided up into different paths
click here for a listing of discpilines by clan
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Disciplines
- Abombwe: control the beast (Laibon)
- Animalism: control animals and frenzies
- Auspex: ESP
- Celerity: move fast
- Chimerstry: make pretty pictures (Ravnos)
- Daimoinon: play with demons! (Baali)
- Deimos: Martial Mortis. Not used much anymore. (Lamia)
- Dementation: Be a Malkavian for a day! (Malkavian)
- Dominate: Do what I say. NOW!
- Flight: figure it out for yourself, genius. (Gargoyles)
- Fortitude: I'm so tough!
- Koldunic Sorcery: less efficient Thaumaturgy. (Tzimisce)
- Malefica: evil-eye/curses (Dark Ages Infernalists)
- Melpominee: I can sing pretty! (Daughters of Cacophony)
- Mortis: fun with death. Not used much anymore. (Cappadocian, Lamia)
- Mytheceria: learn stuff (Kiasyd)
- Necromancy: play with ghosts (Giovanni, Nagaraja, Harbingers of Skulls)
- Obeah: Now I heal you...(Salubri)
- Obfuscate: good for hiding
- Obtenebration: move shadows (Lasombra, Kiasyd)
- Ogham: be a pagan! (Lhiannan)
- Potence: Be strong!
- Presence: Aren't you in awe of me?
- Protean: Go batty and run around like a wolf. (Gangrel)
- Quietus: Die! Die! Die! (Assamite)
- Sanguinus: Take out your internal organs and share them with a friend! (Blood Brothers)
- Serpentis: I can turn myself into a snake! (Followers of Set)
- Spiritus: New Age stuff (Ahrimane)
- Striga: I'm the Wicked Witch of the West! (Dark Ages Infernalists)
- Temporis: fiddle with time (True Brujah)
- Thanatosis: study dead stuff. Like Mortis, only still used. (Samedi)
- Thaumaturgy: Magic...eye of newt and all that crap. (Tremere, [also Assamite, Follower of Set])
- Valeren: ...now I hurt you. (Salubri Antitribu/Dark Ages Warriors)
- Vicissitude: Change the way you look at yourself...and the way others look at you too! (Tzimisce)
- Visceratika: Gargoyles turn into stone. (Gargoyles)
