Dementation (VTM)

Name:	Dementation
Symbol:	Dementation
Pronunciation:
Clans:	Malkavians

Dementation is a Discipline widely known as the hallmark of the Malkavians.

Overview

Dementation draws on the vampire's own insanity and uses it achieve profound insights or inflict madness upon others. Such powers are one of the primary reasons the clan is often considered both insightful and very dangerous. It also seems to grant a more powerful link to the Madness Network (though a non-Malkavian who learns Dementation cannot access it), and many have suspicions about its connection to the Malkavian Antediluvian.

It is impossible to use Dementation without at least one derangement. If that derangement is cured, Dementation can no longer be accessed. This is seen as evidence by most vampires to the connection between the Discipline and the Clan Curse of the Malkavians. Also, users of Dementation run risk of spreading their insanity to others.

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.

Standard Powers

• ^[1]
  • Incubus Passion: The Cainite using Incubus Passion doubles or triples his or her victim's emotional intensity. The vampire cannot choose the emotion, merely amplify what is already present. This power works on other Cainites as well as mortals.
  • Passion: Amplify or dull emotions present in the victim, increasing the difficulty of frenzy, Virtue, and other rolls
• ^[2]
  • The Haunting: Inflict maddening visions upon a victim
• ^[3]
  • Eyes of Chaos: Gain insight into the nature of something through seemingly random patterns
• ^[4]
  • Confusion: Make someone wander around in a daze
  • Silence the Sane Mind: Suppress part of the victim's mind, making them confused, enraged, catatonic, etc.
  • Voice of Madness: Provoke extreme fear or anger in victims
• ^[5]
  • Total Insanity: Give someone five temporary derangements

Advanced Powers

• ^[6]
  • Babble: Communicate over a great distance via the Madness Network
  • Devil in the Mind: Remove all inhibitions and social morals while bringing impulses to the surface
  • Kiss of the Moon: Inflict two related permanent derangements upon a victim
  • Lingering Malaise: Inflict a permanent derangement upon a victim
  • Shattered Mirror: Twist a victim's personality into a copy of your own
  • The Call: Summon others within the Madness Network to meet

• ^[7]
  • Childmind: Give someone a "psychic lobotomy", reducing their Mental attributes by up to seven points
  • Delayed Delirium: As Kiss of the Moon, but it can be made to activate later
  • Mind of a Killer: Temporarily make someone a cold-blooded killer until they take it out on someone
  • Restructure: Change a person's Nature
  • Sleep of Reason: Create physical manifestations of the "hobgoblins" in a victim's mind
  • Wave of Insanity: As Total Insanity, except affect multiple targets

• ^[8]
  • Coma: Place someone into a catatonic state for an extended period of time
  • Deny: Ignore the existence of an object and not be affected by it
  • Minds of the Children: As Childmind, except affect multiple targets
  • Personal Scourge: Turn a target's Willpower rating against them as continuous damage
  • Prison of the Mind: Lock someone's mind in a delusional state and leave his body catatonic
• ^[9]
  • Blessing of Chaos: Suffer additional madness, but become immune to Chimerstry, Dementation, Dominate, and Presence
  • Lunatic Eruption: Invoke a mad frenzy in all sentient creatures within up to several miles
  • Mass Coma: As Coma, except affect multiple targets
  • Touch of the Saints: Cure an individual of derangements and anything affecting their mind

• ^[10]
  • Plot Device

Version Differences

In Vampire: The Dark Ages and Dark Ages: Vampire all Malkavians have Dementation as an in-clan Discipline, though in early editions of Vampire: The Masquerade it was only available to antitribu while Camarilla members had Dominate instead. In the metaplot this division was caused by six Methuselahs who "blocked" the Discipline from the minds of Camarilla Malkavians to make the clan more palatable to the nascent sect. In Revised Edition, Dementation is returned to all Malkavians in an effort by the antitribu to spread the "infection" in an event known as "the Great Prank". ^[11]

In Dark Ages: Vampire anyone who learns Dementation also gains a permanent derangement if they do not already have one.

Gallery

Dementation use

References

• ^  VTM: Clanbook: Malkavian Revised, pp. 28, 29, 34

^  Level 1

Passion	Players Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 106
Incubus Passion	Vampire: The Dark Ages	Pg. 148
Passion	Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition	Pg. 155
Incubus Passion	Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook	Pg. 183
Hysteria	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

^  Level 2

Mind Tricks	Players Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 106
Haunt the Soul	Vampire: The Dark Ages	Pg. 148
The Haunting	Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition	Pg. 155
Haunt the Soul	Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook	Pg. 184
Mass Hallucination	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

^  Level 3

Eyes of Chaos	Players Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 106
Eyes of Chaos	Vampire: The Dark Ages	Pg. 148
Eyes of Chaos	Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition	Pg. 155
Eyes of Chaos	Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook	Pg. 184
Vision of Death	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

^  Level 4

Confusion	Players Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 106
Confusion	Vampire: The Dark Ages	Pg. 149
Voice of Madness	Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition	Pg. 156
Silence of the Sane Mind	Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook	Pg. 185
Berserk	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

^  Level 5

Total Lunacy	Players Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 106
Howling Lunacy	Vampire: The Dark Ages	Pg. 149
Total Insanity	Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition	Pg. 156
Howling Lunacy	Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook	Pg. 185
Bedlam	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

^  Level 6

Derange	Players Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 107
Kindred Spirits	Players Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 107
Kiss of the Moon	Vampire: The Dark Ages	Pg. 149
Luna's Embrace	Dark Ages Companion	Pg. 82
Lingering Malaise	Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 104
Shattered Mirror	Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 104
Babble	Clanbook: Malkavian Revised	Pg. 60
The Call	Clanbook: Malkavian Revised	Pg. 60
Kiss of the Moon	Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook	Pg. 185
Devil in the Mind	Players Guide to Low Clans	Pg. 148

^  Level 7

Mind of a Child	Players Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 107
Mind of a Killer	Players Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 108
Wave of Insanity	Players Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 108
Delayed Delirium	Dark Ages Companion	Pg. 82
Restructure	Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 105
Childmind	Clanbook: Malkavian Revised	Pg. 62
Sleep of Reason	Clanbook: Malkavian Revised	Pg. 63
Change the Soul	Players Guide to Low Clans	Pg. 149

^  Level 8

Coma	Players Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 108
Minds of the Children	Players Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 108
Prison of the Mind	Dark Ages Companion	Pg. 82
Personal Scourge	Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 105
Deny	Clanbook: Malkavian Revised	Pg. 64
Personal Scourge	Players Guide to Low Clans	Pg. 149

^  Level 9

Blessing of Chaos	Players Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 109
Mass Coma	Players Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 109
Lunatic Eruption	Guide to the Sabbat	Pg. 105
Touch of the Saints	Players Guide to Low Clans	Pg. 149

^  Level 10

Plot Device

Gehenna

Pg. 182