Blood Vengeance is a wakizashi (Japanese shortsword, diff. 5, Str+3 damage). The blade is of moonsilver, with an intricate symbol etched into either side of the blade near the hilt, and the grip is wrapped in black leather over black lacquer and bindings. The blade itself seems 'shadowed', as if a shifting, smoky film lay just below the blade's surface.The fetish bears an unusual spirit -- that of a 6th gen Lasombra, the father of the fetish's creator. After killing his sire twice (he was brought back by a Giovanni), Christopher DiTerlizzi bound him into the blade as a means of ultimate revenge for the atrocities he and his sibs suffered at their father's hands. He finds it deliciously ironic that after forcing others to serve him, his father is now the servant. Christopher hopes to create a matching blade, a katana (and perhaps a tanto), in order to "complete his set". Whether or not these will also contain vampiric spirits is unknown.
Blood Vengeance has the following abilities:
- Causes aggravated damage to all targets, double aggravated damage to werecreatures and creatures of Cahlash (the Wyrm).
- Bearer gains a +1 to Gnosis (moonsilver blade), and a +1 to their soak pools.
- The blade can store 1 Gnosis point, and 4 blood points.
- The bearer may use Arms Of The Abyss (Obtenebration 3) by spending one Gnosis point and rolling Manipulation+Occult, diff. 6; the tentacles have a strength of 6.,/li>
- Richard DiTerlizzi's spirit may be communicated with telepathically; twice a day the bearer may make a Manipulation+Occult roll at difficulty 8 to force him to answer one question truthfully. (however, Richard is not pleased with his imprisonment, and is rather caustic when talked to.)