Updated: 08 January 1999

MERITS & FLAWS

                    These special Merits & Flaws are almost unique to the Uræus setting.

Merits:

Divinity (7 Merit):

                    You can believe it or not, but you were not Embraced at random: You had in you the spark of divinity that showed that you were but a God's Avatar (ie: a Jaggling. See Egyptian Mythology and the World of Darkness chapter). This spark could manifest itself through a Mage's Avatar, Innate Faith, or anything else, but it was ''special'' enough (even for those examples) to be the proof of your divinity.
This Merit violate innate rules of the Vampire System (or Storyteller System, anyway):
1) You're unaffected by Faith Rating equal or under your Willpower, no matter the source of the mythology.
2) You have a particular aura: Gold and silver veins streak your aura like lightning in a night sky. 4 successes are required to see them.
3) There is an empathic link enabling an Antediluvian (or even Caine, or Lillith, of the judeo-christian god) to control members of his Bloodline. You (and your Bloodline) are simply out of the system, and unaffected by this tie of Blood. Your own bloodline feels this link relating them to you, not to the Antediluvian, or your Sire. Furthermore The rule stating that an Elder is immune to the Blood Bond with members of his Childer (etc.) are invalid when applied to you and your Bloodline.
It is whispered that some other powers can be acquired through this Merit: Osiris was believed to keep his Vampiric powers even in Death, Anubis to walk at will the World of the Dead and the World of the Living, changing at will, Sechat was believed to wield Ra Hekau, even as a Vampire, etc..
Every Founder has this Merit, end it is not unknown among some other Childer to have it too. No one but the Childer of Set can have this Merit, and this spark is destroyed through the Embrace by any other Bloodline. Only one exception is known: Amon, Childe of the Lasombra Montu, never aknowledged his Clan, and he was believed to be the mouthpiece and arm of the Great God of Mystery: Amon.
Note: It is very common to find the following Merits in conjonction with the Divinity Merit, acquired upon the Embrace, as Vampiric Vitae mingles with pure Divinity: Strong Blood (5 Merit, Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand), Unbondable (3 Merit Vampire Storyteller's Companion), Blasé (2 Merit Clanbook: Toreador) and New Bloodline (7 Merit Outcasts: Guide of Pariahs).
Because of the particular nature of their Embrace, the Founders automatically have the Divinity Merit and the New Bloodline Merit.

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Corrupted (4 Flaw):

                    You are among the Childer of Set who secretly (and perhaps unconsciously) follow the commands of Apep. You probably are of the Ouro-Sen Bloodline (but still can be from another) and you will be destroyed if the Childer (or even Set) discover your corruption, or when the Purge will begin, or at the hand of Horus forces. Or perhaps you will survive, thus joining the Han-Ouib-Apoph, the Priests of the Wyrm, or the Followers of Set as you will be known after...
The problem is that the Path of Enlightment that could enable you to keep the Beast under control (i.e.: The Path of the Typhon, or any other Path), will only be created after 2500 BC, and only effective a long time after (from 1700 BC to 930 BC). Until then, you're condemned to survive with a low Humanity.
You can't learn Bardo, but you can Learn the Thaumaturgical Path of Corruption instead. You will win Serpentis as a Clan Discipline after the Corruption of Set (935 BC).

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