Unyielding Resolve
5 point Merit
Most common among formally educated Prodigals (though certainly not unique to them; a few self-taught walkers on the Road of Humanity - and an even rarer few among followers of other Roads, have managed, by virtue of their own ethical conviction, to discover such a gift), this Merit enables you to vigorously reassert your morals in times of spiritual duress. Whenever the Beast threatens to drag you down toward the Second Death, you can call upon reserves of inner strength almost unknown in the Cainite world to batter it down and force it to relinquish its hold upon you. this technique is not without its risks, however; whenever you fail to defeat the Beast in this redoubled contest of wills, you literally feel a part of yourself slipping away, lost to its hunger.
In game terms, you may, when failing or botching a degeneration check, risk a point of permanent Willpower to re-roll the Conscience or Conviction check. If you fail or botch this roll, you lose the point of Willpower, in addition to whatever else you normally would have. If you succeed, though, you lose nothing and manage, through strict discipline, to reassert your proper sense of remorse and penitence for offenses against your road.
