Prestation Rules

*Clan specific disciplines are excluded as many are taught only on pain of death
PRESTATION EXAMPLES
Trivial Boon 1 status
  • Protecting someone for the evening
  • Aiding someone with the use of a discipline
  • Providing a minor piece of information
  • Expending a small amount of your resources for someone
Minor Boon 2 status
  • Allowing safe passage through a hostile city
  • Providing a piece of crucial information
  • Teaching someone a Basic discipline*
  • Supporting a Minor political maneuver
  • Expending a large amount of your resources for someone
Major Boon 3 status
  • Teaching someone an Intermediate discipline*
  • Supporting a Major political maneuver
Blood Boon 4 status
  • Teaching someone an Advanced discipline*
  • Shedding your blood in someone's defense
  • Saving someone from physical harm
Life Boon 5 status
  • Saving someone from mortal danger

You guarantee each point of a boon with a point of your status. If you do not honour a minor boon you loose two points of status. You are also expected to treat the person you owe the boon to as if they have two more points of status then they actually do. As a note: 2 trivial boons are equal to a minor boon, 2 minor boons are equal to a major boon and so on.

NEGOTIATING PRESTATION

Two Kindred who agree upon a boon have the option of registering it with the Harpy. If they do so they run the risk that the Harpy will discuss the matter with others (although this is bad etiquette on the part of the Harpy) if they do not however there is no guarantee that the Harpy will enforce the boon. If you believe that someone owes you a boon for what you have done for him or her and they do not believe they do or you disagree on the degree of the boon owed, the dispute can be brought to the Harpy to resolve. Be warned though, that in doing this you make yourself subject the whims of the Harpy. For purposes of enforcement the Harpy's word is binding. A boon held in private is still expected to be honoured. Unlife becomes very difficult for a Kindred known to break Prestation.

TRADING PRESTATION

Prestation cannot be traded between Kindred. If you wish to pass your Prestation over one Kindred to another the person who owes must agree to the exchange otherwise it cannot occur. If a Ventrue holds Prestation from a Toreador, he can have the Toreador do something specific for a Brujah but he can never transfer the respect given as a result of the boon or the open ended boon to the Brujah without the permission of the Ventrue. However, if the Ventrue and the Toreador are both owed a trivial boon by the Brujah, they can pool their resources and demand repayment together in the form of one Minor boon.

BREAKING PRESTATION

If you are found to have broken Prestation to an individual on a boon that has been registered with the Harpy, the harpy will likely strip you of the number of points of status that is indicated by the boon. If you do not have enough status that the Harpy can be stripped, often the Prince will remove you from your position and strip you of acknowledgement. Prestation is the foundation on which Kindred society functions and few Kindred will tolerate an individual who breaks Prestation. It is not uncommon for a Prince to give the life of an individual who breaks a life boon to the individual that he owed.

NOTE

As you see Kindred will go out of their way to not owe and to be owed. May things are done without the use of formal Prestation to avoid this cumulative effect and to avoid the scrutiny of the Harpy.

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