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17: Night Shears

The Night Shears society was founded in 1799 by a rather obscure but well-established vampire who stumbled across T. Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population.. This vampire had already been studying humanity from a husbandry standpoint, at the time, and took the book as an insightful compilation of reasons to become ever more aggressive about the culling he was already pondering.

Initiates must understand the basics of population control or hold concepts such as poverty being a cause of crime. They are taught that humanity is a dangerous element...

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Had an oWoD Path of Nighter who did that sort of thing as a punishment but specifically as a sort of last-ditch hail-Mary to salvage a soul. Basically, if someone was impious enough that he couldn't seem to scare them straight, he'd turn them into a vampire in the hopes that they'd have the same reaction that he'd had. If not, well, one less monster was all right by him.

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The Hope Lily Compact

The group only initiates those in the know about vampires and almost exclusively their hunters. Members are taught the weaknesses and truths about vampires and ghosts, including how to leverage their traditional vulnerabilities. Through mystical know-how, they can learn ways of combining a few normally useless details into a meaningful asset in the fight. The lowest level are taught about vampires and their nature, with a focus on identifying them. Initiates are expected to fight the good fight intelligently.

The religious aspects of the order become...

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Actually, on rereading this, the rule seems to be independent of source. Huh....

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On the "utterly fair game" side of things, redirecting an aimed spell should be a Space/Prime thing. Possibly an attainment upgrade option from Prime to Space's Mage Armor.

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Some further notions:

Psychotherapy: To use it, you would need to actually discuss things and possibly even prescribe medications to a subject, but then you could apply the symbolism to the obvious things, like adjusting memory, but also to thins like providing a person the opportunity to test themselves and improve with Fate, Help them break old connections and build new, healthier ones with Space. Life could remove a physical addiction. Death (particularly with Mind assistance) could cause a major and sudden change, possibly ending both mental and physical self destructive traits....