{"id":"shared/trait/flaw/bound","type":"trait","system":"flaw","line":"shared","name":"Bound","sources":[{"source":"V20","page":498,"folio":490},{"source":"BoS","page":93}],"entries":["You are blood bound to another vampire. Your regnant may not necessarily treat you badly, but the fact remains that your will is not entirely your own. The knowledge gnaws at you, even as you find yourself lost in devotion to your vampiric master. Sabbat vampires cannot take this Flaw."],"cost":2,"category":"Social","_qa":{"flags":[],"parser":"headed_entries","confidence":0.9,"extracted":"2026-10-12","job":"v20-core-merits"},"variants":[{"sources":[{"source":"BoS","page":93}],"entries":["Mentor always told you not to make bargains with strange entities. But did you listen? Nope. Now you’re in deep to someone whose power dwarfs your own, and your prospects for getting out of bondage are laughable at best. Haunted by thoughts of the payment to come, you live on borrowed time and realize that the worst is yet to come…","Sometimes known, with minor variations, as Faust’s Bargain, Bound puts your character in the Faust-like position of getting something interesting in return for something sig­ nificant – her life, her soul, a thousand years of servitude, or a similarly awful fate that no one in their right mind would want to risk. Still, occultists are infamous for short-term thinking, and literal devil’s deals are common currency in the magickal world. The specifics of that deal are for you and your Story­ teller to arrange; you might have received some Merit(s) and / or Abilities in return for the debt (purchased with the points from this Flaw), escaped an awful situation (“You want out of this death-trap, dear wizard? Very well – what do you have to offer me?”), saved someone who was important to you (“Sure, I’ll bring your mother back from the brink of death – let us discuss the terms of this favor…”), or otherwise blew a standoff with an Otherworldly","entity (see the Summoning, Binding, Bargaining, and Warding section of How Do You DO That? pp. 91-95).","Like the Flaw: Dark Fate (below), this debt throws a fore­ boding air over your character’s part of the chronicle. In this case, though, your doom may be averted if you can wrangle a way out of this pact. In the meantime, your creditor will call in occasional favors – nothing large enough to pay off the debt (unless that entity needs a significant service and agrees to write off the larger obligation), but deeds that can spark new stories or complicate existing ones. Despite tradition, this debt doesn’t have to be a soul-pact owed to a devil – a promise to your god(s) or their immediate emissaries can be just as terrible as one owed to Old Scratch!"],"note":"text differs from V20 (40%)"}],"_links":{"self":"/api/v1/records/shared/trait/flaw/bound","html":"/records/shared/trait/flaw/bound","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/shared/trait/flaw/bound/children","sources":[{"abbr":"V20","page":498,"folio":498,"title":"Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition"},{"abbr":"BoS","page":93,"folio":93,"title":"The Book of Secrets"}]},"_db":{"title":"Bound","props":[["Cost","2 pts"],["Type","Social"]],"parent_id":null,"level":2,"category":"Social","summary":"You are blood bound to another vampire. Your regnant may not necessarily treat you badly, but the fact remains that your will is not entirely your own. The knowledge gnaws at you, even as you find yourself lost in","tags":[],"children":[]}}