The magicians of the Sabbat use magic's designed to slay their foes brutally. The painful powers of the Hands of Destruction are one such straightforward path. Rumored to be the work of infernalists and demonic tutors, this path delivers agony and decrepitude on its victims.
Some few Camarilla vampires have unearthed this path, but it remains a rare curiosity among most thaumaturges. With the destruction of the Sabat's Warlocks, the Hands of Destruction path is relegated to the few zealous warriors who manage to wrest its secrets from tomes or infernal pacts. A number of regents have barred practitioners of this path from their chantries on suspicion of infernalism, and many Tremere refuse to practice it because of its potentially demonic origins.


•Decay - Inanimate matter crumbles rapidly under your touch. Even dead organic material quickly melts into a puddle of putrescence. Using this power reduces wood or organic matter to a rotted morass quickly and it can be weaken even metal or plastic with sufficient time. If you break contact with the object, the accelerated aging ceases. Any decrepitude that you inflict on something is permanent, though.
Although you can age the flesh of a Vampire with this power, such a tactic has no functional effect. Vampires do not suffer any changes or decrepitude from this aging, as their supernaturally preserved corpses are immune to such treatment. Mortals, however can be certainly be "aged to death" if the discipline is used multiple times over, given sufficient time to do so.

••Gnarl Wood - Your merest glance can swell or contract wood, or twist it into strange shapes. You need not touch the wood to affect it, only see it. You can warp up to 50 pounds of wood, rendering it gnarled and useless. This is an excellent way to bust doors, destroy furnishings and twist stakes to uselessness. Use can use Gnarl Wood against multiple objects as long as you can see all the objects and they do not add up to more then 50 pounds.

•••Acidic Touch - Mystically altering your vitae, you cause it to become a thick, black, bilious substance, a caustic fluid that burns flesh, cloth, metal and wood alike. Your Acidic Touch has no effect on yourself, but it can leave horrible corroded marks on anything that makes the slightest contact with your coated hands. You can exude this acid from any part of your body, thus potentially making simple contact or even a kiss painfully deadly. The acid created with this power is thick and slimy, so it cannot be flung or spat at opponents; you must deliver it by touch. The vitriol created with Acidic Touch inflicts aggravated damage, and it can eat through most substances.

••••Atrophy - The warping effects of your powers allow you to wither the very limbs of your opponents. A simple touch is all that is required to Atrophy a single limb, turning it into a useless, fragile husk.
If you hit, you wither one arm or leg, rendering it useless. Multiple attacks can wither different limbs, cumulatively crippling the victim. A victim without arms cannot grapple or wield weapons; a victim without functional legs cannot move. This effect is permanent on mortals, though Vampires can heal a crippled limb over time.

•••••Turn to Dust - Amplifying the process of decay to incredible speeds, you can reduce your victim to little more than a pile of dust. Mortals almost always die instantly and collapse to putrefied remains, while even Vampires are withered. A Vampires immortal curse prevents any actual physical harm; only their bodies shrivel with age. Note that Turn to Dust functions only on living or undead targets; use Decay on inanimate subjects