| Talent category | Lesser Calling |
|---|---|
| Required class type | Vampire (as class or trait) |
| Required base stats | Brawn 6+, Discipline 6+ |
You are a member of House BloodStone, one of the great vampire orders. This
allows you to infuse metal weapons and armour with your blood via the forge
command, transforming them into a heavy yet durable metal called bloodsteel.
Whenever you hit someone with a bloodsteel weapon, it soaks up blood, making it throb and eventually pulsate, and this talent allows you to utilise that stolen lifeforce. While the weapon is pulsating you gain a bypass bonus equal to your Discipline, although only every second point over 10 counts (so Discipline 30 would give 20 bypass). This bonus is halved when the weapon is only throbbing (so Discipline 30 would give only 10 bypass).
If you are a full vampire with the Blood Forging power, the above bypass bonus stacks with the ranked bypass bonus. Your power is also treated as if it were 5 ranks higher for the purposes of wearing and forging (but not for bypass).