Protean

Description

Protean is part of God's curse upon Caine in the aspect that it peels away the facade of humanity every vampire has to uphold, revealing the Beast within his soul. Advanced users sometimes find their bodies shifting without their consent, reacting directly to their emotions, bringing them into embarrassing situations.

Protean is the signature Discipline of the Gangrel, and many of its powers are geared towards surviving in the wild or evoking the strengths of natural predators. It is also used by the Ministry to take on the shape or characteristics of snakes, as they once did using Serpentis; as well as the Tzimisce, which in concert with Dominate is used to enable their terrible art of fleshcrafting known as Vicissitude.

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Abilities

Basic

• Witness of Darkness: See in the dark. Usage of the power turns the eyes into a glowing red. (See Faith & Fire p.193)
• Talons of the Beast: Turn one's hands into dangerous claws. (See Faith & Fire p.193)

Intermediate

• Interred in the Earth: Melt into the earth to hide and rest. (See Faith & Fire p.194)
• Form of the Beast: Transform into two types of animals. (See Faith & Fire p.194)
  • Form of the Beast (Revisited): A Gangrel-exclusive variant of Form of the Beast. (See Clanbook: Gangrel (Revised) p.67)

Advanced

• Body of Spirit: Turn yourself into mist. (See Faith & Fire p.194)

Elder

• Blissful Slumber: Hibernate during the day as nearly indestructible mist. (See Faith & Fire p.195)
• Earth Control: Travel beneath the earth. (See Camarilla Guide p.64)
• Flesh of Marble: Damage from physical attacks is halved. (See Camarilla Guide p.64)
• Shape Mastery: Cause shapeshifters to revert to their natural form. (See Clanbook: Gangrel (Revised) p.69)

Master

• Animal Swarm: Transform into a swarm of small creatures. (See Clanbook: Gangrel (Revised) p.70)
• Form of the Ghost (See Laws of Elysium p.70)
• Restore the Mortal Visage: Temporarily appear as one did while mortal. (See Camarilla Guide p.65)
• Shape of the Beast's Wrath: Transform into a powerful man-beast abomination. (See Camarilla Guide p.65)
• Spectral Body: Become incorporeal while retaining one's forms and nonphysical abilities. (See Camarilla Guide p.66)
• Turnabout: Quickly change positions by moving through the earth. (See Anarch Guide p.69)

Ascendant

• Mythic Form: Transform into a specific mythic creature. (See Clanbook: Gangrel (Revised) p.71)
• Purify the Impaled Beast: Violently expel foreign objects from your body, including stakes. (See Camarilla Guide p.66)

Methuselah

• Inward Focus: Drastically improve one's combat abilities. (See Camarilla Guide p.67)

Progenitor Flaw

Cainites with this Progenitor Flaw have their connection to the natural world increased to unnatural levels. Every time the Beast takes over, it leaves a trace of the natural world behind.

Curse

Gangrel clan disadvantage

(See: Faith & Fire, p.58)

Benefit

Free Trait in Survival