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Path of Redemption
Topic Started: Aug 15 2015, 11:57 AM (225 Views)
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Nickname: Martyrs

Virtues: Conscience and Self-Control.

Ethics of the Path

God has not turned from the Children of Caine. They are his creations, his dark angels, a chalice in which the blood of sin might be transformed into the blood of salvation. Perhaps there are no angels anymore. Perhaps God needs new messengers. Perhaps vampires are the new angels under Heaven. The martyrs hold that vampires are God's punishment on humanity, an instrument of His vengeance and a tool for salvation.

The word of God is law and mortals are truly God's children. Study them. Reawaken their understanding of their place in Creation. Followers use their undead nature to save themselves and others. Submit to the ebb and flow of the Divine Tide and experience the controlled cycle between grace and sin. Find those who have faith and teach them the truth.

Vampires, so the Martyrs argue, are by their very nature the ultimate personification of the seven cardinal sins: pride, greed, anger, lust, envy, gluttony and sloth. The Path of Redemption maintains that a vampire is prone to all seven of these sins, that these are part of the essential nature of the Curse. Understand your sins so that they may be put away and you may seek forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from God. To be a vampire is to be denied the ideals that are most important to a mortal - the sun, love and God's grace. But that denial serves to make the soul stronger, and a strong soul can be purged of sin and can enter Heaven and God's favor. You should confess sins to those further advanced on the path. Accept confession from those less so.

Adherents choose progeny depending on a prospective childe's beliefs. Embrace only those who have some faith left, or sinners who have some spark of divinity burning inside them. Although, Follower's believe that those chosen for the Embrace are not selected by their sires, but by the Curse of Caine itself. Those chosen are punished for their sins - but they are also tested, forced through a purgatory on Earth and can be remade into a new thing: a saintly servant of God. Some see the Curse of Caine as a challenge, a penance handed down. Others perceive it as a tool to examine the nature of sin itself.

Understand the vampiric state and that it is one of God's tools. Explore the limits of their vampirism so that you can know a little of God's plan. Much of your immortal existence should be spent researching mysteries and mastering as many other fields of study as possible. By resisting the compulsions of the Curse, the childer of Caine immerse themselves in the power of God Almighty. They reject the Beast so that they may be made pure, that they may do God's work, and that they may hunt down those who fall to the Beast or the Devil. Watch those who exult in the curse so that they may be destroyed when the time is right. Martyrs consider themselves Christ's enforcers and destroyers. Those who reject God and turn to the powers of Hell must be hunted and destroyed.

Path of Redemption
ScoreMoral Guideline
10Neglecting your duty; not following the ethics of the path.
9Putting physical necessity before spiritual.
8Refusing the penitence of the Divine Tide.
7Refusing to heed the words of those beyond you on the path.
6Refusing to offer others the opportunity for redemption.
5Refusing to take or give confession.
4Blasphemous or heretical acts.
3Allowing a cardinal sin to go unpunished.
2The murder of innocents.
1Refusing to acknowledge the necessity of redemption for yourself or others.

- Featherstone & Roofie
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