Hunter's Blades

By Wade "Oorag" Sands (wesands157@hotmail.com)

Description

An extremely powerful Tremere was researching the properties of Assamite blood when he discovered their unique ability to convert it into an acidic poison. Centering on this property, and hoping to designing weapons for the clan to gain prestige, he bought (by proxy) the assassination of several of his most powerful childer. The set-up Assasmites were fairly thin-blooded and were each defeated by their prepared quarry. After almost a decade of this Tremere's research with this vitæ he was able to duplicate the process of the Assamite's blood conversion through an external medium. He instilled this power into a number of bladed weapons. Inevitably, clan Assamite discovered they had been duped. The Tremere disappeared without a trace a few years before the magic blades surfaced. It is widely assumed by those who know the story that the Assamites took vengeance, but, as always, there are skeptics.

Hunter's Blades look like ordinary, bladed, archaic weapons. The creating Tremere wasn't picky about the weapons he chose, so the blades encompass a wide array of styles and designs. Most are daggers and are at least of adequate quality. These blades are all at least 400 years old and enjoy no special resilience due to their enchantment, thus most are relatively fragile and worn. Upon the expenditure of a Willpower point, the user may sacrifice blood points, absorbed through the handle, to be converted into poison, which is excreted by the blade. For game purposes it mimics Quietus 4. The blood has the tendency to drip off the blade, spattering smoking droplets on the floor most dramatically. Any blood points left unused will drip off by the next scene.

These weapons are excellent for assassins, fools, and foolish assassins. Although they are powerful and effective weapons, clan Assasmite takes personal affront to their existence and actively searches them out to be destroyed. The bearer of the blade can usually expect the same fate. They can surface almost everywhere as the uses for a powerful weapon hated by the Assamites are varied and many.