Mage's Blood: The Moontide Quartet Book 1

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With Elizabeth Bear’s Eternal Sky set in the steppes of Mongolia, The Chronicles of Sword and Sand from Howard Andrew Jones set in Baghdad, and several others, this is a trend I would gladly see continue in the future. The people of the Rondian Empire to the west, on the continent of Yuros, are given magic – gnosis – in their theology, and Hair describes it in detail throughout the story and their religion strongly resembles European Christianity. Vitae per "point" worth of blood taken and imposed a -2 penalty to resist Frenzy for a number of nights equal to twice the number of blood points (not Vitae) taken.

Interestingly, by RAW it looks like you need a merit to get nourishment at all from other supernaturals in 2e.It permanently enables a number of your utility flasks, providing their benefits constantly with no work required on your part. Alaran Mercer is a quarter-blood mage, meaning that he can wield the magic, the gnosis, but is not all-powerful like a pureblood or Ascendant might be. As such, their simulated blood probably tastes like a rich banquet, although a vampire drunk on Sekhem might begin to feel the weight of ages. In my conversion I'm probably just going to make it a straight x2 Vitae to avoid getting into fractional amounts of Vitae, and to make the Vitae gained more consistent with the Duration, of I even put a Duration on it.

Elena Anborn, Alaron’s aunt, is a half-blood warrior-mage in service of Gurvon Gyle, a sort of spymaster for the Rondian throne. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. A Ordo-based chronicle, or at least chapter, as an example, could be entirely based on investigating the effects of exotic blood. Similarly, the Harvest craft that increases flask effect does not deplete because the flasks are not actively used. He can even lend different effects depending on particular details about the individual victim and the individual vampire.Mage’s Blood is told from the perspective of three primary characters as well as many other minor characters. Magic Utility Flasks cannot be Used prevents the player from activating Magic Utility Flasks equipped on their character.

Every dozen years, the Leviathan Bridge rises above sea level and becomes traversable – known as the Moontide. Werewolves: Drinking the blood of a half-flesh, half-spirit hunter of men is a great way to find yourself unconsciously obeying strange folkloric taboos — much like those followed by the strix. Werewolves: I think it was mentioned somewhere in 1st edition of Requiem that each success on a feeding roll vs a werewolf gives 2 Vitae, but the werewolf might go into Death Rage. Fixed a bug where Mageblood could sometimes fail to apply flask effects to you, for example, when swapping out an equipped flask for another. This belt means that regardless of what your build is, you’ll sustain your utility flasks during 100% of gameplay, even long boss fights.

It has everything a fan could want – detailed magic, good characters and evil characters (of both genders) and some in between, a compelling plot, and twists aplenty. Excessive consumption might confer temporary glitches or temporarily render the vampire a source of aetheric resonance. Alongside these three there are several others, including Gyle himself, a princess, a particularly foul-mouthed saint, and more.