Way of the Levinbolt

1 • Spark
Novice thaumaturges can build up a tiny static charge, enough to make a noticeable snap with a touch. Such a dischargee poses little threat to healthy targets, though the energy can ruin delicate electronics or stun an unlucky victim. The thaumaturge simply touches a target after the requisite blood expenditure and releases the spark. The electricity can snap from any part of the caster's body, so a thaumaturge might give an unpleasant surprise to someone touching her. The caster must use this power immediately after invoking the magic.

2 • Illuminate
Neonates sometimes derogatively refer to this effect as the ''40-watt Tremere,'' right up until they've felt its sting. The thaumaturge summons enough electricity to cover her hand or arm in arcing bolts. This power can charge a battery or briefly run a small device, or even leave a nasty burn on a touched subject.

3 • Power Array
Like a looming thundercloud, the thaumaturge holds the waiting fury of lightning. Although the vampire cannot create or direct a charge strongly or accurately enough to launch actual bolts of electricity, she can conduct power through other substances or even absorb nearby energies. As with the lesser levels of this path, the thaumaturge can discharge a shock of electricity. The electricity can also be sent through any conductive substance touched; a metal sword (with a similiarly metal handle) could carry the electric touch--the bolts of lightning would literally snap across the blade into the target touched.
The thaumaturge could also briefly power a large device or continue to power a small device for the duration of the effect. A sorcerer could conceivably find himself needing just a minute to look into an unpowered computer's files, to override an electrical lock or to start a dead car battery. The thaumaturge can choose to channel other electrical energies though herself, if desired, which lets her draw power out of a car battery or power line without injury and without counting against her own power generation. By touching both power source and subject, the thaumaturge can act as a near-perfect conductor without any harm to herself.

4 • Zeus' Fury
Accomplished thaumaturges can not only absorb electrical power, but shape and redirect it. The vampire may arc lightning from her body to nearby targets or hold a potent charge that raises hair on end and sparks with suppressed energy.

5 • Eye of the Storm
The thaumaturge becomes a shifting, sparking pillar of electrical power. Her merest glance can prove dangerous, her touch explosively fatal. The energy channeled in the Eye of the Storm can tear apart a mortal body or spectacularly explode all but the most heavily shielded electrical components.
The sparking, glowing form of the thaumaturge becomes a veritable halo of energy, and onlookers suffer from the excessively bright light and flashing afterimages.

Thaumaturgy