Lineage Mechanics

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Health Modifier: +1 (Applied at character creation and each time Fortitude is increased through XP advancement.)

Cultural Talent: Deceive 1D This die is free; it does not come from the Talent generation budget. Dhampir learn early that controlling what others perceive is a survival skill, not a social one. The talent for misdirection, deflection, and managed presentation is baked in before they have the vocabulary to name it.

Inherited Perks

Low-Light Vision | Sensory Enhancement The dhampir's eyes gather light with predatory efficiency. In dim conditions, candlelight, streetlight through curtains, the ambient glow of a city at night, they operate without penalty.

Effect: The dhampir suffers no Disadvantage on rolls requiring sight in dim light
        conditions. This does not function in total darkness.
Activation: Passive
Scope: Self
Genre Note: Identical function in all settings. In sci-fi contexts, describe as
            enhanced photoreceptor sensitivity rather than supernatural adaptation.

Psychic Sensitivity | Sensory Enhancement The predator's gift: reading a room. The dhampir senses emotional states and the presence of sapient minds, not words or specific thoughts, but the shape of what a person or creature is feeling and whether it registers as thinking, acting, wanting. It functions as a kind of social sonar. They always know who in a room is afraid, who is lying about their emotional state, and who is not quite human.

Effect: At Close range (0–5 ft), the dhampir passively detects the presence and
        general emotional state of sapient creatures. The GM describes emotional
        register (calm, afraid, hostile, grieving, hungry) rather than specific
        thoughts or intentions. The dhampir also detects the presence of
        non-sapient supernatural entities (animated dead, constructs without minds)
        as an absence, a sensory gap where presence should be.
Activation: Passive
Scope: Close range (0–5 ft)
Recovery: N/A
Genre Note: In horror contexts, the "absence" detection for mindless entities is
            the more unsettling and mechanically useful aspect. GMs should play this
            as a texture, not a tracker, the dhampir notices the wrongness, not
            the location.

Bite | Natural Weapons The teeth. Most dhampir's bite is just slightly wrong, not visibly, but functionally. The canines are a little too useful. In a controlled situation this is irrelevant. In a grapple, when everything else has run out, it becomes an option.

Effect: When grappling a restrained or Prone target, the dhampir's Bite adds +1D
        to the attack roll. Damage type: Piercing. The Bite cannot be used as a
        standard melee attack; it requires the target to be grappled, Restrained,
        or Prone.
Activation: Free Action (as part of an attack action while grappling)
Scope: Touch
Genre Note: The restriction to grapple/prone targets is intentional, the Bite
            is a close-in finisher, not a primary weapon. Professions that grant
            access to grappling techniques (see Progression Track) amplify this
            significantly.

Power Access

Dhampir carry latent potential toward both Force and Resonance traditions. The bloodline is old energy in a living body; it can be directed (Force) or used to perceive and influence the currents of the hidden world (Resonance). Which access a dhampir has, if any, depends on how their particular bloodline manifests.

At character creation, dhampir may receive Power Access through Lineage if the Genre Catalog's Profession selection supports it. No Odd Talent access is granted automatically by the Lineage alone. The bloodline creates the capacity; a Profession or Progression Track Stage activates it.

Genre Catalog Note: If your catalog includes a Profession built around dhampir bloodline traditions (Blood Adept, Nightbound, etc.), that Profession should specify whether it grants Force, Resonance, or both as Power Access. Dhampir who take non-power Professions may still access their bloodline through a Progression Track Stage at appropriate cost.

Attribute and Talent Caps

Dhampir use standard maximums unless otherwise noted.

Context	Maximum Value
Attribute (standard)	5D
Attribute (with qualifying perk)	6D
Talents	5D
Foci	3D

No cap increases are granted by this Lineage.