Editing Malkavian (section)

==Requiem==
For all of known Kindred history, there has been a plague. Those who suffered more acutely received the label "Afflicted." Those whose lunacy seemed to grant them a particular insight were instead called "Demented." An eighteenth century Ventrue named Lord Nicholas Polaski researched this phenomenon and traced it to a Kindred trapped in torpor known as Grigori Malkav. After decades of experiments, he concluded that the Affliction was some kind of bacteria, similar to syphilis, and named his theoretical pathogen ''malkavia''.

Any vampire can contract Malkavia, which brings an incurable insanity to the Afflicted that has a greater strength when the Afflicted's blood is sufficiently potent. The Afflicted also gains access to a unique Discipline known as Dementation. Dementation appears to be powered by the Afflicted's insanity to the point where any method to suppress their derangements also suppresses their ability to use Dementation.

In first edition, the Ventrue also have a Bloodline called the Malk'''o'''vians, whose clan curse is to be afflicted with a random incurable mental illness. They have no unique Disciplines, but instead they lose the Ventrue's clan affinity for Animalism and instead gain Auspex and Obfuscate alongside the traditional Ventrue powers of Dominate and Resilience.

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