Characters: The White Court Virgin
Today we continue our trip through the White Court as we talk about those who haven’t yet gone over to the darker side of White — the Court’s virgins.
White Court Virgin
White Court vampirism is a hereditary condition, passed along even when interbreeding with humans, always breeding true. But the condition doesn’t truly take hold until the “virgin” would-be White Court vampire has killed for the first time, with his or her emotion-feeding abilities.
Some vestiges of ability — enough to excite emotion and feed on it — exist prior to that point, and a White Court virgin fully aware of her condition might be able to finesse making use of it in a mostly safe way. Sadly, many pre-adolescent White Court scions are kept in the dark about the true nature of their family-it makes it easier for them to stumble into that first kill, and thus harder for them to fight the reality of their genes. Once the kill is made, this character template is swapped out for the full White Court Vampire template.
There is an escape clause, however — an unblooded White Court virgin does not have the weaknesses of a full vampire. She can experience true love, and if she does — if she experiences true, deep, reciprocated love with another — the curse of her heritage is broken, and she may live life as a normal, regular human. But should she fall in love, however real and true, after her first kill, there is no remedy.
Musts: White Court virgins must take a high concept aspect indicating their heritage and predicament (e.g., WHITE COURT FAMILY SECRET or I WAS A TEENAGE WHITE COURT VIRGIN). This aspect may be compelled to bring the character’s heritage to the fore, triggering a sudden buried urge to feed, etc.
Unless it’s not known for some reason, the player should determine and at least sketchily detail the character’s house — family is terribly important to the White Court, if only in a “know thy enemy” sort of way.
- Emotional Vampire
- Incite Emotion (Touch Only)
Options: If the GM agrees, you can slowly slide your way down the path to your heritage, taking on one or two abilities from the White Court Vampire list-but using them will leave you ravenous and in some pretty dire straits in short order. If doing this, you must take Feeding Dependency as well.
In two weeks we conclude this series with the one you’ve been waiting for — the wizard.
Is that meant to be, left to right: (no clue), Inari, Daddy Raith, and Lara?
@BarGamer, man, I hate “supposed to be” questions. It’s all implicit with “this stinks! it’s wrong!” Gets me dreadful.
That’s “supposed to be” the Raith family, yes. Who do you figure (no clue) would be?
Well, the first one is the easier. It’s Thomas Raith obviously.
Now is when you say “What the hell are you saying? It’s ‘Mister’ the cat, can’t you see it?”. XD
I’m really eager for this game, great job Mr.Hicks and company.
Selenio.
Is it just me, or does Thomas in this picture resemble Clark Kent?
well seems like we have a good guess for who’s who in the picture. this template seems so temperary… you go one way you become a white court template… you find true love you probably go to the true mortal side… so i guess its pretty much a mortal with a lighter touch of white court my only question is would this template have less of a demand (as in your hunger) making it easier to fight it (not feed on someone or use your abilities period) or would it be harder?
Depends on whether the player is willing to pass up Phenomenal Cosmic Power. As I understand it, they can increase the hunger by decreasing their refresh rate by purchasing more White Court gifts…
I’d bet on harder to fight the hunger, because in my experience, the player will always sacrifice pretty much anything for just a little more potence.
Maybe that’s just D&D talking thought
Great picture. Looking forward to see the final product!
if I understand that right, you are born as a white court vamp and are infected to be a red court vamp?
That actually made no sense Wyrdrune. Your born into the white court but are still human until your first kill then full white court. If you find true love you remain as you were…human. I don’t see that happening much. I for see a lot of Thomas Raith’s in the future. Though still looks like plenty of fun. Honestly I would reject anything that is to close to any of the characters so white court will probably not be used that much if at all.
So with regards to finding true love to stop the full conversion would it then be true that if you had True “insert emotion here” for the other flavors of white court vampire you would become mortal? An example would be if you were of the The Skavis family that feeds off despair you could avoid turning fully if you had a sever case of hope?
@tanic5
i think your thinking to much into it tanic… i think its love for all the familys because feeding off a certain emotion is just a preference of the families. plus if it was a severe case of hope that would make it to easy to change whenever you hope you win… or hope you don’t die in this battle.
Actually, if we’re talking Potence, that’s Vampire: the Masquerade talking, but I still get your point and wholeheartedly agree with it. Unless they make some pretty awesome non-supernatural Stunts, I can only see the White Court Virgin going one way from a player perspective: Take the Template at CC to gain a couple of supernatural powers and more mortal stunts than you would if you went full WCV. Then, after you’ve raised your Refresh Rate by a bit (enough to prevent you from becoming an NPC if you were to buy a bunch of other Supernatural Powers), kill at the first opportunity and then become a WCV. Now you’ve got some cool non-supernatural Stunts and some cool Powers. It took some time, but then any DnD player knows that you don’t get super-broken until at least level three, anyway.
not “Potence”, “potence”: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/potence . It’s really a word! But yes, we agree
@fred I don’t think we’re saying it’s broken, btw, just that it’s a rare player (chosen uniformly at random from the field of players!) who will pass up superpowers. The DM can always make things a little bit hotter, making the deal with the devil just a little more tempting…
suckers
i really really really want to see the wizard template… each magical template just gets that much better than the last… oh and here’s another question which would win in a head to head battle a white court vamp (thomas style template) or a red court infected?
@ Anthony
All things equal? Whoever goes first.
Are there more character archetypes in the book than we’ve seen here? Because I’m still holding out for my reformed werewolf, the Ex-enwolf.
what is an “Ex-enwolf”
Perhaps an ex-hexenwulf?
I’d say that the Were-form template could be modified to make a hexenwulf fairly easily. An Ex-enwulf would need just an appropriate Aspect (‘Craving for the Beast’ or something similar).
oh…I dunno lol whatev
@Zach
@Hollis
can u make a reformed denarian with inate magical abilites still there and a bit of Hellfire
and will shadow berers get there own template
because their going to be independant really
@Raegan