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Path of Paradox (Eastern)
Topic Started: Aug 15 2015, 11:34 AM (240 Views)
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Nickname: Shilmulo

Virtues: Conviction and Self-Control

Ethics of the Path

Inspired by Hinduism and upheld predominantly by vampires of the Ravnos Clan, the Path of Paradox concerns itself with the vampires' karmic duty to continue the grand cycle of ages. Whereas most beings are reincarnated through samsara, a continual "entanglement" in the cycle of rebirth, Kindred have become excluded that cycle. Every individual has his own purpose, or svadharma, but vampires have lost theirs. In place of the dharma they once followed, they must now try to advance maya, and hopefully understand it in the process; finally penetrating the great illusions that shroud Ultimate Truth from their eyes. Accept two contradicting things as true and finding meaning in Paradox. Accept your inhumanity, as it was left with your original karma.

Once a Follower has found his svadharma, he has to dedicate his existence to it. Use deception to achieve your ends, as others bear the fault of distrust. Deceptions are, in reality, complicated tests designed to cause the subject to reveal hidden aspects of herself. Laws - especially mortal ones - are seen as distractions of their divine purpose and part of the illusionary state of the world that you must strive to overcome.

It is arduous and demanding to truly uphold the code, one must glean important grains of information from those with whom one conspires, in order to understand their svadharma better. Interpret those svadharma and aid them in their fulfillment of it. Though they commonly hold other vampires in contempt, believing that they ignorantly or arrogantly refusing to seek their reintroduction to the cycle. So, followers of this Path have taken the responsibility upon their shoulders to do it for them. They attempt to erase karmic debt, dispel maya's illusions and return to the samsara.

Removed from the karmic wheel, other Kindred often fail to realize the necessity of their return to the cycle. Shilmulo understand this -- and expedite their return by destroying them. Destroy other Kindred, for they are unnatural to maya. Confuse the Antediluvians by returning their childer to the cycle. Embrace only if absolutely necessary, and then only from the jati (family line), for they will be locked perpetually outside the illusory cycle of the universe (maya).

The Shilmulo believe that they are in the exact place and time they are meant to be, doing what they are meant to do. It is too simple a conceit to say that they destroy vampires and burn karma. In fact, the Path of Paradox is arduous and demanding. Fierce individualists, trying not to be entangled in the svadharmas of other living beings. They can also possess a strong fatalistic streaks, believing the preordination of events that are the result of the interactions of various svadharma.

Path of Paradox - Eastern
RatingMoral Guideline
10Embracing a woman – they should bring life not death.
9Embracing outside the jati
8Destroying another Shilmulo (follower of the Path).
7Killing a mortal for sustenance
6Failing to destroy a vampire who refuses to acknowledge their svadharma
5Killing a mortal for reasons other than survival.
4Failure to aid another's svadharma
3Allowing one's Sect affairs to take precedence over one's dharma.
2Becoming blood bound.
1Embracing needlessly or out of personal desire

-Featherstone & Roofie
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