Dévotion de Shepherds
21 XP
Humans are weak. It’s a sad fact, but that’s how the Shepherds see it. The herd is dumb and fallible and frail, and must sometimes be actively protected. This Devotion helps a Watcher do that very thing, affording the herd some measure of genuine physical protection.
Cost: 1 Vitae per scene
Dice Pool: Presence + Survival + Resilience
Action: Reflexive
Success on the roll causes the Shepherd to give off an aura of safety. This aura extends in a radius around the character equal to that character’s Resilience score in yards. Any within that area of effect (humans and Kindred alike) gain a bonus to Defense equal to the Shepherd’s own Defense, and are also able to downgrade all damage done to them while within that radius (aggravated becomes lethal, lethal becomes bashing, bashing remains bashing). The downside is, while this applies to those the Shepherd hopes to protect, it also applies to any close combatant within that area of effect, even an enemy. Worse, it does nothing to protect the character himself, though certainly the Shepherd is free to use his own Resilience as protection.