The Path of Power and the Inner Voice
I am the truth and light to the sons and daughters of L.A. Betray me and die. Serve me well and you will be rewarded greatly. When you serve me, you serve the Sabbat.
-Leila Monroe, Sabbat Priscus
History
This Path was one of the first to develop into its present form. The precepts of this Path were developed by Lord Marcus of the Lasombra in the late 1530s. The followers of this Path became the strongest leaders of the Sabbat due to their raw passion and devotion to the survival of the sect.
The Ethics of the Path
- Follow your heart. Follow the Beast when necessary, but do not follow your fellow vampires--lead them.
- Develop your assets and hide your weaknesses. Show yourself as invincible.
- Support others on this Path as long as they do not oppose your own conquests.
- Never give quarter to the enemy and ask for none.
- Do not be influenced by mortal thoughts and morals. They are sources of weakness.
- Truth comes from within. Act on that truth to make the Sabbat more powerful.
- Failure is disgrace. Do not accept failure and punish it severely when it occurs.
- Competition develops inner strength.
- Use Monomacy to your advantage. Expose weaknesses in others.
- Choose allies carefully. Never make long-term alliances.
- Treat those who follow you well. Use everyone for your own advancement.
- To leave this Path is to accept disgrace.
Following the Path
- Spend a great deal of your free time in self-contemplation or increasing your Abilities and Disciplines.
- Listen to everyone, but take only your own advice.
- Value power of all kinds. You believe power makes you stronger in more ways than one.
- Seek knowledge and wealth.
- Become a leader, not a follower.
- Treat underlings justly and superiors with respect (if they deserve it).
- Never remain satisfied with what you have or what you can do.
- Manipulate others to your personal advantage.
- Be willing to bend and break rules that restrain you.
- Betray those close to you if it is completely necessary to follow the Inner Voice.
Current Practices
The Path focuses on competitive rites such as War Parties, as well as a great deal of tests involving willpower and courage. Those who fail are best advised to improve. Switching Paths is considered a recognition of one's own weakness. Such vampires are considered pariahs by the followers of Power and the Inner Voice.
