Effect: To the Daeva, family means Blood. Family doesn't always mean getting along or not screwing each other, but at the end of the night, it'll be family that comes for your body. Your character's family line is particularly widespread or in close contact in your local area. Doesn't matter if they're a mechanically distinct bloodline or a group of cousins who just keep in touch: when your back's against the wall, you've got somebody to turn to or at least somebody to be the wall.

Once per session, you may add a +3 bonus on a Manipulation + Persuasion or Manipulation + Empathy roll involving a member of your character's family. The family member isn't anymore likely to put his life on the line, but he is willing to take a few risks to help your character out. Especially if he sees something in it for him.

The number of dots a character possesses in Close Family determines the distance at which this bonus applies:
• Immediate Family: Sire or broodmate.
•• Middle Distance: Grandsire or first cousin.
••• Distant Kin: Second cousin, member of same bloodline.

At her discretion, the Storyteller may apply penalties to a Close Family roll. Some example conditions:
-1: Your character has recently asked for a lot of favors, or otherwise slightly annoyed members of his family.
-2: Your character's family may be close, but they have reason to completely ostracize him, such as suspicion that he murdered a member of the family, or having been publicly convicted of a serious crime.

Drawback: Familial connections go both ways, particularly if one has called on them in the recent past. A character with this Merit may expect to be asked to assist members of his Blood as well, or risk reducing the rating of this Merit by one dot.