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the Discipline becomes a fourth clan Discipline and the weakness layers on top of the
existing clan weakness.
Creation of a new bloodline costs a Willpower dot.
UNIVERSAL CONCERNS
A character can engage only one of these options: become a member of his sire’s
bloodline, join another clan bloodline or diverge into his own unique bloodline. He
cannot do two or all three.
Any time after a character achieves Blood Potency 2, he may “activate” his sire’s
bloodline. That is, if a character has Blood Potency 6 and hasn’t started his own
bloodline or joined another, he may then join his sire’s latent bloodline. Any time after
a character reaches Blood Potency 4, he may join a clan bloodline (provided he has
the proper patronage or is willing to commit diablerie). For example, if a character
has Blood Potency 6 and hasn’t started his own bloodline or joined his sire’s, he may
join a clan bloodline. The same holds true with regard to starting a character’s own
bloodline and Blood Potency 6.
Joining or creating a bloodline doesn’t “just happen.” The character actually
forces her Blood to take on new characteristics or to conform to the characteristics
of another. Needless to say, effecting a change like this in the static Kindred takes
time, to say nothing of entreating an Avus for the distinction of joining his bloodline.
Creating a new bloodline or joining an existing one isn’t something that should happen
overnight. Storytellers are recommended to allow players’ characters to transition to
new bloodlines between chapters of a chronicle, not simply between scenes, or even in
the same game session (unless some unconventional pacing takes place). Alternatively,
a Storyteller may allow characters to begin play as members of existing bloodlines, so
long as those characters have the requisite Blood Potency of 2 or more.
A character who has met bloodline requirements and whose Blood Potency later
drops due to torpor does not lose those bloodline privileges. For example, a vampire
who creates a bloodline at Blood Potency 6 and later drops to Blood Potency 5 does
not have his bloodline, Discipline, et cetera suddenly vanish. He has already forced
his Blood to take on the bloodline characteristics, so even if his Blood later loses some
of its inherent power, the deed has already been done. At the Storyteller’s discretion,
it may be diffi cult for a character to learn further levels of the bloodline Discipline
when Blood Potency drops, but this is usually suitable only if the Discipline isn’t yet
known completely or has yet to be codifi ed.
HOW BLOODLINES APPEAR
Bloodlines do not appear from nowhere. Someone has to start them, and that someone can
shape the entire identity and culture of the lineage. New bloodlines can appear in a number
of different ways. Storytellers can devise any number of variations on these basic stories and
combine them to form a unique and interesting background for a line.
DELIBERATE INTENT
Any Kindred can work a change in her Vitae once she achieves suffi cient age and power. In
game terms, any vampire can start a bloodline once her Blood Potency reaches 6 or higher.
The process does not require any special ritual, but it does cost the character a dot of Willpower
and some amount of time during which her Blood takes on the new characteristics.
A new weakness also arises, adding to that of her original clan. Any childer the character
sires after that point have the potential to inherit her new weakness and new set of favored
Disciplines.
A Kindred might change herself to refl ect some special interest. The founder might prefer
some Discipline outside the roster of her in-clan capabilities. By changing herself, she makes
that Discipline easier to learn. Her childer may then inherit the altered set of bloodline Disciplines.
A founder also suffers some special fl aw in addition to the normal weakness of her