Domus
This Discipline reflects a Malocusian’s connection to the haven he has bound to himself. As Spiders grow older and more powerful in this Discipline, the distinction between the vampire and his haven breaks down.
Before a Kindred can use any of the powers of the Domus Discipline, he must perform what Malocusians call “the investiture.” Investiture requires the Kindred to mark the perimeter of his haven with his own Vitae. The larger the area claimed, the more Vitae the investiture requires. Full investiture (i.e., completely marking a haven’s perimeter) requires several nights and a great deal of Vitae. Even a modest haven consequently requires the Kindred to feed much more than he would need to under normal circumstances. The investiture is something of a rite of passage and sometimes the most dangerous portion of a new Malocusian’s Requiem. Once it’s completed, however, the investiture provides the Kindred with security and power within his haven that other Kindred can only envy.
Each dot of Haven Size requires five human or vampire Vitae for a complete investiture, and the Spider must release this blood from his own body for the ceremony to be effective. The Spider has only as many nights to seed the ground of his haven with blood as he has dots in Haven Size. Spiders with larger havens, worth at least four or five dots, must then acquire and use as much as 20 Vitae in just four nights. Even if the Malocusian has no moral or physical difficulty with hunting so many targets (or utterly ruining a poor few), the local consequences of such a spree are considerable. Some Spiders cast a large net in those first nights, while others go on a hunting craze in some far-removed neighborhood.
Before a Kindred can use any of the powers of the Domus Discipline, he must perform what Malocusians call “the investiture.” Investiture requires the Kindred to mark the perimeter of his haven with his own Vitae. The larger the area claimed, the more Vitae the investiture requires. Full investiture (i.e., completely marking a haven’s perimeter) requires several nights and a great deal of Vitae. Even a modest haven consequently requires the Kindred to feed much more than he would need to under normal circumstances. The investiture is something of a rite of passage and sometimes the most dangerous portion of a new Malocusian’s Requiem. Once it’s completed, however, the investiture provides the Kindred with security and power within his haven that other Kindred can only envy.
Each dot of Haven Size requires five human or vampire Vitae for a complete investiture, and the Spider must release this blood from his own body for the ceremony to be effective. The Spider has only as many nights to seed the ground of his haven with blood as he has dots in Haven Size. Spiders with larger havens, worth at least four or five dots, must then acquire and use as much as 20 Vitae in just four nights. Even if the Malocusian has no moral or physical difficulty with hunting so many targets (or utterly ruining a poor few), the local consequences of such a spree are considerable. Some Spiders cast a large net in those first nights, while others go on a hunting craze in some far-removed neighborhood.
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