This causes Christof to move into attacking range of the target and to swing. Shift-clicking lets loose a powerful special attack that varies depending upon the weapon in use. For example, with the aforementioned sword, he performs a spinning maneuver that does significant additional damage when the blow lands. Available weapons include an assortment of sword, axes and others appropriate to the time, some of which are imbued with special qualities such as increasing accuracy or unusual powers like causing fear in stricken opponents. As noted above, spells are known as disciplines.
Redemption offers quite a large variety, divided into about a dozen different categories.
There are some that do direct damage and others that are protective in nature plus healing disciplines, character buffing disciplines and more. As you might expect, your powers increase as your character rises in levels. Advancement is based on experience points that are spent to raise attribute and skill levels. The cost curve rises so that each successive advance in a given stat requires a slightly larger number of points than the previous time. The conflict between Christof's emerging vampiric urges and his humanity is played out in a discipline called Feed.