Quietus

Name:	Quietus
Symbol:	Quietus
Pronunciation:	kwi-EET-us
Clans:	Assamite

Quietus is the signature Discipline of the Assamites that grants them influence over the blood of others. 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 disease spread quicker 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.

Standard Powers

• Silence of Death ^[1]: Make the area around you completely silent
• Scorpion's Touch ^[2]: Create a contact poison that greatly debilitates a victim physically
• Dagon's Call ^[3]: Cause harm from afar to a person who you have touched within the last hour
• Baal's Caress ^[4]: Create a poison that can be coated on weapons to make them more dangerous
• ^[5]
  • Blood Essence: 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: Spit acidic blood at a target

Advanced Powers

• ^[6]
  • Blood Sweat: Force a target to profusely sweat blood and dwell on horrible things they've done
  • Purification: Cleanse an individual of mental and emotional influences over them, even curses and other magical effects
  • Quicken the Mortal's Blood: 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

• ^[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

References

^  Level 1

Silence of Death	VTM: The Players Guide	Pg. 120
Silence of Death	The 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

^  Level 2

Weakness	VTM: 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

^  Level 3

Diseased	VTM: 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

^  Level 4

Blood Agony	VTM: 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

^  Level 5

Taste of Death	VTM: 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

^  Level 6

Blood Empathy	VTM: The Players Guide	Pg. 121
Blood Sweat	VTM: 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

^  Level 7

Foul Blood	VTM: The Players Guide	Pg. 121
Leech	VTM: 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

^  Level 8

Blood Clot	VTM: 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

^  Level 9

Erosion	VTM: 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

^  Level 10

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