The Blood of Caine is cursed and static, but even in unchanging death there can emerge new strains of horror and old strains can reappear suddenly, like plague resurfacing to ravage an unprepared populace. There are three varieties of vampiric blood groupings: Clans, their Variations and True Bloodlines. Purely social groups, such as most of the Sabbat Antitribu and the Giovani ghoul-families, are not listed.
Some Bloodlines and Variations have more than one Weakness. These are listed in sequence. All the listed Weaknesses apply fully, at all times. They are not choices.
These listings have been streamlined and modified in an attempt to create a more cohesive vision of the Clans and Bloodlines. Among other things, the differences between Dark Ages and Modern times have generally been eliminated, signature Disciplines removed if an alternative spread existed, and the most straight forward and elegant Weaknesses of those available have been chosen.
Clans have the full recognition of vampiric society and the prestige of an Antediluvian Founder. Variations are still considered part of a Clan, though they have manifested alternate Disciplines or a slightly different Weakness. Some of these occur as adaptations to geographic location, others are the result of the vitae adapting to social pressures.
There is no standard Assamite Clan. Instead, the Clan consists of three Castes (Sorcerer, Warrior and Vizier) who all have unique traits.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Celerity, Dur-An-Ki ⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Magical Aura -- Instantly revealed as a magic user to any means of supernatural detection. Supernatural powers of detection are treated as 2 ranks higher when used against them.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Presence, Quietus Hematus⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Obsessive Wisdom -- Gains a Compulsion related to their highest Knowledge or creative Ability. This Compulsion is also easily determined via supernatural senses such as Aura Sight.
Clan Disciplines: Celerity, Obfuscate, Quietus Cruscitus⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Stained Soul -- Always marked with the black-veined aura of a Diablerist
Clan Disciplines: Celerity, Potence, Presence⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Berserker Beast -- All Frenzy checks are at +2 difficulty.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Fortitude, Necromancy⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Deathly Pallor -- All Social rolls are at +1 difficulty due to unnatural appearance, and blood cannot be used for a Flush of Life.
Clan Disciplines: Obfuscate, Presence, Serpentis⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Hated by Horus -- Sunlight deals twice the regular amount of damage to Setites. Even ordinary bright light causes a -1 penalty to all actions.
Clan Disciplines: Potence, Presence, Serpentis⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Same as Main Clan.
Clan Disciplines: Animalism, Fortitude, Protean⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Revealed Beast -- After each Frenzy, an animalistic mutation or behavior develops, imposing +1 diff on relevant rolls. The feature will also result in one automatic failure of a relevant roll. After the automatic failure is used up, at Storyteller discretion, the mutation or behavior fades.
Clan Disciplines: Celerity, Obfuscate, Protean⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Same as Main Clan, with a preference for urban animal mutations.
Clan Disciplines: Animalism, Obfuscate, Protean⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Same as Main Clan, with a preference for urban animal mutations.
Clan Disciplines: Same as Main Clan⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Aquatic Features -- After each Frenzy, a piscine mutation or behavior develops, imposing +2 diff on relevant rolls. The feature will also result in one automatic failure of a relevant roll. After the automatic failure is used up, at Storyteller discretion, the mutation or behavior fades.
Clan Disciplines: Dominate, Necromancy, Potence⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Kiss of Lamia -- Feeding causes double damage to mortals, and causes intense pain to any subject.
Clan Disciplines: Dominate, Obtenebration, Potence⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Shrouded Soul -- Never cast a reflection, and take an additional level of damage from Sunlight.
Clan Disciplines: Daimonion, Dominate, [Potence, Presence, or Obtenebration]⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Same as Main Clan.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Dementation, Obfuscate⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Incurable Madness -- Afflicted by a permanent Derangement.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Dementation, Presence⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Same as Main Clan⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Memento Mori -- Ananke are compelled to collect body parts as trophies from their kills. If their collection is lost, they cannot regain Willpower until they have gathered a new one. Trying not to take a trophy from any feeding or other kill requires a Willpower roll (diff 8).
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Dominate, Obfuscate⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Same as Main Clan
Clan Disciplines: Animalism, Obfuscate, Potence⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Monstrous Visage -- Appearance is always 0.
Clan Disciplines: Animalism, Chimerstry, Fortitude⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Immutable Reality -- Addicted to a single form of behavior, must resist any chance to indulge by rolling Self-Control (diff 6)
Clan Disciplines: Animalism, Auspex, Chimerstry⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Same as Main Clan.
As with the Assamites, the Salubri Clan consists of three equal Castes. Each Caste has its own unique traits.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Presence, Valeren (Healer)⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Shepherd's Curse -- Can only feed from the willing without suffering a -2 penalty to all actions for the entire night.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Fortitude, Valeren (Warrior)⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Hot Blooded -- Can only feed by force, otherwise the blood offers no benefit.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Obfuscate, Valeren (Watcher)⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Knowledge Addiction -- Must roll Willpower (diff 6) to resist any chance to search out or gain knowledge of a specific subject.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Celerity, Presence⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Entrancement -- After seeing any sight of great beauty, roll Self-Control (diff 5) to avoid entering a fugue state for the rest of the scene, or until the beauty is removed.
Clan Disciplines: Same as Main Clan⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Savagery -- Must resist any chance to inflict physical or emotional pain with a Self-Control roll.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Dominate, Thaumaturgy⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Blood Sensitivity -- The first drink of a Blood Bond counts as the second. Any Vinculum scores are also rated 1 higher than normal.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Presence, Thaumaturgy⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Pagan Blood -- Telyavs are repelled by Christian symbols and are at +2 difficulty to resist Frenzy when confronted by True Faith.
Clan Disciplines: Animalism, Auspex, Vicissitude⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Earthbound -- Must sleep surrounded by the soil of their homeland or halve all dice pools each night until reduced to 1 die. A single night of proper rest, surrounded by their soil, will restore all lost dice.
Clan Disciplines: Animalism, Auspex, Dominate⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Same as Main Clan.
Clan Disciplines: Dominate, Fortitude, Presence⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Selective Thirst -- Can only feed upon one specific type of mortal.
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Dominate, Fortitude⚠ </br>
Clan Weakness: Same as Main Clan.
Bloodlines are, in some ways, minor Clans. Some may be easily traced back to their "parent" Clan, but others appear to have sprung into existence from nothing. Unlike mere Variations, Bloodlines often have only a single Discipline in common with a parent Clan, and may possess a unique magical ability all their own. Bloodlines also have quite distinct Weaknesses, generally unrelated to that of the parent Clan.
Bloodline Disciplines: Animalism, Auspex, Protean⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Unbound Blood -- Cannot create ghouls or Blood Bonds.
Bloodline Disciplines: Animalism, Fortitude, Protean⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Somnolent Beast -- Anda treat the hour before sunrise and the hour after sunset as if they were full daytime.⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Wanderlust -- Nomadic Anda halve all their dice pools if they remain in a one-mile area for more than 72 hours.
Bloodline Disciplines: Daimonion, Obfuscate, Presence⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Tormented -- Anyone attempting to use religious items against a Baali, unless that item has lain unused for more than 50 years, is considered to have a True Faith rating of 1 higher than normal.
Bloodline Disciplines: Fortitude, Potence, Sanguinis⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Sterile Blood -- Blood Brothers cannot Embrace new vampires. ⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Hivebound -- If any member of a circle takes damage, all members of the circle suffer that member's wound penalty (if it is higher than their own).
Bloodline Disciplines: As per original Clan, with one replaced by Bardo⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: As per original Clan, plus the inability to sire new vampires.
Bloodline Disciplines: Dominate, Fortitude, Sadhana⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Animal Taboo -- Cannot feed on animals.⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Ritualized Feeding -- Blood taken during a feeding without at least 30 seconds of ritual prayer only offers half the normal value.
Bloodline Disciplines: Fortitude, Melpominee, Presence⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Eternal Song -- All Perception difficulties are increased by 2, and the Alertness Ability is capped at 3.
Bloodline Disciplines: Flight, Fortitude, Potence, Visceratika⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Stony Form -- Gargoyles have an Appearance of 0.⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Broken Will -- Considered to have a Willpower score 2 lower when resisting any mind control powers.
Bloodline Disciplines: Auspex, Fortitude, Necromancy⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Skeletal Visage -- Appearance is always 0. All Appearance rolls automatically fail.
Bloodline Disciplines: As Sire's Clan, with one replaced by Mytherceria⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Fae-Marked -- All rolls to recognize a Kiasyd as supernatural are at -1 difficulty⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Fae's Bane -- All iron weapons inflict Aggravated damage. Iron wounds cause Frenzy or Rotschrek as if they were from fire.
Bloodline Disciplines: Dominate, Mytherceria, Obtenebration⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Iron Bane -- Touching iron provokes a Frenzy check, and iron weapons deal Aggravated damage.
Bloodline Disciplines: Fortitude, Necromancy, Potence⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Seed of Lilith -- A Lamia's bite infects the victim with a plague that deals 1 Lethal damage (diff 7 to soak) every night for a fortnight. Vampires who drink Lamiae blood gain this weakness for as long as they have Lamiae blood in their bodies.
Bloodline Disciplines: Animalism, Ogham, Presence⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Aura of the Crone -- All difficulties to detect the supernatural nature of Lhiannan are at -2 difficulty. ⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Dangerous Devotion -- Lhiannan are so attuned to religion that they are at +2 difficulty to resist any Faith power.
Bloodline Disciplines: Auspex, Dominate, Necromancy⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Anthropophagy -- Every night a Nagaraja does not eat at least one Health Level's worth of human flesh, they lose 1 die from all Physical dice pools. Each lost die must be restored individually by eating a Health Level worth of human flesh.
Bloodline Disciplines: Auspex, Celerity, Potence⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Immortal Hunger -- Gain only 1/3rd sustenance from mortals or animals. ⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Ravaged Form -- Each century of unlife transforms one point of Appearance into a point of a Physical Attribute.
Bloodline Disciplines: Animalism, Auspex, Protean⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Animal Bond -- Cannot feed from animals.
Bloodline Disciplines: Fortitude, Obfuscate, Thanatosis⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Rotten Form -- Appearance is 0. All Appearance rolls fail automatically.
Bloodline Disciplines: Obfuscate, Presence, Protean⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Attuned to Darkness -- Sunlight deals twice the regular amount of damage to Setites. Even ordinary bright light causes a -1 penalty to all actions.
Bloodline Disciplines: Potence, Presence, Temporis⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Dead Hearts -- All Conscience or Conviction rolls are at +2 difficulty and all costs to raise Conscience, Conviction or Roads are doubled.
Bloodline Disciplines: Obfuscate, Potence, Serpentis⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Hunger for Dominance -- Whenever presented with a chance to gain power in a chosen realm, or gain a convert to their religion, a Warrior must roll Willpower (diff 6) to resist pursuing that end with all their effort. ⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Greed for Submission -- They can also never refuse the surrender of an enemy.
Bloodline Disciplines: Akhu, Animalism, Presence⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Echidna's Visage -- Whenever making a Frenzy check, make a second Self-Control check to avoid assuming a monstrous (Appearance 0) serpentine form. Witches using Instinct cannot avoid the transformation. ⚠ </br>
Bloodline Weakness: Echidna's Hunger -- At the end of any scene in which a Witch used blood for anything but Akhu, an additional point of blood is consumed.
Legacy Disciplines: Abombwe, Animalism, Fortitude⚠ </br>
Legacy Weakness: Bestial Visage -- For every 20 Experience gained, one animal feature manifests. Every five features reduces a Social Attribute by 1.
Legacy Disciplines: Abombwe, Obfuscate, Potence⚠ </br>
Legacy Weakness: Primordial Terror -- Mortals seeing a Bonsam must roll Courage (diff 7) to avoid either fleeing in terror or attempting to destroy the monster with whatever weapons are at hand.
Legacy Disciplines: Animalism, Potence, Presence⚠ </br>
Legacy Weakness: Soul Visage -- Appearance varies depending on the Orun and Aye scores of the Guruhi.
Legacy Disciplines: Fortitude, Necromancy, Presence⚠ </br>
Legacy Weakness: Familiar Bond -- Can only feed on members of the Bomkazi Revenant Family.
Legacy Disciplines: Celerity, Fortitude, Presence⚠ </br>
Legacy Weakness: Gluttony -- Easily addicted to physical excesses, Ishtarri pick a single vice and must indulge it whenever given the chance. Their bodies change slowly to reflect their vice.
Legacy Disciplines: Animalism, Chimerstry, Fortitude⚠ </br>
Legacy Weakness: Gossiping Beast -- After two weeks in the same Domain, Kinyonyi become compelled to gossip about the Domain's rulers. They must roll Self-Control + Subterfuge (diff 8) to resist the urge whenever given a chance. Each extra month in to Domain subtracts 1 die from the resist roll.
Legacy Disciplines: Auspex, Fortitude, Necromancy⚠ </br>
Legacy Weakness: Deathly Pallor -- All Appearance rolls are at +1 difficulty, and all attempts to detect them as vampires are at -1 difficulty.
Legacy Disciplines: Animalism, Auspex, Vicissitude⚠ </br>
Legacy Weakness: Burrowing Beast -- Naglopers must sleep completely covered in earth or have all their dice pools halved. Each night they go without sleeping underground halves their pools again, until they are reduced to a single die. The penalty is entirely negated after spending a full day sleeping underground.
Legacy Disciplines: Auspex, Fortitude, Obeah⚠ </br>
Legacy Weakness: Peaceful Thirst -- Can only feed from willing vessels. Any resistance from a vessel causes them to will lose a point of Willpower and the blood to have no value.
Legacy Disciplines: Auspex, Celerity, Potence⚠ </br>
Legacy Weakness: Raging Beast -- All difficulties to resist Frenzy are raised by 2.
Legacy Disciplines: Obfuscate, Obtenebration, Presence⚠ </br>
Legacy Weakness: Sympathetic Magic -- All difficulties to use Obtenebration and Presence against others are raised by 1 unless the Ramanga holds a physical piece of their target.
Legacy Disciplines: Celerity, Dur-an-ki, Obfuscate⚠ </br>
Legacy Weakness: Blood Addiction -- After tasting a vampire's blood, roll Self-Control (diff 3 + the number of points drunk) to resist addiction. Once addicted to a vampire's blood, future meetings provoke Hunger Frenzy checks.
Legacy Disciplines: Dominate, Obtenebration, Potence⚠ </br>
Legacy Weakness: Rejected by Earth -- Xi Dundu cannot cast shadows and must not sleep in contact with their native soil. If they touch their homeland's soil while sleeping, all dice pools are halved for the next day.
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