By Bryan Rendell (27 Sep 93)
Setite virtues run a line between Sabbat and Camarilla virtues. While just as committed to their own evil as the Sabbat, their continued understanding of human values, and the effect this has on their spiritual conduct, renders them similiar to Camarilla vampires. Setites possess the virtues of Callousness, Self-Control and Courage. While for the Sabbat, a total lack of Humanity means the end of Self-Control, for the Setites, as they are still partially bound by the constraints of Humanity, Self-Control is still possible. Similarly, they possess Courage, not having the pack mentality of the Sabbat. Setite virtues are affected by the level of the Path of Enlightenment in the same way virtues are affected by Humanity. A Setite cannot roll more dice for Self-Control than he has points in his Path.
The Paths of Enlightenment for Setites are different from Sabbat Paths in two ways. First, Setite Paths lack the diversity of the Sabbat variants. Being all concerned with corruption in one way or another, they are all rather similar, generally diverging only on the issue of the "why" of corruption. This should be kept in mind if creating new Paths. Secondly, Setite Paths are explicitly concerned with notions of human morality, as the vast majority of Setite targets are humans and Camarilla vampires. The Sabbat Paths, however, are designed to divorce Sabbat vampires from their old morality, and as value systems go, are little concerned with human ideas of good and evil. In a strange way, the Setites have retained their human values, and can suffer loss of a Path if they breech values demonstrated in the Humanity table, as well as their own Hierachy of Sins table. In general, if a Setite acts contrary to Humanity outside of their holy cause of corruption, then they can lose a point from their Path in the same way Camarilla vampires lose Humanity. This is only a general stipulation, and the exact conditions of such loss may vary slightly between Paths.