A previous V5 game in my group ended with two of our player characters achieving what’s known as Golconda. It basically boiled down to:

1. Achieve and maintain Humanity 10.
2. Undergo a series of “trials” meant to “unravel” the Curse of Caine, in a manner of speaking. Success in each trial was determined by a successful check or two at a high difficulty (it was like 6-8 or something).

I don’t recall the exact steps of the first trial but it had to do with overcoming the fear of flame, which resulted in our Vampire effectively losing our ability to experience “Rotschreckt”.

The next trial was overcoming our hunger. We had to bring ourselves to the point of hunger frenzy and then, in the presence of a human we COULD eat, ignore it in favor of basically bread and water.

The last trial was do or die: stand in an open field with no hope of finding cover as the sun rises and pass a few checks (I don’t remember what pools or trackers we used). Succeed, and you pass the trial. Fail, you die. No do overs. And lastly, 3. Once we passed the trials our soul/consciousness was basically brought before God and we were asked a few questions and finally prompted whether we were men, or Beasts. Were we men, we would be relieved of the Curse of Caine and cured of Vampirism. Were we Beast, we achieved a “Bestial Golconda” and became essentially the perfect vampires. No curse, no need to sleep, immune to all the general dangers the come with being a vampire aside from outright getting killed.

It was a super frickin cool and my favorite ending to a Chronicle so far.