Blood Preparation
You know the effects of various substances on the blood. You can use this knowledge to recognize foreign substances in any blood you taste, and you also know the art of feeding your victims certain substances to get the desired taste and effects. You are knowledgeable in chemicals, intoxicants, herbs, spices and food and how they affect mortal and immortal blood. You can prepare a variety of flavors for blood feasts, and are capable of combining this art with Toxicology to make the blood of living mortals dangerous to the Kindred.

* Novice: You are a dabbler; you can prepare simple meals.
** Practiced: You know several recipes and can prepare a variety of meals.
*** Competent: You know many recipes, though you have trouble preparing truly exotic cuisine.
**** Expert: You are an excellent chef; you know all the great recipes as well as a wide range of exotic recipes.
**** Master: You are a master chef; you know a great variety of recipes and you can create your own masterpieces.

Possessed by: Some Toreador, Sabbat, Baba Yaga's chefs, Black Hand Kindred and some cannibals
Specialties: Intoxicants, Spices, Easy-to-Prepare meals, Kindred Poisons, Recognizing and Analyzing Tastes

Knowledges

Mummy Lore
If you are not a Mummy, you have studied with Inauhaten or another of these strange beings. You know of their origins, their history, their cycle of death and rebirth, their magic and, though you are not a practitioner, their spiritual beliefs. You know a little about the Silent Striders, the Setites and the Children of Osiris, but most of your information is confined just to their relations with the Mummies.

* Novice: You have seen a Mummy and talked with him a little.
** Practiced: You know a few relevant facts.
*** Competent: You are knowledgeable in their beliefs and practices.
**** Expert: You possess great insight into their ways.
***** Master: You understand their cycle of rebirth and the nature of their existence.

Possessed by: Mummies, Eaters of the Dead, some EUthanatos, a few Giovanni, and a rare few members of the Black Hand
Specialties: Mummy Magic, Ancient History, the Nine Divisions of Mummies' Souls, Individual Mummies

Thanatology
You are a student of death. You are knowledgeable about spiritual phenomena, physical aging, near-death experiences, and medical causes of death. You are a student of the transformation from living being into wraith. You are knowl- edgeable in the art of embalming and the many death rituals of various cultures, both human and supernatural.

* Novice: You have read a little on the subject.
** Practiced: You know some scientific, philosophical and religious beliefs about death.
*** Competent: You know a great deal about scientific, philosophical and religious beliefs concerning death, and possess very limited supernatural knowledge.
**** Expert: You possess expansive knowledge, some of which is supernatural in origin, concerning death, and you have conducted your own experiments.
***** Master: You think you understand the mystery of death.

Possessed by: Euthanatos, Eaters of the Dead, Mum- mies, Sabbat on the Path of Death and the Soul, Benandanti, and Black Hand Kindred
Specialties: Near-death Experiences, Aging, the Life Force

Underworld Lore
You know something about the Underworld. While you do not have in-depth knowledge of the various political, professional and spiritual factions of wraith culture, you do know about the various groups. You know a little about the Hierarchy, the guilds, the Renegades and the Heretics. You know how the economy works, what existence is like and some about nearby holdings. You have heard a little about Stygia and about the Tempest. You have also heard about Doomshades, Spectres and other creatures that roam the Tempest.

* Novice: You know your way around Enoch.
** Practiced: You have heard tales of the Underworld outside Enoch.
*** Competent: You know a few facts about the Under world outside Enoch.
**** Expert: You have traveled a little outside the holding.
***** Master: You visit other holdings.

Possessed by: wraiths, Mummies, Euthanatos, some Giovanni, and members of the Black Hand
Specialties: Tempest, Guilds, Enoch, Doomshades