< Protean | Disciplines | Dementation >
Study a target intently to reveal their weaknesses and secrets.⚠ </br>
System: Roll Perception + Empathy (difficulty of the target's Self-Control+4). Successes can be divided to learn multiple secrets. This power can only be used once a night on a given target.
| 1 Success | Recent sin or low trait |
| 2 Successes | Guarded secret or path often travelled |
| 3+ Successes | Derangements or important secret, like a haven's location |
Speak and cause those who hear to flee in terror.⚠ </br>
System: After using Sense the Sin on the target, roll Wits + Intimidation (difficulty of the target's Courage+4). Mortals are affected automatically. Supernaturals can roll Courage (difficulty of your Willpower) to reduce your successes.
| 1 Success | Reduces target's dice pools by 2 |
| 2 Successes | Drives target into Rotschreck |
| 3+ Successes | Induces a catatonic state |
Touch someone and, through that contact, reach into their mind to steal their thoughts.⚠ </br>
System: Spend two Willpower and roll Manipulation + Occult (difficulty of the target's Willpower). Each success allows you to read one secret that the victim has thought about in the last 24 hours. A botch reveals your own secrets to the target, along with your identity.
Create a dark hallucination that attacks the victim. You must concentrate to maintain the psychic assault.⚠ </br>
System: After using Sense the Sin or Seize the Secret on your target, spend a Willpower. Your target rolls their lowest Virtue (difficulty 6). If they fail, a hallucination of their deepest fear appears and confronts them. If they botch, they Frenzy or enter a catatonic panic. They may even become possessed by their inner demons. This power cannot inflict real wounds, but if the target is 'killed' by the hallucination they will enter a coma, or torpor.
Give spiritual form to a past crime, animating the residual psychic echoes into a minor, immaterial demon you can question or force to reveal the criminal. This power can only be used at the scene of a crime committed since the last full moon.⚠ </br>
System: Roll Charisma + Occult (difficulty 8) to summon the demon. Normally, only you can see the demons summoned by this power. If you botch, the demon manifests physically and attacks you in full sight of any witnesses. For each success on the roll, you can ask the demon one question about the crime it embodies.
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