The Praenomen of Aetolia

Syntax: EARTHMELD and RISE

You may merge with the soil underfoot and enter a sleeping state in which you will recover health at an increased rate. The earth will keep you protected from the sun and from roaming monsters while you heal. You must rise once you are ready to return above ground.

Syntax: DRAIN <corpse>

Blood is the source of power for the Praenomen, and for a newborn walker of the night, one of the easiest ways to obtain it is from the dead. Simply sink your fangs into a fresh corpse - whether you hold it or it lies upon the ground - and drain whatever blood remains, drinking it for yourself.

Satisfying your urge is best achieved by drinking the blood of sentient beings. While you can drink the blood of animals, it'll be far less potent.

You can drain blood from corpses even while outside the Praenomen class. However, if you do so while you are Praenomen, you will gain more blood from the act and your hunger will be eased as though you had just eaten.

Syntax: FRENZY <target>

The basic attack of the Sanguine - batter your victim in a series of frenzied blows and briefly stun them, dealing blunt damage. If they have had their blood effused, then the damage you deal against them is enhanced.

This ability may be used with the TARGET ability in Weaponry to attack any part of the opponent's body.

Syntax: CHILL <target>
Blood cost: 10

Use the cold of undeath to great affect and chill your opponent to the bone, freezing them by one stage.

Syntax: NIGHTSIGHT

Sharpen your vampiric sight and pierce the night with your keen eyes.

Syntax: ELUSION [OFF]

The vampire is a powerful force in hand-to-hand combat. At cost of your endurance, you can increase your ability to dodge attacks directed at you. You can read HELP AVOIDANCE for more information.

Syntax: HIDE and EMERGE

Conceal yourself from view, hiding yourself from the eyes of others within the room. You may emerge if you wish to reveal yourself and cease to hide.

Syntax: MASQUERADE [OFF]
Blood cost: 100

Additional syntax: DESCRIBE MASQUERADED SELF <description>

This will flush blood into your capillaries and make you appear as one of the living, concealing the outward signs of your vampiric nature. You may describe how you appear in this state as an alternate to your general description.

Syntax: BECOME WOLF and REVERT
Blood cost: 400

Additional syntax: DASH <direction>

The Consanguine have the ability to morph themselves into a simple wolf. Your actions are limited in this form, but you will be able to DASH in a direction and will be protected from the sun.

Syntax: STALK
Blood cost: 300

During the night, you may stalk the shadows and become unseen when you move about. At dawn, the shadows will fade and you will no longer be able to stalk.

Syntax: BREATHE <target>

Summon the tainted remains within your withered lungs, and direct a poisoned stream of air at your target. This will rot the fangbarrier defence and leave them with slickness.

Syntax: CLOT [#]

This ability will allow you to partially clot your bleeding in trade for your mana. You can specify how many times you wish to clot if need be. If you input no amount, then you will try and clot away 20 bleeding by default.

Syntax: CATCHING [OFF]

With this ability active, you have a chance to snatch arrows from the air before they strike you. There is an endurance upkeep associated with this ability in order to maintain your focus.

Syntax: CLAW <target>

Slash across your target's chest with powerful vampiric claws to cause two instances of cutting-based damage and bleeding.

If they are an adventurer, it will rip open a wound on their flesh giving them the rend affliction. If the flesh is already rended, then you will cause additional bleeding.

Syntax: FORTIFY
Blood cost: 200

Your supernatural nature allows you to fortify your body against physical attacks, reducing the damage you take from both cutting and blunt damage types as though you are wearing additional armour.

This bonus armour will become weaker the less blood you have.

Syntax: BECOME BAT and REVERT
Blood cost: 400

Additional syntax: FLY and LAND

You can now reform your body into that of a bat. Your actions will be limited in this form, but you will be immune to the sun and will be able to FLY if you so choose.

Syntax: CELERITY
Blood cost: 150

This will half the time it takes for your movement limit to be reset, allowing you to move about the land considerably faster.

Syntax: BLOCK <direction> and UNBLOCK

Move into a position that blocks others from leaving your location should they attempt to leave, providing you are not incapacited. Should you move, you will cease to block.

This ability is passive.

Should you use FRENZY against a target who is protected by a magical shield, your frenzied assault will shatter their shield in a single blow.

Syntax: MISTFORM

Normally only obtainable through death, you can now shed your corporeal body and assume your ethereal form. While in this form you will be immune to most attacks and the effects of sunlight, but your actions will be limited. To return to your corporeal form, you must either return to your coffin or merge with the soil where you may slowly reassemble a physical form.

Syntax: MEND
Blood cost: 300

At the cost of some of your blood, this ability lets you repair a large quantity of damage done to your body.

The amount of health this skill will heal will increase with the less blood you have.

Cooldown: 25 seconds

Syntax: LIFESCENT [OFF]
Blood cost: 200

Your keen scent of smell allows you to detect when potential prey are nearby. This ability will only last a limited amount of time before the effects will fade.

Syntax: WARD
Blood cost: 200

Your mind is enhanced to the point that it can erect a powerful ward against magical attacks that would harm you, reducing the damage you take.

Syntax: DARKVEIL
Blood cost: 50

Beckon the shadows to cover you, allowing you to become hidden even when in sight of others.

Syntax: GASH <target> [LIGHTLY]

While wielding a two-handed blade, you can strike at another and gouge them open with the cold taste of metal. This will poison them if there is any venom upon the blade, and will deal more damage than a normal weapon slash.

You can also choose to gash them lightly if you wish. This will reduce the damage you deal, but it will be quicker and can be performed while one of your arms is crippled.

Syntax: ENVENOM <weapon|LEFT|RIGHT> WITH <venom>
WIPE <weapon>

With this ability, you may layer venoms on an edged weapon. Each time that weapon hits somebody, one venom will poison your opponent, and disappear from the weapon.

Venoms work on a last-on, first-off basis, so if you put xentio on a weapon, and then put voyria on, the voyria would come off first, and the xentio second. You must possess a rag with the venom in order to apply it to a weapon.

In order to get rid of the venoms on a weapon, simply WIPE <weapon>.

Syntax: FLING <target>

While mounted, you may ride up to someone and use the momentum of your steed with your own supernatural strength to fling them into the air. This will either slam them into the ceiling above or send them sailing into the sky.

Gravity will become a natural ally when making use of this skill, assuming they cannot fly.

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Syntax: BURY COFFIN, ENTOMB, and RISE

In order to make yourself a comfy home beneath the ground, you must first purchase or obtain a coffin. Then, you must bury it somewhere with soft soil, preferably somewhere that is unlikely to be disturbed or dug up. You may only have one coffin at a time.

Once you have buried your coffin, you can then entomb yourself within it, providing you stand within the same local area as your coffin. This will allow you to heal yourself or regenerate a new body much faster than earthmelding does. When you are ready to return to the land above, you can then rise.

Syntax: FEED <target> and RELEASE

Fresh blood drawn from the living is a delectable resource for one of the Sanguine, though a living target is far more difficult to feed upon than a corpse.

So long as they aren't protected against your fangs, you may begin to feed upon a hapless victim while they are either prone or suffering from paresis. You will grapple them in place and slowly drain their blood reserves into your own until they writhe free, you RELEASE them, or they perish.

While being fed upon, they will also suffer cutting damage when their blood is drawn from their body.

Syntax: DEATHLINK
Blood cost: 1000

To be able to use this ability, you must first have a buried coffin. Once you are standing atop it, you can link yourself to your coffin using your own blood. This will allow you to entomb from anywhere on the continent rather than being limited to the local area. The strengthened bond that you form will break should you entomb from a distant location.

Syntax: POTENCE <STRENGTH|INTELLIGENCE|CONSTITUTION|DEXTERITY|WISDOM>
Blood cost: 250

Your control over your body is such that you can use the potent force of your blood to empower your physical form, granting you an additional point in a stat of your choice.

Syntax: EMINENCE <BALANCE|EQUILIBRIUM|DAMAGE>
Blood cost: 500

Only those who have reached the peak of the vampiric form can call forth their eminence. This ability will allow you to switch your body enhancement between equilibrium, balance, and damage at will, providing you have selected one for enhancement already.

For more information on enhancements, please see AB HUNTING ENHANCEMENT.

Syntax: FADE <direction>

You now possess the ability to fade away from your location, evading certain triggers and traps and bypassing those that might prevent you from leaving. Anyone following you will be lost, and those that see you fade will not know what direction you left in.

Syntax: RECONSTRUCT <body part>
Blood cost: 200

Reconstruct a broken body part through force of will and blood, healing 6% trauma and restoring it toward its original form. You may heal the head, torso, left/right arm, or left/right leg.

This will only work while the limb is either broken or mangled.

Cooldown: 50 seconds

Syntax: PURIFY BLOOD
Blood cost: 250

An incredibly powerful ability, this will allow you to purge your body and blood of one random affliction, then another will be cured after 2 seconds. There is no prevention to this ability other than the initial mana cost and requiring balance and equilibrium to perform.

Cooldown: 20 seconds

Syntax: LIFEVISION

Your keen senses allow you to see all living things within your sight, regardless if they are hidden or not. It will additionally provide some measure of protection against illusions, allowing you to occasionally tell if they are fake.

Syntax: WHISPER <affliction> <target>
Blood cost: 90 per whisper

Whispers are the manner in which you can condition your opponent into various mental states that will grant you an advantage in on the field of battle.

All whispers can be performed off balance providing you have not fallen on the ground, allowing you to attack with balance-based skill and then whisper an affliction to your opponent.

You will learn new afflictions to whisper as you continue to progress in Mentis.

While whispering is possible in many situations where normally you'd normally be unable to act, it is however difficult to do so while fallen and afflicted by stupidity, or while transfixed.

You can type AFFLICTION <name> to learn more about what an affliction from Mentis does.

Syntax: DEATHSIGHT [OFF]

Using this ability, you will be linked with the Underhalls, allowing you to sense those who perish and pass through it.

Syntax: PSYCHALLENGE <player>

Psychic combat is a telepathic battle between two players where the goal is to crumple your opponent's mind. There is no penalty for losing, however those with deathsight will feel the moment a game is decided. There are only seven commands associated with psychic combat that may be used, and when you accept you will be transported to a special location out of harm's way. Most other commands will not work until the game is complete.

You can do the following in psychic combat:

PSY BLAST:
Blast your opponent's mind and attack their mental fortitude.

PSY BARRIER:
Erect a barrier that protects your mind from psychic blasts.

PSY WHIP:
Tear away your opponent's mental barrier if they have one.

PSY SURGE:
If your opponent has less than half of their mental energy, you can end the match in a surge of psychic power. This is costly to perform and could result in your own loss if misjudged.

PSY PROBE:
Use your mind to determine your opponent's mental energy.

PSY MEDITATE:
Meditate your mind in order to recover your mental energy. This is a slow process.

PSY ESCAPE:
This takes some time, during which you may not do anything else. Once the ability is successful, an exit will open up, allowing you to escape.

Syntax: ASSESS <target>

Determine the physical state of another individual, discovering their current health levels. Unique to Mentis, you may additionally perform this ability off balance.

Syntax: DISRUPT <target>
Blood cost: 100

Should your opponent have two mental afflictions, you may disrupt them of their equilibrium. They will not be able to recover until they CONCENTRATE.

Look at HELP TYPES for more information on what is regarded as a mental affliction.

Syntax: SIPHON <target>
Blood cost: 100

With a brush of a finger, you can quickly steal mana from your opponent and bolster your own.

Syntax: MESMERIZE <target>
Blood cost: 100

This ability allows you to capture the attention of your opponent for a short time and transfix them in place, leaving them unable to act. If they possess courage, then this ability will fail instead.

Syntax: WHISPER <affliction> <affliction> <target>

The skill of the forked tongue allows you to intertwine two subvocal commands in the same whisper, inflicting both upon your target simultaneously.

Syntax: TELESENSE <ON|OFF>

Tune your senses to detect any telepathic attempts made on yourself or
those in your location. Be warned, this will drain your mana while
active.

Syntax: WHISPER PANIC <target/mount>

Induce panic into the mind of a mount, causing it to either buck its rider off or flee from the location. You cannot interweave this whisper with another.

Syntax: CONTEMPLATE <target>

Contemplate your opponent's mental state and discover their mana levels.

Syntax: TRILL <affliction> [affliction]

Splitting the sound of your whispers into numerous directions, you can impart subvocal commands to all enemies within your location. You can trill a second affliction as long as you have knowledge of Forkedtongue.

Cooldown: 12 seconds

Syntax: LURE <target>
Blood cost: 250

By projecting your mental control over your surroundings, you are able to lure a target that is within three rooms of you towards your location. This will move them as though they did it of their own accord.

This ability will strip the rebounding defence if it is successful in moving the target.

Syntax: ANNIHILATE <target>
Blood cost: 300

If your opponent is in a vulnerable mental state with their mana reserves below 35% of their maximum, you can strike their forehead with a rush of psychic power and annihilate them with a single word.

Syntax: WHISPER CONFUSION <target>

Plant confusing echoes and voices into the mind of your target, afflicting them with confusion.

Syntax: WHISPER FEAR <target>

Plant unnatural dread into the mind of your target, causing them to flee in fear until they compose themselves.

Syntax: WHISPER IMPATIENCE <target>

Reduce the attention span of your opponent, making it difficult to focus and afflicting them with impatience.

Syntax: WHISPER PARANOIA <target>

Instill your opponent with irrational suspicion, afflicting them with paranoia.

Syntax: WHISPER STUPIDITY <target>

Stupefy and slow your opponent's mind, afflicting them with stupidity.

Syntax: WHISPER AGORAPHOBIA <target>

Fill your opponent with a healthy fear of the outdoors, afflicting them with agoraphobia.

Syntax: WHISPER MASOCHISM <target>

Give your opponent the idea that self-harm is a fun pasttime. This will afflict them with masochism.

Syntax: WHISPER INFATUATION <target>

Turn their emotions into a weapon of longing, afflicting them with infatuation.

Syntax: WHISPER PSYCHOSIS <target>

Fill their head with maddening voices that never seem to relent, afflicting them with psychosis.

Syntax: WHISPER SEDUCTION <target>

Mentally coerce your opponent into sharing their mental reserves with you periodically. This effect will last until they escape your presence for a short time.

Syntax: WHISPER EPILEPSY <target>

Cause your opponent to spasm and twitch, afflicting them with epilepsy.

Syntax: WHISPER ANOREXIA <target>

Implant the fear of consumption into your opponent, afflicting them with anorexia.

Syntax: WHISPER AMNESIA <target>

Confuse the thoughts of your opponent, making them forget the next action they wish to perform.

Syntax: WHISPER LONELINESS <target>

Make the fool crave the company of others, afflicting them with loneliness.

Syntax: WHISPER DEMENTIA <target>

Subvert your opponent's facility for recognizing his surroundings, afflicting them with dementia.

Syntax: WHISPER MANIA <target>

Fill your foe with uncontrolled rage, afflicting them with mania.

Syntax: WHISPER INDIFFERENCE <target>

Induce disregard into your opponent's state of mind, giving them the indifference affliction. So mired by your mesmerising magics, their listless reactions will cause them to suffer increased limb trauma.

Syntax: WHISPER VERTIGO <target>

Implant a fear of heights into your opponent, afflicting them with vertigo.

Syntax: WHISPER TEMPTATION <target>

Fill your opponent with temptation, periodically draining them of their health and adding it to your own. This effect will last until they escape your presence for a short time.

Syntax: WHISPER RECKLESSNESS <target>

Influence your target to disregard his own state of health, afflicting them with recklessness.

This ability is passive.

Although your blood grants you great power, it does not come without significant cost. The less blood you have, the more feral your strength will become, however this also leaves you susceptible to certain dangers.

The following is a list of attributes you will develop the less blood you have:
- Major weakness to fire damage
- Resistance to cold damage
- Resistance to asphyixation damage
- Resistance to poison damage
- Resistance to electric damage
- Less intelligence
- Additional strength

Additionally, you will no longer suffer the effects of less natural healing that applies when you have lost blood. You can read HELP BLOOD for more information.

Syntax: BLOOD EXPEL
Blood cost: 5% to 7%

Through the control of your own blood, you may choose to expel some of it from your body in order to lower it. This will cause a small amount of bleeding to yourself as well.

Be warned, should you expel all your blood, you will perish.

Syntax: PERVADE

Sense the location of the dead in your local area.

Syntax: BLOOD RAISE <corpse>
CALL MINION
SEVER MINION

Blood cost: 750

By spreading the gift of your blood, you can breathe life into the dead to raise it anew. You may only raise the corpse of a common, sentient denizen.

The power of your minion will scale with your level, where the higher level you are, the more damage it will deal.

Any other undead minions raised by you will cease to be once a new one is summoned forth.

Syntax: RITUALS

Perform rituals using the might within your vampiric blood in order to create and impart powerful magic upon the bloodline and yourself. RITUALS will give you more information on what rituals you can perform.

Starting a ritual:
IMBUE STONE WITH BLOOD

To begin a ritual, you must then stand before the bloodstone of the Dominion and then imbue the stone with your blood. Once you have done this, you can then chant the phrase and paint the rune required for the ritual in question.

Collecting blood:
COLLECT BLOOD FROM <target>
BLOODLIST

All rituals require you to first collect the blood of whomever your ritual intends to target. To do this you must find yourself a phial and collect their blood while they are bleeding. Clawing in Corpus is well-suited to this task. You can use BLOODLIST to view the blood you have collected.

Syntax: BLOOD TRACK [OFF]

Your attunement with blood allows you to sense how much others are bleeding for within your room. This will drain your blood reserves for as long as you have it active.

This ability is passive.

Any undead minion you raise is now brought back to life under your command. You can view HELP LOYALTY for more information.

Syntax: BLOOD THIRST <weapon>
Blood cost: 100

Effuse your weapon with a deep thirst for blood, allowing it to steal another's upon each strike and add it to your own if they are not protected by the fang barrier defence.

The amount of blood that will be drained is based upon the penetration stat of your weapon, however it will no longer drain any further blood once your target has less than half their blood reserves left.

This ability can only be used on the large blade weapon class.

Syntax: REGURGITATE <target>
Blood transfer: 500

Transfer blood from yourself to another vampire in one swift action.

Syntax: BLOOD HAZE
Blood cost: 3000

Eject a large quanity of blood from your veins to conjure a fine blood haze across the location. This will disrupt the ability of everyone in the location to go incorporeal while it lingers.

Additionally, it will block the harmful effects of sunlight and will regenerate a small amount of health for all vampires that stand within.

Syntax: BLOOD EFFUSE <target>
Blood cost: 200

By effusing your target of blood, you can cause them to bleed through the pores of their skin. Your foe will only be able to heal themselves of the effusion should they leave your presence first.

Syntax: BLOOD LEVEL <target>

Determine how much blood your target has remaining.

Syntax: BLOOD GIFT
Blood cost: 500

Etch a small sigil upon the forehead of your minion, granting it a second life should it be slain by another. It will take some time before the minion will rise back up.

Syntax: BLOOD MASK
Blood cost: 100

Mask your minion, preventing it from being seen by prying eyes.

Syntax: FRENZY <target> <pulse type>
Blood cost: 50

A pulse of fresh blood through your veins gives your frenzy extra power. Each ability requires that your opponent is affected by the required affliction(s) before hand, otherwise your frenzy will act like normal.

Subdue:
Your frenzy will additionally drain your opponent of mana if they have at least three depressant-healed afflictions.

Upset:
Providing your opponent has their blood effused, you will upset that process and cause a single affliction from weariness, clumsiness, or vomiting the next time the effusion affects them. The affliction is chosen in order, starting with weariness.

Craze:
A fury of blows will throw your opponent to the floor and strip the courage defence, as long as they have at least three antipsychotic-healed afflictions.

Bodyleech:
Providing they have at least three euphoriant-healed afflictions, you will sap dexterity from your opponent and add it to yourself.

You can view HELP CURE ORDER for information on the various curing trees.

Syntax: BLOOD SEETHE <target>
Blood cost: 100

Should your opponent possess both balance and equilibrium, you can direct your seething gaze upon them. If successful, it will trigger an aggressive reaction within them. This can be performed while you are off balance.

Syntax: BLOOD CONCENTRATE

Refines your blood, making it more efficient. Abilities that expend blood will require less with blood concentration in effect.

Syntax: BLOOD PATH <path>

Remold your body and psyche into one of the three vampiric paths. You can select from Insidiae, the bond based subclass; Phreneses, the physical based subclass; or Rituos, the blood-magic based subclass. You can select PUROS in order to return to a pathless state.

Each subclass grants five new abilities, which you learn as part of Sanguis:
Insidiae Phreneses Rituos
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Poison Ravish Wisp
Strengthen Insatiable Susurro
Mutation Spew Rune
Blur Trepidation Shadowblow
Pillar Feast Thrombus

You can type AB SANGUIS <ability> to learn more about them.

Cooldown: 4 hours

Syntax: BLOOD AFFINITY <ally>
BLOOD AFFINITY OFF
Blood cost: 300

Bind a mutual ally with your blood to split the pain of any attack between the two of you. You must remain within the same room as the other in order to receive this bonus.

Additionally, while you have bound your blood with another, you may perform any blood-related command on them normally reserved for your progeny.

Syntax: BLOOD DELUGE
Blood cost: 500

By burning your blood reserves, you can cheat death, becoming able to fall below zero health. This effect will only last for a short period, at which point any further damage will destroy you.

You cannot bleed while under zero health.

Cooldown: 20 seconds

Syntax: SIRE <player>
CHILDERLIST [ALL]
REJECT CHILDER <name>

Blood cost: 2000

This will bond one of the blood to you, making you their Sire, providing they do not already have one. Siring is very difficult to break, and should be entered into with caution. You may use this ability even if the Praenomen class isn't your active chosen class.

Syntax: BLOOD GLANCE <progeny>
Blood cost: 100

Glance through the eyes of your progeny and see what they do.

Syntax: BLOOD VISION <progeny> <vision>
Blood cost: 200

This powerful ability allows you to send illusory visions to your blood progeny, no matter where they might be.

Note: You can add a new line into your vision by using the tag $nl within the text, however there is a limit in that you may only do this five times.

Syntax: BLOOD BECKON <progeny>
Blood cost: 500

Summon your progeny to you on one knee from anywhere on the continent.

Syntax: BLOOD WILL <progeny> <command>
Blood cost: 300

You may issue a direct command to your blood progeny as long as they are in the same location as you or adjacent.

Syntax: BLOOD TUNE <ON|OFF>
Blood cost: 100

By focusing on your Bloodline, you may tune yourself to their thoughts. If you are in the room with them, you may hear any entry they make by the THINK command.

Syntax: BLOOD MONITOR <progeny>
Blood cost: 1000

Through the bond in your blood, you may monitor the activities of your progeny. This will only last for a limited time however.

Usage: BLOOD AEGIS
Blood cost: 95%

Bestow an aegis on your bloodline, granting them extra protection from the attacks of denizens. Can only be used at the dead of Midnight, when the power of the blood is at its strongest.

Usage: BLOOD INVIGORATE
Blood cost: 95%

Invigorate the bloodlines with renewed vigour, granting all online vampires connected to you a boost to their experience gain for one hour. Can only be used at the dead of Midnight, when the power of the blood is at its strongest.

Syntax: BLOOD RILE
Blood Cost: 500 per affected

You heat your blood, and through focus on your Bloodline, force theirs to rile alongside yours. Your line, from you downward, will gain the defenses of Concentration, Shadowblow, and Blur with no blood cost to themselves.

Syntax: EMBRACE <target> IN BLOOD
CHILDERLIST

Blood cost: 5000

With this ability, you may unleash a new vampire. The process is quite draining on both those begetting and those being sworn to the Blood. The newly sworn will have a rapacious thirst for blood afterward.

At this stage, you are not bound in any lasting way to the vampire who binds you to the Blood. See AB SANGUIS SIRE for more information.

Syntax: BLOOD POISON <target>
Blood cost: 200

By poisoning their blood stream and inducing a state of sepsis, you can make their body slow to cure, extending the time it takes as long as at least one affliction is present within the antipsychotic, euphoriant, or depressant curing tree.

For each tree above that possesses an affliction, the more potent the sepsis will become. This will only affect pill, poultice, and pipe balance recovery times.

You can view HELP CURE ORDER for information on the various curing trees.

You may use this ability while off balance.

Syntax: BLOOD WISP [OFF]

Summon forth the blood wisp which will aid you. It will cause enemies in your location to begin to bleed and inflict them with haemophilia. This will drain your blood reserves for as long as you have it active.

This ability is passive.

When making use of the Clawing ability, the sight of blood will excite you to such a degree that the next time you use a single whisper, the equilibrium recovery time will be shorter than normal.

The speed increase from Ravish is refreshed each time you use this ability, and can stack up to five times. Two stacks are added instead if the target already has the rend affliction.

Please see AB CORPUS CLAWING for more information on this ability.

This ability is passive.

By flushing your enhanced blood through your tongue, you will render your whispers silent to others 25% of the time, leaving them unaware of your intentions.

Syntax: BLOOD INSATIABLE [OFF]

So insatiable is your hunger for blood, that when this ability is active, you will additionally be able to Feed on a target that has at least one physical affliction.

Should you then Feed or Feast from another, you will gain a short lived boost to your balance and equilibrium from the fresh blood. This effect can stack for each successful feeding you do, and is more effective if you Feast.

See AB CORPUS FEED or AB SANGUIS FEAST for more information on those skills, and HELP AFFLICTION TYPES for what is considered a physical affliction.

Syntax: BLOOD STRENGTHEN
Blood cost: 100

Prepare and strengthen the holding bond of Effusion for when you place it upon another. As such, it will additionally become incurable while the target has masochism.

Please see AB SANGUIS EFFUSION for more information on this ability.

Syntax: BLOOD SPEW <target>
Blood cost: 500

Cover them in a mass of foul, reeking rot that burns the flesh and stings the senses. This will give them ringing ears to begin with and strip the fangbarrier defence.

It will also do the following if they have certain afflictions:
* If they have sadness, it will give blisters.
* If they have misery, it will give impairment.
* If they have arrhythmia, it will give vomiting.

While this is rather powerful ability, the bile will burn your throat in the process, removing the Forkedtongue ability until the cooldown expires.

Please see AB MENTIS FORKEDTONGUE for more information.

Cooldown: 15 seconds

Syntax: BLOOD RUNE <target>
ACTIVATE RUNE

Blood cost: 200

Place a blood rune upon your target. You can activate this at any time for a small burst in health and mana damage.

Syntax: BLOOD MUTATE <type>

By mutating the blood within your minion, you can gift it with new powers, making it more dangerous.

Ghastly: A ghastly touch will seize the muscles causing paresis.
Festering: Festering jaws will leave the target with haemophilia.
Eldritch: An otherworldly gaze will cause the victim to hallucinate.
Oozing: A foul, acrid ooze will rot away the fang barrier defence.

Syntax: BLOOD BLUR
Blood cost: 400

By forcing your blood to circulate erratically, you can create a blurring effect when others attempt to gauge your vitals by sight or knowledge.

Syntax: BLOOD TREPIDATION [OFF]

Exude a powerful sanguine aura from yourself to spin fear and anxiety in those around you. This will only affect up to two enemies at once. This will drain your blood reserves for as long as you have it active.

Trepidation can cause the following afflictions:
Arrhythmia, misery, and sadness.

If they have all three afflictions, then it will strip courage from them.

Syntax: BLOOD SHADOWBLOW
Blood cost: 200

Form a mystic shadow entity from your blood. It will protect you by storing up damage dealt to you, then after a certain threshold has passed, it will strike out at the mana of the next person to harm you.

Syntax: BLOOD FEAST <target>

If your target has been mesmerized into inaction, you can satisfy your lust for blood by feasting upon your prey and open a large wound that will drain them of massive amount of their blood from a single bite, restoring your own, and dealing both cutting and blunt damage at the same.

Syntax: BLOOD PILLAR
Blood cost: 2000

The earth itself can feed from your blood, allowing you to bring forth the mighty blood pillar. While in the presence of the blood pillar, anyone who receives bleeding will add a small amount of power to the pillar.

Once 450 bleeding has been caused in its presence, the pillar will flare and re-afflict all your enemies of the last affliction they cured after a delay. They do not need to bleed in order for this effect to happen, any attack that creates bleeding will work.

Be warned that the pillar is not immune to the wrath of your enemies. It can be attacked and destroyed.

Syntax: BLOOD THROMBUS <target>
Blood cost: 400

By whispering an incantation of old into your opponent's ear, you can cause the blood within their body to begin to seize. It will deal mental damage to your target three times in a row, with the final blow stunning them.

The amount of mental damage this will cause is proportionate to the amount of mental afflictions the enemy has each time they are drained of mana.

Look at HELP TYPES for more information on what is regarded as a mental affliction.

Cooldown: 30 seconds