Serpentis Modifications

This is the Legacy of Seth, God of Darkness, destroyer of the Light and Lord of Human Heart most Basic Instincts. As a representation of Sin and Temptation, the Snake has always cautivated the human iconography, from biblical texts to ancient Egyptian myths. Followers of Seth that dwell in the secrets of this art learn how to transform their bodies into serpents to obtain their advantages.

* Eyes of the Snake
With this power the eyes of the cainite transform into two strange mesmerizing orbs of strange hypnotic colours. While this power is active the vampire eyes’ pupile will turn vertical and their iris colour will turn into bright blue, green or yellow.

System: doesn’t require dice rolls or blood expenditure and it last active for one scene. While it’s active the vampire will be able to see in the dark as it had night vision goggles that will allow him to see through darkness easily in a monochromatic vision, nevertheless, lights of any source will be too bright, too painful to contemplate.

Only one victim on which the kindred may stare on is paralyzed by the Eyes of the Snake but all mortals in the vicinity able to see the vampire's eyes are subconsciously captivated in a similar but lesser effect as Presence would do, reducing all social difficulties to interact with the crowd by two.

Mortals and supernatural beings alike are susceptible to be hypnotized whenever they look into the vampire’s eyes, those mortals that are too far to see them in detail will be attracted to look closer. To resist this effects all supernatural beings may roll Willpower to a difficulty of 6 while mortals must spend a willpower point. A creature under the vampire hypnosis won’t be able to do anything but look into the Eyes of the Snake except when is attacked or otherwise harmed, allowing a second roll or willpower point expenditure respectively.

** Tongue of the Aspid
Serpent’s tongues are very useful to improve their perception, for both combat and Hunt. When the vampire uses this ability it’s tongue stretch and become pointy as a sword and hollow to allow the vampire to drink through it as a normal bite, including the vampire’s kiss.

System: the vampire must expend one blood point to activate this power. It’s tongue will stretch to 18 inches long (45 cm) and it will be able to inflict aggravated damage (Strength, dif: 6). If the vampire manage to harm its victim she will be able to drain blood as it had bite, including the vampire kiss effect.

Additionally as the tongue is very sensitive to vibrations and scents it allows the vampire to smell its surroundings giving him a sharp sense of scent as a snakes have, being able to see even when blind.

**** Form of the Cobra
This terrific power transforms the vampire into a huge Royal Cobra, Queen or King depending on the character’s gender. The snake itself is enormous and terrible, its maw is big enough to eat a human adult with one bite.

Usually the serpents is as wide as a human adult and have over 30 feet long (10 m) and be able to stand up as tall as the vampire in it’s human form without effort. While in this form the vampire can speak with difficulty and use any discipline she knows (except those that requires hands, of course) its physical power and speed greatly increases.

System: it requires one blood point to activate and three turns for the transformation to occur, each blood point, over the first, expend reduces the transformation by one turn. Cloth and any other piece of gear is not transformed and most probably damaged in the process. The snake skin is thick as it had the Skin of the Addler (Serpentis 3) and the senses from previous levels, also all vampire physical attributes increases by three and all social attributes are drop to one, except for manipulation. The vampire gains a venomous attack expending one additional blood point each time; this poison inflicts as many dice of lethal damage as the Serpent’s Stamina every ten minutes, for one hour or until the victim dies, this poison also affects the unliving as it is in part blood.