First we take the inappropriately placed Aspect of the Beast from Requiem Protean and give it some actual mechanics, followed by a Dread Gaze effect, followed by talking to animals, summoning animals and finally directly controlling the Beast. The commonality is of course the Beast, and the elegant solution is Bêtiare generally dealing with the Beast to various ends. Both fear effects and Animal effects are somewhat thin to spread over the course of an entire Discipline.
In Requiem, the Beast manipulating aspect got all shunted into the top level, however Nightmare sprang up, took the scary aspect away from Majesty, and added some vaguely Dementation like levels, ultimately all relating back to revealing the Beast to produce fear effects. Given that this is *the* discipline of mystery, it is probably reasonable to leave it somewhat more mysterious than others.Īnimalism in its Masquerade form dealt somewhat with the Beast as well as animals. Possibly it could be cast as some very particular variety of shapeshifting and psychokinesis, or even an actual connection with a shadowy plane, perhaps where ghosts dwell, or the same region through which psychic projections travel. While I'm reasonably sure on how to assemble it from various versions, I'm not sure how to explain it in terms of the relatively "preternatural" (vs outright supernatural) format that I'm shooting for. Because there are already mind control and crowd influencing disciplines, it is trivial to make devotions from those, allowing the much more thematic and inspiring Obtenebration to take the ten spot of dark shadowy discipline. The crucial distinction is that Obfuscate essentially an area mind control power of a limited sort, whereas Obtenebration, especially as advanced in later editions of Masquerade and in Requiem, has more of a weird supernatural connection to extradimensional forces. It thematically crosses with Obfuscate, and in first edition, there was less to distinguish them.
Finally, there is Obtenebration, which is a singularly appropriate shadowy discipline for vampires.
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