Serpentis

Serpentis is the trademark Discipline of Clan Typhon. It primarily provides shape-changing abilities, though it also encompasses corruption and other characteristics associated with snakes. Serpentis has a near religious significance to the Typhonites, although vampire scholars presume a relation to the shape-shifting powers of Protean. The followers of Sutekh consider it a gift from their dark god and almost never share it with other vampires, although on occasion it is heard that the use of a blood boon has allowed others to achieve this dark gift. Mastery of Serpentis brings a Typhonite closer to Sutekh and some advanced users come to disregard their human form, preferring the forms Serpentis can bestow and reacting aggressively to suggestions that they abandon it.

Certain powers allow the Typhonite to remove either their own hearts or those of other vampires, as well as other organs. A vampire without a heart is immune to staking and diablerie. A vampire with all of their organs removed is nearly indestructible, and can only be destroyed after the organs have been replaced in its body. However if someone else gains access to the vampire's organs, they can eat them and in so doing gain one blood point for each giblet consumed. Anyone who stakes the disembodied heart causes the same effect as someone staking the vampire. Any vampire who drinks from the separated heart needs to only drink through two blood points before they diablerise the vampire.