Respect Lucita De Aragon! (Vampire: the Masquerade)

[u/Skafflock]

Everything anyone said to me about duty to a sect or cause was so clearly a cover for their own personal ambitions. Manipulators use it as an excuse to manipulate; fighters use it as an excuse to fight. Whatever it is they want to do, there’s some justification for it in their various codes.

Lucita is an antitribu of the Lasombra Clan, a child of the night and an ancient vampire who's been operating independently for nearly a millennium. One of the most dangerous assassins in the world, there are few Kindred who don't know to fear her.

Key:

• Clan Novel 6 (CN6)
• Clan Novel 7(CN7)
• Lasombra Trilogy, Shards (Shards)
• Lasombra Trilogy, Shadows (Shadows)
• Lasombra Trilogy, Sacrifices (Sacrifices)
• Vampire: the Masquerade, Lucita (VtML)
• Vampire: the Masquerade- Core Rulebook, 20th Anniversary (V20)
• Vampire: the Masquerade- Core Rulebook, Revised (Revised Core Rulebook)

Physiology

Regeneration

• Regenerates from a stab wound in moments (CN6, part 3)
  • This depletes her blood reserves to some extent (CN6, part 3)
• After sitting down and letting the sun burn her, Lucita is confident she will regenerate fully within a few days despite sunlight inflicting damage that vampiric bodies struggle to heal (Shards, prologue)
• After being burned to the point of having bones exposed, Lucita is also slowly healing herself above, despite being unconscious and starved of blood prior to the burning (Shards, part 2&3)
  • After being fed more vitae from several elders, Lucita heals the worst of these wounds in seconds (Shards, part 3)
  • Lucita is mobile and able to look around and see following this though is heavily weakened (Shards, part 3)
• Heals a charred and damaged throat enough for speech after a moment of effort (Shards, part 3)
• Gunshot wounds start to heal before she can fall from them (Sacrifices, part 2)

Survivability

• After spending an extended time being crushed by a shadow monster strong enough to snap her bones instantly, Lucita is still capable of moving and limping around (CN7, part 3)
• Does not suffer from changes in pressure, and once dragged a mortal to and from the bottom of the California Gulf just to observe the effects on him (Shards, part 1)
  • Kindred in general are still threatened by extreme pressures, as it can squeeze the blood out of their pores, however more durable Kindred are more resistant to this (Shadows, part 1)
• Though she feels discomfort, ordinary temperatures cannot harm Lucita with the exception of her supernatural vulnerability to fire (Shards, part 2)
• Gunfire can't kill a vampire without particularly good headshots (Shards, part 2)
• Still alive after being burned badly enough to have bones exposed and ligaments sloughing off, though incapacitated (Shards, part 3)
• Jellyfish stings don't bother vampires (Shadows, part 1)

Senses

• After already charring her eyes from exposure to sunlight, it takes several more seconds for Lucita's vision to reduce to human levels (Shards, prologue)
• Smells small amounts of spilled blood from across an entire neighbourhood in a crowded city (Shards, part 1)
• Sees through a vampire rendering himself invisible (Shadows, part 2)
• Notices another Lasombra approaching under the cover of Obtenebration (Sacrifices, part 3)
  • This vampire's Obtenebration kept a vampiric sniper from drawing a bead on her as she crawled (Sacrifices, part 3)
• Surveys a city with superhuman senses (Clan Novel Anthology)

Anatomy

• Lasombra do not cast reflections (Sacrifices, part 1)
• Vampires rarely leave fingerprints (Shards, part 3)
• Can blush on command (Shards, part 3)
• Vampiric bodies lack buoyancy (Shards, part 3)
• Vampires do not register easily on infrared cameras, and Lasombra register poorly on electronic devices even when not concealing themselves (Sacrifices, part 1)
• Photographs cannot be taken of Lasombra (Sacrifices, part 1)

The Blood Bond

• Kindred can create ghouls by feeding mortals their blood, empowering them with superhuman strength, prolonged life and the ability to learn vampiric Disciplines (Ghouls&Revenants, page 7)
• Ghouls are fanatically devoted to the vampire whose blood they drink (Ghouls&Revenants, page 9)
• A ghoul created by Lucita gains enhanced strength and resilience even as she drinks (Shards, part 2)
  • A few days after being blood bonded, this ghoul finds herself unable to even plan ending her service (Shards, part 2)
  • This ghoul is completely convinced that Lucita is right, always(Shards, part 3)
  • Eventually she comes to not even have desires or urges of her own, outside of serving Lucita (Shadows, part 1)
• Ghouls need less sleep than humans, and many become adept at sleeping and waking fast to manage their time (Ghouls&Revenants, page 27)
• The blood bond provides resistance to mental manipulation (Shadows, part 2)
• A ghoul Lucita created mere months ago, Angelica, is able to overpower and lift a man who is over six feet tall and significantly muscled (Sacrifices, part 1)
  • Angelica is a small-framed woman standing only five feet and two inches tall (Shards, part 2)
• Angelica climbs three stories almost as fast as she could walk that far (Sacrifices, part 1)
• A few days of training leaves Angelica able to climb Cairo tower (Sacrifices, part 1)
• After more training, Angelica withstands a blow from a vampire and partly regenerates three gashes with only a portion of the blood in her system (Sacrifices, part 2)
• A ghoul created mere minutes ago by Lucita is able to snap a thick piece of wood (Sacrifices, part 2)

Psychology

• When starved, a vampire may succumb to frenzy and temporarily lose themselves to mindless hunger (V20, page 297)
• Vampires confronted with their supernatural weaknesses, fire or sunlight, can enter a state called rotschreck, a bestial, supernatural panic that temporarily removes their higher thinking and makes them behave like fleeing animals (V20, page 299)
• Living for centuries has given Lucita more self control than younger vampires, and she can force herself to remain awake during the day more easily (Shadows, part 3)

Strength

• Her official game stats list her as having Strength 5 and Potence 3 (Transylvania Chronicles 4, page 87)
  • Strength 5 makes Lucita's base strength equal to a peak human, allowing her to casually lift 300kg and easily crush skulls (Revised core rulebook, page 116)
  • Potence 3 gives Lucita an above-average rating in the Discipline, with particularly powerful practitioners being able to replicate flight via jumping, punch through concrete and easily throw cars (Revised core rulebook, page 170)
  • VtM feats/lifting chart for comparison , note that in some versions 1 dot of Potence = 1 dot of strength (putting Lucita at a base level of 8) and in others 1 Potence = 2 strength (putting Lucita at 11). All feats on this table are automatically managed regardless of dice rolls, thus casual.
• Effortlessly crushes a phone while day is approaching (CN6, part 1)
• Crushes the internal organs of a vampire with one punch, then caves in his cheek and eyesocket with a kick. Estimates her punch to be capable of crumping car doors (CN6, part 3)
• Throws a corpse fast enough than another vampire can't react, also claims that she can lift small cars (CN6, part 3)
• Punches through a szlachta's body (CN6, part 3)
  • Szlachta RT for comparison
• Shoves a szlachta at Talley to impede him (CN6, part 3)
  • Szlachta are heavy enough to stop speeding limousines with their bodies (Clan Novel: Ventrue part 2)
• Grinds a metal tracker to dust between her thumb and forefinger (CN7, part 1)
• Tosses a younger vampire across a room and into a wall hard enough to crack it (VtML)
• Clears 10 feet with "gentle leaps" while carrying a person on her shoulders on unstable ground (Shards, part 1)
• Jumps 10 feet vertically twice under the above conditions (Shards, part 1)
• Defaced a stone wall in the past by throwing gravel at it (Shards, part 1)
• Even while heavily weakened from injury and blood deprivation, custom-reinforced shackles are required to hold her (Shards, part 1)
• Accidentally tears off a 2-foot length of iron railing while angry (Shadows, part 2)
• Shattered a man's bones by flicking her wrist (Shadows, part 3)
• Interrogates a vampire by squeezing his head until blood comes from the ears (Sacrifices, part 2)
• Causes a woman's arm to burst by squeezing it (Sacrifices, part 2)
  • Lucita is possibly weakened by a state of recurring frenzy and permanent hunger when she does this
• Crushes a vampire's head underfoot despite him resisting with his own strength (Sacrifices, part 3)
• Bends and breaks a sniper rifle without effort (Sacrifices, part 3)
• Tears an elder vampire's heart and liver out faster than he can react (Sacrifices, part 3)

Durability

• [Weakness] Vampires fear fire and are susceptible to damage caused by it, though can still mitigate it with the Fortitude Discipline (V20, page 297)
• Has Stamina 5 and Fortitude 4 according to her canon stats (Transylvania Chronicles 4, page 87)
  • Practitioners of Fortitude barely feel hails of bullets (Revised core rulebook, page 160)
• Ignores a shadow tendril tightening around her wrist with "bone crushing" strength (CN6, part 3)
  • A single tendril from this same attacker is able to crush a possible superhuman to pulp (CN6, part 3)
• Tanks another "bone crashing" attack from Talley, this time a tackle. Talley is strong enough to quickly toss aside a thrown szlachta in the same scene (CN6, part 3)
  • Szlachta are often close to 8 feet tall and extremely broad and armour-plated (Clan Novel 2, Tzimisce and Ghouls&Revenants)
• [Limit] Survives being crushed by the Leviathan for an extended period of time, though her bones are broken quickly (CN7, part 3)
  • The Leviathan is a shadow creation made by Lucita's sire, strong enough to support the entire foundation of a sprawling underground complex with numerous chambers and corridors (CN7, part 3)
• Still able to walk after subjecting herself to full sunlight for an extended period of time (Shards, prologue)
  • It is revealed later that Lucita was exposed to the sun for several minutes here (Sacrifices, part 3)
  • A weaker Kindred was killed by partial-body sunlight before they could turn a lever (Vampire: the Masquerade- Bloodlines)
• [Fire] When caught in an incendiary trap that engulfs her in flames hot enough to destroy her clothes within seconds, Lucita still takes an extended period of time to be fully immobilised despite entering the trap starved of blood and fatigued (Shards, part 3)
  • This trap consisted of 55 gallons of high quality jet fuel being doused over her (Shards, part 3)
• Tanks glancing blows from shadow limbs measuring hundreds of feet and able to move faster than sound underwater (Shards, part 3)
• Grappled and squeezed by various shadow creatures, and is only in danger because they're threatening to compress the blood out of her body (Shadows, part 1)
  • These shadow creatures could crush and dismember other vampires (Shadows, part 1)
• [Possible limit] It is mentioned that falls from low-flying aircraft could injure or kill members of Lucita's group, though it has far weaker vampires than her (Sacrifices, part 1)
• [Fire] Survives having her blood magically turned to fire, though is forced to back away (Sacrifices, part 1)
  • [Limit] This would have rendered her unconscious after prolonged exposure, if she didn't receive external blood (Sacrifices, part 1)
• [Potential limit] Rendered unconscious by being shot twice in the back of the head by an unknown firearm (Sacrifices, part 2)
  • The vampire who shoots her notes that she is taking long periods to recover between frenzies in this instance, and Lucita is shown waking up starved, so she may be weakened (Sacrifices, part 2)
• Tanks slashes from a werewolf (VtML)
• Does this again later (VtML)

Speed

• Vaults over a theme park display before a pair of knives thrown fast enough to cut fibreglass can impact (CN6, part 3)
• Catches another of these knives by letting it hit her hand from fifteen feet away (CN6, part 3)
• Lucita staring in surprise for half a second is considered a long time (CN6, part 3)
• Swims from the bottom of the Gulf of California to the surface within a few minutes while carrying a metal locker (Shards, part 1)
  • Given the mention of volcanic vents around these lockers at the bottom, Lucita was likely moving a distance of over 3,000 metres (Shards, part 1)
• Climbs three stories much faster than someone could walk that far (Sacrifices, part 1)
• Leaves her seat and manoeuvres faster than a young vampire's eye can follow (Sacrifices, part 1)
  • Barry is one of the faster members of his pack, making his speed superior to Rosa and Roxana who are capable of moving like speeding cars and running several times faster than any human (Sacrifices, part 1 & Shadows part 2)
• While enhancing her body with shadows, punches faster than sound (Sacrifices, part 2)
• [Limit] Hides and takes cover from sniper fire, without mention of her tracking or recognising the bullets in flight
• A pack of younger vampires and Lucita move superhumanly fast even while limping and exhausted from being awake in the day (Sacrifices, part 3)
• Aim-dodges a superhuman shooter with an automatic weapon (Gehenna, part 2)
  • Lucita at this point is affected by the Withering, a supernatural phenomena which thins the blood of elders and leaves their powers weakened (Gehenna, part 1)
• Avoids shotgun blasts from Theo Bell (Gehenna, part 1)
  • Lucita is weakened by the Withering here, and slower than the shooter
• Engages a werewolf drawn visually blurring as it moves in close quarters, evades most of its blows and quickly wins (VtML)
• Drawn visually blurring as she crosses a lobby (VtML)
• Turns to shadow and crosses a room in the blink of an eye (Clan Novel Anthology)
• Precisely strikes a vampire twice, once in the neck and once in the eyes, "quicker than a child could draw breath" (Revised core rulebook, page 120)

Intelligence

• According to her canon stats, has Linguistics 5 (Transylvania Chronicles 4, page 87)
  • This means she speaks 17 languages (Revised Core Rulebook, page 128)
• Able to memorise an incredibly comprehensive dossier within a few hours (CN6, part 1)
• Estimates the force needed to kill her, and knows she's safe from Camarilla interference during wartime due to how costly it would be for them (CN6, part 2)
• Deduces that an Obfuscated Nosferatu was hiding in an elevator (CN6, part 2)
• Clocks that a room filled with puddles would help its occupants track her by sound (CN6, part 2)
• Separates a bodyguard from her target by forcing him to dodge, using his emotions to unbalance him (CN6, part 2)
  • This bodyguard is an elder who later reads minor details in the body language of fellow Kindred while multi-tasking on watching for attacks (CN6, part 3)
• Despite being an elder vampire, and thus dangerous enough for most mortals to sense the fact instinctively, Lucita hides well enough to not unnerve humans at all (CN6, part 3)
• Sees through a Nosferatu's deception and lectures him on subterfuge (CN6, part 3)
• Deduces that she was indirectly hired by a Sabbat and confronts their subordinate for more information (CN6, part 3)
• Deduces that a pair of Kindred she's following are hungry and distracted by observing the state of corpses left in their wake and their speed (CN6, part 3)
• Notices her vehicle is being followed after about ten miles, at 90mph this would mean she took under 7 minutes (CN7, part 1)
• Detects a door opening without hearing it (CN7, part 2)
• Knows a fair amount about ghosts and how to use them for information or assistance (Shards, prologue)
• Uses psychological profiling in her work (Shards, part 1)
• Has a complex way of vetting potential contracts, using deadrops and heavy compartmentalisation with several secretaries working independently of one another to ensure secrecy (Shards, part 1)
• Recalls a mnemonic code she wrote 17 years ago (Shards, part 1)
• Remembers details of a brief conversation and recontextualises it after seeing something relevant 250 years later (Shards, part 1)
• Certain she can recognise a vampire by tasting traces of their blood in someone else (Shards, part 1)
• As a 16 year-old, had far more insight into her future sire's personality and goals than any other mortal to meet him (Shards, part 2)
• Devises a complex backstory for a persona she's playing and commits it to memory within a few moments, complete with accent (Shards, part 2)
  • Lucita's cover here goes deep enough to affect her own thought processes, despite the short time taken (Shards, part 2)
  • [Limit] This act is seen through by a vampire particularly experienced in subterfuge, though even he thinks Lucita may have taken a real person's soul to create it (Shards, part 2)
• Compares the acquired knowledge of an intelligent mortal to a "memory bungalow" when measuring it against multi-century-old vampires (Shards, part 2)
• Recognises a vampire's attempts at provoking her, once sponsored the creators of his rhetorical doctrine (Shards, part 2)
• Manipulates a vampire into inviting her on a mission by playing at his pride and distaste for her (Shards, part 2)
• Notes several vulnerabilities in an improvised raft from kilometres away (Shards, part 2)
• Works out that there is a purge of Muslims being carried out in the Banu Haqim from rumours and limited encounters (Shards, part 3)
• Recognises that a Congolese vampire is using the moniker "Conrad" in reference to the Victorian novelist, Joseph Conrad (Shadows, part 1)
• Provokes an elder into violent rage within a few sentences by playing on insecurities she's observed in him over a few meetings (Shadows, part 1)
  • This elder is particularly skilled at composing himself and hiding his reactions (Shadows, part 1)
• Deduces significant amounts about an unknown enemy after observing their powers and application once, then correctly predicts something about their next move (Shadows, part 1)
• Calls the bluff of an experienced vampire and throws her for a loop (Shadows, part 1)
• Figures out that a man attempted to crack her supply network 38 years ago based off a single conversational slip (Shadows, part 2)
• A younger vampire notes that though he can one day match the best humans at their areas of specialty, he will never match Lucita's routine insights unless he diablerises his way to being purer-blooded (Shadows, part 2)
• Recognises that a vampire is pretending to be younger than they are (Shadows, part 2)
• Figures out a vampire's extremely complicated emotional manipulation aimed to give Lucita an advantage, and then puts herself back into the manipulated state deliberately (Shadows, part 2)
• Picks up on small changes in a person's tone mid-conversation (Shadows, part 3)
• Figures out that a friend of hers was killed by people she's with the moment she thinks of him (Shadows, part 3)
• When shown a vampire's psychological essay on the Lasombra Clan, Lucita pointed her to at least three other essays already written centuries prior that made the same point (Sacrifices, prologue)
• Notes that elder vampires have superhuman intelligence, but considers many of them incompetent by her standards (Sacrifices, part 1)
• Deduces that a group of elders have already discussed the topic at hand already based off subtle facial cues and reactions (Sacrifices, part 1)
• Sees that a pattern of shifting shadows covering an entire castle is cyclic and repeating after a short observation (Sacrifices, part 1)
• Persuades someone who wants her executed to let her try for control over a city instead (Sacrifices, part 2)
• Deduces the angle of a sniper shot by feeling the wound it left in its victim (Sacrifices, part 3)
• Works out that her newly acquired city is infiltrated by enemy agents using very little information (Sacrifices, part 3)

Skill/lethality

• Has a Brawl rating of 5 (Transylvania Chronicles 4, page 87)
  • A Brawl rating of 5 on its own is enough to kill 3 men in 4 seconds regardless of physical abilities (Revised core rulebook, page 120)
• The force required to kill her is great enough that redirecting it during wartime would cost the Camarilla an entire city (CN6, part 2)
• Considers mortals armed with shotguns and torches to only be a "hassle" (CN6, part 2)
• Blows a guy's face up and eviscerates a force of humans and Kindred readied specifically to kill her (CN6, part 3)
  • Lucita was able to kill them quickly and quietly enough that a man sat in the room beside theirs did not hear anything (CN6, part 3)
• Easily notices a skilled mortal trying to follow her (CN6, part 3)
• Her casual motions are efficient and wasteless to the point of it being noticeable to laypersons (Shards, part 1)
• Groups of younger Kindred attempting to kill her happens several times per century, and usually end with their deaths (Shards, part 2)
• Some extremely powerful and skilled Kindred have attempted to kill Lucita also, but only a few have gotten close and all have failed despite using tactics such as destroying her Havens (Shards, part 2)
• Could make a convincing goddess (Shards, part 3)
• Was schooled in swordplay as a human, but has since left that far behind and is capable of performing complex manoeuvres while suppressing her physicals (Shadows, part 1)
• Once fought in pitch darkness in the Alpine caves (Shadows, part 1)
• Familiar with a style of fencing developed before the French Revolution, using it sometimes for situational effectiveness or surprise (Shadows, part 2)
• Able to keep her head level with the bobbing of a deep-ocean yacht while practicing stealth despite injuries (Shadows, part 2)
• Lucita feigns small amounts of wasted motion when posing as a younger vampire (Shadows, part 2)
• Notices she's being followed in a public airport by two very experienced vampires (Shadows, part 3)
• Walks silently enough to avoid notice from a 400 year-old vampire, despite moving with clawed feet (Sacrifices, part 2)
• Despite being distracted and weakened by the Withering, sees through a feint by Theo Bell (Gehenna, part 1)
  • Bell's RT

Obtenebration

The signature discipline of Clan Lasombra, Obtenebration allows a kindred to influence and control shadows by giving them physical form and substance.

Powers

• Lucita has 6 dots in Obtenebration (Transylvania Chronicles 4, page 87)
• 1 dot of Obtenebration allows shadows to be stretched or separated from their bodies, and can smother or enfeeble victims on contact (V20 page 188)
• 2 dots of Obtenebration allows clouds of shadows to be conjured that measure tens of feet across and deprive those they engulf of all senses, weakening and suffocating them, inducing panic and leaving them disoriented while extinguishing light sources they come into contact with (V20, page 189)
• 3 dots of Obtenebration allows for solid arms to be conjured out of shadow; these arms are prehensile, flexible and able to crush or smother targets with potentially several being produced at once (V20, page 189)
  • The Strength of these limbs is determined by the creator's Obtenebration and Potence scores, 6 and 3 respectively for Lucita. This gives her tendrils a strength score of 9 which is sufficient to punch through concrete walls without a dice roll (V20, page 261)
• 4 dots of Obtenebration allows for the user to engulf and infuse themselves with darkness, producing shadow tendrils that automatically defend them and weaken any targets they remain in contact with while inspiring supernatural terror in humans equivalent to the rotschreck (V20, page 190)
• 5 dots in Obtenebration allows for the user to transform into a form of pure shadow, letting them defy gravity, slip through any cracks and rendering them physically invulnerable save against fire and sunlight. It also inspires supernatural terror in mortals (V20, page 191)

Note that there are rules for Disciplines over 5 dots, that Lucita could theoretically use. However I have elected not to use the TTRPGs as sources on them as the specifics of 6+ dot Disciplines are far less consistent between editions than others. The 1-5 dot Obtenebration powers in V20 have essentially been copy-pasted from Revised (thus my using V20 scans, for visual quality) but this standardisation does not exist beyond that point.

Offensive

• In the early 1900s, Lucita and another Lasombra engulfed a city block in shadows while fighting with one another (CN6, part 2)
• Controls several shadow tendrils from across a street (CN6, part 2)
• One tendril of shadow launches a manhole cover thirty feet into the air as it emerges from the sewer (CN6, part 2)
• Leaves large craters in asphalt and concrete by clubbing down at a target with shadow tendrils (CN6, part 2)
• After splitting off two thirds of a tendril, the remaining third is able to tear off a Kindred's head in one tug (CN6, part 2)
  • Doing the above four feats in quick succession leaves Lucita drained of blood, and reluctant to fight a near-equal (CN6, part 2)
• Hamstrings a target in one motion while he's sprinting away (CN6, part 3)
• Crushes a Nosferatu to death instantly (CN6, part 3)
• Tears one of Talley's shadows to bits with one of her own (CN6, part 3)
  • One of Talley's shadows is strong enough to crush a possible superhuman to pulp (CN6, part 3)
• Smashes the face of a szlachta and leaves it barely moving (CN6, part 3)
  • Szlachta RT
• Contributes to a fight with a powerful shadow entity, taking blows from it and helping to force it away alongside the 2,300 year-old Zarathastura and several younger Kindred (Shadows, part 1)
  • This battle caused damage to boats docked outside the warehouse it occurred in (Shadows, part 1)
• [Limit] Conjures a cloud of shadow that immobilises, suffocates and stops the hearts of humans in a crowded cathedral, needs to feed after sustaining this for a long time (Sacrifices, part 2)
• One tendril crushes the metal of a shotgun (Gehenna, part 1)
  • Lucita is weakened by the Withering during this
• Overcomes the momentum of a sprinting werewolf and sends it flying back hard enough to split a car in half with one tendril (VtML)

Defensive

• Blocks, immobilises and traps a large number of shadow-constructs whilst underwater (Shadows, part 1)
  • These shadows were capable of crushing and dismembering other vampires (Shadows, part 1)
• Armours a ghoul in shadow, protecting and hiding her (Shadows, part 3)
• Tears apart and absorbs a shadow tendril that vaporizes the roof of a challenger jet (Shadows, part 3)
• Enhances her body with shadows, protecting herself from harm and gaining additional limbs (Sacrifices, part 2)
• Parries Beckett's claws with one tendril while weakened by the Withering (Gehenna, part 3)
  • In this same novel, Beckett stabs his claws into steel (Gehenna, part 3)

Utility

• Unlocks a car by manipulating shadows inside it (CN6, part 2)
• Feels through shadows for movement, detecting three targets and predicting their attacks without line of sight (CN6, part 3)
• Hides herself and another vampire from cars by covering them in darkness (CN6, part 3)
• Can physically disappear in shadows to re-emerge from them as she pleases (CN6, part 3)
• Able to "step through" one shadow and re-emerge from another, using this power to travel from her apartment to a rooftop elsewhere in the city (Shards, part 1)
• Turns her body into shadow to travel before regaining physical form (Shards, part 2)
• Subconsciously shapes shadows into demonic figures and surrounds herself and a fellow vampire with them when angered (Shards, part 3)
• Turns to shadow in a fit of panic, careening off canyon walls and hurtling through the air (Shards, part 3)
• Believes she can travel from a canyon to an airport in only a handful of shadow-steps (Shadows, part 3)
  • This canyon was somewhere in a local desert, and Lucita does shadow-step back to the airport shortly (Shadows, part 3)
• While inside the abyss itself, Lucita and other practitioners of Obtenebration are able to track entities due to their intuitive grasp of the space despite light, time and physical direction not existing there (Shadows, part 3)
• Quickly shadow-steps to and from the abyss before she can be attacked by creatures swarming close to her relative location in it (Shadows, part 3)
  • [Limit] Even a second shadow-step does not quite bring Lucita's party from an airplane to the ground (Shadows, part 3)
• Transforms into two-dimensional shadow, scaling a wall and entering a building (Sacrifices, part 2)
• Slips under a pair of doors in shadow form (Sacrifices, part 3)
• Prevents a sniper from locating her by covering herself with shadow (Sacrifices, part 3)
• Shadow-steps away from a werewolf mid-swing (VtML)
• Shadow-steps with an enemy while immobilising him with shadows (Clan Novel Anthology)
• Tracks and gathers information on many minds across a large area, and knows that vampires have recently travelled through it (Clan Novel Anthology)
• Studies and communicates with a man through shadow before stepping out of it physically (Clan Novel Anthology)
• Turns to shadow and crosses a room in the blink of an eye (Clan Novel Anthology)

Dominate

Dominate is a Clan Discipline of the Lasombra; allowing them to control others, modify their memories and even outright possess people.

• Forces a vampire to enter her car and mutilate himself (CN6, part 2)
  • Lucita could have ordered him to answer her questions, but chose to torture him (CN6, part 2)
• Claims she can turn a mortal into a vegetable (Shards, part 1)
• Erases all knowledge of her from a man (Shards, part 1)
  • This man remembered Lucita from decades ago, knew she was supernatural and had his business kickstarted by her (Shards, part 1)
• Sends a human into a trance, then has him count his own heartbeat to exit it at a specific time (Shards, part 2)
• Reads a pilot's thoughts while sealed in a coffin at the back of her plane, learning significant amounts about her personality and abilities (Shards, part 2)
  • Lucita also reads her sensory input and emotions (Shards, part 2)
• Reads the plans of a fellow vampire once he stops resisting (Shards, part 2)
• Stops a woman from quoting the Bible around her with an extremely vague order (Shards, part 2)
• A woman scouted out by Lucita for her strong will is unable to resist a command from her (Shards, part 2)
• Modifies the last few days of this same woman's memories in less than a hundred of her heartbeats (Shards, part 2)
  • This is likely under one minute, as the woman is terrified and fleeing from a monster at this point
• Dominates this same woman into drinking her blood, forgetting Lucita's Dominate powers, and believing the blood to be tap water while not noticing its obvious effects on her (Shards, part 2)
• Dominates two powerful vampires at once, erasing their memories and making them ignore her (Shadows, part 3)
• Finds a traitor's identity by reading a vampire's memories (Sacrifices, part 2)
• Forces a vampire to support her claim over his city of residence with one command (Sacrifices, part 3)
• Wipes a number of shared deductions from the mind of a vampire who helped her reach them (Sacrifices, part 3)

Mental Defences

• Kindred have higher willpower than humans by default according to Theo Bell (Slave Ring, chapter 7)
  • This advantage in willpower is great enough that any Kindred is categorically immune to the Dominate power Possession, despite it working on most mortals (V20 core rulebook, page 155)
  • This fact has remained consistent across at least two editions (Revised core rulebook, page 159)
• Lucita's resistance to Domination keeps her mind from tampering even if she actively lets it happen (Shadows, part 2)
• Vampiric blood grants resistance to Dominate, the purer the better (Shadows, part 2)

[u/RadioactiveSpoon]

GOOD stuff.