The more seriously a Kindred of the Impaled is hurt,
the more badly she wants to fight. The more clearly an
Impaled can hear the echoes of mortality in her own
pain, the stronger her will to go on becomes. This Devotion
is often the one first taught to new Dragons in
the faction, because the sensation it creates is often the
most extreme. The strange associations that this Devotion
creates in the vampires who know it — that pain
equals drive, that a wound inspires confidence — lays a
valuable foundation for the philosophy of the Impaled.
A Kindred with this power is spiritually renewed by the
punishment her body endures.
