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DESIGNS
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Unicorns,
Soul-Suckers,
Cyclops,
Soul-Thieves

SALUBI
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Know you are made to be

unmade. You are the white
lamb,The gentle sacrifice, You are
the greatest part of the
bounty of Caine
And on your shoulders shall be
his greatest Sin, for alone among
the children of Caine I have asked
the One Above for forgiveness.

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Our Origin
The Salubri were once a true Clan. Their Clan
founder, Saulot, was said to be a superlative warrior as
well as a fair-minded judge. It was also said that he
grew progressively more disgusted with Kindred affairs
over time, and weary of the constant, bloody cycles of
violence and betrayal. He left his home for lands far to
the east. When he returned, he was changed. He was
tranquil and contemplative, but also somewhat
fatalistic. Most surprisingly, though, he had developed
a third eye in his forehead. Saulot Embraced new
childer, and his Clan slowly split into two distinct lines
— the “warrior” and “healer” Salubri. For centuries,
they acted as advisors, bodyguards, and sages to other
Kindred and, to a lesser extent, mortals.
And then came the diablerie of Saulot. The Mages of
the newly created Tremere line found Saulot’s torpid
body, and drained his blood and soul. They usurped the
power of the one of the Clans of Caine, and sent the
Salubri into a downward spiral from which they never
recovered.
Tonight, rumor has it that only seven members of the
once respected line exist at any given time. This rumor
is not true rumors die hard, however.
Modern Kindred know of the Salubri as diablerists
who consume their own sires (and do it openly —
patricide is hardly unknown among the other Clans,
but they don’t admit to it) and remove the souls of
other Kindred. The Soulsuckers are, supposedly, a Clan
of defilers and liars from centuries past, possibly
involved with demon worship, and demonstrably part
of the Sabbat.
I say this and mean it truly -
no burden I have ever carried is
heavier than what this new eye
has seen.
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The Salubri are the childer of Saulot, most beloved
of Caine and the healer of the Kindred, so it is said.
Saulot was a mystic uncomfortable with his
awakened Beast and constantly questing to squelch
it. In the interests of furthering this quest, and to
tame the pains of the living and dead, Saulot
Embraced the wise and the gentle to tend the pains
of Caine and Seth's get. These childer, the Salubri,
were revered as healers and peacemakers, unusually
selfless for creatures more often defined by their
greed.
Sometime in the era of the legendary Second City,
Saulot despaired of conquering his beast and fled to
the unknown East to study under Hindu gurus and
the Great Arhat Xue (under the moniker Zao-lat,
leaving a rather unflattering mark in the collective
memory of Xue's conspecifics). When he returned,
he bore a third eye and new insight into the
vampiric condition; his beast was quieted and he
described his new condition as being in Golconda,
named for the town where he finally achieved inner
peace. The clan, revitalized by their ancestor's
return, embraced the new discipline of Valeren (The
Healer Path) and enhanced their abilities. It was at
this time, with the adoption of Valeren, that the
third eye became the mark of all Salubri, originally
a sign of enlightenment, it eventually became a
target.
Saulot's return was a joyous occasion, but what
followed behind him was not – a hitherto unknown
line of vampiric demon worshipers, the Baali,
attacked the Second City. Saulot, normally
relatively sedate, viewed the Baali as an
abomination and encouraged active retaliation. To
that end, one of his childer, named Samiel,
discarded the path of healing and took up the
sword. Samiel was the founder of a new caste of
Salubri, an order of warriors wielding the new path
of Valeren (The Warrior Path), dedicated to
overthrowing Baali and other forces of darkness.
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Who Are We
In the moder nights the Salubri have all but died out. It
is rumoured that only seven to be active, though this
rumour is also believed by some to have been started by
the Salubri themselves in order to hide their true
numbers. The Salubri, if they are known at all, are
reviled for their strange and frightening soul-devouring
powers.
And then something even stranger and more
frightening happens, Salubri antitribu; the Sabbat
accepts into its ranks the childer of Adonai. These
warriors are consumed by the need for vengeance, and
are creatures of rage, dubbed Furies by their Sabbat
compatriots. They are not honorable creatures, but
rather bitter knights driven to destroy the Tremere and
seeking vengeance for their founder's destruction.
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Salubri in Kindred
Society
The Salubri do not have much of an organization
in the Final Nights. There are not enough of them
for them to have one. When Salubri do meet, it
tends to be on the instruction of their sires – the
dying wish of a given Cyclops to her childe might
be to seek out another member of the bloodline and
deliver a message or pay respects.
Things were different before Saulot's death. At
that time, the Healers had a loose community of
equals, largely distinguished by progress on the path
to Golconda. The Warriors, however, were
distinguished by a ritual called the Blooding; it was
in this ritual that a warrior was truly consecrated
and took an angelic name to indicate their purpose
and path. The Blooding also granted special powers;
however, with the effective extermination of the
warrior caste, the Code of Samiel was lost, and the
antitribu of the modern age show no knowledge of
it.
Again, there are not enough of them to have a
culture. What little there is has mostly focused
around Golconda lore. Salubri believe that vampiric
existence is torment from which Golconda or death
is the only escape. Consequently, the modern
Salubri would Embrace, teach a childe the basics of
the route, leave clues for the childe to follow to
achieve Golconda, and then have their childe
diablerize them.
Our dedication to humanity keeps us
going. Mortality shields us. Service
defines us. Golconda will save us.
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The Third Eye

Valeren cause a physical change in
vampires: a bump or nodule developing
in the center of the forehead, eventually
cracking open when the character learns
the Discipline’s second dot. This
stigmata bleeds whenever it opens, but
remains an open wound for a mortals
lifetime as the eye inside takes years to
fully form. Those clinging to Humanity
have human eyes, while the Salubri
with lower Humanity have
concomitantly inhuman eyes. The scar
or eye opens intermittently (when
the Salubri is agitated), or when she uses
any
level of Auspex orValeren.

Attempting to cover the sensitive

opening results in a penalty of one die to
all rolls, though a decent hoodie is
usually good enough to keep it from
being easily noticed. It may be retracted
and hidden for the scene with a
Stamina + Stealth roll, though a
slight, faded scar remains on the
forehead. Using any level of
Auspex or Valeren brings it forth
once more.

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Salubri Embrace
Salubri generally Embrace noble souls;
healers, teachers, empaths, and other good
people that they feel can find Golconda.
Beyond that, there is not much
commonality. However, on occasion a
Salubri might embrace an evil person in
hope of seeing them redeemed (or at least
setting them on a path to redemption).
Each childe of a Salubri are seen as the
culmination of their unlife, so they tended
to observe their targets carefully and
generally only Embraced when the person
was willing to endure unlife.
This brought them into conflict with various
Clans and their unsavory members and when
the Tremere began their pogrom, the Warriors
had nowhere to turn to and were unsure how to
proceed. Many Warriors died in battles against
forces they deemed evil.
The majority of Salubri Warrior's joined the
Sabbat but in resent nights have been found
among the Anarchs. These Warrior's are not
the quiet, contemplative Kindred that seek
Golconda in persecuted exile like their gentler
counterparts. No, these Kindred call themselves
"Furies", and they seek the blood of the
Camarilla vampires – the Tremere especially –
with a venomous passion. They are the modern
incarnation of the ancient Warrior Caste, The
Salubri antitribu are devoted to the cause of
killing Camarilla vampires, but not necessarily
to other Sabbat or Anarchs agendas.

What truly fires them up is the chance to

The Castes invade Camarilla territory and burn some

Tremere. If the ancient rumors of the Salubri
warriors being honorable knights are true, then
Modern references to the Salubri typically times have indeed changed. These Kindred do
refer exclusively to the Healer Caste, who not know "honorable combat", they just want
make up the bulk of the "normal" to watch their enemies crumble to dust.
Bloodline. However in recent nights the
Warrior Caste, also called antitribu, seems
to have had a resurgence after the Fall of
Tremere.

The Warrior Caste were founded during

the Baali Wars by Saulot's childe Samiel.
Samiel renamed himself after an angel of
the Lord, in a secret ceremony that is
called the Blooding. Since then, every
Salubri Warrior was expected to undergo
the same ritual and be granted an angelic
name.

All warriors undergo rigorous training to

prepare them for the Blooding, sometimes
even when they are still mortal. The
Warriors were wanderers, always searching
for evil to destroy wherever it might grow.

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Salubri Archetypes Bane

Salubri have difficulty feeding on unwilling vessels.
THE HOLY THEIF
You were a criminal in life you had little interest in If she attempts to feed from someone that has not
living in society, you could see the dirty beneath its given them permission they loses a point of
shining exterior. You dealt with the worst of humanity Willpower per level of Bane.
and saw what it did to people. It was at a shelter you
would see the abused refuges of society, the people that
have been pushed aside to be forgotten. These people
suffered at the had of others, you take from the ones
that caused the pain and give to their victims.
Clan Compulsion
HUNTER REDEMPTION
Your mortal days are of little concern for you, all that Salubri feel they are the savors of the damned.
matters is that evil is wiped from the Earth, especially While the Healers wish to forgive the sinners, the
Warriors want to punish.
the Usurpers they must pay for what they have done.
Salubri Healer feels a drive convert a sinner on the
MYSTIC HEALER path of forgiveness. While the Warriors are
In life you were a doctor, you joined Greenpeace to compelled to punish them. If they cannot
help the victims of war, you were doing the Lords work. accomplish their compulsion they will suffer a
After your Embrace you continue to help the negative 1 to all social and mental rolls.
unfortunate and look for the answers to the great
unknown.
Disciplines
ADVISOR TO THE PRINCE
Auspex: The ability see the unseen and hidden. To
You have found refuge in the Camerilla court, posing
determine someones fears and weaknesses. They
as a Malkavian you advise the Price of the city and are
can see their enemies coming.
respected for you insight.

Fortitude: The Salubri are survivors if anything,

Fortitude allows them to be fearless in the face of
evil and take what evil delivers onto them.

Valeren: Provides control over pain and increase

I say this and mean it morality. The Salubri casts use Valeren in different
ways, some to punish some to redeem.
truly - no burden I have With their ability to absorb the souls
of others is why they are so feared and
ever carried is heavier misunderstood by the other Clans.

than what this new eye

has seen.

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Valeren
Valeren relies upon a third eye which is formed when
a vampire gains a second level in either Discipline.
The third eye is said to bestow "sight beyond sight"
and enable the Salubri to see the threads of life and
death around them. Use of any power but the first
causes the third eye to open and glow brightly,
making surreptitious use very difficult.
Valeren was originally split between two distinct
paths of powers: the Path of the Healer, and the Path
of the Warrior, an offshoot Discipline developed by
Samiel to fight the Baali and other infernalists. In the
Modern Nights, the Path of the Healer has come to be
known as Obeah, and Valeren refers only to the Path
of the Warrior.
It has long remained a closely guarded secret of the
once-proud clan, and is all but forgotten in the
Modern Nights by vampiric society.
Nickname: Obeah, Sight beyond Sight
Characteristics
The third eye is said to bestow "sight beyond sight"
and enable the Salubri to see the threads of life and
death around them. Once their abilities to restore
lost vitality and cleanse individuals of taints of both
the body and the soul earned the Salubri awe and
respect, but after years of Tremere propaganda the
use of Valeren became more associated with soul-
stealing and infernalism.
• Type: Mental
• Masquerade threat: Medium to High, when
using Valeren the third eye glows.
• Blood Resonance: Phlegmatic.
missionaries, visionaries, mediums, prophets.
BLOODLINES
Level 1
SENSE VITALITY/DEATH
With a glance, the Salubri can instantaneously read
a target’s physical or spiritual vital markers. She
may learn how much damage a target has incurred
or what manner of being he is.
• Cost: Free
• Dice Pool: Perception + Empathy or Medicine
• System: The third eye squints, revealing the
small details of life to the Salubri’s second
sight. The player makes a Perception +
Empathy or Medicine roll, with successes
cumulative if the Salubri continues
examination. Two successes reveal how many
health levels of damage the subject has
suffered. Three successes tell how much blood
a living target has left in her system. Four
successes reveal the subject’s Humanity
Rating. Alternately, successes allow the player
to ask the Storyteller one question about the
subject’s general health. “Was he drugged?” or
“Was this done with Vicissitude?” are valid,
but “Who did this to him?” or “Was it
Rustovitch?” are not.
• Duration: As long as the Salubri concentrates
SENSE CYCLE
Rather than diagnosing the sick and dying, the
nascent third eye sees the cycle of life entire. They
see the ebb and flow of lives in the streets, not the
vitality locked within veins and organs. The Salubri
experiences waking visions that alter her perception
of the world around her, leaving her prone to seeing
dire omens and auspicious portents in the smallest
event. When she focuses, these visions resolve into
incredible personal insight.
• Cost: One Rouse Check
• Dice Pool: Perception + Investigation
or Empathy
• System: The Salubri instinctually realizes
when she’s in the presence of a character or
event that is significant to her future (and the
narrative, as determined by the Storyteller).
Sense Cycle automatically informs the Salubri
of potentially hostile encounters in the
immediate future, ensuring she’ll only be
encountered unawares in locales unfamiliar to
her. If she spends one Willpower point and
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• rolls Perception + Investigation or Empathy
she may glean omens and visions of the
person in question. Each success allows the
player to ask the Storyteller a question
regarding the target, such as his public
identity and role in society, if he is hostile or
could become so (and for another success,
under what circumstances), or one
psychological weakness he possesses.
• Duration: One Turn
Level 2
GIFT OF SLEEP
The Unicorn can ease a target’s pain or place him
into a deep, soothing sleep. The Healers have
staunch ethical concerns about forcing uncon-
sciousness on the unwilling, but these are concerns,
not limits.
• Cost: One Rouse Check
• Dice Pool: Willpower vs Willpower
• System: If used on the willing, the power
requires a touch and a Willpower roll to
block the subject’s pain. This allows the
subject to ignore all wound penalties for one
turn per success, and the Salubri may use this
power on himself. To put a living being to
sleep (willing or unwilling) the vampire must
make a contested Willpower roll against the
subject. This target sleeps for eight hours (or
whatever is normal for the individual) and
regains one temporary Willpower point upon
awakening. Being put to sleep in the midst of
combat is entirely possible; while dropping to
the ground does not awaken the subject, being
struck with a weapon will snap the victim
back to full wakefulness. Vampires and other
undead creatures, or those who are sleepless
for whatever reason, are not affected by this
power.
• Duration: The effect lasts eight hours
PEACEFULL TOUCH
Healing wounds after they occur is miraculous, but
greater miracles lie in calming the bloodlust that
comes with violence.
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• Cost: One Rouse Check per turn
• Dice Pool: Willpower
• System: The Salubri rolls a Rouse Check and
spends a Willpower point, then touches a foe
hostile to him. For three turns, the target’s
difficulty to strike the Salubri increases by
two (maximum 9). If the target is a vampire,
she sees the difficulty of Rötschreck or frenzy
rolls decrease by 2, making it easy for her to
restrain herself. The Salubri may not use this
power on himself. Knowing Gift of Sleep or
Morphean Blow increases the duration for
two turns (to a maximum of 7).
• Duration: One Turn
MORPHEAN BLOW
Healers use sleep to accelerate the healing process.
Warriors use sleep to incapacitate enraged foes.
Stories abound of Salubri Warriors quelling lupines
with a single slap, leaving the beasts vulnerable to
the killing blow.
• Cost: One Rouse Check
• Dice Pool: Willpower
• System: This power works identically to the
Gift of Sleep; despite the name, Warriors may
dull their wound penalties with this
Discipline. Knowing both Gift of Sleep and
Morphean Blow grants an additional two dice
in the resisted Willpower roll to pacify the
target. This Discipline may be used in combat
as part of a Brawl attack.
• Duration: One Turn
Level 3
HEALER'S TOUCH
The signature power of the Healers stems from the
ability to apply the vampiric regenerative process
to others. The third eye opens wide, shedding slick
sanguine light. The target feels sweet, invigorating
energies rushing into their wounds.
• Cost: One or More Rouse Checks
• Dice Pool: Rouse Check
• System: This power works on any living or
undead creature, but the character must be
able to touch the target, even if they merely
“lay on hands.”
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The target’s wounds may be healed by Rouse • Cost: One Rouse Check per turn
Checks, as if the vampire were healing herself. • Dice Pool: Willpower vs Willpower
Aggravated wounds may be also healed in this • System: The Salubri spends two Willpower
manner, requiring three Rouse Checks for each points. Erecting the force barrier is a
aggravated health level. The Healer’s Touch may standard action, but maintaining it per turn
also cleanse any blood borne infectious diseases, or dropping it is reflexive. The invisible
requiring two Rouse Checks per infection; they barrier extends in a 10-foot/3-meter radius
must first be identified, and this power does not from the character. Those within it at its
prevent a recurrence, but it will alleviate the creation may leave and return, and the
worst of the malady. barrier moves with the Salubri. Those who
• Duration: One Turn wish to cross the barrier from the outside
must contest the character in an extended,
BURNING TOUCH contested Willpower roll The opponent may
cross the barrier as soon as he accumulates
The character’s grasp inflicts searing pain akin to
three net successes against the Salubri; if the
being burnt with a red-hot iron. This power inflicts
Salubri accumulates three net successes, the
no damage, but painfully disrupts the vital energies
opponent is permanently barred from the
of the target. The Warrior can use prolonged or
threshold. Rocks, thrown weapons, or
repeated exposure to this power in order torture a
crossbow bolts may penetrate the barrier
victim.
without penalty, but everyone within the
• Cost: One or More Rouse Checks barrier is considered to have two additional
• Dice Pool: Rouse Check dice of soak against such attacks.
• System: The vampire must grasp the target (a • Duration: One Turn or permanent
Dexterity + Brawl roll). The character rolls at
least one Rouse Check to activate this power;
each Rouse Check reduces the victim’s dice
pools by two for so long as the Cyclops grasps
the victim and for the next turn thereafter.
Each activation of the power causes one level
of superficial (not halved) damage to the target
from sheer physical strain. The pain triggers
Rötschreck in vampires (as “being burned”),
and Warriors have occasionally used it as a
blunt demonstration of the victim’s spiritual
weakness.
• Duration: One Turn

Level 4
SHEPHARD'S WATCH
The third eye opens and flares a bright white,
illuminating a barely-visible ward around the
Unicorn and his charge.
No foe may breach this sacred shield.
The Salubri himself must stand among
those he defends as he generates
this barrier; he cannot guard them
from afar.

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PEACEMAKER
Salubri arbiters and negotiators, dealing with hostile
supernatural beings on behalf of all Cainites. Keeping
the peace is paramount. With this power, out of
control tempers find restraint and bitter arguments are
reduced to differences of opinion.
• Cost:One Rouse Check and 2 Willpower
• Dice Pool: Willpower
• System: The player spends two Willpower
points to erect the Peacemaker aura, which
must be inside a chamber no larger than a
ballroom. The Salubri’s third eye opens, but
sheds no light. The aura lasts for as many turns
as he has dots in his Humanity rating or until
he leaves the area, though once used, tempers
• Duration: One Turn
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rarely surge again. The Peacemaker Aura is
not a numbing or hypnotic effect, but more
clearing one’s head from the distractions of
anger. Those under the power’s effect are more
inclined to talk out a dispute than reach for
the sword. Even Brujah or similarly rage-prone
characters find it harder to lose their tempers
— the aura mitigates such weaknesses, and
they roll against frenzy as normal. Anyone
wishing to insult someone or attack under
Peacemaker must roll Willpower (difficulty of
the Salubri’s Humanity) or hesitate. This
occurs even in the midst of an active battle,
wherein all participants must roll each turn to
continue hostilities until the duration expires.
This applies to the Salubri as well — the aura
must be raised in good faith and cannot be
used to create an ambush.
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ARMY OF CAINE'S FURY
The third eye opens, blazing redder than the
setting sun. This radiance spreads along the
Salubri’s desiccated veins in a flash until their entire
body is enveloped in a web of radiant light that
defies wounding. The Cyclopes consider this (and
their talent at Fortitude) to be the chief reasons
they are so feared in war.
• Cost: One Rouse Check
• Dice Pool: Stamina + Melee
• System: The player rolls one Rouse Check and
rolls Stamina + Melee. For each success, the
vampire gains one point of armor, to a
maximum of five points. This stacks with any
worn armor. Additionally, for every two
successes rolled, she gains an additional die to
resist Rötschreck.
• Duration: One scene
Level 5
cannot try again until the following night,
while a botch means the Unicorn acquires
a temporary Derangement. Success takes
the target’s soul. Souls drawn out in this
manner become part of the Salubri’s soul
while the healing process takes place, and
she may return it to its proper body at any
time. Bereft of a soul, the target’s body is
vacant, but alive; it obeys the Salubri’s
commands. The body may be forced into
combat, but loses two dice to its dice pools
due to lack of coordination (Healers
consider this gravely unethical, even if they
absorbed the subject’s soul as a defensive
measure). The subject’s body and soul were
never meant to be separated; holding a soul
for longer than strictly necessary —
usually, a night — is considered a sin
against most Salubri. The soul may
eventually attempt to escape; this is
resisted by a Willpower roll (difficulty of
the trapped soul’s Wits + Empathy),
attempted once per week. She may only
hold one soul at a time.

By spending five Willpower points over

UNBURDEN THE BESTIAL SOUL the course of an hour, the Salubri may roll
The third eye opens and a shaft of golden radiance Manipulation + Empathy to increase the
lances out, transfixing the victim. Something barely subject’s Humanity rating and clean any
perceptible wafts out of the subject’s mouth, drawn stains acquired. She sees the myriad
into the Salubri’s body. It is the victim’s soul. degenerations that led to the soul’s fallen
Salubri with this level of Valeren may draw the state as harrowing visions. The Salubri may
tattered soul from the vampire into the Salubri’s only restore or degrade a total number of
third eye, allowing the Healer to repair damage points equal to her Empathy rating per
done by the burden of unlife and the Beast. night, and must pay the Willpower cost
when she attempts it again. She may
• Cost: One Rouse Checks + Two Willpower expend additional Willpower (one per) to
Dice Pool: Stamina + Empathy vs Wits + cure the subject’s Derangements.
Empathy. Malkavians may be healed of their clan
System: Vampiric souls with a Humanity weakness, but only for a night.
rating of zero cannot be healed by this • Duration: One Turn
power. For all others, the character spends
two Willpower points and rolls Stamina +
Empathy . Failure means the character
SOUL'S BREATH
This is a secret of the Watchers: the Curse of
Caine to subsist on blood and bitter ashes is a lie.
Progression of the soul allows one to draw out the
sanguine humor that floats within the lungs and
the vitality of will in the breath. It’s a meager
draught, but one can sup one’s fill from
a crowd with none the wiser.

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• Cost: One Rouse Check
• Dice Pool: Intelligence + Occult
• System: The Salubri must be facing a victim
within speaking distance. He rolls Intelligence
+ Occult (+/-2 to difficulty with a kiss,
difficulty +2 for shouting across a ballroom).
Success on the roll allows the Salubri to sup
one “blood” point per turn (maximum
duration of his successes) from his victim’s
breath. The victim rarely knows what’s
happening to them, experiencing the loss as a
moment of discomfiting weakness. She loses
one health level per point of “blood”, as if he’d
fed from her. The Salubri may divide his
successes amongst multiple targets in range to
draw in more breath per turn, rapidly
draining a crowd of breath and continuing on.
Breath does not sate like blood; he may only
use this power for a number of nights equal to
his Humanity rating before needing to
physically drink blood. Supernatural creatures
targeted by this Discipline lose both “blood”
and part of their power. Each success on the
roll to activate Soul’s Breath carries both a
Rouse Check “blood” (and concurrent level of
damage) and robs the supernatural being of
one point of her power pool (Cainites have
their vitae rendered inert, Lupines lose Gnosis,
etc.), translated to the Salubri as a point of
Willpower. At Storyteller’s dis-cretion, this
theft provides an excellent justification for the
purchase of out-of-clan Disciplines or
Supernatural Merits.
• Duration: One or more turns
ENDING THE WATCH
The Warriors trace their origin to Samiel’s
ancient fury in the days after the Second City. Yet
ancient tales record the Salubri of Enoch walking
the streets, laying hands upon the terminally ill
and freeing their souls from mortality’s coil. In
return, the Salubri gained both wisdom and
strength of will. Despite their anger, the Warriors
retain the fundamentally peaceful disposition of
Clan Salubri, and this power reflects their hewing
to the clan’s original nature. When acting as death
watch, the third eye’s iris flares gold, absorbing
the essence of the mortal’s departing soul into the
Salubri’s own. This power may only be used on a
dying mortal (Incapacitated in Aggravated
damage, but not yet dead)
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or one who truly wishes death without coercion.
Generally, the mortally wounded or the elderly are
targets of this power, but those of a deeply
melancholic temperament or torture victims are
equally viable. Tremere whisper rumors of un-
forgiving Warriors afflicting captives with the
Burning Touch, then taking their souls when they
beg for death.
• Cost: One Rouse Checks + Willpower
Dice Pool: Perception + Empathy
System: The Salubri spends a Willpower
point and lays a hand over a valid target’s
heart, peacefully and painlessly killing them.
If the vampire kills with a melee attack, they
may make a reflexive Dexterity + Brawl roll
to touch the target and activate this power.
This is a mercy killing, for all the difference
that makes to a vampire with high Humanity.
The player then rolls the character’s
Perception + Empathy; upon a success, the
target’s soul is absorbed. For each success on
the absorption roll, the Salubri may do one
of two things:
• Recall facts of the target’s memory,
requiring a separate Intelligence + Empathy
roll for each fact of significance. With the
soul’s vitality residing inside the Salubri, he
knows much of what the dead man did —
interesting secrets, rare treasures, or vital
documents. The Salubri may choose to let
pertinent orpressing information come to
him (Storyteller’s choice) but this raises the
difficulty of the roll to 7.
• Absorb the living energies of the mortal’s
soul to bolster their own; each success allows
the Warrior to recoup a point of Willpower.
The Warrior may store these Willpower
points above their normal maximum (to a
total of 10). The soul remains within the
Salubri’s own for as long as he wishes, but
only one soul may be contained at a time.
Once the successes on the roll have been used
by either or both options, the remnants of
the soul fade, venturing to their final
destination. The corpse of the target may be
fed upon, regardless of clan weakness. Their
blood tastes rich and hot, even many nights
after death; however, they may not be
Embraced.
• Duration: One Turn
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