Cost: 1
Vitae (spent by one swearing) and 1
Willpower (spent by one sworn to)
Action: Instant
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.
