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city where the Kindred in question intend to reside for an extended period. This procedure
protects the vampires involved as the Harpy acts as arbiter. When disputes arise, the Harpy
decides whether a particular service is appropriate to repaying a favor and can act (using
her Status points, see p. 286) to punish an offending party. A Harpy usually acts to compel
those who refuse to repay boons owed, but can also restrain those who demand service out
of proportion with what they are owed.
Kindred holding or owing boons can petition the Prince in defi ance of a Harpy, although
doing so is usually only likely to lead to complication or embarrassment. Harpies and Princes
cannot arbitrate boons that they hold or owe; those matters are supervised by another
Harpy.
The boons of blood-hunted Kindred are voided until the blood hunt is either called off
or they are destroyed.
TRANSFERRING BOONS
A Kindred who holds a boon (to whom a favor is owed) may transfer it to another Kindred.
Such a change is usually done to repay a debt owed to the recipient or to incur a debt from
him, but can also be a particularly vicious means of bringing someone into disrepute. While a
Sanctifi ed Cardinal may not object to owing a boon to a member of the First Estate, the debt
might be shameful if it was known that the Invictus transferred the boon to a Hierophant
of the Circle of the Crone. Domains that do not honor boons are considered disreputable,
usually held by revolutionaries or the unaligned.
If a Kindred owing boons is destroyed or sent to torpor for a very long time without having
been guilty of a vampiric crime, the holders of the boons may justifi ably petition the Harpies
to transfer those boons to any Kindred who put the unfortunate vampire down.
Example: Cornell holds a minor boon and a major boon over Barnard. One night, Barnard
accidentally interrupts Emilio and Madryn as they are feeding. As a result of their ensuing frenzy, Barnard
enters torpor. Cornell demands that the boons he is owed — which are now useless — be transferred. The
Harpy agrees, ruling that Madryn owes Cornell a major boon, and Emilio owes him a minor one.