Embrace (VTM)

The Embrace, also called the Becoming, is the process by which vampires reproduce. When a Sire embraces a Childe, he creates a new creature cursed by God to haunt the night as a nocturnal blood drinker.

Initiation
When a vampire desires a childe, rather due to loneliness, regret at an accidental feeding, a need for a pawn, or any other reason, the first step is to drain the candidate dry. Any technique that results in a bloodless corpse will do. Once the candidate is drained of blood, the sire gives the candidate a small amount of his own blood, this instantly transforms the candidate into a new childe.

The first reaction most childer have after an embrace is raw hunger, with less than blood point available and no experience dealing with a fully raging Beast, the childe will most likely enter a hunger Frenzy at the first sight of blood. For most vampires, this means that the Embrace is followed immediately by a moment of degredation.

After the Embrace, the fledgling may take several days before the full impact of the curse is apparent. In Vampire: The Masquerade, Ventrue preferences take several weeks to define, and the Nosferatu change can take up to a month as the body reforms to accept the curse. d

Differences Between VtM and VtR
A new embrace in VtM is one Generation higher than his sire, and is of either the same Clan or Caitiff. Embracing is cheap in VtM, and Mass Embraces are used by the Sabbat and occasionally by other clans (most infamously the Ravnos) for strategic reasons.

In VtR a newly embraced childe starts with a Blood Potency of one and belongs to his sire's Clan, but cannot join a Bloodline (VTR) immediately. VtR embraces cost a permanent willpower point, making mass embraces all but impossible. Given a history of creative players, the rules of embracing (or more specifically, not embracing have been fairly well defined in VtM, all of these rules may apply to VtR as well).


 * Animals cannot be embraced
 * Vitae must flow directly from the sire to the childe. It cannot be placed in an intermediary vessel, mixed with other Vitae, or anything else that confuses the issue. (one exception: Cappadocius).
 * The Embrace is instantaneous.
 * Any activity which completely drains the corpse is acceptable; draining doesn't cause the Embrace, Vitae does.
 * Pregnant women miscarry when Embraced