Editing Resonance (section)

==Resonance==
Blood type is expressed as Resonance. Unless looking only for survival or fuel, a drinker should care what prey they feed from and how. Vampires drink blood. Mortals eat food. Resonance flavors the blood, turning drinking into dining. Itâ€™s not about genetics, even if family often does carry a tendency toward a certain Resonance. Itâ€™s more about a combination of the vesselâ€™s temperament and the victimâ€™s state of mind in the moment of feeding. 

Kindred employ dozens of different frameworks to describe Resonance, from Japanese adolescent bloodtype astrology to American business-school Myers-Briggs phrenology. Indian licks talk about ayurvedic gunas, decadent Toreador fans of Gurdjieff map their meals on the Enneagram; a Sewer Rat in Geneva claims to use Jungâ€™s original notebooks to construct a â€œunified theory of Blutfunktion.â€ But the most common method, used by Tremere thaumaturges and Duskborn street cookers alike, relies on the four humors of classical medicine and medieval alchemy. 

The ''Crucible of Alchemy'', say the Warlocks, limns a metaphor for the vampiric body. The salts and metals in the crucible represent the elements of the blood, refined by the fire of the emotion in the moment. According to these Tremere, alchemy is all about scaring or inflaming kine in just the right way and drinking at just the right moment. It may be medieval mystification, but as the Mercurians can confirm, it does reliably get you high. To vampires whose Blood does in fact hold magical ingredients and shape personalities, these latter-day alchemists make a compelling argument.

===The Four Humours===
The four humors go back to ancient Egyptian and Babylonian medicine, but Hippocrates codified them for the West around 400 B.C. He described them as Choler or Xanthecholia (yellow bile), Melancholia (black bile), white Phlegm (not just modern phlegm, but also saliva, lymph, and the liquids of lungs and brain), and red Hema (blood). Thus, as the various humors predominate in the human system, people turn Choleric, Melancholy, Phlegmatic, and Sanguine. Modern alchemists point out that a blood sedimentation test demonstrates the existence of all four humors in the blood: black platelets and clots at the bottom, red blood cells above that, white cells governing them, and finally clear plasma coloured yellowish with bilirubin. Licks more thirsty than scholarly just break the four humors down as â€œangry, sad, lazy, and horny.â€

{| class="wikitable"
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! Humour !! Element !! Jungian Function !! Hormone !! Emotions and Conditions
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| Choleric || Fire || Feeling || Adrenaline || Angry, violent, bullying, passionate, envious
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| Melancholy || Earth || Thinking || Thyroid || Sad, scared, intellectual, depressed, grounded
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| Phlegmatic || Water || Intuition || Pituitary || Lazy, apathetic, calm, controlling, sentimental
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| Sanguine || Air || Sensation ||  Testosterone/Estrogen || Horny, happy, addicted, active, flighty, enthusiastic
|}

===Temperament and Dyscrasia===
Resonance comes in three temperaments: fleeting, intense, and acute. Fleeting temperament occurs in the moment, thanks to momentary stimuli. Humans in basic emotional equilibrium (â€œwell-adjustedâ€) experience fleeting bursts of all four Resonances in their day-to-day lives. 

An intense temperament indicates a human with a very strong tendency toward one or another Resonance. This connection might be due to mental illness, age, past trauma, drug addiction, or just a very active reward loop; a good-looking person who enjoys sex can easily become intensely Sanguine, thanks to seeking and getting their kicks every night. 

An acute Resonance is so intense that it creates a self-sustaining reaction in the blood. Kindred have adopted Hippocratesâ€™ term Dyscrasia, or â€œbad mixture,â€ to refer to this effect. Younger licks, careless of alchemy and hematology alike, refer to it as a clot.