Ashe

Key facts

Level

3

Overview

Ashe is a small quantity of something that behaves like daylight in a jar. Applied to a blade, thrown, or smeared where a vampire will touch it, it inflicts the one kind of harm every Kindred fears: Aggravated damage that does not mend with a simple Rouse Check. This is why the formula is treated as a political object rather than a tool. A thin-blood who can brew Ashe is a duskborn who can kill an elder, and elders know it. Some princes have destroyed alchemists over a rumor of it; others have offered protection in exchange for exclusive supply. Bringing Ashe to the table changes what your chronicle is about, so agree with your Storyteller before your character starts brewing.

How it works

Level: 3 Effect: Produce a substance that burns vampires the way sunlight does, dealing Aggravated damage that Kindred cannot mend away Ingredients: Blood of the resonance the recipe calls for, worked in a prepared lab over hours rather than improvised in the field Duration: The finished substance keeps until it is used, and the burning lasts as long as the material is in contact

Tips and playstyle

Best Uses: A last resort against something far stronger than your coterie, and leverage in a negotiation where nobody else has any Limitations: You are a vampire too, so a spill or a bad throw hurts you exactly as much. Possession alone is treated as a threat by every Kindred who learns of it

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