Quietus is the signature Discipline of the Assamites that grants them influence over the blood of others.
Overview[]
Though each of the Assamite castes possesses Quietus as an in-clan Discipline, it is primarily known for being an assassin's tool in the hands of the Warrior caste, and the lower level powers are largely geared towards that end. Developed by the Assamite Antediluvian, Haqim, in ages past, its use by his descendants is associated with passing judgment on Cainites and protecting mortals from their depredations.
One strange side effect of such power over blood, however, is that it seems to leave bloodlines with an affinity for Quietus vulnerable to blood curses. Also, blood diseases spread more quickly among users of Quietus.[1] Advanced users are known to develop blood fetishisms thanks to the focus of the Discipline on blood.[2]
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. In the case the alternate system detailed below is used, these are the abilities of the Warrior Caste.
Standard Powers (Warrior)[]
[1]
- Silence of Death: Make the area around you completely silent
- Blood Essence (V20DA): Draw out the heart's blood of an exsanguinated and weakened target
- [2]
- Scorpion's Touch: Create a contact poison that greatly debilitates a victim physically
- [3]
- Dagon's Call: Cause harm from afar to a person who you have touched within the last hour
- [4]
- Baal's Caress: Create a poison that can be coated on weapons to make them more dangerous
- [5]
- Blood Essence (DAV): Extract the heart's blood of a vampire as a thick liquid that can later be consumed, granting the effects of diablerie
- Taste of Death (Revised): Spit acidic blood at a target
- Quicken the Mortals Blood (V20DA): Receive two blood points for each point drained
Advanced Powers[]
- [6]
- Blood Awakening: Scan the blood you ingest for memories
- Blood Sweat: Force a target to profusely sweat blood and dwell on horrible things they've done
- Cleansing of Influence (CB:AS1): Remove non-blood based influences such as Dominate
- Deed the Heart's Desire: Cut yourself off from all sounds and distractions in order to meditate or cause a victim to become insane
- Purification: Cleanse an individual of mental and emotional influences over them, even curses and other magical effects
- Quicken the Mortal's Blood (Revised): Receive two blood points for each point drained
- Rapturous Touch: Drink blood through the skin
- Ripples of the Heart: Leave emotions in the blood of a mortal that will be transmitted to any vampire that feeds from them
- Selective Silence: As Silence of Death, except you can designate certain people to be able to make sound
- Thin Blood: Make a vampire unable to heal their wounds with vitae
- Taste of Death (V20DA): Spit acidic blood at a target
- [7]
- Baal's Bloody Talons: As Baal's Caress, and it deals even more damage
- Blood of the Cobra: Use any Quietus power by spitting on the target
- Dam the Heart's River: Take control of a target's blood point expenditure
- Foul Blood: Poison the blood of a target so that only you can feed from them
- Hinder the Cainite Vitae: Make a target unable to spend blood points
- Leech: Drain blood from a target through skin contact
- Poison the Well of Life: Make a mortal's blood dangerous to drink by anyone except you
- [8]
- Blood Awakening: Communicate with blood in one's system, either receiving insight from a mortal's memories or causing a Cainite to become confused and disoriented
- Blood Clot: Cause a victim's blood to clot, becoming unusable
- Blood Curse: Make it harder for a vampire to heal wounds, unable to spend blood points in other ways
- Blood of Destruction: Make the blood in one's body incredibly acidic
- Songs of Distant Vitae: Force difficult flashbacks on a target of their victims' experiences
- [9]
- Condemn the Sins of the Father: Apply a lower level Quietus power to an entire lineage of vampires
- Erosion: Reduce all of a target's physical attributes to zero
- Weaken the Blood of the Ancients: Temporarily increase a target's generation
- [10]
- Immaculate Vitae: Blood bond someone who only drinks one blood point of your blood
- Plot Device
Alternate System: Abed Dume[]
V20 and V20 Dark Ages introduce an alternate system that splits Quietus according to Caste. The powers described above are the abilities of the Warrior Caste, while the Sorcerer and Vizier Castes have their own ways to utilize Quietus. Every Assamite can learn every application of Quietus, but those that come natural to his Caste are those that are most easily learned.
According to this version, the Clan referred to the Discipline as a whole as Abed Dume, a phoenician term meaning "destroy blood". The applications used by the Warrior Caste were referred to as Hikmat Dume ("blood wisdom"), later latinized as Cruscitus, while those of the Vizier Caste were referred to as Minhit Dume ("blood offering"), later latinized as Hematus. While Assamites can learn each application regardless of caste, both the Cruscitus and Hematus are more common in their respective castes.[3] The Sorcerer Caste variant does not have a separate name.
Standard Powers (Vizier)[]
- [11]
- Silence of Death: As the Warrior Power, but the Vizier can choose who can hear him when he speaks
- Blood Tempering (V20DA): Preserves items by infusing them with blood
- [12]
- Truth of Blood (V20DA): Taste the blood of a target to learn if it has lied
- Ishtar's Touch: Create a contact poison that leaves the target inebriated
- [13]
- Cleansed in Blood (V20DA): Cleanse an individual of mental and emotional influences over them, even curses and other magical effects
- Dagon's Call: Cause harm from afar to the mind a person who you have touched within the last hour
- [14]
- Ripples of the Heart (V20DA): Taste emotions and feelings out of blood
- Baal's Caress: Coat a weapon in your blood, each person hit loses a Willpower point
- [15]
- Blood Sweat (V20DA): Force a target to profusely sweat blood and dwell on horrible things they have done
- Taste of Bliss: Exhale red mist against a target that draws away Willpower
Standard Powers (Sorcerer)[]
- [16]
- Silence of Death: As the Warrior Power, but the Sorcerers own voice can be heard
- [17]
- Scorpion's Curse: Place a ward on a solid surface that activates the Warrior power when touched
- [18]
- Dagon's Call: Cause harm from afar to the mind a person who you have touched within the last hour
- [19]
- Baal's Caress: Perceive spirit beings
- [20]
- Taste of Death: Spit acidic blood that hurts immaterial creatures
Gallery[]
Taste of Death
Baal's Caress
VTES cards[]
1 Dot
Blood Tempering. Art by Heather Kreiter
3 Dots
Dagon's Call. Art by Durwin Talon
4 Dots
Blood Agony. Art by Ron Spencer
7 Dots
Baal's Bloody Talons. Art by Nigel Sade
Blood of the Cobra. Art by William O'Connor
Foul Blood. Art by Brad Williams
10 Dots
Immaculate Vitae. Art by David Kimmel
References[]
- ↑ DAV: Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook, p. 208
- ↑ DAV: Players Guide to Low Clans, p. 154
- ↑ VTDA20: Vampire: The Dark Ages 20th Anniversary Edition, p. 44
^ Level 1
| Silence of Death | The Players Guide | Pg. 120 |
| Silence of Death | Vampire Players Guide Second Edition | Pg. 139 |
| Silence of Death | Vampire: The Dark Ages | Pg. 161 |
| Silence of Death | Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition | Pg. 175 |
| Silence of Fiery Blood | Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook | Pg. 208 |
| Silence of Death | Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition | Pg. 203 |
| Blood Essence | Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages | Pg. 244 |
| Blood Tempering | Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages | Pg. 248 |
| Silence of Death (Sorcerer) | Lore of the Clans | Pg. 26 |
| Silence of Death (Vizier) | Lore of the Clans | Pg. 27 |
^ Level 2
| Weakness | The Players Guide | Pg. 120 |
| Weakness | The Players Guide Second Edition | Pg. 139 |
| Weakness | Vampire: The Dark Ages | Pg. 161 |
| Weakness | Laws of Elysium | Pg. 70 |
| Scorpion's Touch | Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition | Pg. 175 |
| Scorpion's Touch | Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook | Pg. 208 |
| Scorpion's Touch | Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition | Pg. 203 |
| Truth of Blood | Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages | Pg. 248 |
| Ishtar's Touch | Lore of the Clans | Pg. 27 |
| Scorpion's Curse | Lore of the Clans | Pg. 26 |
^ Level 3
| Diseased | The Players Guide | Pg. 120 |
| Disease | The Players Guide Second Edition | Pg. 140 |
| Disease | Vampire: The Dark Ages | Pg. 161 |
| Dagon's Call | Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition | Pg. 176 |
| Dagon's Call | Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook | Pg. 208 |
| Dagon's Call | Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition | Pg. 204 |
| Cleanse in Blood | Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages | Pg. 249 |
| Dagon's Call (Vizier/Sorcerer) | Lore of the Clans | Pg. 27 |
^ Level 4
| Blood Agony | The Players Guide | Pg. 120 |
| Blood Agony | The Players Guide Second Edition | Pg. 140 |
| Blood Agony | Vampire: The Dark Ages | Pg. 162 |
| Baal's Caress | Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition | Pg. 176 |
| Baal's Caress | Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook | Pg. 209 |
| Baal's Caress | Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition | Pg. 204 |
| Ripples of the Heart | Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages | Pg. 249 |
| Baal's Caress (Vizier) | Lore of the Clans | Pg. 27-28 |
| Baal's Caress (Sorcerer) | Lore of the Clans | Pg. 27 |
^ Level 5
| Taste of Death | The Players Guide | Pg. 121 |
| Taste of Death | The Players Guide Second Edition | Pg. 140 |
| Taste of Death | Laws of Elysium | Pg. 70 |
| Blood Essence | Vampire: The Dark Ages | Pg. 162 |
| Taste of Death | Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition | Pg. 176 |
| Blood Essence | Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook | Pg. 209 |
| Taste of Death | Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition | Pg. 205 |
| Quicken the Mortals Blood | Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages | Pg. 246 |
| Blood Sweat | Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages | Pg. 249 |
| Taste of Bliss | Lore of the Clans | Pg. 28 |
| Taste of Death (Sorcerer) | Lore of the Clans | Pg. 27 |
^ Level 6
^ Level 7
| Foul Blood | The Players Guide | Pg. 121 |
| Foul Blood | Laws of Elysium | Pg. 71 |
| Leech | The Players Guide | Pg. 121 |
| The Players Guide Second Edition | Pg. 140 | |
| Blood of the Cobra | Clanbook: Assamite | Pg. 27 |
| Hinder the Cainite Vitae | Dark Ages Companion | Pg. 90 |
| Baal's Bloody Talons | Clanbook: Assamite Revised | Pg. 68 |
| Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition | Pg. 207 | |
| Poison the Well of Life | Clanbook: Assamite Revised | Pg. 69 |
| Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition | Pg. 207 | |
| Dam the Heart's River | Players Guide to Low Clans | Pg. 155 |
| Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages | Pg. 251 | |
| Rapturous Touch | Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages | Pg. 247 |
^ Level 8
| Blood Clot | The Players Guide | Pg. 121 |
| The Players Guide Second Edition | Pg. 140 | |
| Blood Curse | Clanbook: Assamite | Pg. 27 |
| Blood Awakening | Dark Ages Companion | Pg. 90 |
| Blood of Destruction | Players Guide to Low Clans | Pg. 155 |
| Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages | Pg. 247 | |
| Songs of Distant Vitae | Clanbook: Assamite Revised | Pg. 69 |
| Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition | Pg. 208 | |
| Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages | Pg. 251 |
^ Level 9
| Erosion | The Players Guide | Pg. 121 |
| The Players Guide Second Edition | Pg. 140 | |
| Weaken the Blood of the Ancients | Players Guide to Low Clans | Pg. 156 |
| Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages | Pg. 247 | |
| Condemn the Sins of the Father | Clanbook: Assamite Revised | Pg. 71 |
| Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition | Pg. 209 | |
| Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages | Pg. 251 |
^ Level 10
| Plot Device | Gehenna | Pg. 182 |
| Immaculate Vitae | The Players Guide | Pg. 121 |
| The Players Guide Second Edition | Pg. 140 |
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