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Valeren

Valeren

According to the Salubri Antitribu, Valeren is a forgotten Discipline unearthed in their research into their progenitor's history. While the mainstream Salubri practice a healing Discipline, the antitribu instead follow the warrior's path, dedicating themselves to one of the many faces of their inscrutable father.
Valeren is a Discipline of righteous wrath, originally developed by the demon-slayers and questing knights of the Salubri from nights long past. It shares a bit in common with the Obeah Discipline upheld by the Salubri, but it quickly diverges into its own focus and ideology. 
Salubri antitribu walk the road of the crusader, and they refuse to become soul-stealers or sacrificial lambs.
Like Obeah, Valeren imparts its practitioners with the fabled third eye of Saulot. The third eye appears at the time the vampire masters the second level of Valeren. The precise nature of the eye, as well as its purpose, are all but unknown to vampires outside the Salubri antitribu. 
Some suspect the eye grants them sight beyond sight, while others venture that the eye allows them to see the infernal taint in non-Sabbat Salubri themselves.

O Sense Vitality
The vampire can feel the flow of a subject's life force after touching him. Sense Vitality may 
be used to determine how much damage a person can withstand before death, which can be useful 
in sizing up a potential opponent. It can also aid in medical diagnosis or feeding, as it can 
reveal infections and diseases.
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System:
The Salubri antitribu must touch the target to see how close to death she is. This action also 
requires a Perception + Empathy roll (difficulty 7). One success on this roll identifies a 
subject as mortal, vampire, ghoul or other creature (or none of the above). Two successes 
reveal how much damage the subject has suffered. Three successes tell how full the subject's 
blood pool is (if a vampire) or how many blood points she has left in her system 
(if a mortal or other blood-bearing form of life).
Four successes reveal any diseases in the subject's bloodstream, such as hemophilia or HIV. A 
player may opt to learn the information yielded by a lesser degree of success. Alternately, 
this power may be used as a sort of limited 'aftersight,' revealing to the Cainite how the 
subject came to be in her current state. Each success on this roll allows the player to ask the 
Storyteller one question about the subject's health or health levels.
'Was he drugged?' or 'Are his wounds aggravated?' are valid question but, 'Did vampires do this?' 
or 'What did the Lupine who killed him look like?' are not. The Salubri antitribu may use this 
power on herself if she has injuries but has somehow lost the memory of how she received the wounds.
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OO Anesthetic Touch
This power may be used to block a voluntary subject's pain from wounds or disease, or to put a 
mortal to sleep. As with Sense Vitality, physical contact is required to anaesthetize someone. 
This power may not be used to block the Cainite's own pain.
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System:
If the subject is willing to undergo this process, the player needs to spend a blood point to 
block the subject's pain and make a Willpower roll (difficulty 6). This power allows the 
subject to ignore all wound penalties for one turn per success. A second application of this 
power may be made one the first one has expired, at the cost of another blood point and another 
Willpower roll.
If the subject is unwilling for some reason, the player must make a contested Willpower roll 
against the subject (difficulty 8). To put a mortal to sleep, the same system applies. The 
mortal sleeps for five to 10 hours 0 whatever his normal sleep cycle is - and regains one 
temporary Willpower point on awakening. He sleeps peacefully and does not suffer nightmares or 
the effects of any derangements while asleep.
He may be awakened normally (or violently). Cainites are unaffected by this power - their 
corpselike bodies are too tied to death.
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OOO Burning Touch
The vampire touches his subject, shocking her with a searing pain. This power causes no actual 
damage to the subject, though prolonged exposure to this unnatural pain sometimes leaves 
victims traumatized. The Salubri antitribu use this power to extract information from their 
enemies, and also sometimes to cause additional pain to those who have hunted and persecuted 
them before delivering true Final Death.
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System:
The vampire must touch his subject for this power to take effect, and the effects diminish 
rapidly after he removes his hand. Also, the player spends at least one blood point to activate 
this power. Each blood point so spent reduces the victim's dice pools by two. This power is 
often used in conjunction with Interrogation and Torture, wearing down the subject's resistance 
and rendering him much more tractable.
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OOOO Ending the Watch
The watch referred to in this power's name is the death watch. In modern nights, the Salubri 
antitribu use this power frequently, as many nihilistic and desperate individuals seek any 
escape they can from the bleakness of the Final Nights.
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System:
To End the Watch, the vampire places his hand over the subject's heart, and the player spends a 
Willpower point. The subject must be willing to end his life; if she struggles or harbors a 
spark of hope, this power fails. Otherwise, the subject's heart slowly ceases to beat, and 
death comes like an eternal sleep, restful and painless. Subjects of Ending the
Watch may not be subsequently Embraced, and none has ever been reported to have become a wraith.
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OOOOO Vengeance of Samiel
By invoking the names of mighty Salubri warriors of nights past, the Salubri antitribu strikes 
his foe with inhuman force and accuracy. This power causes the third eye to open and glow with 
a baleful redness. Some Salubri antitribu who use this power close their normal eyes, 
signifying their disdain for their foes and horrifying them at the same time.
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System:
This power costs three blood points. Any single attack made by the vampire automatically hits 
the target as mystic forces guide the blow. Attacks made in this manner may not be dodged, 
though they may be blocked, parried and soaked as normal.
The blow strikes as if the Salubri antitribu had succeeded with all of his Dexterity + Melee or 
Brawling dice pool (which makes for significant damage). This power may be used only once per 
turn, and only when the Salubri antitribu's sole action is the attack. Additionally, this power 
does not work for ranged weapons, only bare hands or melee weapons.
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OOOOO O Blissful Agony
The vampire may cause pain with a mere touch, as per Burning Touch, but this pain lingers and 
swells even after the Fury has removed her hand. It is believed that this power was originally 
used to acclimated warrior salubri to the pain they would experience in battle, but among the 
Sabbat Salubri, Blissful agony has been turned to more brutal uses. If applied with enough 
intensity, Blissful Agony can drive vampires to the point of Frenzy, incapacitate Lupines and 
even kill mortals outright.

System: The player makes a willpower roll (difficulty 8) and spends a blood point. The power 
lasts for one scene, though this duration may be prolonged if the Salubri antitribu wishes with 
a subsequent willpower roll (though no additional blood points need be spent). The character 
must touch her subject for the power to take effect initially. 

At the vampire's option, she may cause actual physical damage to the victim at the rate of one 
health level per blood point spent, though touch must be maintained for this to happen. Damage 
to vampires and other supernatural creatures in this fashion vanishes at the next sunset, but 
mortals must heal the damage normally. This damage is considered lethal damage, and it may not 
be soaked by mortals (though vampires and other supernaturals may).

To induce a frenzy in a victim, the Salubri must cause damage in excess of the subject's 
willpower. At this point the subject must make a willpower roll (difficulty 6) or succumb to 
frenzy.

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