Thaumaturgy (VTM)

Alchemy

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• Simple changes to an object's form
  • Commuta: Changes in state - solid to liquid, liquid to gas, etc.
• Complex changes to an object's form
  • Conforma: Simple changes in form
• Complicated changes to an object's form
  • Scinde: Complex changes to form
• Small changes in atomic number
  • Mutate: Major shifts in composition
• Major changes in atomic number
  • Transmutate: Radical shifts in composition

Biothaumaturgy

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  • Thaumaturgical Forensics: Gain information from a tissue sample
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  • Animal Experimentation (Pre-revised): Can alter life forms less complex than a human
  • Thaumaturgical Surgery (Revised): Convert a level of damage to a lesser form
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  • Thaumaturgical Surgery (Pre-revised): Repair damage to all sorts of creatures, including supernatural ones
  • Lesser Animation (Revised): Animate dead plants or small animals that will follow instructions
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  • Human Experimentation (Pre-revised): As Animal Experimentation, except works on humans
  • Greater Animation (Revised): As Lesser Animation, except works on large animals and humans
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  • Supernatural Experimentation (Pre-revised): As Human Experimentation, except works on supernatural creatures as well
  • Cognizant Construction (Revised): Grant an animated creature rudimentary intelligence

Elemental Mastery

Known in the Dark Ages as Rego Elementum, this path grants control over and affinity with inanimate objects.

• Elemental Strength: Draw greater strength and resilience from the earth.
• Wooden Tongues: Speak with the spirit of an inanimate object.
• Animate the Unmoving: Cause an object to move within the limits of its form.
• Elemental Form: The caster transforms into an inanimate object.
• Summon Elemental: Conjure and possibly command a spirit of one of the classical elements.

Faux Path

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• Hello, Goodbye: Temporarily cause listeners to believe a true statement to be false
• Disciplinary Identification: Recognize what Disciplines are or have been used
• Thaumaturgical Nomenclature: Identify what Thaumaturgy powers and rituals are being used
• Ritual Madness: Give a target the sensation of a particular Thaumaturgical power or ritual without actually inducing the effect
• Sanguinary Affection: Produce an illusion that gives the effect of a particular Discipline power

Focused Mind

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• Readiness: Gain a dice pool to add to Wits-related rolls or initiative
• Centering: Cause a subject to ignore any effect that reduces dice pools; grant bonus to resist Frenzy
• One-Tracked Mind: Make a subject unable to split perform multiple actions
• Dual Thought: Take an extra mental action per round, including another Discipline use
• Perfect Clarity: Reduce the difficulty of all actions, become immune to Frenzy, and become resistant to mental influence

Gift of Morpheus

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• Cause Sleep: Force a single target to become drowsy or sleep, opposed to the target's Willpower. Spend Willpower to affect supernaturals
• Mass Slumber: Affect multiple targets with Cause Sleep against a flat difficulty
• Enchanted Slumber: Force a target to sleep until a trigger event. Spend Willpower to affect vampires. Multiple successes extend sleep up to a year
• Dreamscape: The vampire may project her own image into a dream, but has no control over the dream other than by her own actions within it. The vampire must have a belonging of the victim to use this power
• Master of Dreams: The vampire may start changing the target’s dreams, once she has entered them by using Dreamscape. If the target is a vampire, a Willpower point must also be spent. Once this power has been used, the target may also change her dreams with resistance rolls, and both characters may act in the dream as if they were awake. If either character dies in this dream, the character also dies for real

Green Path

Grants control over and communion with plants.

• Herbal Wisdom: Communicate with the spirit of a plant
• Speed the Seed's Passing: Cause a plant to quickly grow or decay
• Dance of Vines: Animate vegetation to fight or perform tasks
• Verdant Haven: Create a physical and mystical shelter of branches, leaves and vines
• Awaken the Forest Giants: Briefly animate an entire tree

Geomancy Path

Blessings and cursings.

• Resistance to magic
• Social attributes
• Physical attributes
• Talents
• Any attribute or ability

Hands of Destruction

Usually practiced by members of the Sabbat, this path is rumored to have demonic origins. It grants various destructive powers, most of which require physical touch.

• Decay: Cause an inanimate object to age years in seconds
• Gnarl Wood: Ruin an object of wood with a look
• Acidic Touch: Secrete a powerful viscous acid which affects metal, wood, and living tissue
• Atrophy: Cause a victim's limb to wither
• Turn to Dust: Cause a living person to age years in seconds

Hearth Path

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• Guest's Herald: Create a small effect that goes off whenever someone passes through a entryway
• Master's Order: Know where all things that belong to you in your haven are located
• Rhyme of Discord: Anyone else who comes into your haven becomes disoriented and cannot remember what they find there
• Temportal: Teleport from one of your haven's doorways to another
• The Cauldron's Rede: Speak to items in your haven about events that have occurred there

Lure of Flames

This path, known as Rego Ignem or Creatio Ignis in the Dark Ages, creates unnatural flames, which some believe are conjured from Hell. Rather than distinct powers, each level of mastery allows the practitioner to summon larger and more dangerous flames.

Power of the Mirror

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• Mirror Forge: Allows you to see through a reflective surface you created
• Reality of Reflection: Allows you to alter small details of reflections in a reflective surface you created
• Mastery of Reflection: Allows you to completely alter reflections in a reflective surface you created, or use certain Disciplines (Auspex, Dominate, Presence, Animalism) through it
• The Thousand Eyes: Allows you to use the previous powers through any reflective surface
• Mirror Prison: Trap a victim within a reflective surface for an indefinite period of time

Mastery of the Mortal Shell

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• Vertigo: Cause a target to be disoriented and dizzy
• Contortion: Make a victim's limb constrict and become useless
• Seizure: Cause a victim's body writhe and tighten uncontrollably
• Body Failure: As Seizure, but more powerful
• Marionette: Force a target's body to move and act as you desire

Movement of the Mind

This path grants the practitioner the power of telekinesis, allowing them to move matter at a distance - at first as though they were using their hands, and, at higher levels, allowing flight and levitation. It was known in the Dark Ages as Rego Motus. Modern versions of the path do not have distinct powers; instead, higher levels of mastery simply increase the mass a thaumaturge can affect (though level three is required for flight, and level four for throwing objects). Older versions have the following - more strictly defined - powers.

• Force Bolt: Cause a target to fall down losing his next action or can shunt an object of 100 lbs or less toward or away.
• Manipulate: Allows you to lift and handle an object that you would with one hand, TV remote, handgun, a lever, et al.
• Flight: Allows the caster the ability to hoist a person or the caster into the air and can move them at walking speed.
• Repulse: As with force bolt but objects with much more weight and more than one.
• Control: Force a target's body to move as you desire or you can heft up to a single ton.

Neptune's Might

Originally called Rego Aquam in the Dark Ages, Neptune's Might grants a practitioner control over bodies of standing water, plus some other water-related powers.

• Eyes of the Sea: See what has transpired on, in or around a still body of water
• Prison of Water: Use a large body of water to bind a target
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  • Dehydrate (Pre-revised): Remotely drain water from a victim
  • Blood to Water (Revised): Turn a subject's blood (or possibly another liquid) into water
• Flowing Wall: Create a barrier of water nearly impervious to all beings
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  • Blood to Water (Pre-revised): Turn a subject's blood into water, some other liquids as well
  • Dehydrate (Revised): Remotely drain water from a victim

Oneiromancy

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• Portents: Receive visions after waking that allegorically refer to future events of one's life
• Foresee: As Portents, but works on another individual
• Dreamspeak: Send messages to someone through their dreams
• Augury: Gain answers to questions from another person's dreams
• Reveal the Heart's Dreams: Learn what someone most desires and fears from their dreams

Path of Blood

Usually the first path taught to neonates among the Tremere.

• A Taste For Blood: Gather a variety of information from a blood sample
• Blood Rage: Force a target to expend their vitae to raise Attributes
• Blood of Potency: Temporarily lower your generation
• Theft of Vitae: Steal blood from a target at a distance
• Cauldron of Blood: Cause a victim's blood to burn them from within

Path of the Blood's Curse

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• Ravages of the Beast: Cause a target to Frenzy
• Weight of the Sun: Make a vampire feel the effects of being awake during the day
• Abated Tooth: Prevent a vampire's fangs from extending
• Treacherous Bonds: Temporarily corrupt a blood bond, turning love to hate
• The Withering of Ages: Cause a vampire to decay to their true age

Path of Conjuring

The practitioner can create objects (or even living things) from nothing. Such objects are generic, with repeated patterns or a uniform appearance, and have no flaws. Unless a caster is sufficiently skilled, conjured objects cease to exist without continued concentration.

• Summon the Simplest Form: Temporarily conjure a very simple object (single material, no moving parts)
  • Summoning the Spirit: You can summon a simple inanimate object
• Permanency: Conjured objects may be given permanent existence
• Magic of the Smith: Conjure a complex object (multiple materials, moving parts)
• Reverse Conjuration: Banish objects conjured with this path
• Power Over Life: Temporarily conjure a living (though mindless) being

Path of Corruption

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  • Contradict: Make someone change their mind on a course of action
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  • Disfigurement (Pre-revised): Change the appearance of someone, making more or less attractive
  • Subvert (Revised): Cause a victim to act on their dark impulses
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  • Change Mind (Pre-revised): Give someone a new Demeanor
  • Dissociate (Revised): Make someone become distant from others for a time
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  • Cripple (Pre-revised): Paralyze someone's legs
  • Addiction (Revised): Cause a victim to be psychologically dependent on a particular sensation
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  • Corrupt Soul (Pre-revised): Give someone a new Nature
  • Dependence (Revised): Temporarily bind someone to you

Path of Curses

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• Stigma: Make an individual suffer socially for an evening
• Malady: Curse a victim with an illness, reducing their Physical Attributes
• Pariah: Make others see the target as their worst enemy
• Corrupt Body: Temporarily reduce one of the target's Physical Attributes
• Fall from Grace: A victim gains a botch die to all actions

Path of the Father's Vengeance

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• Zillah's Litany: Discover blood bonds and Vinculi the target has
• The Crone's Pride: Reduce a victim's Appearance to zero for the night
• Feast of Ashes: Force a vampire to only be able to gain sustenance from ash for a time, and be limited in how they may use Blood Points gained from it
• Uriel's Disfavor: Make all light uncomfortable and harmful to the vampire
• Valediction: Temporarily undo any change in generation from diablerie

Path of the Levinbolt

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• Spark: Generate a small electrical discharge
• Illuminate: Generate enough energy to charge a small device or produce light
• Power Array: Discharge or absorb a greater amount of energy
• Zeus' Fury: Build up energy and direct it as arcs of lightning
• Eye of the Storm: Become charged with an incredible amount of electricity

Path of Mars

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• Warcry: Temporarily increase one's Courage and Willpower
• Strike True: A single melee attack automatically succeeds with one success
• Wind Dance: If not attacking, you can dodge many times without penalty
• Fearless Heart: All your Physical Attributes raise by one
• Comrades at Arms: Use Path of Mars powers on others

Path of Mercury

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• Teleport 10 yards
• Teleport 50 yards
• Teleport 500 yards
• Teleport 5 miles
• teleport 500 miles

Path of Shadowcrafting

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• Out Light: Make lights darker or extinguish
• Shadow Taunt: Make a shadow mimic your movements
• Coruscating Shadow: Cause shadow to cover you, making you harder to be seen
• Night's Veil: Extend a shadow so that it creates an area of night in daylight
• Abyssal Pact: Summon an abyssal shadow that attacks or counters Obtenebration

Path of Technomancy

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• Analyze: Learn how a device works
• Burnout: Cause a machine to malfunction
• Encrypt/Decrypt: Cause a device to only work for you
• Remote Access: Operate a machine remotely
• Telecommute: Project your mind into the global telecommunication network

Path of Transmutation

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• Fortify the Solid Form: Make an object stronger
• Crystallize the Liquid Form: Transform a liquid into solid form
• Liquefy the Solid Form: Cause an object to soften and melt for a scene
• Gaol: Turn air into an indestructible block
• Ghost Wall: Turn an object into a gaseous mist

Path of Warding

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• Bar the Common Passage: Block an door and get alerted if something breaks the ward
• Glyph of Scrying: Create a glyph to monitor its surrounding area
• Runes of Power: Ward an object with a rune, that deals aggravated damage to everyone who touches it
• Glyph of Enlightenment: Create a glyph for scrying, communication and transmitting thaumaturgical powers
• Secure the Sacred Domain: Seal off an entire castle for one night

Perdo Magica

This path has no powers of its own; instead, it allows the user to counter other magic.

Prey on the Soul's Fear

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• Startle the Superstitious Mind: Create such fear that a mortal or vampire is rooted to the spot where he stands
• Rout the Charging Hordes: Cause a number of people to flee from you
• Wrath of God: Cause a victim to witness his particular version of hell
• The Inner Demon: Confront somebody with his darkest fears
• Demonic Horde: Create horrific images and implant them in your victims mind

Rego Magica

This path has no powers of its own; instead, it allows the user to create new paths.

Rego Mentem

This path is the pagan version of the infernal Rego Manes. It does not have individual powers at each level. Instead, each level allows the user to summon stronger nature spirits, and to inflict more damage upon any spirit.

Soul of the Serpent

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• Serpentine Sense: See in the dark
• Scaleskin: Get a smooth and scaly skin, allowing for greater flexibility on land and considerable freedom of movement through water
• Venom Curse: Transform your vitae into a deadly poison capable of blinding the eyes of nearby opponents, like that of a spitting cobra
• Touch of Typhon: Transform forearm into a venomous asp
• Form of The Hydra: Transform your body into a writhing mass of vipers

Spirit Manipulation

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• Hermetic Sight: See into the spirit world
• Astral Chant: Be able to communicate with all spirits
• Voice of Command: Force a spirit to obey your commands
• Entrap Ephemera: Bind a spirit into an object to create a fetish
• Duality: Exist in both the material and spiritual world

Spirit Thaumaturgy

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• Evil Eye: Inflict botched dice on your victim
• Spirit Sight: See and speak with spirits
  • Spirit Eyes: You can attempt to see and communicate with wraiths in the area
• Spirit Slave: Demand a service of a spirit
• Fetishes: Force a spirit to inhabit an object
• Journey: Leave your body, using Willpower you can roll to temporarily take control of another magical being

Transitus Velociter

This path does not have individual powers at each level. Instead, each level allows you to increase the speed of larger groups of mortal, vampires and mounts for several hours.

Video Pellis

This path is the pagan version of the infernal Video Nefas.

• See the Unseen: Gaze into the spirit world
• Learn the Heart's Pain: look into someone’s heart and determine what grieves him the most
• Seize the Moment : Reach into the mind of your victim and draw forth his memories and thoughts
• Casting the Bones: Part the mists of time and gaze into the future
• Recall the Bloody Deed: Raise a Spectre of vengeance to uncover past misdeeds

Vine of Dionysus

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• Methyskein: Make a victim slightly drunk
• Omophagy: Cause a victim to be ravenously hungry
• Hamartia: Give a target feelings of euphoria
• Enthousiasmos: Cause multiple victims to enter a passive state of happiness
• Oinos Aimatos: Imbue your vitae with the effect of Enthousiasmos

Weather Control

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• Control fog
• Control rain
• Control wind
• Control storm
• Control lightning