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Quietus is the signature Discipline of the Assamites that grants them influence over the blood of others.

Overview[]

Though each of the Assamite castes possesses Quietus as an in-clan Discipline, it is primarily known for being an assassin's tool in the hands of the Warrior caste, and the lower level powers are largely geared towards that end. Developed by the Assamite Antediluvian, Haqim, in ages past, its use by his descendants is associated with passing judgment on Cainites and protecting mortals from their depredations.

One strange side effect of such power over blood, however, is that it seems to leave bloodlines with an affinity for Quietus vulnerable to blood curses. Also, blood diseases spread more quickly among users of Quietus.[1] Advanced users are known to develop blood fetishisms thanks to the focus of the Discipline on blood.[2]

Official Abilities[]

Included below are the official powers described in supplements for Vampire: The Masquerade and Dark Ages: Vampire. Sources are described below in the order they were printed. In the case the alternate system detailed below is used, these are the abilities of the Warrior Caste.

Standard Powers (Warrior)[]

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    • Silence of Death: Make the area around you completely silent
    • Blood Essence (V20DA): Draw out the heart's blood of an exsanguinated and weakened target
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    • Scorpion's Touch: Create a contact poison that greatly debilitates a victim physically
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    • Dagon's Call: Cause harm from afar to a person who you have touched within the last hour
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    • Baal's Caress: Create a poison that can be coated on weapons to make them more dangerous
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    • Blood Essence (DAV): Extract the heart's blood of a vampire as a thick liquid that can later be consumed, granting the effects of diablerie
    • Taste of Death (Revised): Spit acidic blood at a target
    • Quicken the Mortals Blood (V20DA): Receive two blood points for each point drained

Advanced Powers[]

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    • Blood Awakening: Scan the blood you ingest for memories
    • Blood Sweat: Force a target to profusely sweat blood and dwell on horrible things they've done
    • Cleansing of Influence (CB:AS1): Remove non-blood based influences such as Dominate
    • Deed the Heart's Desire: Cut yourself off from all sounds and distractions in order to meditate or cause a victim to become insane
    • Purification: Cleanse an individual of mental and emotional influences over them, even curses and other magical effects
    • Quicken the Mortal's Blood (Revised): Receive two blood points for each point drained
    • Rapturous Touch: Drink blood through the skin
    • Ripples of the Heart: Leave emotions in the blood of a mortal that will be transmitted to any vampire that feeds from them
    • Selective Silence: As Silence of Death, except you can designate certain people to be able to make sound
    • Thin Blood: Make a vampire unable to heal their wounds with vitae
    • Taste of Death (V20DA): Spit acidic blood at a target
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    • Baal's Bloody Talons: As Baal's Caress, and it deals even more damage
    • Blood of the Cobra: Use any Quietus power by spitting on the target
    • Dam the Heart's River: Take control of a target's blood point expenditure
    • Foul Blood: Poison the blood of a target so that only you can feed from them
    • Hinder the Cainite Vitae: Make a target unable to spend blood points
    • Leech: Drain blood from a target through skin contact
    • Poison the Well of Life: Make a mortal's blood dangerous to drink by anyone except you
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    • Blood Awakening: Communicate with blood in one's system, either receiving insight from a mortal's memories or causing a Cainite to become confused and disoriented
    • Blood Clot: Cause a victim's blood to clot, becoming unusable
    • Blood Curse: Make it harder for a vampire to heal wounds, unable to spend blood points in other ways
    • Blood of Destruction: Make the blood in one's body incredibly acidic
    • Songs of Distant Vitae: Force difficult flashbacks on a target of their victims' experiences
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    • Condemn the Sins of the Father: Apply a lower level Quietus power to an entire lineage of vampires
    • Erosion: Reduce all of a target's physical attributes to zero
    • Weaken the Blood of the Ancients: Temporarily increase a target's generation

Alternate System: Abed Dume[]

V20 and V20 Dark Ages introduce an alternate system that splits Quietus according to Caste. The powers described above are the abilities of the Warrior Caste, while the Sorcerer and Vizier Castes have their own ways to utilize Quietus. Every Assamite can learn every application of Quietus, but those that come natural to his Caste are those that are most easily learned.

According to this version, the Clan referred to the Discipline as a whole as Abed Dume, a phoenician term meaning "destroy blood". The applications used by the Warrior Caste were referred to as Hikmat Dume ("blood wisdom"), later latinized as Cruscitus, while those of the Vizier Caste were referred to as Minhit Dume ("blood offering"), later latinized as Hematus. While Assamites can learn each application regardless of caste, both the Cruscitus and Hematus are more common in their respective castes.[3] The Sorcerer Caste variant does not have a separate name.

Standard Powers (Vizier)[]

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    • Silence of Death: As the Warrior Power, but the Vizier can choose who can hear him when he speaks
    • Blood Tempering (V20DA): Preserves items by infusing them with blood
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    • Truth of Blood (V20DA): Taste the blood of a target to learn if it has lied
    • Ishtar's Touch: Create a contact poison that leaves the target inebriated
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    • Cleansed in Blood (V20DA): Cleanse an individual of mental and emotional influences over them, even curses and other magical effects
    • Dagon's Call: Cause harm from afar to the mind a person who you have touched within the last hour
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    • Ripples of the Heart (V20DA): Taste emotions and feelings out of blood
    • Baal's Caress: Coat a weapon in your blood, each person hit loses a Willpower point
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    • Blood Sweat (V20DA): Force a target to profusely sweat blood and dwell on horrible things they have done
    • Taste of Bliss: Exhale red mist against a target that draws away Willpower

Standard Powers (Sorcerer)[]

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    • Silence of Death: As the Warrior Power, but the Sorcerers own voice can be heard
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    • Scorpion's Curse: Place a ward on a solid surface that activates the Warrior power when touched
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    • Dagon's Call: Cause harm from afar to the mind a person who you have touched within the last hour
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    • Baal's Caress: Perceive spirit beings
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    • Taste of Death: Spit acidic blood that hurts immaterial creatures

Gallery[]

VTES cards[]

References[]




^  Level 1

Silence of Death The Players Guide Pg. 120
Silence of Death Vampire Players Guide Second Edition Pg. 139
Silence of Death Vampire: The Dark Ages Pg. 161
Silence of Death Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition Pg. 175
Silence of Fiery Blood Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook Pg. 208
Silence of Death Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Pg. 203
Blood Essence Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 244
Blood Tempering Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 248
Silence of Death (Sorcerer) Lore of the Clans Pg. 26
Silence of Death (Vizier) Lore of the Clans Pg. 27

^  Level 2

Weakness The Players Guide Pg. 120
Weakness The Players Guide Second Edition Pg. 139
Weakness Vampire: The Dark Ages Pg. 161
Weakness Laws of Elysium Pg. 70
Scorpion's Touch Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition Pg. 175
Scorpion's Touch Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook Pg. 208
Scorpion's Touch Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Pg. 203
Truth of Blood Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 248
Ishtar's Touch Lore of the Clans Pg. 27
Scorpion's Curse Lore of the Clans Pg. 26

^  Level 3

Diseased The Players Guide Pg. 120
Disease The Players Guide Second Edition Pg. 140
Disease Vampire: The Dark Ages Pg. 161
Dagon's Call Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition Pg. 176
Dagon's Call Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook Pg. 208
Dagon's Call Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Pg. 204
Cleanse in Blood Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 249
Dagon's Call (Vizier/Sorcerer) Lore of the Clans Pg. 27

^  Level 4

Blood Agony The Players Guide Pg. 120
Blood Agony The Players Guide Second Edition Pg. 140
Blood Agony Vampire: The Dark Ages Pg. 162
Baal's Caress Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition Pg. 176
Baal's Caress Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook Pg. 209
Baal's Caress Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Pg. 204
Ripples of the Heart Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 249
Baal's Caress (Vizier) Lore of the Clans Pg. 27-28
Baal's Caress (Sorcerer) Lore of the Clans Pg. 27

^  Level 5

Taste of Death The Players Guide Pg. 121
Taste of Death The Players Guide Second Edition Pg. 140
Taste of Death Laws of Elysium Pg. 70
Blood Essence Vampire: The Dark Ages Pg. 162
Taste of Death Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition Pg. 176
Blood Essence Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook Pg. 209
Taste of Death Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Pg. 205
Quicken the Mortals Blood Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 246
Blood Sweat Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 249
Taste of Bliss Lore of the Clans Pg. 28
Taste of Death (Sorcerer) Lore of the Clans Pg. 27

^  Level 6

Blood Empathy The Players Guide Pg. 121
Blood Sweat The Players Guide Pg. 121
Blood Sweat The Players Guide Second Edition Pg. 140
Cleansing of Influence Clanbook: Assamite Pg. 27
Thin Blood Clanbook: Assamite Pg. 27
Blood Sweat Vampire: The Dark Ages Pg. 162
Quicken the Mortal's Blood Dark Ages Companion Pg. 90
Cleansed in Blood Libellus Sanguinis 3: Wolves at the Door Pg. 67
Blood Sweat Clanbook: Assamite Revised Pg. 66
Purification Clanbook: Assamite Revised Pg. 67
Ripples of the Heart Clanbook: Assamite Revised Pg. 67
Selective Silence Clanbook: Assamite Revised Pg. 66
Ripples of the Heart Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook Pg. 209
Rapturous Touch Players Guide to Low Clans Pg. 154
Deed the Heart's Desire Caine's Chosen: The Black Hand Pg. 75
Blood Sweat Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Pg. 205
Selective Silence Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Pg. 206
Ripples of the Heart Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Pg. 206
Purification Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Pg. 207
Taste of Death Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 247
Blood Awakening Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 250

^  Level 7

Foul Blood The Players Guide Pg. 121
Foul Blood Laws of Elysium Pg. 71
Leech The Players Guide Pg. 121
The Players Guide Second Edition Pg. 140
Blood of the Cobra Clanbook: Assamite Pg. 27
Hinder the Cainite Vitae Dark Ages Companion Pg. 90
Baal's Bloody Talons Clanbook: Assamite Revised Pg. 68
Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Pg. 207
Poison the Well of Life Clanbook: Assamite Revised Pg. 69
Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Pg. 207
Dam the Heart's River Players Guide to Low Clans Pg. 155
Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 251
Rapturous Touch Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 247

^  Level 8

Blood Clot The Players Guide Pg. 121
The Players Guide Second Edition Pg. 140
Blood Curse Clanbook: Assamite Pg. 27
Blood Awakening Dark Ages Companion Pg. 90
Blood of Destruction Players Guide to Low Clans Pg. 155
Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 247
Songs of Distant Vitae Clanbook: Assamite Revised Pg. 69
Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Pg. 208
Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 251

^  Level 9

Erosion The Players Guide Pg. 121
The Players Guide Second Edition Pg. 140
Weaken the Blood of the Ancients Players Guide to Low Clans Pg. 156
Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 247
Condemn the Sins of the Father Clanbook: Assamite Revised Pg. 71
Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Pg. 209
Vampire Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages Pg. 251

^  Level 10

Plot Device Gehenna Pg. 182
Immaculate Vitae The Players Guide Pg. 121
The Players Guide Second Edition Pg. 140


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