| Score | Moral Guideline | Rationale |
| 10 | Embracing a woman | Male traditionally make better offerings to the gods |
| 9 | Embracing outside the jati | Many others fail to comprehend the depth of the Paradox philosophy |
| 8 | Destroying another Shilmulo | Charity does not, as is widely believed, begin at home |
| 7 | Killing a mortal for sustenance | Death robs a person of the ability to fulfill their svadharma | 6 | Failing to destroy another vampire | Those who cannot see the true way should be returned to a productive role in the cycle | 5 | Killing a mortal for reasons other than survival | A person may not have achieved her svadharma, and preventing such is anathema | 4 | Failure to aid another's svadharma | The shruti defines this as the Shilmulo's purpose | 3 | Allowing one's sect affairs to precede one's dharma | One's allegiance should be to the gods, not one's companions | 2 | Becoming blood bound | One may never destroy one's regnant, which is the whole purpose of this Path | 1 | Embracing needlessly or out of personal desire | One must return others to the cycle, not extract them from it |
Ethics of the Path
• Embrace only if absolutely necessary, and then only from the jati (family line, also referred to as the Rom).
• Interpret the svadharma of others and aid them in their fulfillment of it.
• Destroy other Kindred, for they are unnatural to maya.
• Erase karmic debt, dispel maya's illusions and return to the samsara.
• One should alter and augment one's body--changing the flesh may pave the way towards changing the soul.
• Use deception to achieve your ends, as others bear the fault of distrust.
• Confuse the Antediluvians by returning their childer to the cycle.
Vampires on the Path of Paradox subscribe to the virtues of Conviction and Self Control
V 3rd Ed