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HAUNTED HAVEN
LORESHEET

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Blorcery by CR E AT E D A N D DE V E L OPE D BY

Skirmantė Valutienė and Viktorija Gotovtienė

Lex Noctis W R IT T E N BY Skirmantė Valutienė

E DIT I NG A N D R E A DI NG : Ieva Čičinskaitė

GR A PH IC DESIGN: Viktorija Gotovtienė

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Loresheet
Who’s
there?
T
his Loresheet is designed to flesh out and
expand the relationship between Kindred
and their supernaturally active lair. While
the Haunted Flaw (Core Rulebook p.188)
may represent just a ghost, here are some possible sources
of supernatural manifestations that all work with this
Loresheet and can inspire haven-related stories:
■■ The haven houses a torpid elder Kindred. Your
character may have been entrusted with guarding
their centuries-long slumber along with the
luxurious haven, or you may be squatting but
unable or unwilling to… find a use for the powerful
blood in the elder’s veins. Either way, the elder’s
Disciplines seep through, and you find yourself
taking actions that benefit their mysterious agenda,
feeling attracted to their old allies, or struggling to
control your Beast when acting against the sleeper’s
convictions.
■■ Your haven attracts nature spirits. Birds are nesting
on the roof, the walls are overgrown with ivy, and
life spirits swarm there. The spirits despise your
undead presence and attempt to take over the place
in subtle ways: you may find grass stalks shooting
through the floor, wooden furniture sprouting
leaves, and critters such as mice finding their way
inside. Worse yet, a place of spiritual importance
may attract werewolves…
■■ By moving into this haven you unknowingly made
a deal with a faerie. Now, whenever you break the
“contract” that you have no idea about, the faerie
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takes what it considers appropriate compensation.
Things go missing in your haven when you’re not
looking – for some curious reason, the faerie prefers
taking items of emotional rather than monetary
value, such as cheap jewelry gifted by your mortal
family, old photos, your (too honest for your own
good) diary...
■■ The haven is actually haunted by ghosts. Specifically,
the vengeful wraiths of those people you murdered
in careless feeding or to protect the Masquerade.
They whisper in your daysleep, appear in mirrors,
or may even attempt to possess visitors and force
them to re-enact their death scene. Even if you find
a way to exorcise them, the next time you take a life,
the victim's wraith soon appears to hassle you in the
supposed safety of your home.
■■ The haven is as hungry as its dweller… and it has a
taste for flesh. It nibbles on you in your daysleep,
and you tend to wake up with minor wounds and
bite marks all over your body. However, you may
discover it prefers human flesh to vampiric one –
and indeed, keeping a fresh cadaver in the fridge
for the hungry house to munch on may prove
convenient at times when you need to get rid of the
evidence of your ravenous feeding. However, you
definitely don’t want to spend years or even weeks
of torpor inside this building…

Loresheet
H a u n t e d H av e n
H
aunted houses. Some
dread and avoid
them, others dream
of visiting or even
residing in one. Either way, spooky
buildings are eerily common in the
World of Darkness, and its denizens
deal with it however they can. For
Kindred who find their dwellings
Haunted Heart: Dwelling in an
eerie place has left its mark on you –
or perhaps you are just obsessed with
figuring out its mystery. You receive a
free Specialty in Occult Skill, related to
the nature of the haunting. In addition,
if you perform Oblivion Ceremonies
in your haven, the Difficulty of the
Ceremony roll is reduced by 1.
Whispering: Hushed words in
long-lost languages, incoherent ramblings
of past denizens, and ghostly singing
echo in your haven. Once per session,
you may attempt to listen to these
whispers by making a Wits+Insight roll
versus Difficulty 4. If you succeed, the
Storyteller tells you a hint relevant to
your immediate future or an important
detail of the past; if you fail, you suffer
the Paranoia Compulsion (Core
Rulebook p.209).
housing unknown entities, the
weirdness soon becomes the
new normal: just another part of
home, another fact of everynight
existence.
This Loresheet provides ways
for the Kindred to get along with
their haunted haven. As such, all
lores in it may only be purchased
LORE
Hearthfire: Whatever haunts
your haven, it strongly prefers real fire to
electricity. Candles, fireplaces, and other
fires flicker, light up, and go out on their
own; electrical bulbs and screens flicker,
and phones tend to lose connection. All
Technology rolls in your haven have their
Difficulty increased by one. As you have
grown used to being around spontaneous
flames, you make all fire-related Fear
Frenzy checks at -2 Difficulty.
By taking a candle from your haven,
lighting it, and letting it burn down fully in
another building, you cause the haunting
to spread. That building becomes
haunted in the same way your haven is.
Wailing Walls: A disembodied
weeping, sobbing, and occasional cries of
sorrow disturb those attempting to rest
in your haven. While mortals suffer from
a lack of peaceful sleep, the wailing alarms
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if the character’s or their coterie’s
shared haven has the Haunted Flaw.
Should the haven lose this Flaw for
any reason, you immediately lose
all benefits of the Loresheet; the
Storyteller may refund the spent
experience or you may devise a way
to re-haunt your resting place.
Flaw: Haunted: Your haven
has a supernatural manifestation in
it that you do not control or really
even understand. It might just have
a ghost, but a Haunted haven could
hold a dimensional portal, a cursed
meteorite, or anything else you can’t get
rid of. Obviously, someone who does
understand the manifestation could
use it to breach your haven’s security.
The Storyteller defines any other effect
of the haunting, imposing at least a
one-die penalty to affected pools used
in the haven per dot of Haunted taken
as a Flaw. (Core Rulebook p. 188)
you to threats in your most vulnerable
moments. When slumbering in your
haven, you receive extra dice to wake up
during the day equal to the base Haven
rating. In addition, when acting during
daylight hours, the maximum dice pool
you can roll equals your Humanity + base
Haven rating.
Ghost Butler: The mystical
entity in your haven (or perhaps the haven
itself) is powerful enough to defend and
take care of both itself and you. The haven
keeps itself neat and in good order, though
it has a mind of its own and may disagree
with you on what “good order” is. From
time to time various trinkets may appear
in your haven that you never brought in
and they clearly don't belong to you. You
gain an extra dot in Resources, and five
dots between Security Systems, Hidden
Armory, and Warding, without needing to
meet the prerequisites for the latter.