Auspex (VTM)

Name:	Auspex
Pronunciation:	AWS-peks
Clans:	Cappadocians, Malkavians, Salubri, Toreador, Tremere, Tzimisce
Bloodlines:	Assamite Sorcerers (DAV), Assamite Viziers, Brahmin, Harbingers of Skulls, Mla Watu, Nagaraja, Naglopers, Nictuku, Nkulu Zao, Noiad, Old Clan Tzimisce, Osebo, Phuri Dae, Salubri (V20), Telyavelic Tremere

Auspex is a Discipline that grants vampires supernatural senses.

Overview

Auspex is as much reflections of the Curse of Caine as the traditional banes, as it can lead to an obsession with minutiae and distraction from important matters from focusing on minor details. Also, higher mastery of the discipline can result in Cainites who are accustomed to using Auspex to read the minds of people in any situation and may suddenly find themselves unable to shut the mind-reading down. These vampires find themselves overwhelmed with "background noise" or, if only in the company of one or two people, answering unasked questions.

It is one of the most common and favored Disciplines among Cainites due to its versatility and overall usefulness in just about every facet of vampiric existence. In addition to the individual powers granted at each level, Auspex allows someone the opportunity to see through illusions, such as from Obfuscate or Chimerstry, so long as the user possess at least an equal mastery in Auspex as the Discipline in question. Furthermore, it has been known to grant some degree of oracular ability, particularly when alerting a Cainite to danger, even if they are in torpor.

Official Abilities

Included below are the official powers described in supplements for Vampire: The Masquerade and Dark Ages: Vampire. Sources are described below in the order they were printed.

Interestingly enough, in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Auspex is a progressive Discipline like Celerity or Potence. It has no individual powers, just one effect which grows in strength.

Standard Powers

• ^[1]
  • Heightened Senses: Raise one of your five senses to superhuman levels
  • Ancestors' Vigilance: Raise one of your five senses and perceive ghosts
• ^[2]
  • An Ear for Lies: Know when someone lies to you
  • Aura Perception: Learn various qualities of a person from their aura
  • Sense Vibrations: Learn the most intense emotion of a person
• ^[3]
  • Artist's Intent: Learn details of an artist's state of mind in relation to a piece of art
  • The Spirit's Touch: Learn something of an object and its previous owner from its resonance
  • Spirit Ties: Learn something about a target from residues of its tissue
• ^[4]
  • Telepathy: Briefly probe someone's mind or project a telepathic message to them
  • Ancestors' Insight: Briefly probe someone's mind, project a telepathic message or plant a foreign thought in the mind of the target
• ^[5]
  • Psychic Projection: Free your mind to travel the world in astral form
  • Spirit Travel: Project your mind into one of the spiritual realms

Advanced Powers

• ^[6]
  • Celestial Harmony: Open your mind to the thoughts and emotions of a crowd
  • Cipher: Gain the ability to read any non-supernatural language or code
  • Clairvoyance: See what is happening in a distant location
  • Crocodile's Tongue: Know what someone wants to hear in order to get the best reaction
  • Discern the Aura: Scan a group of people with one particular trait in their aura
  • Eagle's Sight: Gain a bird's eye view of your area
  • Genius Loci: Gain insight by meditating at places of high resonance
  • Horoscopic Forecast: Gain a glimpse of the target's future.
  • Insight of the Talespinner: Draw out detailed characters and stories quickly from your mind
  • Prediction: Socially outwit someone by knowing what they are going to say ahead of time
  • Sense Emotion: Learn the emotions of the people around you
  • Spirit Bond: Create a connection to something so you can find its geographical location
  • Telepathic Communication: Mentally speak with someone, even if they are a great distance away
  • The Dreaming: Be somewhat aware of events concerning you while in torpor
  • The Mind Revealed: Continuously read someone's thoughts to know what they are thinking and about to do

• ^[7]
  • Anima Gathering: Take other people with you to travel astrally
  • Ecstatic Agony: The pain from wounds makes you act stronger, not weaker
  • Karmic Sight: View someone's aura, personality, morality, and other karmic qualities
  • Melange: See the truths behind reality in metaphor
  • Mirror Reflex: React quickly to an opponent in combat by reading their mind
  • Personality Metamorph: Take on fictitious personalities as your own
  • Pluck the Secret: Learn what a target knows about a specific subject
  • Spirit Link: Speak with multiple people telepathically at once
  • Stealing the Mind's Eye: See and hear what a target does and even use some Disciplines through them
  • Supernal Awareness: Sense events and deeds anywhere in the world

• ^[8]
  • Omniscience: Learn the personalities and identities of all creatures around you
  • Psychic Assault: Make a powerful mental attack against a target's psyche
  • The Oracle's Sight: Hear and see the thoughts of everyone around you
  • The Call: a Malkavian-exclusive ability that enables the vampire to summon a clan gathering.
• ^[9]
  • False Slumber: Astrally project while in torpor
  • Master of the Dom: Merge with a land and know everything that transpires on it while gaining power over the land and its residents
  • Precognition: Gain some insight as to what may happen at a particular time and place
  • Sight of the Oracle: Always know what is happening around you, gain visions of past and future events, and increase other supernatural senses

• ^[10]
  • Pulse of the Canaille: Sense the attitudes, directions, and trends of groups of mortals, as well as those who may be controlling them
  • Plot Device

References

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^  Level 1

Heightened Senses	Vampire: The Masquerade Rulebook	Pg. 93
Heightened Senses	Vampire: The Masquerade Second Edition	Pg. 158
Heightened Senses	Vampire: The Dark Ages Rulebook	Pg. 143
Heightened Senses	Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition	Pg. 149
Heightened Senses	Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook	Pg. 176
Auspex	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Heightened Senses	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 134
Ancestors' Vigilance	Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom	Pg. 99

^  Level 2

Aura Perception	Vampire: The Masquerade Rulebook	Pg. 94
Aura Perception	Vampire: The Masquerade Second Edition	Pg. 159
Soulsight	Vampire: The Dark Ages Rulebook	Pg. 144
Aura Perception	Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition	Pg. 150
Soulsight	Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook	Pg. 176
An Ear for Lies	Road of Kings	Pg. 72
Auspex	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Aura Perception	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 135
Sense Vibrations	Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom	Pg. 100

^  Level 3

The Spirit's Touch	Vampire: The Masquerade Rulebook	Pg. 95
The Spirit's Touch	Vampire: The Masquerade Second Edition	Pg. 159
The Spirit's Touch	Vampire: The Dark Ages Rulebook	Pg. 144
Artist's Intent	Libellus Sanguinis 2: Keepers of the Word	Pg. 36
The Spirit's Touch	Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition	Pg. 171
The Spirit's Touch	Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook	Pg. 177
Auspex	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
The Spirit's Touch	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 136
Spirit Ties	Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom	Pg. 100

^  Level 4

Telepathy	Vampire: The Masquerade Rulebook	Pg. 95
Telepathy	Vampire: The Masquerade Second Edition	Pg. 160
Steal Secrets	Vampire: The Dark Ages Rulebook	Pg. 144
Telepathy	Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition	Pg. 151
Steal Secrets	Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook	Pg. 178
Auspex	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Telepathy	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 137
Ancestors' Insight	Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom	Pg. 101

^  Level 5

Astral Projection	Vampire: The Masquerade Rulebook	Pg. 95
Psychic Projection	Vampire: The Masquerade Second Edition	Pg. 160
Anima Walk	Vampire: The Dark Ages Rulebook	Pg. 145
Psychic Projection	Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition	Pg. 152
Anima Walk	Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook	Pg. 178
Auspex	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Psychic Projection	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 137
Spirit Travel	Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom	Pg. 101

^  Level 6

Clairvoyance	The Players Guide	Pg. 78
The Dreaming	The Players Guide	Pg. 78
Eagle's Sight	The Players Guide	Pg. 78
Prediction	The Players Guide	Pg. 78
Sense Emotion	The Players Guide	Pg. 78
Telepathic Communication	The Players Guide	Pg. 78
Clairvoyance	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 71
The Dreaming	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 71
Eagle's Sight	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 72
Prediction	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 72
Sense Emotion	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 72
Telepathic Communication	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 71
Babble	Clanbook: Malkavian	Pg. 27
Insight of the Talespinner	Clanbook: Toreador	Pg. 36
What People Want to Hear	Clanbook: Toreador	Pg. 37
Genius Loci	Clanbook: Tzimisce	Pg. 44
Farsight	Vampire: The Dark Ages Rulebook	Pg. 145
Spirit Bond	Dark Ages Companion	Pg. 78
The Flaying	Libellus Sanguinis 1: Masters of the State	Pg. 64
Clairvoyance	Guide to the Camarilla	Pg. 84
Prediction	Guide to the Camarilla	Pg. 84
Telepathic Communication	Guide to the Camarilla	Pg. 84
Crocodile's Tongue	Clanbook: Toreador Revised	Pg. 72
Babble	Clanbook: Malkavian Revised	Pg. 60
Sibyl's Tongue	Clanbook: Malkavian Revised	Pg. 60
Cipher	Archons & Templars	Pg. 144
Discern the Aura	Archons & Templars	Pg. 144
Farsight	Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook	Pg. 179
Horoscopic Forescast	Lair of the Hidden	Pg. 136
The Mind Revealed	Players Guide to High Clans	Pg. 150
Celestial Harmony	Caine's Chosen: The Black Hand	Pg. 75
Clairvoyance	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 139
Prediction	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 139
Telepathic Communication	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 139
Sibyl's Tongue	Lore of the Clans	Pg. 142
Babble	Lore of the Clans	Pg. 143

^  Level 7

Soul Scan	The Players Guide	Pg. 78
Spirit Link	The Players Guide	Pg. 78
Soul Scan	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 72
Spirit Link	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 73
Supernal Awareness	Lair of the Hidden	Pg. 136
Melange	Clanbook: Malkavian	Pg. 27
Personality Metamorph	Clanbook: Toreador	Pg. 37
Ecstatic Agony	Clanbook: Tzimisce	Pg. 45
Pluck the Secret	Dark Ages Companion	Pg. 79
Stealing the Mind's Eye	Dark Ages Companion	Pg. 79
Karmic Sight	Guide to the Camarilla	Pg. 85
Mirror Reflex	Guide to the Camarilla	Pg. 86
Anima Gathering	Clanbook: Assamite Revised	Pg. 63
Supernal Awareness	Lair of the Hidden	Pg. 136
Ecstatic Agony	Players Guide to High Clans	Pg. 150
Karmic Sight	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 140
Mirror Reflex	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 141

^  Level 8

Omniscience	The Players Guide	Pg. 79
Psychic Assault	The Players Guide	Pg. 79
Omniscience	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 73
Psychic Assault	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 73
Malkavian Madness Network	Clanbook: Malkavian	Pg. 27
The Oracle's Sight	Dark Ages Companion	Pg. 79
Psychic Assault	Guide to the Camarilla	Pg. 86
The Call	Clanbook: Malkavian Revised	Pg. 60
Carnage of the Mind	Players Guide to High Clans	Pg. 151
Psychic Assault	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 141

^  Level 9

Precognition	The Players Guide	Pg. 79
Precognition	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 73
Master of the Dom	Libellus Sanguinis 1: Masters of the State	Pg. 64
False Slumber	Guide to the Camarilla	Pg. 87
Sight of the Oracles	Players Guide to High Clans	Pg. 151
False Slumber	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 141

^  Level 10

Pulse of the Canaille	The Players Guide	Pg. 79
Pulse of the Canaille	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 74
Plot Device	Gehenna	Pg. 182