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• Causae Mutationum (Malleable Alterations)

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	Within these limitations, the control can be very detailed. A character could grant herself different colour eyes, imitate a “bikini tan”, turn her hair a different colour (even natural colour with different colour highlights); darken or lighten skin tone to imitate tan complexion or a different ethnicity or make herself look up to a foot (30 cm) taller or shorter. She can even stretch or contract skin wrinkles to appear a older or younger (e.g. a Senya embraced as a teen could look like an older version of themselves).		Within these limitations, the control can be very detailed. A character could grant herself different colour eyes, imitate a “bikini tan”, turn her hair a different colour (even natural colour with different colour highlights); darken or lighten skin tone to imitate tan complexion or a different ethnicity or make herself look up to a foot (30 cm) taller or shorter. She can even stretch or contract skin wrinkles to appear a older or younger (e.g. a Senya embraced as a teen could look like an older version of themselves).

	'''System:''' The character must spend a blood point for each body part to be changed, then roll Intelligence+Medicine/Body Crafts (difficulty 6) whilst taking a symbolic physical action to make the change, such as pulling her hair to make it longer. Increasing one’s Appearance Trait has a difficulty of 9, and the vampire must spend an additional blood point for each dot of Appearance increased beyond their natural total. A botch permanently reduces the Attribute by one. As using this power requires sensing and modifying forms, it also grants the vampire the ability to make a Perception+Awareness roll (difficulty 8) to sense another person’s form – allowing Senya to recognise others they know by recognising a person’s “base form” even if they are in disguise or rendered unidentifiable by conventional means. This power must be used once to sense a form, before they can be recognised in the future by the use of this power. This power also allows characters on Paths of Enlightenment to use the Blush of Life as though they had Humanity equal to their Path rating.		'''System:''' The character must spend a blood point for each body part to be changed, then roll Intelligence+Medicine/Body Crafts (difficulty 6) whilst taking a symbolic physical action to make the change, such as pulling her hair to make it longer. Increasing one’s Appearance Trait has a difficulty of 9, and the vampire must spend an additional blood point for each dot of Appearance increased beyond their natural total. A botch permanently reduces the Attribute by one. As using this power requires sensing and modifying forms, it also grants the vampire the ability to make a Perception+Awareness roll (difficulty 8) to sense another person’s form – allowing Senya to recognise others they know by recognising a person’s “base form” even if they are in disguise or rendered unidentifiable by conventional means. This power must be used once to sense a form, before they can be recognised in the future by the use of this power. This power also allows characters on Paths of Enlightenment to use the ''Blush of Life'' as though they had Humanity equal to their Path rating.

	== •• Regeneratio (Regeneration) ==		== •• Regeneratio (Regeneration) ==

Fenton: /* ••• Mutare Forma (Alter Form) */

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••• Mutare Forma (Alter Form)

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	'''Dark Ages Name:''' Αλλάξτε τη φόρμα (Alláxte ti fórma)		'''Dark Ages Name:''' Αλλάξτε τη φόρμα (Alláxte ti fórma)

	The character’s ability to alter his own form is complete and can now alter the structure and makeup of his body; altering and compressing or expanding flesh and bone, size, shape and structure and even changing their physical sex. This allows the character to change his form into that of any other form he can envision, as long as it falls within the range of human possibility~~. Use of this power also allows changing of their vocal cords so they can sound completely different, such as disguising their voice, or sounding like a different person or gender~~.		The character’s ability to alter his own form is complete and can now alter the structure and makeup of his body; altering and compressing or expanding flesh and bone, size, shape and structure and even changing their physical sex. This allows the character to change his form or voice into that of any other form he can envision, as long as it falls within the range of human possibility.

	'''System:''' Spend a blood point for each body part to be changed, then roll Intelligence+Medicine/Body Crafts to change form (difficulty 6). This action requires one turn per body part to be changed as well as concentration and symbolic actions to your form to change (such as pulling on earlobes to change shape) as though “repainting” their form. This action is more of a focus tool than actual physical manipulation. A failed roll results in a failed attempt and the blood spent is lost. A botch on this check, however, causes the Senya to take one level of lethal damage from the pain, as well as the failure to make the change, and loss of any blood spent. A Senya who wishes to increase another’s Appearance Trait does so as described under Malleable Alterations; reducing the Attribute is considerably easier (difficulty 5), though truly inspired disfigurement may dictate a higher difficulty. In either case, each success increases or reduces the Attribute by one.		'''System:''' Spend a blood point for each body part to be changed, then roll Intelligence+Medicine /Body Crafts to change form (difficulty 6). This action requires one turn per body part to be changed as well as concentration and symbolic actions to your form to change (such as pulling on earlobes to change shape) as though “repainting” their form. This action is more of a focus tool than actual physical manipulation. A failed roll results in a failed attempt and the blood spent is lost. A botch on this check, however, causes the Senya to take one level of lethal damage from the pain, as well as the failure to make the change, and loss of any blood spent. A Senya who wishes to increase another’s Appearance Trait does so as described under Malleable Alterations; reducing the Attribute is considerably easier (difficulty 5), though truly inspired disfigurement may dictate a higher difficulty. In either case, each success increases or reduces the Attribute by one.

	If using this power to mimic another, a Perception+Medicine/Body Crafts roll (difficulty 8) is required and five successes for a flawless copy; fewer successes leave minute (or not-so-minute) flaws.		If using this power to mimic another, a Perception+Medicine /Body Crafts roll (difficulty 8) is required and five successes for a flawless copy; fewer successes leave minute (or not-so-minute) flaws.

	Additionally, the vampire's fine control over her form now allows her to use the ''Blush of Life'' (even those on Paths of Enlightenment) as though she had humanity 10 ~~in order to determine its effectiveness~~. That is, Blush of life makes her appear as a mortal in good health, allows her to heal superficial damage as though mortal, in addition to vampiric mending, have and enjoy sexual intercourse as if mortal, have tears and sweat that appear normal for mortals, and allows her to taste, eat, and enjoy food and drink as if mortal for the scene before she must heave it back out. The blood point cost of using Blush of Life ~~does not change, only its effectiveness~~.		Additionally, the vampire's fine control over her form now allows her to use the ''Blush of Life'' (even those on Paths of Enlightenment) as though she had humanity 10 for the purpose of appearing mortal. That is, Blush of life makes her appear as a mortal in good health, allows her to heal superficial damage as though mortal, in addition to vampiric mending, have and enjoy sexual intercourse as if mortal, have tears and sweat that appear normal for mortals, and allows her to taste, eat, and enjoy food and drink as if mortal for the scene before she must heave it back out. The usual penalties and restrictions for acting during the daytime or sunlight damage remain unchanged, as does the blood point cost of using Blush of Life.

	== •••• Corpus Detritus (Sculpt Body) ==		== •••• Corpus Detritus (Sculpt Body) ==

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	== Discipline Description ==		== Discipline Description ==
	Apparitionem is the Clan Senya discipline. The name being the accusative singular of the latin word ''appāritiō'' meaning appearance and, as the name implies, revolves around the Senya's ability to alter their appearance and form. Up until the dark ages, it was known as '''Εμφάνιση (Εmfánisi)''' and the different powers likewise had Greek titles. When Senya Lorekeepers began actually studying the power in detail during the Dark Ages after the first Grand Conclave, Latin was the more common scholarly language. Over time, as the class expanded during the late Byzantine Empire and Middle Ages, into the Renaissance era, the original Greek name for the Discipline and its powers fell out of favour as Parents preferred using the more common Latin language for traditional usage, and the Greek ones for formal usage, at best. In the modern nights when referring to non-speakers of Latin, including Adoptees who may not have learnt the classical languages, English language versions of the name are commonly used instead. In some respects, the approximate age of a Senya can be determined simply by noting whether they use the original Greek or Latin name for the Discipline and its powers.		Apparitionem is the [[Clanbook_Senya_(WoD)\|Clan Senya]] discipline. The name being the accusative singular of the latin word ''appāritiō'' meaning appearance and, as the name implies, revolves around the Senya's ability to alter their appearance and form. Up until the dark ages, it was known as '''Εμφάνιση (Εmfánisi)''' and the different powers likewise had Greek titles. When Senya Lorekeepers began actually studying the power in detail during the Dark Ages after the first Grand Conclave, Latin was the more common scholarly language. Over time, as the class expanded during the late Byzantine Empire and Middle Ages, into the Renaissance era, the original Greek name for the Discipline and its powers fell out of favour as Parents preferred using the more common Latin language for traditional usage, and the Greek ones for formal usage, at best. In the modern nights when referring to non-speakers of Latin, including Adoptees who may not have learnt the classical languages, English language versions of the name are commonly used instead. In some respects, the approximate age of a Senya can be determined simply by noting whether they use the original Greek or Latin name for the Discipline and its powers.

	At lower levels, this grants the Senya the ability to alter aspects of their appearance and form such as hair and skin colouration, voice, and at proficient levels even change the form completely into any style or gender the Senya desires. At the higher levels of mastery, it allows more supernatural changes, boosting the natural kindred ability to use vitae for healing and physical empowerment to make even more dramatic changes to enhance the form or regenerate damage.		At lower levels, this grants the Senya the ability to alter aspects of their appearance and form such as hair and skin colouration, voice, and at proficient levels even change the form completely into any style or gender the Senya desires. At the higher levels of mastery, it allows more supernatural changes, boosting the natural kindred ability to use vitae for healing and physical empowerment to make even more dramatic changes to enhance the form or regenerate damage.

Fenton: /* •• Regeneratio (Regeneration) */

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•• Regeneratio (Regeneration)

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	'''Dark Ages Name:''' Αναγέννηση (Anagénnisi)		'''Dark Ages Name:''' Αναγέννηση (Anagénnisi)

	Senya warriors are renown for their durability, and Regeneration is a reason for that. ~~Not really a power unto itself,~~ Regeneration allows a character ~~to use her growing ability to manipulate her form~~ to enhance her ability to repair damage to herself by reshaping damaged areas to facilitate their use of vitae to heal. The character can both heal faster and regenerate lost limbs – although they cannot regenerate damage that causes Final Death ~~(such as regrowing a new head after decapitation)~~ or cure supernatural infections or diseases (although it can ~~be used to~~ repair the physical damage caused by these sources).		Senya warriors are renown for their durability, and Regeneration is a reason for that. Regeneration allows a character to enhance her ability to repair damage to herself by reshaping damaged areas to facilitate their use of vitae to heal. The character can both heal faster and regenerate lost limbs – although they cannot regenerate damage that causes Final Death or cure supernatural infections or diseases (although it can repair the physical damage caused by these sources).

	'''System:''' The character can heal herself during combat without requiring the usual turn of concentration, and so healing does not consume the character’s combat turn. Any blood points spent healing counts against the normal per-turn blood expenditure limit ~~(e.g. if also using a discipline that requires the expenditure of vitae such as Celerity)~~. Out of combat, the character can instead spend a blood point and make a Wits + Medicine/Body Crafts (difficulty 8) roll. Each success heals one level of lethal or bashing damage, although each wound level healed requires one minute of uninterrupted work.		'''System:''' The character can heal herself during combat without requiring the usual turn of concentration, and so healing does not consume the character’s combat turn. Any blood points spent healing counts against the normal per-turn blood expenditure limit. Out of combat, the character can instead spend a blood point and make a Wits + Medicine/Body Crafts (difficulty 8) roll. Each success heals one level of lethal or bashing damage, although each wound level healed requires one minute of uninterrupted work.

	Finally, the character is able to heal a number of aggravated damage levels per day equal to her Apparitionem level without requiring the expenditure of Willpower points~~. This means that most Senya can heal 2-5 aggravated damage per day, and elder Senya even greater levels of aggravated damage, before requiring the expenditure of Willpower~~. This alone enables Senya kindred to recover from aggravated wounds far faster than other kindred whilst still ~~retaining~~ their Willpower ~~intact~~.		Finally, the character is able to heal a number of aggravated damage levels per day equal to her Apparitionem level without requiring the expenditure of Willpower points. This alone enables Senya kindred to recover from aggravated wounds far faster than other kindred whilst still preserving their Willpower.

	== ••• Mutare Forma (Alter Form) ==		== ••• Mutare Forma (Alter Form) ==

Fenton: /* • Causae Mutationum (Malleable Alterations) */

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• Causae Mutationum (Malleable Alterations)

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	At this stage, the character learns the essentials of understanding forms, and how to alter them. She is capable of making minor alterations such as height, build, voice, facial features, and skin tone, among other things colouration and pigmentation, and slightly stretch or contract skin and hair, but not alter her structure in a drastic enough way to be completely unrecognisable to those that know her, or be able to mimic others.		At this stage, the character learns the essentials of understanding forms, and how to alter them. She is capable of making minor alterations such as height, build, voice, facial features, and skin tone, among other things colouration and pigmentation, and slightly stretch or contract skin and hair, but not alter her structure in a drastic enough way to be completely unrecognisable to those that know her, or be able to mimic others.

	Within these limitations, the control can be very detailed. A character could grant herself different colour eyes, imitate a “bikini tan”, turn her hair a different colour (even natural colour with different colour highlights); darken or lighten skin tone to imitate tan complexion or a different ethnicity or make herself look up to a foot (30 cm) taller or shorter. She can even stretch or contract skin wrinkles to appear a older or younger (e.g. a Senya embraced as a teen could look like an older version of themselves)~~. This power also allows characters on Paths of Enlightenment to use the ''Blush of Life'' as though they had Humanity equal to their Path rating~~.		Within these limitations, the control can be very detailed. A character could grant herself different colour eyes, imitate a “bikini tan”, turn her hair a different colour (even natural colour with different colour highlights); darken or lighten skin tone to imitate tan complexion or a different ethnicity or make herself look up to a foot (30 cm) taller or shorter. She can even stretch or contract skin wrinkles to appear a older or younger (e.g. a Senya embraced as a teen could look like an older version of themselves).

	'''System:''' The character must spend a blood point for each body part to be changed, then roll Intelligence+Medicine/Body Crafts (difficulty 6) whilst taking a symbolic physical action to make the change, such as pulling her hair to make it longer. Increasing one’s Appearance Trait has a difficulty of 9, and the vampire must spend an additional blood point for each dot of Appearance increased beyond their natural total. A botch permanently reduces the Attribute by one.		'''System:''' The character must spend a blood point for each body part to be changed, then roll Intelligence+Medicine/Body Crafts (difficulty 6) whilst taking a symbolic physical action to make the change, such as pulling her hair to make it longer. Increasing one’s Appearance Trait has a difficulty of 9, and the vampire must spend an additional blood point for each dot of Appearance increased beyond their natural total. A botch permanently reduces the Attribute by one. As using this power requires sensing and modifying forms, it also grants the vampire the ability to make a Perception+Awareness roll (difficulty 8) to sense another person’s form – allowing Senya to recognise others they know by recognising a person’s “base form” even if they are in disguise or rendered unidentifiable by conventional means. This power must be used once to sense a form, before they can be recognised in the future by the use of this power. This power also allows characters on Paths of Enlightenment to use the Blush of Life as though they had Humanity equal to their Path rating.

	== •• Regeneratio (Regeneration) ==		== •• Regeneratio (Regeneration) ==

Fenton: /* •••• Corpus Detritus (Sculpt Body) */

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•••• Corpus Detritus (Sculpt Body)

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	'''Dark Ages Name:''' Mορφή Γλυπτικής (Morfé Glyptikís)		'''Dark Ages Name:''' Mορφή Γλυπτικής (Morfé Glyptikís)

	The Senya is no longer limited to simply modifying ~~the form~~ within the boundaries of ~~their baseline form but~~ is now able to remould flesh and muscle with the use of vitae to change ~~their~~ physical capabilities (or that of others) ~~permanently, make cosmetic changes beyond the mortal norm, and be able to feign mortality easily~~.		The Senya is no longer limited to simply modifying forms within the boundaries of normal human range, and is now able to make cosmetic changes beyond the mortal norm, and remould flesh and muscle with the use of vitae to change or enhance physical capabilities (or that of others).

	'''System:''' ~~This power improves a vampire’s ability with Alter Form to allow~~ three improvements~~/abilities:~~		'''System:''' The vampire gains three improvements to their use of the Alter Form and Regeneration powers:
	* The vampire can use the ''Blush of Life'' as though she had humanity 10 in order to determine its effectiveness. That is, Blush of life makes her appear as a mortal in good health, allows her to heal superficial damage as though mortal, in addition to vampiric mending, have and enjoy sexual intercourse as if mortal, have tears and sweat that appear normal for mortals, and allows her to taste, eat, and enjoy food and drink as if mortal for the scene before she must heave it back out. The blood point cost of using Blush of Life does not change, only its effectiveness.		* When using Alter Form the vampire can now make detailed alterations to colouration such as skin, eyes or hair, beyond the normal human scope. This can be used to grant violet eyes, detailed tattoos or green hair with purple highlights. At the Storyteller’s discretion, this can be used to gain circumstance bonuses, such as chameleon-like camouflage (-1 difficulty to stealth checks in an appropriate environment) or making the whole body appear like menacing tattoos or lizard-like (-1 difficulty to intimidate checks). This application of this power has no cost beyond the normal for use of Alter Form.
	* ~~The~~ vampire can now make detailed alterations to colouration such as skin, eyes or hair, beyond the normal human scope. This can be used to grant violet eyes, detailed tattoos or green hair with purple highlights. At the Storyteller’s discretion, this can be used to gain circumstance bonuses, such as chameleon-like camouflage (-1 difficulty to stealth checks in an appropriate environment) or making the whole body appear like menacing tattoos or lizard-like (-1 difficulty to intimidate checks). This application of this power has no cost beyond the normal for use of Alter Form.		* When using Alter Form the vampire is now able to reassign physical attributes. For example, a vampire that has Strength 3, Dexterity 2, Stamina 3, could reshuffle the attributes to Strength 1, Dexterity 5, Stamina 2 to be more efficient in a firefight. This costs one blood if affecting two attributes, or two blood points if all three are affected but only takes one turn to activate regardless. Attributes cannot be improved using this power beyond their combined total, nor above their normal trait maximum or reduced below 1. If used as an attack, the vampire makes a Dexterity + Medicine attack roll (difficulty 6) which can be dodges as normal. Each success allows reassigning of 1 attribute point.
	* ~~Finally,~~ the vampire is now able to reassign physical attributes. For example, a vampire that ~~is physically weak but agile with~~ Strength 1, Dexterity 5, Stamina 2 could reshuffle the attributes to Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina ~~3, or any other combination they desire~~. This costs one blood if affecting two attributes, or two blood points if all three are affected.		* Just as Regeneration allows the vampire to be able to use their vitae and form changing ability to heal more speedily and efficiently, the vampire is now able to make body alterations whilst using vitae to enhance her own physicals, making the effort more efficient. When spending blood points on increasing Physical Attributes, each blood point spent now increases two attributes by one (or one attribute by two points) instead of one attribute point per blood point spent. The duration and limits for spending blood to increase her Physical Attributes still apply as normal.

	== ••••• Reicio Perniciosa (Defy Bane) ==		== ••••• Reicio Perniciosa (Defy Bane) ==

Fenton: /* • Causae Mutationum (Malleable Alterations) */

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• Causae Mutationum (Malleable Alterations)

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	At this stage, the character learns the essentials of understanding forms, and how to alter them. She is capable of making minor alterations such as height, build, voice, facial features, and skin tone, among other things colouration and pigmentation, and slightly stretch or contract skin and hair, but not alter her structure in a drastic enough way to be completely unrecognisable to those that know her, or be able to mimic others.		At this stage, the character learns the essentials of understanding forms, and how to alter them. She is capable of making minor alterations such as height, build, voice, facial features, and skin tone, among other things colouration and pigmentation, and slightly stretch or contract skin and hair, but not alter her structure in a drastic enough way to be completely unrecognisable to those that know her, or be able to mimic others.

	Within these limitations, the control can be very detailed. A character could grant herself different colour eyes, imitate a “bikini tan”, turn her hair a different colour (even natural colour with different colour highlights); darken or lighten skin tone to imitate tan complexion or a different ethnicity or make herself look up to a foot (30 cm) taller or shorter. She can even stretch or contract skin wrinkles to appear a older or younger (e.g. a Senya embraced as a teen could look like an older version of themselves). This power also allows characters on Paths of Enlightenment to use the Blush of Life as though they had Humanity equal to their Path rating.		Within these limitations, the control can be very detailed. A character could grant herself different colour eyes, imitate a “bikini tan”, turn her hair a different colour (even natural colour with different colour highlights); darken or lighten skin tone to imitate tan complexion or a different ethnicity or make herself look up to a foot (30 cm) taller or shorter. She can even stretch or contract skin wrinkles to appear a older or younger (e.g. a Senya embraced as a teen could look like an older version of themselves). This power also allows characters on Paths of Enlightenment to use the ''Blush of Life'' as though they had Humanity equal to their Path rating.

	'''System:''' The character must spend a blood point for each body part to be changed, then roll Intelligence+Medicine/Body Crafts (difficulty 6) whilst taking a symbolic physical action to make the change, such as pulling her hair to make it longer. Increasing one’s Appearance Trait has a difficulty of 9, and the vampire must spend an additional blood point for each dot of Appearance increased beyond their natural total. A botch permanently reduces the Attribute by one.		'''System:''' The character must spend a blood point for each body part to be changed, then roll Intelligence+Medicine/Body Crafts (difficulty 6) whilst taking a symbolic physical action to make the change, such as pulling her hair to make it longer. Increasing one’s Appearance Trait has a difficulty of 9, and the vampire must spend an additional blood point for each dot of Appearance increased beyond their natural total. A botch permanently reduces the Attribute by one.

Fenton: /* ••• Mutare Forma (Alter Form) */

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••• Mutare Forma (Alter Form)

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	If using this power to mimic another, a Perception+Medicine/Body Crafts roll (difficulty 8) is required and five successes for a flawless copy; fewer successes leave minute (or not-so-minute) flaws.		If using this power to mimic another, a Perception+Medicine/Body Crafts roll (difficulty 8) is required and five successes for a flawless copy; fewer successes leave minute (or not-so-minute) flaws.

			Additionally, the vampire's fine control over her form now allows her to use the ''Blush of Life'' (even those on Paths of Enlightenment) as though she had humanity 10 in order to determine its effectiveness. That is, Blush of life makes her appear as a mortal in good health, allows her to heal superficial damage as though mortal, in addition to vampiric mending, have and enjoy sexual intercourse as if mortal, have tears and sweat that appear normal for mortals, and allows her to taste, eat, and enjoy food and drink as if mortal for the scene before she must heave it back out. The blood point cost of using Blush of Life does not change, only its effectiveness.

	== •••• Corpus Detritus (Sculpt Body) ==		== •••• Corpus Detritus (Sculpt Body) ==

Fenton: /* • Causae Mutationum (Malleable Alterations) */

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• Causae Mutationum (Malleable Alterations)

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	At this stage, the character learns the essentials of understanding forms, and how to alter them. She is capable of making minor alterations such as height, build, voice, facial features, and skin tone, among other things colouration and pigmentation, and slightly stretch or contract skin and hair, but not alter her structure in a drastic enough way to be completely unrecognisable to those that know her, or be able to mimic others.		At this stage, the character learns the essentials of understanding forms, and how to alter them. She is capable of making minor alterations such as height, build, voice, facial features, and skin tone, among other things colouration and pigmentation, and slightly stretch or contract skin and hair, but not alter her structure in a drastic enough way to be completely unrecognisable to those that know her, or be able to mimic others.

	Within these limitations, the control can be very detailed. A character could grant herself different colour eyes, imitate a “bikini tan”, turn her hair a different colour (even natural colour with different colour highlights); darken or lighten skin tone to imitate tan complexion or a different ethnicity~~, and/or stretch~~ or ~~contract skin wrinkles to appear a few years younger or older. She can also~~ make herself look up to a foot (30 cm) taller or shorter~~, and~~ older or younger (e.g. a Senya embraced as a teen could look like an ~~old~~ version of themselves). This power also allows characters on Paths of Enlightenment to use the Blush of Life as though they had Humanity equal to their Path rating.		Within these limitations, the control can be very detailed. A character could grant herself different colour eyes, imitate a “bikini tan”, turn her hair a different colour (even natural colour with different colour highlights); darken or lighten skin tone to imitate tan complexion or a different ethnicity or make herself look up to a foot (30 cm) taller or shorter. She can even stretch or contract skin wrinkles to appear a older or younger (e.g. a Senya embraced as a teen could look like an older version of themselves). This power also allows characters on Paths of Enlightenment to use the Blush of Life as though they had Humanity equal to their Path rating.

	Learning how to sense how the form works and changes also allows the character to be able to recognise if others have been altered in any way – e.g. cosmetic surgery, tattoos, piercings, and possible even shape-changing disciplines such as Protean, Vicissitude, Apparitionem or possibly recognise shapeshifters such as Lupines.

	'''System:''' The character must spend a blood point for each body part to be changed, then roll Intelligence+Medicine/Body Crafts (difficulty 6) whilst taking a symbolic physical action to make the change, such as pulling her hair to make it longer. Increasing one’s Appearance Trait has a difficulty of 9, and the vampire must spend an additional blood point for each dot of Appearance increased beyond their natural total. A botch permanently reduces the Attribute by one.		'''System:''' The character must spend a blood point for each body part to be changed, then roll Intelligence+Medicine/Body Crafts (difficulty 6) whilst taking a symbolic physical action to make the change, such as pulling her hair to make it longer. Increasing one’s Appearance Trait has a difficulty of 9, and the vampire must spend an additional blood point for each dot of Appearance increased beyond their natural total. A botch permanently reduces the Attribute by one.

	The ability to sense body alterations requires staring at the subject for a few seconds and making a Perception+Awareness (difficulty 8) roll. Each success indicates how she sees and understands as indicated by the table below. A failure yields no information, whilst a botch provides false or erroneous information. No Senya is able to yield more successes in this roll than their level in Apparitionem – initiates are only able to sense general scope of changes, whilst masters of Apparitionem can often identify Lupines. For example, a Senya who achieves 3 successes, but only has Apparitionem 2, is limited to the result as if they had rolled 2 successes.

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	~~\| '''Successes'''\|\| '''Result'''~~
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	~~\| 1 success\|\| Can sense the presence or absence of body alterations, and the general scope of change; e.g. identify that cosmetic surgery was done to the face, but not precisely what was done.~~
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	\| 2 successes\|\| Can sense changes in some detail; e.g. sense the location and type of specific cosmetic surgery, piercings or tattoos, such as a “Prince Albert piercing”, “rose tattoo around navel” or “had a nose job and lip injections”.
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	\| 3 successes\|\| Can sense not only changes in detail, but how the form looked prior to the change. This allows Senya to be able to sense each other’s forms at the time of the Embrace and identify each other when disguised. It also allows them to see what Nosferatu looked like before the Embrace.
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	\| 4 successes\|\| Can sense if the subject’s changes were made by mundane or supernatural means, although not how they were made; e.g. identify a change was made by cosmetic surgery, or via a supernatural means but not identify if it was Mage magic, Tzimisce Vicissitude or some other method.
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	\| 5 successes\|\| Can also sense the means by which supernatural changes were made, including any ongoing body crafting capabilities; e.g. identify that they are capable of shape-shifting naturally (e.g. Lupines) or via a Discipline such as Protean not just that they are/have been shapeshifted; (i.e. “this person’s face was fleshcrafted with Vicissitude.”)
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	== •• Regeneratio (Regeneration) ==		== •• Regeneratio (Regeneration) ==

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• Causae Mutationum (Malleable Alterations)

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	At this stage, the character learns the essentials of understanding forms, and how to alter them. She is capable of making minor alterations such as height, build, voice, facial features, and skin tone, among other things colouration and pigmentation, and slightly stretch or contract skin and hair, but not alter her structure in a drastic enough way to be completely unrecognisable to those that know her, or be able to mimic others.		At this stage, the character learns the essentials of understanding forms, and how to alter them. She is capable of making minor alterations such as height, build, voice, facial features, and skin tone, among other things colouration and pigmentation, and slightly stretch or contract skin and hair, but not alter her structure in a drastic enough way to be completely unrecognisable to those that know her, or be able to mimic others.

	Within these limitations, the control can be very detailed. A character could grant herself different colour eyes, imitate a “bikini tan”, turn her hair a different colour (even natural colour with different colour highlights); darken or lighten skin tone to imitate tan complexion or a different ethnicity, and/or stretch or contract skin wrinkles to appear a few years younger or older. She can also make herself look up to a foot (30 cm) taller or shorter, and older or younger (e.g. a Senya embraced as a teen could look like an old version of themselves).		Within these limitations, the control can be very detailed. A character could grant herself different colour eyes, imitate a “bikini tan”, turn her hair a different colour (even natural colour with different colour highlights); darken or lighten skin tone to imitate tan complexion or a different ethnicity, and/or stretch or contract skin wrinkles to appear a few years younger or older. She can also make herself look up to a foot (30 cm) taller or shorter, and older or younger (e.g. a Senya embraced as a teen could look like an old version of themselves). This power also allows characters on Paths of Enlightenment to use the Blush of Life as though they had Humanity equal to their Path rating.

	Learning how to sense how the form works and changes also allows the character to be able to recognise if others have been altered in any way – e.g. cosmetic surgery, tattoos, piercings, and possible even shape-changing disciplines such as Protean, Vicissitude, Apparitionem or possibly recognise shapeshifters such as Lupines.		Learning how to sense how the form works and changes also allows the character to be able to recognise if others have been altered in any way – e.g. cosmetic surgery, tattoos, piercings, and possible even shape-changing disciplines such as Protean, Vicissitude, Apparitionem or possibly recognise shapeshifters such as Lupines.