Respect: Christof Romuald (World of Darkness)

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Christof Romuald

How can God snatch away the promise of salvation?

Christof Romuald was a disillusioned crusader active in the 1190s. After being wounded during battle and left in Prague to recover under the care of a Convent, he was tangled up in an ongoing attack by clan Tzimisce which eventually led to his being embraced into clan Brujah. Though at first he loathed his vampirism and saw himself as abandoned by god, Christof eventually came to terms with his new condition.

Key;

• Clan Novel Ventrue - CnV
• Clan Novel Brujah - CnB
• Clan Novel Nosferatu - CnN
• Vampire: the Masquerade Core Rulebook, Revised Edition - VtMR
• Vampire: the Masquerade Core Rulebook, 5th Edition - V5
• Vampire: the Masquerade Core Rulebook, 20th Anniversary Edition - V20
• Dark Ages Companion - DaC
• Beckett's Jyhad Diary - BJD

Any animated feats are from the cutscenes of Vampire: the Masquerade - Redemption. Note that during the events of this game, Christof is put into torpor (unconsciousness) for a duration of 800 years. This makes it possible for him to have grown stronger over the final three centuries of this period than he was before^{Dark Ages Storyteller's Companion, pg76}, despite being inactive.

He also gains power over the course of his story due to growing accustomed to vampirism and mastering his new abilities. I have listed all feats in chronological order within their given section, so for instance strength feats take place earlier in the timeline than ones below them and later than ones above them. In each section, I will mark out where Christof's torpor occurred to make it clear which feats came after and before it.

Feats

Strength

• [Human, gameplay] Can break apart wooden barrels with a 1-handed sword swing
• [Human, gameplay] Kill animations show him slicing the head off smaller szlachta with a 1-handed sword swing
• [Human, gameplay] Kill animations show him lifting revenants (humans with supernatural powers) slightly off the ground and spinning them 180 degrees with a 1-handed sword swing
• [Human] Considered to be especially strong by Ecaterina the Wise
• Any vampire can spend blood to gain temporary superhuman strength, letting them potentially throw cars^{VtMR, pg138}
• [Gameplay] Immediately after his embrace, Christof has one dot of Potence
  • The lowest levels of Potence make a vampire stronger than any human^{VtMR, pg 170}
  • The strength granted by 1 dot of Potence is enough to tear the flesh of humans and deal damage comparable to knives or gunshots when striking them, or leap 3 metres vertically/5 metres horizontally with no run-up^{V5, pg 264}
• [Gameplay] Kill animations show him decapitating extraordinarily large men in full plate armour with a 1-handed sword swing, sending their helmeted heads several feet into the air
• Torpor starts here
• From a prone position inside a wooden crate, throws a punch that snaps two chains wrapped around it and smashes a torso-sized hole in the top
  • Christof is in torpor immediately prior to this feat, and right after it claims to be so hungry that completely draining a human wouldn't sate him
• Kills a vampire hunter with one punch under the above conditions
• Leaps onto a set of storage tanks that are several metres tall, then topples them and their metres-wide base by pushing off against the wall behind them
• Lifts a vampire into the air with one arm, then throws him flying across a room and through a window
• [Gameplay] Kill animations show him knocking a giant spider several feet into the air and backwards with killing blows

Durability

• [Human] Thrown over a dozen metres through the air and bounces off a brick wall, but is only stunned and gets up to fight after a few seconds
• For well-fed vampires, shotgun blasts and knife attacks are merely annoying^{VtMR, pg217}
• Any vampire can spend blood to gain temporary superhuman durability, letting them potentially withstand tree-felling blows^{VtMR, pg138}
• [Gameplay, fire] A basic attack from low-level enemies encountered early in Vampire: the Masquerade - Redemption consists of a fireball that quickly engulfs Christof's whole body for a moment, with individual hits being easily survivable regardless of build
• [Gameplay, sunlight] A mandatory section of the early game requires Christof to run through several metres of full sunlight shining through an exposed roof, which leaves the majority of his health
  • Having 50% or more of the body exposed to unobstructed sunlight deals 3 levels of aggravated damage with a soak difficulty of 10 in the TTRPG, this makes it mechanically identical to being submerged in molten metal^{VtMR, pg 227&232}
• [Gameplay] A basic attack from a boss enemy in Vampire: the Masquerade - Redemption consists of a conjured bolt of lightning directly striking the target, which Christof can withstand
• [Gameplay] A basic attack from an enemy launches Christof dozens of feet vertically, even if he's wearing plate armour, and does moderate damage
• [Early limit] Midway through his game, Christof survives being crushed beneath a stone pillar that is several times his height and multiple metres thick, but is put into torpor
• Torpor starts here
• Tanks a pistol shot from a vampire hunter
  • Christof is freshly awoken from torpor and starved of blood during this feat
• [Gameplay] Being hit at close range by flamethrowers does little damage
• [Gameplay] Shotgun blasts from enemies at almost melee range do very little damage
• [Gameplay] Being shot with a grenade launcher does high damage, but is easily survivable
• [Gameplay] Can take heavy hits from a ghouled spider that's several times larger than him
• [Gameplay] Being hit by a burst of minigun fire does low to moderate damage
• [Gameplay] Being hit by a rocket launcher does high damage, but doesn't one-shot regardless of build
• Falls a large distance onto unyielding ground and is unhurt
• [Limit] Incapacitated by a section of telekinetically controlled pavement hitting him hard enough to be launched across a street, stopping only on impact with a car^{CnN, pt 1}
  • Theo Bell describs Christoph's head, arm and chest as having been 'torn up good' by this, though he is in significantly better condition than another non-fatally wounded Kindred^{CnN, pt 2}
• Survives an explosion powerful enough to blow up an apartment he's in and spread debris across a street, remaining conscious to witness another vampire leaving the scene^{BJD, pg316}

Speed

• Any vampire can spend blood to gain temporary superhuman speed^{VtMR, pg138}
• [Gameplay] Immediately after his embrace, Christof has one dot of Celerity
  • Celerity makes someone who possesses it fast enough that humans or vampires without it appear to be moving in slow-motion^{VtMR, pg 153}
  • The reflexes granted by 1 dot of Celerity are fast enough for vampires to perceive arrows or bullets in flight and attempt to dodge them, though their bodies are notably slower^{V5, pg 253}
• Torpor starts here
• Dodges a fireball thrown in melee that moves fast enough to cross a large warehouse before a group of ghouls on the other side can escape its explosion^{CnB, pt 2}
• Is significantly faster than Frankie, another Brujah^{CnB, pt 3}
• Moves 'like a blur' according to Beckett^{BJD, pg322}

Skill

• Accurately hits the gaps in the backs of a szlachta's knees twice in a row with two consecutive hits, hamstringing it, while it attempts to run away from him^{CnB, pt 3}
• Targets gaps in a szlachta's armour plating to wound it, or even slice armour plates entirely off^{CnB, pt 3}
• Scared of flying, a common feature of Kindred who are older than air travel^{CnB, pt 3}
• [Human] Considered to have great skill by Ecaterina the Wise

Ainkurn

Christof's sword^{BJD, pg314} following his early activity as a Kindred in the dark ages. It is sister to Dracula's sword^{Transylvania Chronicles III, page 103} and rumoured to be comparable or superior in power. The Encyclopaedia Vampyrica, written by vastly knowledgeable scholars Beckett and Lucita De Aragon (the latter of whom met Dracula prior to his embrace), acknowledges this as a possibility. In gameplay terms, Dracula's sword deals Strength +5 aggravated damage^{Transylvania Chronicles III, page 103}. Feral Claws, which can easily slice through metal, deal Strength +1. This is the same as the difference in damage between a knife and a halberd^{DAV20, pg49}

Visual reference for Ainkurn

• Wounds a szlachta that is impervious to .38 pistol rounds, killing it with a few hits^{CnV, pt 1}
• Christof is confident his sword is unharmed after Theo Bell sliced its tip through a brick wall^{CnB, pt 2}
• Draws blood and wounds a szlachta that is impervious to close range .44 magnum and 9x19 parabellum rounds^{CnB, pt 3}
• Removes entire limbs from a szlachta while targeting gaps in its armour^{CnB, pt 3}
• Sliced off Marcus Verus' hands and feet^{BJD, pg315}
  • Verus has Fortitude 6^{Legacy of Lies, pg36}, which makes his flesh as durable as wrought iron^{DAV20, pg221}

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