Thou shall not reveal thy true nature to those not of the Blood. Doing such shall renounce thy claims of Blood.
Thy domain is thy own concern. All others owe thee respect while in it. None may challenge thy word while in thy domain. Note: This Tradition is still respected in France, but the Domains are usually reserved to high-status Kindred. Of course, one can invoke this Tradition when defending her Haven...
Thou shall only Sire another with the permission of thine elder. If you createst another without thine Elder's leave, both thou and thy Progeny shall be slain.
Those thou create are thine own children. Until thy Progeny shall be Released, thou shall command them in all things. Their sins are thine to endure.
Honor one another's domain. When thou comest to a foreign city, thou shall present thyself to the one who ruleth there. Without the word of acceptance, thou art nothing.
Thou art forbidden to destroy another of thy kind. The right of destruction
belongeth only to thine Elder. Only the Eldest among thee shall call the
Blood Hunt.
You must not steal, destroy, or alter an Object of Art without the Authorization of the Eldest among you. No Object of Art is to exit the domain of France without the Authorization of the Eldest among you.
Grounds protected by the Elysium will not be sullied by violence of hunt. Provoke violence or hunting in an Elysium without the authorization of the Eldest among you can be punished by the Blood Hunt. For security reasons, the access to some Elysiums will be limited.
Order is to be guaranteed by the Prince, who thus gather exclusively for himself the means to warrant the order and wellbeing of Kindred and Kine. Thus it is strictly forbidden to influence the police and army forces.
Praticing magic rituals in presence of a Mage is strictly forbidden, as is any contact with them. Their Ascensíon war is not our own. The acceptation of the Clan Tremere in Paris is conditioned by the behaviour of their members.
Diablerie is an atrocious action under our condition. Any Kindred guilty of Diablerie can be Blood Hunted, no matter who was the victim and where it happened.
Those who acted in ways unworthy of their Blood can be subject to the Amaranth. Those who acted in ways worthy of their Blood and of the Traditions and Edicts can be given the right of Amaranth by the Eldest among you. These rights are not ''written in stone'', but have been respected, unless exception. Thus, there is no official text, and the Prince has the final say if a Customary Law is to be applied or not, and how it is to be applied. For example, in March-May 1997, Vanessa was killed and her murderer was not found. Villon then gave the Brujah the right to Embrace Viktor... Who almost as soon as killed the Ventrue Leonard. The Ventrue asked, then, the right to replace the deceased Ventrue... But Villon decided that, as the Ventrue anyway wanted Leonard dead, the Ventrue Anarch Charles Henri de Montex would be granted this right of replacement...
In practice, Villon uses it to condemn Kindred, who decided either to exile themselves from France, or see it as a first warning. Villon uses this right to warn potential offenders without ordering a full Blood Hunt, and so makes it possible for the offender to redeem herself, which is not possible when under the Blood Hunt. Should the offender repeat his mistake, Villon simply order someone to apply the Sentence. As the Sentence was already ordered, there is little thing someone can tell to defend the offender... Traditionalists sees it as a violation of the spirit of the Lextalionis. Villon answers in a typically Anarch fashion that he doesn't care, but he is quick to add that should the opponent offend the Traditions in the slightest way, he will honor her with a full Blood Hunt, instead of the simple Sentence de Mort... Note: This removes the possibility of the manipulation of the Prince by intriguing situation when your enemy must breach the Masquerade, or when the proofs seems too much real or appear the the convenient moment... Villon is most unforgiving for Kindred using this kind of manipulation. This version of the Traditions have been borrowed from the Paris, le nuit online sourcebook. |
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