Merits/Flaws
Giovanni Lineage (2pt Merit) (Cbk Cappodocian)
The Cappadocians have recently Embraced key members of the Venetian Giovanni family. These necromancer-merchants possess a keen insight into what may one night become a legitimate Discipline, and their Embrace encourages its development. Characters with Giovanni Lineage may take and learn the foundling Discipline of Necromancy as an additional clan Discipline. Giovanni characters may not begin any lower than 11th generation, nor may they take Prescience or Mad Visions; these peculiarities are curiously absent among Giovanni Cappadocians.
Prescience (3pt Merit) (Cbk Cappadocian)
Some Cappadocians bear the strange gift of foresight, though their revelations are brief and dim. Prescience gives little insight of immediate or tactical value, but it does prepare the vampire somewhat for the future. This insight may be anything from knowing whether or not an individual maybe trusted, recognizing an object of value, etc. It is worthwhile to not that the visions are not "possible futures". Rather they are murky and vague fragments of a definite time to come.
Horrific Appearance (3pt Flaw) (Cbk Cappadocian)
Those who exhibit this aberrant trait become more corpselike; their skin draws tight over their bones and scales away in patches. Advanced cases may exhibit open sores, excessive decomposition of the body (commonly resulting in the loss of the nose and ears) and a repulsive scent reminiscent of the grave. Appearance rating will be 0 with this Flaw. This may never be improved, although it may be physically hidden or masked with magic or Disciplines.
Mad Visions (3pt Flaw) (Cbk Cappadocian)
The vampire cursed with Mad Visions sinks periodically into tormented trances, sometimes in the middle of performing tasks, and drops to the floor, twitching feebly. When questioned as to the nature of these waking nightmares, the Cappadocian reports either visions of hellish personal agony or vivid but inexplicable premonitions of the entire clan's destruction. A few frail psyches even block out all memory of the episodes.
Cappadocians who suffer Mad Visions or experience Prescience rarely share their visions with Cainites outside the clan. Indeed, many of those with the visions are driven to the verge of madness by burgeoning Cassandra Complexes in which the prescients know the horrid truth of the future and realize their own inability to prevent it. Thankfully, this condition is in frequent, and few suffer to the the fullest extent, though more than one has had to be alleviated of her misery.
