"The Perception of power is power"
- David Garth (1978)
So you wanna know what we can do with our Disciplines,what we can't, and what the Clan Speaker says about it? Cool.
PROTEAN -
Right, firstly, the thing you can recognize about just about everyone in our Clan, is our ability to manipulate our forms. To create Claws, change into the form of a Wolf or a Bat, or maybe even Mist.
If you want to tell if someone's one of our Clan, it's the first thing you look for. It is our greatest power and not learned lightly, even within Clan. Given to us by our creator Ennoia, and a power Caine was rumored to revere, Protean comes with a price.
For it is from this, that our connection to the land, to the Wild, to the beast, stems from. And from there, our curse, to edge toward the form of the beast everytime we loose ourselves to a Frenzy. Each time, we show more of that which Protean gives us mastery over. The beast within.
And it is because of this price. Because Ennoia gifted us alone with the power. Because no other Clan could muster itself to handle the Curse, that our Clan Speaker, Lu-py-ee, has forbidden the teaching of the gift.
Those outside the Clan wanting to learn this power must pledge a Life Boon to the Clan. They should do this in the presence of Lord Lu-py-ee himself, promising that should the power of Ennoia be used against the Clan or Camarilla in ANY way, then the Boon will be activated, and the traitors life shall be forfeit to the Clan.
But it does not cease there.
Should the gift be used in such a way the Boon is activated, the teacher of the gift is subject to punishment by the Clan as well, in much the same form as if an adopted Caitiff went Rogue.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!! If your pupil goes rogue, YOUR to blame!
Those who teach the discipline without the due agreement, are regularly screened for, and Punished by the Clan head. At last count, SIX Gangrel were known to have done this. They have all been tracked down, and as you read this, Lu-py-ee is moving to capture them, and punish them for their crimes against the Clan, Ennoia and Caine himself.
If your one of them...... Caine Help You, for no one else will.
ANIMALISM -
Ah, our second gift. No such limitations exist on the teaching of this gift. For the control of Animals is a talent many Clans can claim. However, it is with us that the gift is used to it's full extent. For we run with the Lupines, hunt the creatures of the wild and feel the midnight wind upon our faces as we race with the pack.
The gift allows us to know and feel the true power of Nature, the Wyld, Gaia or whatever you choose to call it.
Without it, we cannot truely run with the pack. With it, we are forever changed. Linked in a way no other can appreciate to the animals.
FORTITUDE -
This power again, has no limits on it's teaching as many Clans can use it. However, we appear to have gained a mastery of it, unsurpassed by all but the Ventrue. The power allows us to survive our Rites, angry Lupines, Early dawns and a host of other dangers that we, the Clan of the hunt, have to face as we wander the world.
Pain is no trouble, Fire an afterthought and Claws an unnessecary distraction. For with this power we are strong in the face of danger. We are united, we are ready. They cannot defeat one of us with the power of Fortitude.
So that's an overview of our powers. Interesting aren't they! The only way your can truely know their extents is to learn for yourself.
For you need no one to teach you the powers granted to our Clan. With persistance and practice, they shall come naturally to you. Do not give in, and remember,
We are the Clan of the Hunt. Of the Wild. Of the Pack.
No other can claim the power we can. None can feel the ture power of the pack the way you can.
Enjoy it, embrace it, for it is yours alone........