Path of perfection

“We are not monsters. We are evolving. We are Perfection!”

Evolution demands sacrifice. To transcend weakness, one must purge all remains of their flawed human past. The “Primal Urge” is not a curse, it is the final obstacle before achieving perfection. Hesitations and failure are remnants of mortality, and those who cling to them are flawed, lesser and tarnished beings.

Might makes right, and only those who are strong enough to rise above their frailties/imperfections deserve to ascend.

The Founders of the Path are not yet perfect, and it is the duty of all who follow to “elevate them”. To let a superior falter and fall is the gravest sin, for if they fall, it is your weakness that allows/allowed it.

The core principles

Might Makes Right

Strength, in all its forms, is the ultimate proof of worth. The weak exist to serve the strong or be discarded.

Followers of the path see themselves as the next step in evolution and look down on humans, especially those not within the cult. They do not tolerate personal failure and will try and shift the blame to others. Many believe in survival of the fittest. This leads to a very flawed system of blame shifting where If you falter, it’s because someone else failed you. If someone else falters, it’s your fault for not preventing it.

Humanity is Weakness

Rage, fear and base instincts are echoes of mortality. True power is found in refining your actions and reactions.

Those following the path regard emotional attachment, guilt, or hesitation as signs of weakness. They see suppression of primal urges and control of emotion as the greatest good. Emotions are a part of you, you can act on them, you can use them, but with control and deliberation. To lose control means another has control over you.

The Founders Must Be Elevated

Their ascension is yours; to let them fail is your greatest failure.

Followers of the path follow their superiors with absolute loyalty. After all, your progress is measured by your leaders’ progress as well.

Secrecy is Strength

The weak will always fear what they do not understand, let them be. The unenlightened have no right to our truth.

The cult keeps their existence a secret. To tell someone outside of the cult of its existence will either lead to them being brought into the cult or getting disposed of. It might also have grave consequences to the person who spilled the secret.

The Path of Perfection is an alternative moral code, a way for the vampires to replace traditional Human morality (Humanity) with a different philosophy that justifies their inhuman nature.

It’s how some vampires stop feeling guilt for doing monstrous things, not because they’ve become mindless, but because they’ve chosen a different definition of “right and wrong”.

The founders revealed that clinging to human ethics while living as a predator is a recipe for madness, guilt and loss of control. So they adopted the Path, a belief system that would allow them to, maintain self-dicipline, avoided extreme emotions (frenzy), justify their predatory existence and retain a sense of purpose, identity and superiority.
Instead of trying to stay “human” a follower tries to stay true to the Path. ‘’It guides their loss of humanity’’ and although they all strive for ascension knowingly or unknowingly they all get stuck somewhere along the way.

The larp is very much not about reaching ascension. It’s about characters striving for ascension they cannot fulfill and we hope the information below gives you more insight in understanding what that could look like.

	Sin	Rationale
10	Ascension
9	Allowing a superior to fail or falter.	If those above you stumble, it is because you let them. Their fall is your shame, and your worth is measured by how well you uphold them. This is the ultimate failure.
8	Betraying the interests of the Path, knowingly or through incompetence	The Path is greater than any individual. Whether through rebellion, doubt, or sheer stupidity, harming the Path’s progress is a grievous sin.
7	Failing to enforce the Path’s doctrine in others.	If you witness weakness and do not correct it, you share in the failure. To allow another to stray is to betray the Path.
6	Succumbing to Emotions/primal instincts	The weak allow the Craving to control them. Losing yourself to rage or fear is proof you have not yet transcended your base nature.
5	Showing mercy or empathy toward weakness.	The weak are beneath you. To waste time or effort in them, aiding them is to hinder your own progress. Sentiment is self-sabotage.
4	Expressing unnecessary emotion or attachment.	Love, guilt, grief, fear, these are chains of a lesser existence. If you allow them to control you, you prove yourself unworthy.
3	Speaking ill of the Path or its leaders, even in jest.	Doubt is a disease. To even suggest weakness in the Path or its hierarchy is an act of sabotage. Only those too weak to see the truth question it.
2	Disobedience to those above you.	Your duty is to elevate your superiors. Defying them is the arrogance of the unenlightened. If you were truly above them, they would not be above you.
1	Failing to improve oneself or stagnating in progress.	There is no perfection in stillness. The strong climb ever higher, those who cease to evolve deserve to be left behind.