"... in the end, there is only one real rule in any of the Storyteller series, including VAMPIRE: The Dark Ages: There are no rules. You should fashion this game into whatever you need it to be – if the rules get in your way, then ignore or change them. The true complexity and beauty of the real world cannot be captured by rules; it takes storytelling and imagination to do that. These rules are designed to be guidelines, and you are free to use, abuse, ignore and change them as you wish."

VAMPIRE: the Dark Ages main rulebook, page 179