submission : g2 advanced: nakova, advocate of golconda

Base version:
Ventrue

Capacity: 6
Group: 2
Camarilla primogen: If Nakova is burned in combat, the opposing minion takes 4 damage (damage not preventable)

First: strong and weak points of the base version:
about the cap6 vampire, nakova gets 2 pts for 1 for 1 for her title and 1 for her special, which makes a total of 5 which is fewer than her capacity of 6.
her primogen title does not allow her to play cards requiring prince or justicar and does not allow her to become anarch.
her ability by the way is one of the hardest to useas it depends almost totally of the opposing vampire strike... and consequently an opposing minion will more than often restricts his strikes and will probably not play for example an aggravated damages + decapitate combo against nakova
furthermore, if her discipline mix (pot + dom) is quite frequent among vampires (these are clan disciplines of the blood brothers and the gargoyles, and from g1 to g3 86 vampires have the two disciplines from cap 1: uraih winter to cap11: gwendolyn), this discipline mix looks very combat oriented than anything (no stealth, almost no bleed except force of will, no intercept...but a bunch of such combat cards as immortal grapple, undead strength, skin of steel and so on...), but it makes also nakova difficult to insert into a ventrue deck (except one with combat orientation) as she does not have nor dominate nor presence...
also the overwhelming combat abilities rises another question: why is she considered advocate of golconda ? for the ones not knowing well the world of darkness golconda was a kind of transcendance state for vampires. its precise definition variated from edition to edition but it was mostly described to be reachable for someone promoting humanity slef control and for someone avoiding violence as much as possible...

in the world of darkness, i looked for all kind of information but i found no clue about her. the only kind of information i found was about a vampire called Natacha Dimitriva radocara.
i think it is the same vampire, as described in the red sign scenario book, she was the ventrue primogen of st petersburg (and truly leading the city politic instead of the prince) and she was looking for information about golconda. the only details i have about this vampire, is that she is very fond of control and prefer peaceful and direct talks to fights.

and now about the version i suggest:
Ventrue

Capacity: 6
Group: 2
Camarilla primogen: once per action, nakova can burn an additionnal blood to be able to play a reaction action as a prince.

Merged: during every methuselah discard phase, if this Methuselah controls at least a vampire with a capacity above 6, he loses a pool unless he moves one of his vampire to his uncontrolled region. If he chooses to move a vampire to his uncontrolled region, he gains 1 pool.

this advanced version would allow to put more combat ends htanks to presence than hand strikes in a deck with nakova. it allows her to have some wall place in a deck with prince and justicar and if merged to have an effect helping weenie decks (caitiff votes, blood brothers rush...).

the merged ability is directly inspired by the card golconda... and the basic ability takes from her supposed background where she was the power as the prince was only interested by his own pleasure.

i had a bunch of others ideas such as:
"if nakova is untapped during your predator discard phase, she gains a blood from the blood bank" (directly inspired by bartholomew the kiaisyd which was supposedly on the quest for golconda as by the fact that vampires who reached golconda was no longer as much in need of blood)

"when two minions are about to enter combat, you can tap nakova and discard a master card of your hand to end the combat" (inspired by the golconda background related to avoiding violence as by the fact that the name advocate indicated that nakova was promoting it"

"nakova cannot equip weapons. any weapon she gains is burned. vampire opposing her in combat cannot strike with weapons" (same as above regarding peacekeeping... but it would have open her to such combo as immortal+hand strike)

"if a minion rescues successfully nakova from torpor, he gains a blood from the blood bank. Nakova gains a blood whenever she successfully rescues another vampire from torpor". (as golconda was sometimes seen as a way to help others and as she was promoting it)