Talents
Ride (Drive)
- * Novice: Anything but routine travel and care strikes you as work.
- ** Practiced: You can manage a gallop, a difficult turn, or a small jump.
- *** Competent: You ride in hunts and foul weather, perform splendid jumps and avoid saddle sores.
- **** Expert: You are as comfortable in the saddle as in the salon.
- ***** Master: Dashing stunts and horseback are your raison d’être.
Academics
- * Student: You are literate. You may be able to recite important passages from the classics you read in boarding school. Perhaps you read The Daily Telegraph.
- ** College: You understand important passages from the classics, read books for leisure, and subscribe to The Times.
- *** Masters: You understand artistic trends, both historical and modern, and keep up with new social sciences. You could be published.
- **** Doctorate: You may teach or lecture and are sometimes invited to university and museum social functions for intellectuals and poseurs.
- ***** Scholar: You are recognized throughout the Empire as one of civilization’s great minds.
Enigmas (Computers)
- * Student: You are good at the puzzles in newspapers.
- ** College: You can tackle large, complex puzzles with time.
- *** Masters: You recognize, solve, and explain riddles with ease.
- **** Doctorate: You identify and answer riddles that may have gone unnoticed for centuries.
- ***** Scholar: You find codes in gibberish and patterns in chaos.
Backgrounds
Generation
The purity of the Kindred blood has not yet begun to falter. In this last great age of vampiric power, when Kindred can still maintain private circles of undead society in their palatial estates, powerful sires are more common. The fears of weaker generations are merest of rumor. The vampires of these nights are potent and confident. The worst times are still a generation off, after all. In the Victorian age, characters without dots in this Background begin play as 12th Generation Kindred.
- * 11th Generation
- ** 10th Generation
- *** 9th Generation
- **** 8th Generation
- ***** 7th Generation