Follower of Nerissa Blackwater

There are legends of a powerful and ancient Caitiff that defy the modern beliefs about the clanless. These legends are spread by Nerissa Blackwater, who believes herself to be this ancient Caitiff. Nerissa believes she is six millennia old. Once an Indigenous woman living in the lands that would eventually become Michigan, she knew only pain, waiting for an ancient entity she knew only as the Ancestor to bring her a path forward and a purpose. She has yet to divulge the nature of this Ancestor being and says only that he eventually came to her to speak the sacred truths of her people and this land. She spent centuries in slumber with the Ancestor beneath the lake, arising only when her mortal descendants needed her or were threatened. Over the past five centuries, the descendants of Eemamoowia (Caine), who call themselves Kindred, claimed ownership over the Ancestor's land and her people. Nerissa and her people work silently to choke out these invaders and have a healthy dislike for vampires of any clan, regardless of their proximity to Michigan. Whether they are her direct Caitiff descendants or simply a convert vampire who has forsaken their clan, all Followers of Nerissa Blackwater believe that vampires are a stain on the world and should be thwarted, destroyed, or controlled until the Ancestor can return.