Resilience

From SuspireWiki

Legends abound of vampires who are able to withstand even the most brutal punishment to their unliving forms. While all Kindred possess a certain degree of the toughness of which these tales speak, those with the discipline of Resilience are commensurately more stalwart. Vampires with several dots of Resilience are capable of walking through a hail of bullets, shrugging off even the most punishing blows, and even resisting the deadly claws and fangs of supernatural foes.

Cost: 1 Vitae per scene to provide "downgrading" benefits; additional Health levels are permanent once bought.
Action: Instant

Each dot of Resilience permanently increases the character’s Stamina by on. This bonus also increases the character’s Health (a character with Resilience can thus surpass his normal Attribute maximum for Stamina). Additionally, once invoked Resilience also "downgrades" a number of aggravated damage points per scene equal to a Kindred’s Resilience dots. This damage becomes lethal instead. Aggravated wounds suffered in excess of the character’s Resilience dots remain aggravated, however. This downgrade doesn’t apply to any aggravated wounds that the vampire already possesses, just to newly acquired ones suffered while Resilience is active.

Example

Michael is engaged in combat with a witch-hunter, who clubs him with a flaming torch. The torch inflicts five points of aggravated damage — but Michael’s Resilience of 4 downgrades that to four points of lethal damage, with one point of aggravated damage remaining.

Also, if a character suffers damage that upgrades her Health chart, Resilience does not downgrade it. For example, if a character with seven Health dots and a single dot of Resilience suffers nine points of lethal damage, that ninth point stays aggravated. The other eight points are recorded normally as lethal (seven for the Health dots plus one for the Resilience), but the ninth stays aggravated as it upgrades the leftmost box on the character’s Health chart.