Mythic Blood

A Major Hermetic Virtue, Mythic Blood represents a legendary ancestor. The core ArM5 book provides only the guidelines on how to represent it through play, but examples were furnished in further supplements.

References

• The Fifth Edition Core Rulebook page 47 presents the virtue itself.
• Houses of Hermes: Mystery Cults page 37 provides examples, including the lineage of Birna, a Wolf of Virtue, an Owl of Virtue, and descent from Legendary Creatures Griffin and Phoenix.
• Houses of Hermes: True Lineages page 143 provides another variant, the Zmey.
• The Lion and the Lily Normandy Tribunal sourcebook discusses theories over the source of Mythic Blood and controversies that arose from at least one of those theories.