Category:Mara

General Information

 Parent Clan/Covenant:Gangrel

 Nicknames: Lampreys

 Source: Circle of the Crone, p. 180

 Disciplines: Animalism, Protean, Resilience and Nightmare

Bloodline Gift

The Mara are often referred as alien, their worship strange even to the Circle of the Crone. This strange nature also seems to make them hard to understand, and any action that would allow any sort of reading of the Lamprey's mind or emotions suffer her Blood Potency in penalties. This includes, but is not limited to, Empathy rolls, Auspex and some rituals.

Bloodline Bane

All Mara hate the Sun. It has burned their Mother and thrown her into the sea. They would throw themselves upon it to the last Lamprey it if that would quench it’s flame and end it’s existence. The sun hates the Lampreys back, however. All Mara take aggravated damage from the sun.

Devotions

Feast on Fear (Protean ••••, Nightmare ••)

The Mara are the fear of the unknown, the thing staring back when one gazes upon the abyss. It is said some Lampreys can become their prey's worst nightmares, and Feast on Fear has everything to do with these legends. By tapping into her quarry's irrational side, a Mara can force her flesh to mimic what her target fears the most. She spends two vitae and for a number of turns equal to her Blood Potency all Nightmare powers she rolls gain the 8-again quality, for as long as she can be seen by the target.

This power costs 3 Experiences.

Black Blood (Animalism •••••, Nightmare •)

This Devotion changes Lord of the Land when the Mara invokes it over a large body of water. The waters become murky, and all Perception checks underwater suffer a penalty equal to the Mara's Blood Potency. The ecosystem in the region tends to become more aggressive, almost possessed of some evil cunning. While mortals remain unaffected by the eerie aura of the lake if the Mara chooses so, any trespassers take the Mara's Nightmare score as a penalty to all actions, even if they score an Exceptional Success to breach the Lamprey's territory. For as long as Lord of the Land remains active the Mara may use Dread Presence anywhere in her domain.

This power costs 3 Experiences.

Lamprey's Kiss (Protean ••••)

This Devotion allows the Lamprey to choose a unique Unnatural Aspect. This feature turns the Mara’s mouth in a nightmare of teeth. Whenever she feeds violently (Vampire the Requiem, page 94) she may also use the Feed Move without a grapple.

This Devotion costs 2 Experiences.

Sunken Mother’s Embrace (Animalism ••, Resilience ••)

The Sunken Mother is everything to the Mara. In pieces she still found love within to birth her progeny, and this lesson in sacrifice inspired the Lampreys. Through this Devotion a Mara devours an animal, chewing flesh and bone until her stomach is bloated with water and blood. For a full night she will gestate her beloved, and come the next sunset the Lamprey will birth her monstrosity. The sea creature that explodes from the vampire's stomach is a more ferocious version of her natural counterpart, and in the following nights will gain one Size for each dot of the vampire's Blood Potency. It speaks the same wordless speech of the Mara, and follows her orders blindly.

This Devotion costs 2 Experiences.