Condemn the Sins of the Father

Quietus 9

Although the Second City's judges recognized that heritage does not equate to guilt, they also encountered many situations in which a vampire's entire brood had committed the same crime. In such cases, the judges often decreed the same punishment for all transgressors. This technique, which modern viziers believe to have originated at that time, allows its wielder to administer such overreaching punishments. Through Condemn the Sins of the Father, a Cainite can apply lesser Quietus powers to an entire lineage. Some rumors within Alamut state that ur-Shulgi used Condemn the Sins of the Father as the core of the ritual that enacted the Breaking, though no one has yet explained how (or where) the Shepherd managed to find Haquim to use as the ritual's focus.

System: After successfully using any lesser Quietus power on another vampire, the player spends a permanent Willpower point and 10 blood points and rolls Stamina + Occult. The difficulty of this roll is equal to four plus the number of generations of the original target's descendants that the player wants to affect, up to a maximum of 10. If the roll succeeds, every descendant of the original target within the specified range of generations suffers the same effects that the original target experienced, resisting with his own relevant Traits. The player may exempt a number of potential subjects from this effect equal to twice the character's Wits, but the character must know their faces or have tasted their vitae.

Example: Ur-Shugli is displeased with a certain Ventrue prince and wants to use Dagon's Call on him and all his descendants. The prince is of the seventh generation. To be certain of making a clean sweep, ur-Shugli chooses to extend the blight all the way down to 13th generation, or six generations of descendants. Ur-Shulgi's player (and why the hell are you playing ur-Shulgi anyway?) must roll against a difficulty of 10. If the player makes the roll, every character who can trace his vampiric lineage to that prince, whether or not he's aware of his heritage, is subject to the same effects that the prince suffered from ur-Shulgi's use of Dagon's Call.