Touchstones

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Touchstones

Each vampire begins with as many Touchstones as Convictions: humans who represent what you used to value in life, someone who represents or seems to incarnate one of your Convictions.

If lost, the Conviction is lost as well.

A Touchstone must be a living human being; connecting to Humanity through the inhuman is, at the very least, going the long way around.

A Touchstone might be:

â–  Your surviving human spouse, lover, or parent
â–  Your human child, or (for older vampires) a descendant of your family line
â–  A human who looks exactly like someone you loved in life
â–  A human you admired in life or their descendant
■ A human related to someone you killed very early in your unlife: someone you swore you didn’t have to kill because you aren’t a monster, not really
â–  Someone you have come to recognize as a rare decent person even in your eyes: a volunteer at the animal shelter, a priest, a nurse, a social worker, a nice old lady in the neighborhood
â–  Someone who represents something you once held dear in life and still cling to: a soldier, a baseball player, a musician or artist, clergy from your faith
â–  Someone who guards, symbolizes, or protects a thing you value: the doorman of the building you used to live in, the cop on your old beat, a crusading reporter, the single mom living in your childhood home, the caretaker who sweeps your gravesite