Blood-Tell Oath

The Invictus pps. 178-179
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The Blood-Tell Oath is the simplest form of supernatural Blood Oath. The swearing Kindred writes something in his own blood, expending a single Vitae, and the person to whom he is swearing expends a Willpower point. The text remains fresh until and unless the oath is broken. As long as the blood remains fresh, it can be consumed to provide one Vitae, or tasted to test a Kindred’s qualities of blood. Doing so risks blood addiction in the normal way.

In most places, the swearing Kindred is required to write the text of his oath, but that is not required for the power to work. An Invictus Priscus of a Carthian city in Europe requires those swearing to write their lineage for seven generations back; those who cannot do so are judged unworthy to swear any oath to him.

It is believed that, in the distant past, this power was a Devotion. However, for whatever reason, the trick can now be taught to any Kindred in a single night (for a cost of 5 experience points). Since both the Kindred swearing the oath and the person he is swearing to must know it, this is all but common knowledge within the Invictus, and not uncommon outside it.

Only one person must know the Oath; the person swearing the Oath does not need to know the Devotion.