Quietus

Name:	Quietus
Pronunciation:	kwi-EET-us
Clans:	Assamite
Bloodlines:	Assamite Sorcerers, Assamite Viziers

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. Advanced users are known to develop blood fetishisms thanks to the focus of the Discipline on blood.

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 Sweat: Force a target to profusely sweat blood and dwell on horrible things they've done
  • 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
  • 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. 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

Deed the Heart's Desire VTES card. Art by Mike Chaney

Baal's Bloody Talons VTES card. Art by Nigel Sade

Blood Awakening VTES card. Art by Peter Bergting

Condemn the Sins of the Father VTES card. Art by Veronica Jones

References

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^  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 (Vizier)	Lore of the Clans	Pg. 27
Silence of Death (Sorcerer)	Lore of the Clans	Pg. 26

^  Level 2

Weakness	The Players Guide	Pg. 120
Weakness	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 139
Weakness	Vampire: The Dark Ages	Pg. 161
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
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. 209
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

Blood Empathy	The Players Guide	Pg. 121
Blood Sweat	The Players Guide	Pg. 121
Blood Sweat	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 140
Cleansing of Influence	Clanbook: Assamite	Pg. 27
Thin Blood	Clanbook: Assamite	Pg. 27
Blood Sweat	Vampire: The Dark Ages	Pg. 162
Quicken the Mortal's Blood	Dark Ages Companion	Pg. 90
Cleansed in Blood	Libellus Sanguinis 3: Wolves at the Door	Pg. 67
Blood Sweat	Clanbook: Assamite Revised	Pg. 66
Purification	Clanbook: Assamite Revised	Pg. 67
Ripples of the Heart	Clanbook: Assamite Revised	Pg. 67
Selective Silence	Clanbook: Assamite Revised	Pg. 66
Ripples of the Heart	Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook	Pg. 209
Rapturous Touch	Players Guide to Low Clans	Pg. 154
Deed the Heart's Desire	Caine's Chosen: The Black Hand	Pg. 75
Blood Sweat	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 205
Selective Silence	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 206
Ripples of the Heart	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 206
Purification	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 207
Taste of Death	Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages	Pg. 247	Blood Awakening	Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages	Pg. 250

^  Level 7

Foul Blood	The Players Guide	Pg. 121
Leech	The Players Guide	Pg. 121
Leech	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
Poison the Well of Life	Clanbook: Assamite Revised	Pg. 69
Dam the Heart's River	Players Guide to Low Clans	Pg. 155
Baal's Blood Talons	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 207
Poison the Well of Life	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 207
Rapturous Touch	Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages	Pg. 247
Damn the Heart's River	Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages	Pg. 251

^  Level 8

Blood Clot	The Players Guide	Pg. 121
Blood Clot	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 140
Blood Curse	Clanbook: Assamite	Pg. 27
Blood Awakening	Dark Ages Companion	Pg. 90
Songs of Distant Vitae	Clanbook: Assamite Revised	Pg. 69
Blood of Destruction	Players Guide to Low Clans	Pg. 155
Songs of Distant Vitae	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 208
Blood of Destruction	Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages	Pg. 247
Songs of Distant Vitae	Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages	Pg. 251

^  Level 9

Erosion	The Players Guide	Pg. 121
Erosion	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 140
Condemn the Sins of the Father	Clanbook: Assamite Revised	Pg. 71
Weaken the Blood of the Ancients	Players Guide to Low Clans	Pg. 156
Condemn the Sins of the Father	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 209
Weaken the Blood of Ancients	Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages	Pg. 247
Condemn the Sins of the Father	Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages	Pg. 251

^  Level 10

Plot Device	Gehenna	Pg. 182
Immaculate Vitae	The Players Guide	Pg. 121
Immaculate Vitae	The Players Guide Second Edition	Pg. 140