As hokey as the novels are, I like the Dresden Files’ explanation for this. Where the symbol itself doesn’t actually matter, it’s a person’s unwavering faith into what that symbol represents.
That’s how it works in VTM too. I remember reading about a vampire that got wrecked by a credit card, as the businessman wielding it believed in the power of money.
That’s hilarious, and should work!
I kind of like I am Legend’s take, it’s not a universal thing, it’s not the faith of the user, it’s the former faith of the vampire itself being reminded of what they’ve lost
Atheist vampires op
I’m allergic to On the Origin of Species and The Selfish Gene.
In Blindsight it’s just 90 degree angles lol
I actually think that works really well in a personal horror context like VtM. It’s all about how you’ve changed and what you are now. You can no longer have a connection to your god like you once did.
But in something like Hunter: The Reckoning where the threat is more externalised the power coming from the wielder makes more sense. And obviously being in the same setting, you can’t really do both of them.
I think that’s how vampire actually works? There was a True Faith merit I think. But it’s been a while since I played Masquerade. I don’t think holy symbols do anything in requiem unless the wielder has a special trait to make it so.
Basically how it works in VtM, as well.
My headcanon is that Jesus was the first zombie, and that after the zombies defeated the vampires in the Great Zombie-Vampire War of AD 39 he put a curse on them to be allergic to crucifixes.
That didn’t happen because Judas was the first vampire.
Yep, crosses because Jesus, stake from an Aspen tree because that’s the tree Judas hung himself from, silver because of the the Judas silver. The sun (not death from it, just severe pain) and drinking blood because God was angry
