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Heart of Darkness

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You’ve learned how to ritualistically separate your heart from your body, providing you immunity to staking, with the side effects of numbing both your Beast and your own conscience. 

Amalgam: Fortitude 2

Cost: Two Rouse checks

System: Make one Rouse check, deal two Aggravated Damage that cannot be mitigated in any way, and spend 30 minutes performing a complex ritual in order to remove your heart from your body. After being separated from its body, a heart removed with this power remains intact. Having your heart removed has the following effects:

  • You are immune to Staking. However, if your heart is found and staked, your body falls into a torpor-like state regardless of where it is in relation to your removed heart.
  • While removed from your body, your heart becomes immune to all powers that could view it remotely, such as the Auspex power Clairvoyance.
  • While removed from your body, you may choose to use the Obfuscate power of Conceal on your Heart. This  does not end when your heart is no longer on your person.
  • You gain a +2 bonus to resist all types of Frenzy.
  • You suffer a -2 penalty to all Remorse tests.
  • Your heart has the same number of health levels as the character it was removed from. If it is reduced to zero health levels, its owner falls to torpor. If a heart is completely consumed by fire or sunlight for three rounds, both the heart and its owner are destroyed utterly.
  • Your heart may be fed blood and be fed from as if it were a vampire of your Blood Potency. This means a vampire may commit diablerie upon you through your removed heart. Vampires feeding from your heart are subject to the Blood Bond.

You can replace your heart by making two Rouse checks and spending 30 minutes reversing the process. Replacing your heart in this way only causes one Aggravated Damage that cannot be mitigated in any way. You cannot place a heart in any body except the one it was removed from.

Duration: Indefinite until destroyed or returned

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