Nightshades
The Lasombra may create illusions crafted from shadow, perhaps summoning dark spirits or reflections of Ahriman. Although the images are made only of inky blackness, and therefore would not be realistic in the light of day, vampires rarely work in such environments anyway, so they can easily craft illusions that are quite believable under a night sky. The illusions are typically human-sized and shaped, but with sufficient will and skill, one might make a larger illusion or a whirling nightmare of shadow and chaos.
System: The player spends a point of blood and rolls Wits + Occult (difficulty 7). Each success lets the vampire create one human-sized illusion; multiple successes can be combined to make a single illusion that is much larger than human. Victims of these illusions must make Perception + Alertness rolls (difficulty 9) to deduce that they are not real.
The vampire can also use Nightshades to fill an area with a cloud of shadowy madness, a reflection of the dark half itself; under these circumstances, the player must expend two points of blood and rolls Wits + Occult (difficulty 7). The players of those in the area who don't have Obtenebration reduce their Initiative scores by three and take a two-die penalty to all dice pools. The vampire can fill an area up to 10 yards in diameter per success with Nightshades in this fashion.
