TEXT: Naditu 
   
  You are a creature of sublime beauty and ineffable power, my friend. Who else is so like a god but you? 
   
  In the Danse Macabre, beauty is often hides horror. This 
  is doubly so among the Naditu, a rare Daeva bloodline with 
  roots in the ancient world. Though often considered 
  sycophants and adorers of the beautiful, the wise 
  understand that their adoration comes at a steep price, and 
  with tremendous expectations. And the Naditu must never 
  be disappointed.  
   
  Bloodline Disciplines:
  Bloodline Disciplines:
  Bloodline Disciplines:
  Bloodline Disciplines: Auspex, Celerity, Majesty, Vigor  
   
  Nickname:
  Nickname:
  Nickname:
  Nickname: Hierodules, Whores (derogatory)  
      
  Weakness:
  Weakness:
  Weakness:
  Weakness: Worshippers of the powerful and beautiful, 
  Naditu must attach themselves to another vampire. This 
  individual must be powerful in some fashion — they might 
  be a creature of singular beauty (Striking Looks ••••), a 
  personage of great importance (Status ••••+), a leader of 
  those around them (Presence ••••+) or simply 
  supernaturally potent (Blood Potency •••••+). This 
  individual need not accept the Naditu’s presence or would-
  be service; indeed, it is a point of pride for many Naditu to 
  worm their way into the circles of important individuals 
  through unasked for favors and respect-earning words.  
  A Naditu that has not found such a subject receives a 
  penalty to all Physical and Social rolls equal to half her 
  Blood Potency (rounding up). These individuals must live 
  up to the expectations of the Naditu in some iconic fashion 
  — the beautiful must surround themselves with beauty, the 
  power must maintain their power, sublime monsters must 
  never show human frailty. Failure to adhere to this 
  standard on the part of the one the Naditu has chosen 
  breaks this link, re-inflicting the penalty.  
      
  History and Culture:
  History and Culture:
  History and Culture:
  History and Culture: The traditions of the bloodline have 
  that the first of their lineage was a hierodule in ancient 
  Sumeria, a temple whore chosen for her beauty, her 
  bearing, and her likeness to the great Inanna. Kept 
  beauteous on the rich blood of the temple’s Daeva patrons, 
  she very nearly became worshipped in her own right — 
  rather than merely representing Inanna to those who could 
  never commune with the true goddess, she practically 
  became one to those who knew of her. To take advantage of 
  this, she was Embraced.  
  Even from the first nights, this first one — who is simply 
  called Naditu in bloodline legends — chose only other 
  hierodules as her childer. Creatures of great beauty, 
  enamored with the most numinous and the basest urges in 
  humanity, they found a place among their Kindred for their 
  grace, talents and adroitness in the hunt. To this day, most 
  Naditu prefer to embrace escorts, prostitutes and modern-
  day hierodules (including sex therapists and the like).  
  The Naditu consider themselves priestesses in the 
  tradition of Inanna even into the modern nights. They are 
  often drawn into the presence of the beautiful and 
  powerful, and quite often arrange themselves so that they 
  are the ones who control access to this person of beauty 
  and importance — they consider it their privilege and honor 
  to screen those who would bother this individual, keeping 
  the rabble away from them.  
  Naditu very frequently play on the egos of those they 
  come to adore, paying them sincere compliments and 
  defending their names even when they aren’t around. It is 
  easy to see the Naditu as simply sycophants, lick-spittles 
  who attach themselves to the beautiful people like some 
  kind of undead entourage. But there is more to their 
  devotion.  
  The Naditu are also the harshest of judges. It is a 
  bloodline tradition that all beauty and power among 
  mortals — and, as a result, among the Kindred — is a spark 
  of divinity given as a gift from the gods. Now, whether they 
  actually believe in any such gods or not is irrelevant; the 
  fact is, the bloodline believes that those with the gifts of the 
  gods must remember to also behave as gods.  
  They are harshly critical of those who do not measure up 
  to their tastes of divine grandeur: those they adore must be 
  paragons of some sort of godly virtue in their eyes. They 
  may be beauteous creatures of beauty or regal Jovian 
  masters of all they see, but they must always uphold this 
  mantle. The would-be goddess of beauty who finds too 
  much sympathy in her heart for the ugly, or the powerful 
  ruler who gives in too much to compromise insults the 
  spark of divinity within them, and earns the ire of the 
  Naditu.  
  Those who speak ill of the bloodline sometimes claim 
  that should the Naditu find their adored unworthy of that 
  spark, they will reclaim it in an act of treacherous diablerie, 
  while others tell stories of disappointed Naditu helping the 
  enemies of their adored get the upper hand using what they 
  know.  
  In some circles, it is a mark of prestige to have attracted 
  Naditu followers, and more than one court of the Kindred 
  boasts several of these hierodules, who blend almost 
  seamlessly in with the Harpies even when they are not 
  counted among them. Even their whispers, an unsettling 
  susurrus that cuts an undertone through any social 
  situation where two or more Naditu are present, carries 
  judgment and concern. The strong, the beautiful, the 
  glamorous — these have nothing to fear from the gaze of the 
  Naditu.  
  Only those who falter — would be gods among Kindred 
  who prove themselves all too fallible — have anything to 
  fear.  
   
  
  The Court Concurs
  The Court Concurs
  The Court Concurs
  The Court Concurs  
  (Auspex ••, Majesty •••)  
  Those whom the Naditu adore discover that their presence 
  is often more than merely decorative — their support can 
  lend weight to the desires and aims of the Kindred so 
  blessed. The Naditu often use this to assist one another, as 
  well, so that small gatherings of the bloodline can wield 
  quite potent influence.  
   
  Cost:
  Cost:
  Cost:
  Cost: 1 Vitae  
  Dice Pool:
  Dice Pool:
  Dice Pool:
  Dice Pool: Manipulation + Socialize + Majesty  
  Action:
  Action:
  Action:
  Action: Instant  
   
  The Kindred who wield this power use it to augment 
  Social-based actions. The use of this power is considered a 
  Teamwork action, with each success in this roll adding one 
  die to the die pool of the power’s target. The use of this 
  power from multiple wielders may all add dice to the same 
  action, but these dice an no more than double the dice pool 
  of the target.  
   
  This power costs 15 XP to learn.  
   
  Susurrus
  Susurrus
  Susurrus
  Susurrus  
  (Auspex •, Celerity ••)  
  The strange whispering sound that surrounds groups of 
  Naditu is not simply some sort of strange affectation or 
  supernatural phenomenon. It is actual communication. 
  Referred to as “the temple tongue,” those who have 
  mastered this Devotion are capable of speaking with such 
  rapidity and subtlety that it registers to normal senses as a 
  simple susurrus, a buzzing whisper in which hints of words 
  can be barely picked out, perhaps on a subconscious level, 
  but nothing specific.  
   
  This power, once purchased, is permanent. The Kindred 
  who uses this power can perfectly understand anyone using 
  the Susurrus and communicate using it at any time. For all 
  intents and purposes, an individual using this technique 
  can communicate roughly a minute’s worth of speech in the 
  span of two to three seconds. Most Naditu consider this a 
  bloodline secret and don’t even discuss it; if others bring 
  up the strange whispering they do, rather than explain it 
  they simply apologize profusely for it, explaining it away as 
  a “bad habit” and hoping it did not bother the one who 
  noticed it.  
   
  Cost:
  Cost:
  Cost:
  Cost: —  
  Dice Pool:
  Dice Pool:
  Dice Pool:
  Dice Pool: —  
  Action:
  Action:
  Action:
  Action: Permanent  
   
  This power costs 10 XP to learn.
   
  
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