Amaranth on a house member

''A close relative (sire, childe, broodmate) commits diablerie. This is confirmed by trustworthy sources, and there is no question as to his guilt.''

In return, the prince not only bloodhunts him, but grants the Amaranth to anyone who wishes to claim it.

What (if anything) do you do?

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** Tony Korinthos

Well, diablerie is a damned stupid thing getting caught doing, not that one should be doing it...

If the Matriarch weighs in on the criminal in question and wants his ashes, not my place to go against, although diablerizing them is a bit of a separate issue, probably not worth the trouble.

If she doesn't, well Famiglia is famiglia and there are safe houses to sleep a few decades out of the limelight...

Not that Tony would say as much... After all, crime is a crime and we must uphold the law completely... all lust for the Heart's Blood.

** Katrijn De Vos

Depends who the family member killed off. If the deceased is someone I wanted rid of, then I may well slip the family member a tip to leave prior to the bloodhunt being declared.

If they killed off someone else? Then I'm dominating the sucker and dragging them off to somewhere public where I take their life (without diablerie) because as a Ventrue Elder, I don't just have to enforce the rules, but be seen to be doing so.

** William Leander

Protect the family. Prune the rotten branch. Refuse the Amaranth because accepting it would set tongues a-wagging about how the Al-Karami all lust for the Heart's Blood.""**Charles Yea

It would depend on the relationship. Yea would do his duty to the Family and Tower in that order. That being said, this is the kind of thing that would strain his personal code of honor, pushing him to focus more on following orders than be proactive.

** (Darwyn Siplin)

Hunt the person down using any and all resources at my availability. Apprehend the criminal with all due force. render them limbless and bring them before the Elders of the family for final judgement, Regardless of who called the hunt or jurisdiction they fall into.

** Maryam

Ideally, negotiate with prince so that they be handed over to us. If that's not possible, expend all necessary resources to hunt him down ourselves.

In either case, offer him the chance to wrap up personal business, ideally handing over transferable resources, and then see that he is destroyed, ideally by his sire. Amaranth would not be tolerated, but neither would allowing him to live.

** Ashton

Speak with his handler (either his Sire or whoever leads the Family's interests where he is) then dole out the decision. Not being a combat character, he would probably use his resources to locate the Diablere fiend and then send in the combat squad to handle them.

** Galanan Deireanach

Diablerie to punish diablerie is not our way. If one is a crime how can the other not be? I agree the offender should be destroyed. This is but another way we as Kindred can lose our humanity. We need to find this diablerist and end him, in house.

I would also personally contact this Prince (with the Matriarch's permission of course) and attempt to negotiate Amaranth off the table. I would site many reasons including the ones stated above and that our House would not be pleased with this outcome. If necessary, I would offer boons, but only as a last resort.

** Gunnvaldr Graysson

Amaranth is, in all cases, unacceptable. Destroy the family member that committed the crime, but do not commit the same crime upon him.

** Seamus O'Reilly

I have access to ports and places of travel. I'm a smuggler by trade and while I think the act is reprehensible, family is family.I'd hope they'd do the same for me after all. Besides if I'm caught I can just play the petulant, ignorant Anarch card.

** Phillipe Marchand

The crime of the Amaranth is inexcusable. I would hunt them down and reclaim their blood.

** Atreus

Support the blood hunt, but the Amaranth does nothing but perpetuate the cycle of diablerie the punishment is seeking to end.

** Gareth Day

Call on family to claim the diablerist's blood without amaranth. Even when Amaranth is granted, it carries too heavy of a burden to be worth it. We will use our exclusive knowledge to find our wayward family member, hopefully leading us to them first.

If this can be accomplished in a speedy manner, all the better for public relations. We should publicly state that we disavow the family member and will tolerate no diablerists within our family. This message should not go beyond the sphere in which the bloodhunt was announced (in other words, don't send this to the global list if the bloodhunt has not been mentioned there - only send it to the appropriate domain list).

Finally, work to make reasonable reparations to the family who lost someone to our diablerist family member.