The Path of Beauty and Pleasure

By Lukasha

Ethics

• There is Beauty in all things. Especially Kindred for they have the ability to surpass mortal beauty.
• Revel in the Beauty that surrounds us for only Kindred can truly experience and appreciate it.
• Search out and enjoy things that give Pleasure. Increase the sum of your experiences.
• The intense pleasure of the Embrae should not be regretted. Feed off the mortals to give yourself pleasure. Even if you must take a mortal's life, be happy in the knowledge they die in the ecstasy of the Kiss.
• The most pleasurable Kiss is that given to another Kindred and vampiric blood is the ultimate ambrosia.
• The concept that Pleasure is sinful is a mortal facade. Anything that gives yourself or others pleasure can only be good.

Hierarchy of Sins

Rating	Minimum wrongdoing for path roll
10	Committing acts that pleasure no one
9	Failing to spend at least two hours per night giving or receiving pleasure
8	Failing to prolong a Kiss to provide yourself and your victim the maximum amount of pleasure
7	Not allowing yourself to enjoy the power of the Beast when it rises within
6	Accidentally destroying a work of beauty
5	Purposefully destroying a work of beauty
4	Killing a mortal without giving him pleasure
3	Purposefully denying another pleasure
2	Feeling guilty over enjoying Pleasure and Beauty
1	Denying yourself any Pleasures and not appreciating Beauty

Finding the Path

The Ritual with which one finds this enlightenment usually involves an evening of incredible sexual activity. Blood is spent in the acts of pleasure until Frenzy occurs at which point the mortal vessels which are provided are drained to replenish oneself. This process of releasing the Beast and then slowly draining a mortal, despite the desire to gorge oneself strips away the vestiges of your Humanity and puts you on the Path of Enlightenment.