Scourge

Vampire the Requiem - Covenant - Lancea Sanctum

Scourge is the Discipline of flagellance and pain practiced by the Mortifiers of the Flesh. Through centuries of penitent self-torture, the Kindred of the bloodline have managed to manifest their insights into pains of the flesh and purity of the soul through the Blood. This Discipline is the proof that Mortifiers of the Flesh can attain spiritual freedom and mystical powers through penance; it is the proof that the Flagellants are not simply an extremist faction of the covenant.
Scourge is excruciating to learn, and several of its powers require the Mortifier to endure pain to be used effectively. In time, however, Scourge enables the Mortifier the ability to gain insight through suffering, displace pain, augment and create physical anguish and free himself from some of the limitations of the body. Pious and penitent Flagellants may be tempted to use some of these powers to create needless suffering, however, and thereby require new penance from themselves.
Several of the following powers temporarily alter the way wound penalties and Health charts operate. See “States of Being” on p. 171 of the World of Darkness Rulebook for information on Health boxes and wound penalties in general. See “Damage, Wounds and Healing” on p. 170 of Vampire: The Requiem for relevant information specific to vampires.

Related Ethnicities

• Mortifiers of the Flesh