The Hunt Token

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A Blood Sense Focus

Something from a target the practitioner has successfully Bonded or tracked in the past, a drop of blood preserved on cloth or in a small sealed vial, a piece of clothing carrying strong vital residue, a personal object handled regularly enough to carry bloodline signature. The token is not about the object itself. It is about the practitioner's established history of successful lock-on, preserved in physical form.

Hunt Token | Focus | Blood Sense
Mechanical Effect:
  +2D to all Bond Expression rolls (the token provides
  a reference frequency, having done this before and
  preserved the evidence makes the next attempt faster
  and more precise).
  When using Establish Bond, the practitioner may target
  a subject they have previously Bonded (and for whom they
  have a Hunt Token) at up to Far range rather than Near
  range, without requiring a prior Sense read.
  The token is identifiable by other Dhampir or entities
  with bloodline awareness for what it is. Carrying one
  announces the practitioner as someone who hunts
  deliberately rather than opportunistically. This has
  social implications in the hidden world.
Acquisition: Self-generated. The practitioner creates a
  Hunt Token naturally through successful Bond work;
  they keep something from a significant quarry. A token
  cannot be made to order; it requires the actual
  residue of a real Bond. First-generation tokens
  (from the first successful Bond of a practitioner's
  career) are the most valued, as they represent the
  moment the bloodline was deliberately committed.

Improvised Foci: Fresh vital residue from a current scene's target, a blood smear, a piece of recently worn clothing, provides +1D to Sense or Bond applications (chosen at the start of the scene) for the duration of that scene. It cannot be preserved as a Hunt Token because the resonance fades within hours.