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Leysha Best Build Guide. Leysha is a fascinating character in Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong as a stealthy and smart Malkavian. This guide will go through her abilities and disciplines, as well as how to best develop her as the game progresses.

Swansong is a narrative role-playing game developed by Big Bad Wolf and released by Nacon. The city of Boston has become the site of a mass massacre of Kindred and Kine alike in the World of Darkness. Three vampires must find the truth and work together to endure the aftermath as the Masquerade threatened.

Leysha’s Clan and Disciplines

Leysha is a Malkavian, a tribe of Mad Oracles whose fractured minds gain information from visions about the future and past. Leysha can use the Disciplines Obfuscate, Dominate, and Auspex as a Malkavian, allowing her to move undetected, manipulate others, and dramatically heighten her senses.

Obfuscate

The Vampire’s Discipline of Obfuscate allows them to travel undetected by altering the perceptions of others around them. Allowing them to blend into the background or even disguise themselves.

• Mask of Stealth: Allows Leysha to enter the “Unseen Passage”. Allowing her to become undetectable to others while also barring her from engaging with the environment beyond reading documents and/or inspecting things. This does not shield her from detected by electrical devices. This skill also offers Leysha “Mask of a Thousand Faces.” which allows her to imitate a target’s outfit and then shift into it in a Safe Zone. At the start of the game, this skill immediately unlocked.
• Cloak of Concealment: Leysha can use this to hide objects from spectators and to interfere with electrical equipment. Including the ability to prevent electrical equipment from detecting her.
• Janus: Leysha has the ability to duplicate an additional outfit, allowing her to store two disguises at the same time.
• After obtaining information from someone via conversation, Leysha can take their identity and impersonate them with Doppelganger. In a Safe Zone, she can then disguise herself as that individual.
• Vanish: Mask of a Thousand Faces and Doppelganger can now used without having to enter a Safe Zone.

Leysha spends a lot of time in the game investigating and invading places she shouldn’t be. Therefore picking up extra skills from Obfuscate when you can is really useful when exploring the globe.

Dominate

The Vampiric Discipline of Command and Control, which allows Leysha to command and control others.

• Compel: Allows you to choose Dominate as a Dialogue option. At the start of the game, this immediately unlocked.
• Words of Steel: Adds an extra point to your dominance.
• Imperious Speech: Using Dominate reduces Hunger by one.
• Iron Fist: The next skill used will succeed without the need for Willpower. When this ability utilised, it causes four hunger.
• When Iron Fist utilised. It causes one to feel less hungry.
• Leysha will face various circumstances in which she will need to manipulate or fast-talk her way past foes while exploring restricted places. And having points in Dominate will considerably boost her ability to do so.

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Auspex

When it comes to investigation, Leysha prefers Auspex because it allows her to sharpen her senses and interpret the recent past and prospective future.

• Auspex Vision is granted, and interactions involving Leysha’s five senses are revealed. At the start of the game, this is immediately unlocked.
• Auspex Vision now shows interactions involving an item’s memory, allowing Leysha to view visions from the past.
• Auspex Vision now shows Leysha premonitions, giving her glimpses into possible futures.
• Scry the Soul: Leysha’s Auspex Vision allows her to read a target’s aura and determine their nature and/or resonance.
• Scry the Mind: Leysha can use this to see if her opponent is going to focus on a skill or not during a talk.

Auspex is extremely useful to Leysha throughout the game since she may use it to learn more about the world and improve her investigative skills.

Attributes and Skills

Leysha specialises in inquiry and infiltration more than any other character. As a result, she excels at using skills that enable her to unearth secrets, gather extra information. And manipulate others while disguised.

As a result, Leysha excels at using her Psychology skill. Which allows her to read people and influence them using their personality, motivations, and anxieties.

The Mental characteristic governs the Psychology talent, which also increases the Dominate discipline. As a result, investing in the Mental trait is extremely beneficial to her.

Leysha gains tremendously from the Deduction and Education skills as an infiltrator and investigator, as they allow her to make accurate assumptions and conclusions based on clues, as well as recognise important terminology and features in the environment and discussion.

Finally, Leysha’s Security and Technology skills can put to good use. Allowing her to go around security and gain access to restricted places and/or concealed things.