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The First Inquisition

Knowledge of earlier vampire hunts provides leads, dangerous contacts, and ways to navigate the contemporary Second Inquisition.

Overview

Choose benefits that fit your history and agree their people, places, and obligations with the Storyteller. Each benefit below is a separate purchase.

Details

Purchasing benefits
Buy each benefit separately at its listed dot cost. Higher-dot purchases do not include lower-dot benefits.

Benefits

1 · Mistakes of the Past

Once per story, ask the Storyteller for one fact concerning the original Inquisition.

Earlier tiers
Not required

2 · Names of the Guilty

Once per story, identify a local descendant of a Kindred who aided the original Inquisition, if one exists in the domain.

Earlier tiers
Not required

3 · The Sect of St. James

The abbé of an older, fanatical inquisitorial sect is a four-dot Contact available once per story. Their hostility toward modern hunters does not make them safe allies.

Earlier tiers
Not required

4 · The Second Act

You have an information source inside the Second Inquisition or local Catholic archdiocese. You can solicit information or plant misleading intelligence, but do not control this person.

Earlier tiers
Not required

5 · Black Spot

Once per story, taking refuge at a particular place in your domain causes Second Inquisition hunters to abandon their search for you or another hunted person. Why they avoid the site is a Storyteller mystery.

Earlier tiers
Not required

Feature

Learning
Independent tiers

References

Vampire: The Masquerade Corebook · p. 388 (PDF p. 390)
The First Inquisition · Verified: identity, eligibility, five separately purchased benefits, costs and limitations
VTM Wiki: Loresheets · Open source ↗
Corebook Loresheets; identity and eligibility · Verified: identity, eligibility, five separately purchased benefits, costs and limitations