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[Stupid Loserman]

It's newly published stuff from Signs of Sorcery, as is the rest of the second edition information on who can and can't Awaken. As you say, before Signs of Sorcery the published word would have said that they keep the Tell, but the Mage gameline now disagrees.

[Stupid Loserman]

First edition materials, especially earlier first edition, take the general position that if you have a "major" template with a Supernatural Potency trait, you can't then undergo a transformation into another major template. A vampire who exsanguinates a mage and attempts to Embrace her simply ends up with the corpse of a dead mage. Wolf-blooded who experience the Awakening and become mages will never undergo the First Change.

The two sideways exceptions are Prometheans and hunters. Hunters are not a major template in this sense, with the possible exception of certain third-tier...

[Stupid Loserman]

Different Storytellers may have different preferences. I'd personally allow it.

[Stupid Loserman]

Distinguished Palate was apparently originally intended to be restricted to Ventrue, and adding a replacement was overlooked when they decided to unlock DP for other clans.

Olivia Hill, one of the credited (as David Hill) writers on the Requiem corebook, wrote a proposed replacement Ventrue Merit here....