Artifact (VTM)

Artifacts are rare, often sought-after items with special powers. The following lists cover the artifacts that play a role in the official canon as well as templates found in game books.

Ankaran Sarcophagus
The Ankaran Sarcophagus is the base for the storyline of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. It is believed to hold either an ancient Mesopotamian king or an Antediluvian.

Eye of Hazimel
The Eye of Hazimel is the major plot item of the Clan Novels. It is a living eye believed to belong to Zapathasura and rumored to hold great powers of mutation and destruction. In order to use it its wiedler has to replace one of their own eyes with it.

Sargon Fragment
The Sargon Fragment is a book believed to be written by Cappadocius during his mortal years. He lost his memory due to his embrace and forgot where it was. It is later found by Lazarus, but destroyed soon after. Ambrogino Giovanni later started looking for it in the Shadowlands. It contains ancient Chaldean magic; vampires need a rating of 5 in Thaumaturgy or Necromancy to cast its rituals and 8 to actually control it.

True vessel
An artifact most Giovanni would give somebody's soul for, the True Vessel is physically a small earthenware jar, holding maybe a pint of fluid. The jar is sealed with beeswax and a curse and can't be opened by any force known to anyone currently familiar with it. The True Vessel, brought to the Giovanni's attention by Capuchin, is believed to hold a small amount of Cappadocius' blood and soul sealed by Japheth and Constancia, which Augustus Giovanni would really like to get a hold of. The True Vessel was rumored to have been hidden in the Erciyes library and lost by Claudius Giovanni who was then slain by Augustus Giovanni, his sire.

Bloodspot dice
This artifact is mentioned in the Victorian Age: Vampire companion. Every roll the possessor of the dice makes will be successfull; however, each time this happens, one of the 42 spots on the dice will turn dark red. Once all of them are coloured red the dice will stop winning. It has to be bathed in the fresh blood of someone with a slit throat to work again.

Malady pen
The Malady Pen is a fountain pen also introduced in the Victorian Age: Vampire companion. If someone writes a letter to somebody he cares about and describes an acquaintance's illness the acquaintance will instantly be cured but the illness will be inflicted on the recipient of the letter.