Post by The Overseer on Oct 18, 2006 10:12:00 GMT -5
Doing some research here, these are powers I am suggesting we add to the list:
Intermediate:
1. Empathy: Vampires refer to being able to "smell" emotions such as fear and lust, and some vampires are able to detect lies. It is not clear precisely how much of this ability involves literal scent and how much involves mental powers. However, mental powers are clearly a significant component - once Jean-Claude makes Anita his human servant, he is unable to read her emotions, which suggests that the technique is not purely physical.
2. Supplementor: London's power is that he is exceptionally good "food" for the ardeur itself. Using the ardeur on him generates additional power, and he is capable of satisfying the ardeur much more often than anyone else.
3. Lustration: Requiem can inflame physical lust in his victims. (And, of course, in himself).
Master:
1. Mass hypnosis: Some vampires are able to exert a hypnotic effect over an entire crowd. For example, one of the vampire comedians at the Laughing Corpse used mass hypnosis to convince his audiences that he was funny. Mass hypnosis is not a widely known vampire power, and has its limits. For example in Bloody Bones, Anita doubts that any vampire could hold three murder victims simultaneously hypnotized while killing them.
2. Deep Rolling: Given time, a sufficiently powerful vampire can put a victim into an effectively permanent hypnotic state. In Guilty Pleasures, Aubrey uses this technique on Anita's friend Catherine in order to blackmail Anita -- Anita knows that once deeply rolled, Catherine is Aubrey's to command unless Anita meets his demands.
3. Power drain: Jean-Claude is capable of drawing all of the power from vampires that he has personally sired, reducing them to a weakened, near-skeletal state.
4. Corruption: Morte d'Amour and selected members of his bloodline are able to cause "corruption" with their bite -- unless the victim is sufficiently powerful to resist, even a single bite can cause a victim to decay and die. This ability appears to be significantly more rare in Morte d'Amour's bloodline than the ability to rot and reform.
5. Infatuation: Augustine has the ability to make others love him. As with the other powers in Belle's line, unless he is extremely careful, the power also works in reverse, forcing him to love his victim.
Alpha:
1. Energy Source: Some shapeshifters, such as Richard can share their power with others by allowing them to feed on the shapeshifter's blood.
(This is also implimenting the levels of a Witch, just like Lycans and Vamps)
Experienced:
1. Detect Power: The ability to detect magics/energy of the Preternatural kind being used within the area they are in, roughly one block in radius, if it is anything other than Witch's magic, they can only detect it's use, however spells and rituals the Witch will be able to tell what is exactly being done.
Powerful Practitioner:
1. Curse: A sufficiently powerful witch can curse others. Anita describes this process as not being a ritual, but rather the result of a witch focusing his or her entire magical power on another. One of the characters in The Lunatic Cafe was cursed to become a shapeshifter and shift into a swan.
2. Familiar Possession: Similar to the relationship between a vampire and its human servant, a witch's powers are magnified if the witch's familiar is nearby. In early modern English witchcraft, a familiar spirit, commonly called familiar (from Middle English familiar, related to family) or imp is a spirit who obeys a witch, conjurer, or other users of the supernatural, and serves and helps that person. Although they may not be as intelligent as their masters, they are often as intelligent as the average human. Familiars often perform domestic duties and help in farming, but also aid the person in bewitching people. If they look like ordinary animals, they can be used to spy on their masters' enemies. These spirits are also said to be able to inspire artists and writers (compare with muses). Some reclusive wizards rely on familiars as their closest friends.
Vampire
Intermediate:
1. Empathy: Vampires refer to being able to "smell" emotions such as fear and lust, and some vampires are able to detect lies. It is not clear precisely how much of this ability involves literal scent and how much involves mental powers. However, mental powers are clearly a significant component - once Jean-Claude makes Anita his human servant, he is unable to read her emotions, which suggests that the technique is not purely physical.
2. Supplementor: London's power is that he is exceptionally good "food" for the ardeur itself. Using the ardeur on him generates additional power, and he is capable of satisfying the ardeur much more often than anyone else.
3. Lustration: Requiem can inflame physical lust in his victims. (And, of course, in himself).
Master:
1. Mass hypnosis: Some vampires are able to exert a hypnotic effect over an entire crowd. For example, one of the vampire comedians at the Laughing Corpse used mass hypnosis to convince his audiences that he was funny. Mass hypnosis is not a widely known vampire power, and has its limits. For example in Bloody Bones, Anita doubts that any vampire could hold three murder victims simultaneously hypnotized while killing them.
2. Deep Rolling: Given time, a sufficiently powerful vampire can put a victim into an effectively permanent hypnotic state. In Guilty Pleasures, Aubrey uses this technique on Anita's friend Catherine in order to blackmail Anita -- Anita knows that once deeply rolled, Catherine is Aubrey's to command unless Anita meets his demands.
3. Power drain: Jean-Claude is capable of drawing all of the power from vampires that he has personally sired, reducing them to a weakened, near-skeletal state.
4. Corruption: Morte d'Amour and selected members of his bloodline are able to cause "corruption" with their bite -- unless the victim is sufficiently powerful to resist, even a single bite can cause a victim to decay and die. This ability appears to be significantly more rare in Morte d'Amour's bloodline than the ability to rot and reform.
5. Infatuation: Augustine has the ability to make others love him. As with the other powers in Belle's line, unless he is extremely careful, the power also works in reverse, forcing him to love his victim.
Lycanthrope
Alpha:
1. Energy Source: Some shapeshifters, such as Richard can share their power with others by allowing them to feed on the shapeshifter's blood.
Witches
(This is also implimenting the levels of a Witch, just like Lycans and Vamps)
Experienced:
1. Detect Power: The ability to detect magics/energy of the Preternatural kind being used within the area they are in, roughly one block in radius, if it is anything other than Witch's magic, they can only detect it's use, however spells and rituals the Witch will be able to tell what is exactly being done.
Powerful Practitioner:
1. Curse: A sufficiently powerful witch can curse others. Anita describes this process as not being a ritual, but rather the result of a witch focusing his or her entire magical power on another. One of the characters in The Lunatic Cafe was cursed to become a shapeshifter and shift into a swan.
2. Familiar Possession: Similar to the relationship between a vampire and its human servant, a witch's powers are magnified if the witch's familiar is nearby. In early modern English witchcraft, a familiar spirit, commonly called familiar (from Middle English familiar, related to family) or imp is a spirit who obeys a witch, conjurer, or other users of the supernatural, and serves and helps that person. Although they may not be as intelligent as their masters, they are often as intelligent as the average human. Familiars often perform domestic duties and help in farming, but also aid the person in bewitching people. If they look like ordinary animals, they can be used to spy on their masters' enemies. These spirits are also said to be able to inspire artists and writers (compare with muses). Some reclusive wizards rely on familiars as their closest friends.