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Aura Absorbtion
A young man, William Reed.  Pacing
nervously.  Grabs a sealed envelope
and keys from the table.  Hmmm.  That's
all I see.  Four hours ago, no more.
Bartholomew, Kiasyd


Banner of Neutrality
Your approval means nothing to us.  Your
high-handed "recognition of sovereignty"
and other quasi-political jingoism won't
work in this room.
Isabel Giovanni


Cats' Guidance (VTES)
I think he loves the lady night
And feels akin to her,
Whose footsteps are as still as his,
Whose touch is in his fur.
-Lois Weakley McKay, "Night"


Cats' Guidance (Sabbat)
Your cat, now, linked to learning and to love,
Exhibits a taste for silences and gloom --
Would make a splendid messenger of doom
If his fierce pride would condescend to serve.
-Baudelaire, "Cats"


Crimson Fury
O dearly bought revenge, yet glorious!
Milton, "Samson Agonistes"


Dread Gaze (VTES)
Whence this secret dread, and inward horror,
Of falling into naught?  Why shrinks the soul...
-Joseph Addison, Cata, act 5 scene I


Dread Gaze (Sabbat)
And close your eyes with holy dread.
-Coleridge, "Kubla Khan"


Elder Kindred Network
A prince is also respected when he is a true
friend or an outright enemy.
-Machiavelli, The Prince


Enhanced Senses (VTES)
My eye, turned inward, darkly can discern
This hellish picture self-distorted thus...
-Baudelaire, "The Gaming Table"


Enhanced Senses (Sabbat)
Perhaps to our senses things offer
only their rejections.  Perfume is what
the flowers throw away.
-Paul Valery


Eyes of the Dead
Above all else I loved her eyes,
More clear than stars of any skies,
Those eyes maliciously wise.
-D.H. Lawrence, "Elysium"


Eyes of the Night
Night hath a thousand eyes.
-John Lyly, The Maydes of Metamorphosis, act III, scene I


Falcon's Eye
Not even clouds or rain can hide him.  And
certainly not night.  I'll bat him
down within the hour.
Howler, Ahrimane


Folderol
Hold your tongue as best you can.  Those
pointed ears can filter out your lies no
matter how well you deliver them.
Qufur am-Heru, Follower of Set


Ignis Fatuus
Because there is safety in derision
I talked about an apparition...
-Yeats, "The Apparitions"


Iron Heart
A weak mind is a weak link in a strong
militia.
Patricia Bollingbroke, Brujah


Patrol
He's a dutiful servant around the
chantry, but it's the time he's able to
spend in solitude flying above the 
chantry on patrol that he seems to
earnestly enjoy.
Elisabetta Romano, Tremere


Precognition
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works
backwards," remarked the Queen.
-Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass


Pseudo-Blindness
My gracious lord, you do forget yourself; These are but
shadows, not substantial.
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus


Pulling Strings
Pull the strings! Pull the strings!
-The Puppetmaster, Glen or Glenda?


Read the Winds
No surprises anymore.  The night has a thou-
sand eyes, and I've had a thousand nights.
Stravinsky, Tzimisce Archbishop of Mexico City


Speak with Spirits
A dead little bird told me.
Cynthia Ingold, Ahrimane


Spirit's Touch
We are eternal; and to us, the past
Is, as the future, present.
-Lord Byron, Manfred, act I, scene I


Surprise Influence
Influence is neither good nor bad in
an absolute manner, but only in relation
to the one who experiences it.
-Andre Gide


The Second Tradition: Domain
None may challenge thy word 
while in thy domain.


Tourette's Voice
As we stand on the edge of darkness
Let our chant fill the void
That others may know
Tibetan Book of the Dead


Venetian Conference
For surely it is better to rule in the
darkness than to humble myself falsely
in the light.
Caine, from the Erciyes Fragments


Voice of Madness
It is everything singing in my head at once.
-Anatole, the Prophet of Gehenna