Disciplines of the Covenant

All vampires can learn Disciplines other then their "Clan Disciplines", although most will focus on the Disciplines that come naturally to them. Below is a list of the clan disciplines, what they do and how to emulate them in the game of Ultima Online.

Animalism- The skill of controlling and communicating with animals.
Skills- Animal Taming, Herding, Peacemaking, Provocation, Veterinary
Role-played- Communicating with animals, Summoning creatures with spell, Tamed animals, using Bardic skills.

Auspex- The skill of being able to "see" things. This included Prophecy, and acute awareness.
Skills- Anatomy, Animal Lore, Arms Lore, Detect Hidden, Evaluate Intelligence, Forensics Evaluation, Item ID, Remove Traps, Snooping, Spirit Speak, Taste ID and Tracking
Role-played - Having "visions", bridging minds (in the party system) or sending messages telepathically (icq), looking on the OSI guild page for someone you are talking with and telling them what their skills are.

Celerity- A vampires ability to move at superhuman speeds.
Role-played- High Dex, Agility potions, fast weapon, fast mount, double strike

Chimerstry- This is the Ravnos Discipline of creating Illusions. Chimerstry is hard to replicate in UO as there are few spells that would be considered Illusions.
Skills – Magery, Ninjitsu, Spellweaving
Role-playing - Cast Incognito and Polymorph or other appearance altering spells, summon creatures and monsters and say they are illusions, use a disguise kit, Mirror Image.

Dementation- The Malkavians skill of perverting peoples desires to fit their own.
Role-played- Making people "want" to do things against their will. Hiring a npc and making him do your bidding.

Dominate- Making a subject do your bidding or altering their memories.
Role-played - Forcing people to do your wishes with words, hiring a npc and making him do your bidding.

Fortitude- A vampires superhuman resistance to damage.
Skills - Magic Resistance, Parrying
Role-played - High DCI, high resists, using a shield.

Mortis- The skill of Cappadocians which can cause death in mortals with a touch and creating diseases.
Skills – Necromancy, Magery, Poisoning
Role-played - Casting Poison on people.

Necromancy- The skill of some vampires to summon the spirits of the fallen and speak with them.
Skills - Forensics Evaluation, Magery, Spirit Speak, Necromancy
Role-played – Using Spirit Speak, Most Necromancy Spells.

Nihilistics- This is the Nagaraja's skill in peering into the shadow lands (ghosts sight) and traveling back and forth between the two planes.
Skills - Forensics Evaluation, Spirit Speak, Necromancy
Role-played – Wraith form, Spirit speak.

Obeah- The power of the Salubri to heal other kindred and bring one back from torpor.
Skills - Anatomy/Healing, Magery, Spirit Speak
Role-played - Resurrecting through spell or healing skill, Healing with magic, healing skill or potions. Curing with magic, healing skill, Spirit Speak or potions. Casting protective spells.

Obfuscate- A vampire’s ability to become hidden and change his appearance.
Skills - Hiding, Stealth, Ninjitsu
Role-playing - Casting Invisibility or Incognito on self, using Disguise kit, wear clothes from an npc and cast Incognito. Ninjitsu mirror image.

Obtenebration- The Lasombra's ability to manipulate shadows and control them, even going into shadow form.
Skills - Detect Hidden, Hiding, Stealth
Role-playing - Hiding or casting Invisibility (going shadow form).

Potence- This is a vampires superhuman strength.
Skills – Anatomy, Tactics, Lumberjacking
Role-playing - High Strength, High damage weapons, Strength potions, High DI, High dam special moves.

Presence- This is a vampires ability to charm people or leave them in awe.
Role-playing - Mainly role-played, hire npc's and make them follow you around.

Protean- This is the power of a vampire to grow claws, see in the dark, earth meld (sink into the earth to hide), and turn into a wolf, bat or cloud of mist.
Skills- Ninjitsu, Hiding, Stealth, Poisoning
Role-playing - Cast Polymorph, recall or hide/stealth and say something to the effect of going mist form, poisoned weapons to show aggravated damage from claws. Wolf form from Ninjitsu.

Quietus- This is the Shakari's ability to kill silently by attacking the vampires blood or killing before the target can alert others he is being attacked.
Skills - Poisoning
Role-playing - Stealth up and attack with a poisoned weapon.

Temporis- This is the True Brujah's ability to travel through time, or stop time.
Role-playing - "Stop time" and walk where you want to go, then "restart time" - teleporting, not much you can do with this one other then just role-playing it.

Thaumaturgy- A vampire's blood magic. Instead of calling it magery, we call it Thaumaturgy.
Skills - Alchemy, Evaluate Intelligence, Inscription, Magery, Meditation, Spellweaving
Role-playing - This is easy enough, cast spells. Remember unlike mortal magic's, Thaumaturgy is "blood" magic, the power comes from your blood, not outside you like mortal magic.

Vicissitude- This is the Tzimisce's Discipline of flesh crafting. With it they can craft flesh as they wish, they can make their fingers ten inches long and graft daggers to them, they can use this on others, making them as beautiful or hideous as they see fit. They can make others lame or stiffen their legs so they can not move, the power of this skill is only limited by the Tzimisce's imagination. Powerful Tzimisce can turn into Horrific Form.
Skills- Necromancy
Role-playing - This skill is hard to replicate in the game of Ultima Online, disguise kits, incognito spells, animal form, and horrific beast would replicate it to some degree, but mostly you just have to role-play it.

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