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Explore the canon characters of the World of Darkness

Featured NPCs

Deep-dive profiles on the most iconic figures of the World of Darkness

Caine

The First Vampire — Progenitor of All Kindred

Antediluvian
1st Generation

The biblical figure cursed by God, whose blood is the origin of every vampire clan in the World of Darkness.

Beckett

The Lone Wolf Scholar — Gangrel Noddist

Gangrel
Independent

The iconic archaeologist and adventurer who chases fragments of the Book of Nod across the World of Darkness.

Lilith

The Dark Mother — First Woman, Serpent of Eden

Pre-Caine
Bahari Icon

The first wife of Adam, banished from Eden. She awakened Caine to vampirism and became the eternal symbol of rebellion and forbidden knowledge.

Smiling Jack

The Anarch Legend — Brujah Brawler & Pirate

Brujah
Anarch

The quintessential anarch rebel — brawler, mentor, and pirate legend who teaches neonates that freedom is earned with fists.

Lucita de Aragón

The Queen of Shadows — Lasombra Archbishop

Lasombra
7th Generation
Sabbat

The signature Lasombra — shadow warrior, assassin, and reluctant Sabbat Archbishop who wears her sire's legacy like chains she forged herself.

Sascha Vykos

The Angel of Caine — Tzimisce Flesh-Shaper

Tzimisce
6th Generation
Sabbat

The signature Tzimisce — Noddist scholar, Vicissitude master, and the Sabbat's most infamous torturer who shapes flesh into art and agony.

Theo Bell

The Brujah Archon — Revolutionary Enforcer

Brujah
9th Generation
Anarch

Former slave turned feared Camarilla Archon who led the Brujah exodus at Prague, executing Hardestadt the Younger and reshaping Kindred politics forever.

Hardestadt the Elder

The Founder — Ventrue Architect of the Camarilla

Ventrue
5th Generation
Camarilla

The pivotal Ventrue Prince-Regent whose vision created the Camarilla, and whose secret death by diablerie was concealed for centuries by his own childe.

Goratrix

The Betrayer — Tremere Architect of Undeath

Tremere
4th Generation
Sabbat

The brilliant, treacherous Tremere who devised the ritual that birthed Clan Tremere, forged the Gargoyles, and defected to the Sabbat as the Pyramid's darkest innovator.

Canon NPCs

247 characters from official sourcebooks

Abo

Born into slavery and misery, Abo never had any expectations. From a very young age she performed backbreaking work. Early in her life she knew that s…

Adelaide Davis

When two boys turned up at the bottom of Snug Harbor in 1841, their pupils blown and rocks in their pockets, the quiet sailor’s community knew it had …

Advocate

Baali
Gen 9

Ansen was born a low but very promising noble in England. His father, one of the knights who accompanied William the Conqueror, owned land, possessed …

Aimery Methuin

Ventrue
Gen 8

In the 900years since his Embrace, Aimery has sought to extend his power but has met repeated setbacks. The denial of his ambition has lead to a darke…

Aisling Sturbridge

Tremere
Gen 10

Aisling was born in 1890 in upstate New York to a banker and his wife. Her mother died when Aisling was two, and her father chose to let his daughter …

Akuma of Mikaboshi

When he was a boy growing up in Chinatown of the ‘50s, Johnny Ma hated being Chinese. He hated going to American school during the day and Chinese sch…

Alain de Laigle

Alain was once a talented sculptor; his nearly naked figures graced the noble gardens of both Paris and Versailles. For this reason he was Embraced, l…

Alex Camille

City Gangrel antitribu
Gen 9

The stereotypes of a gay lifestyle are, sadly enough, often embraced by gay men. Alex came out faster than he could handle and bought into the whole m…

Alex Molina

A graduate of the New Mexico Institute of Technology, Molina was the very first student ever to pass through Endron’s EEPS internship program. Already…

Alfred Benezri

Pander
Gen 8

A poet of the night, Alfred Benezri is 4 the most prominent of the Shepherds and the coven’s candidate for the archdiocese. Benezri was Embraced in Da…

Anarch Futurist

Brujah
Gen 12

As a mortal, you bounced restlessly from one cause to another — renewable energy, indigenous rights, save the whales. Your interests were far too broa…

Anastasz di Zagreb

Pretender and Tremere Justicar

Tremere
Gen 9

Anastasz was born the son of a wealthy textile importer in Slavonia during the late 1840s and raised with all the comforts of money and prestige. As a…

Angel

Panders
Gen 10

It’s an odd distinction to say “Saxha Vykos tried to kill me.” Actually, most Sabbat know that Sascha Vykos rarely tries killing a mortal. If it wante…

Anka

Priestess of Thorns

Anka turned 10 years old in 1910, at the end of the new Mexican Golden Age. Thirty-four years of economic growth came to an end as one rebellion follo…

Anne Bowesley ("Lady Anne")

Ventrue
Gen 6

Anne's family - one of the most prominent in Warwickshire-had surprised many people by siding with Cromwell. The fact was, they would not support a ki…

Archbishop Carolina Valez

Lasombra
Gen 8

Carolina Valez distinguished herself during covert operations in the Anarch Free States of California, at least until the very end of her tenure. Her …

Ardan Lane

Tremere
Gen 7

Combining personal ambition with a desire for responsibility, Ardan has risen through the ranks of the Tremere over the centuries of his unlife. Given…

Argus Theophilides

A shopkeeper in Athens, Argus was caught in a terrible fire that swept through the poorest quarter of the city. Though he managed to escape the flames…

Art Director (Amari Aliquid)

Arturo

Toreador
Gen 10

Thomas’s introduction to the world of the Kindred coincided with his professional life as an assistant. to the prestigious architecture firm of Richar…

Baba Yaga

Many fearful tales are whispered about Baba Yaga; she is so old and legendary that no one knows the truth of her origin. What is certain, however, is …

Baron

Caitiff
Gen 11

You hate these Anarchs. Every last one of them, with their nattering about freedom and equality, when so many of them have never truly known its oppos…

Beatrice L'Angou

Kiasyd
Gen 9

Beatrice was always regarded as an oddity in her Saint-Leonard parish. She was smarter and betterread than most people, but an unmarried social outcas…

Bell

Brujah
Gen 9

As the Camarilla’s first line ofdefense in times of crisis, those Kindred appointed to the post of archon have a deserved reputation for cruelty and m…

Beloved Pet

When you drew your lot in life, you got the short end of the stick. Mom and Dad didn’t want to have kids, so they yelled a lot. You tried to be good, …

Black Wallace

Lasombra
Gen 8

Black Wallace could not have asked for more from his life or death. The inheritor of an of earldom, Wallace took his seat in the House of Lords at the…

Bone Flower Ancestor

Rumors surround Grandmother Mushin’s sudden appearance, but no one knows why a Song of the Shadow Ancestor now makes her home in San Francisco’s Japan…

Bone Flower Mandarin of the New Promise

Near the turn of the century, Lili Zhou worked as an interpreter at Hong Kong’ s British Consulate. When an assistant to the consul raped and murdered…

Brunhilde

Leader of the Waelkyrige

Gangrel
Gen 6

Brunhilde’s mortal life is little more than a fragment of a memory now. She never knew her sire but remembers those early nights after her Embrace as …

Cesar Holfield, Childe of the Final Nights

Caitiff
Gen 15

As the second of three brothers, César had a hard time maintaining the attention of his parents. His older brother broke all the rules and received al…

Charity of Flowers

Lasombra
Gen 11

The Cainite who now calls herself“Charity of Flowers” has won unusual respect for such a young vampire; she was Embraced only 70-odd years ago. She di…

Clova Haines

Lasombra
Gen 12

Clova Haines’ parents moved from Jamaica to New York. She worked hard to escape the slums and, in time, earned a business degree and found work at a b…

Cobblebody

It’s hard to say whether or not these hobs come from the material world, or are merely affected by it. Some changelings theorize that the Cobblebody h…

De Canto

Gangrel antitribu (City)
Gen 13

Jes6s Alcal6 supported his family by playing the accordion and singing songs. A Mexican Mafia thug liked his performances and recommended Jeslis to hi…

Deceived

What can one say of a being so ancient and powerful that the worst wiles of the Tremere — or centuries-old Cainite sorcerers — provide only dark amuse…

De Polonia

Lasombra
Gen 7

Born in Spain but eager for adventure (and profit), Polonia volunteered for military duty in the New World. The only son of a minor- and impoverished …

Derek Hillen

Herd 2, Status 3 Humanity: 7

Devil Tiger Mandarin of the New Promise

Opportunities abounded in turn-ofthe-century Hong Kong for both Europeans and those Chinese willing to either work for gweilo masters or turn to crime…

Devil-Tiger of the Green Tigers wu

Like many of the Green Courts’ young jina, Kim Jisun took the Second Breath about fifty years ago, during the Korean War. Her husband and two sons bot…

Dies

Malkavian untihibu
Gen 1

In the 1890s, General Porfirio Diaz was at the height of his power, and making fun of him was not safe. That did not stop AndrCs de Hojeto, a politica…

Dillon Abernathy

With a nose for adventure and opportunity, the seventh-generation Ventrue Dillon Abernathy first came to Kenya in 1888, when the British Prime Ministe…

Dino Cerutti

Lasombra
Gen 12

Din0 Cerutti’s family had enoughmoney to get by, but not so much that they spoiled their children in any sense of the word. In high school, Din0 and h…

Dissident Within

A middle-class, average background led to a reasonable education, a bit of business and an unexpected Empowerment. Once drafted into the Union, the bu…

Doctor Streck

Brujah untitribu
Gen 7

Archibald Streckwasborn in 13th-century Prussia, a distant relative of the Holy Roman Emperor. The ruling Ventrue of the nation kept a jealous eye on …

Domingo de Polonia

Lasombra
Gen 7

Born in Spain but eager for adventure (and profit), Polonia volunteered for military duty in the New World. The only son of a minor- and impoverished …

Donatello Giovanni

Giovanni
Gen 9

As far back as he can remember, Donatello Giovanni recalls being the bearer of privilege. As a child, his family was the wealthiest and most powerful …

Dr. Michelle Backman, Ph.D

It takes a remarkable combination of intelligence, dedication and willpower to make it through NYU’s five year MD/Ph.D. program in one piece. It takes…

Duality

Koldun and Cult Leader

Tzimisce
Gen 8

Poland in the early 20th century was not a good place for a woman feeling herself trapped in a man’s body. Being gay was not accepted and it was taboo…

Dunlop

Gangrel Nature/Demeanor (Richard): Bravo/Fanatic Nature/Demeanor (Wdiam): MartyrlSurvivor Nature/Demeanor (Arthur): Devianfllotter
Gen 7

The brothers were each born of a different mother in a house of murder and casual cruelty, and they soon proved themselves to be true Dunlops. Richard…

Durga Syn

In ancient nights, Durga Syn was a priestess who served the Mother Goddess and all the Russian people. Offered a chance to serve Baba Yaga, she polite…

Elder Anarch

Serpents of the Light
Gen 7

It seems your doom ever to be caught between worlds. Perhaps that was because you were born on a slave ship bound for the West Indies — your father th…

El Diablo Verde

Nosferatu
Gen 13

The ways of the Jyhad are shrouded in subtlety, as cloaking and ephemeral as ancient Night itself. And yet, there is one arena in which the freakish d…

Elimelech the Twice-Damned

Seraph of the Black Hand

None (does bloodline mean anything to such elder creatures?)

And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons. Ruth 1:3 — as auspicious an entrance into the ranks of the eternal as any. Eli…

Elizabeth Horsmanden, Marlena

Brujah
Gen 9

People like Marlena don’t become vampires. They live charmed lives, surrounded by comfort (but not too much), friends (but not too close) and happines…

Elsbeth Tabituda

A native Jamaican, Elsbeth cannot remember her mortal years; these have somehow been lost to her, perhaps due to the trauma of her Embrace. Some rumor…

Erianthe, Oracle Of Knossos

Female infanticide was a hideous but common practice among the Greeks. Erianthe was left to her fate on the steps of Knossos Palace, and her parents n…

Erinyi

Gargoyle
Gen 1

University student Margaret Moy fled to Detroit to escape her abusive father when a Sabbat Gargoyle, looking for fodder for a war party, grabbed her o…

Eugenio Estevez, Genie

Tremere
Gen 9

On his eighth birthday, Eugenio Estevez’s parents gave him to the witch who kept a castle just a few miles from their humble farm in rural Spain. such…

Exterminator (Agere)

Ezekiel

Serpent of the Light
Gen 8

When Sangris 1 was publicly convicted of infernalism during the Inquisition, he knew that the one thing that wc ~~~ redeem his soul was his childe Eze…

Fabrizia Conteraz

Conquistadora

Malkavian antitribu
Gen 10

Third-World Mexico has no appropriate method for dealing with the uncontrollably insane. If a family cannot care for its own, there is little recourse…

Fatima al-Faqadi

Federico DiPadua

Nosferatu
Gen 7

Federico tells anyone who asks that his life has been like any other. From the heights of glory and hope to the pits of terror and pain, he has clung …

Field Medic

A brief stint in the military served to teach how to avoid fire, how people died and how to patch them up. Followed by medical training once the brush…

Filth Angel

Panders
Gen 10

It’s an odd distinction to say “Saxha Vykos tried to kill me.” Actually, most Sabbat know that Sascha Vykos rarely tries killing a mortal. If it wante…

Flower of Night

Lasombra
Gen 11

The Cainite who now calls herself“Charity of Flowers” has won unusual respect for such a young vampire; she was Embraced only 70-odd years ago. She di…

Forest Walkers

Francois Villon, Prince of Paris

Francois attracted the attention of the Methuselah, Helena, when she passed through the town of Paris looking for Menele. Francois was a linguistics s…

Frere Marc

Country Gangrel untitribu 1
Gen 8

When the Catholic Church closed down the Jesuit Order for political reasons in the late 18th century, missionary Marc Arsenault was left isolated in a…

From beyond

From beyond the door, a whiff of lilac perfume signals the presence of Maxine, the tireless, tough-as-nails receptionist of the Web's biggest night sp…

Gang Leader

Toreador
Gen 13

Once upon a time, you were flotsam and jetsam of a Camarilla domain, banding together with the rejects because no one else would have you. You led a s…

Gardener (Gaderin)

Gemini

Nosferatu (antioiibu by Embrace, though sectarian allegiance is nominally with the Camarilla)
Gen 10

Embraced into the Sabbat to be nothing more than fodder, Gemini distinguished herself by having a strong sense of tactics. Using the Discipline of Obf…

Geoffrey, General of Heaven

Geoffrey was a great success as a journalist, considered one of the most gonzo of war correspondents by his peers. He fearlessly covered the bloodiest…

Geoffrey Leigh (Camarilla Archon)

Gangrel
Gen 6

Born in the 11 th-century Byzantine Empire, Geoffrey Leigh (then named Justinian) was a frontier noble and warrior who fought the Seljuk Turks. In one…

Gharston Roland

Ravnos untitri’bu
Gen 10

Gharston lived and died in L.A. He left home when he was 15 and made his way to Los Angeles to start a better life a dream so many have, but precious …

Giangaleazzo

Traitor Prince of Milan

Lasombra (now antitribu by dint of allegiance rather than Embrace)
Gen 7

Giangaleazzo was present at almost every important historical event in Kindred society for the last five centuries. Present when the Convention of Tho…

Gillespi Giovanni

Giovanni NatureDemeanor: Deviant/Architect
Gen 7

Gillespi managed far-flung European affairs for Clan Giovanni. His keen business acumen, family connections and willingness to pursue business opportu…

G.K. Chesterson

Goblin Miners

At first, the effect is subtle — a fae or ensorcelled mortal suffers from strange, disjointed dreams that do not seem to provide adequate rest. As tim…

Hacktivist

Ventrue
Gen 13

All that is online is your rightful Domain, and these nights that excludes damn little. You’ve been at this since 300 baud was the thing. Now the futu…

Haqim

Gen 6

Abdalkutba was born in Aila on the Red Sea coast, sometime near the close of the first century A.D. He was the son of a spice merchant, but proved too…

Harbor

When two boys turned up at the bottom of Snug Harbor in 1841, their pupils blown and rocks in their pockets, the quiet sailor’s community knew it had …

Harold Goodston

Pariah

Ventrue
Gen 8

Harold was born in Benton City, Missouri in 1828. At the age of 15, he realized he was a werewolf and joined others of his kind on some monstrous miss…

Hashashin enforcers

Hedeon Yaroslavich

Tzimisce
Gen 5

This thoroughly evil and devious Kindred cares little about anything but his own power. Through the centuries, his schemes have led him to the pinnacl…

Hellene Panhard

Ventrue
Gen 8

Unlife is never easy for one thrust into the limelight by a respected sire. Michaela, the Prince of New York, Embraced much like the Sabbat did, throw…

Hendrik Van Dyck

Many are unaware of Hendrik's clan, and all those who do know think that he is antitribu. In actuality, he is an eighth-generation Lasombra and a lead…

Hero

Gangrel
Gen 1

While Catholics may place agood deal of stock in the sins of the father, Kindred society puts significant onus on heritage as far as bloodlines are co…

Hester Reed

Lasombra
Gen 10

The Sabbat of New York were without a doubt the dominant sect in the city all throughout the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. As punk crawled from the fetid …

Ice Stalkers

Ikraam al-Biruni

Refugee Sorcerer

Assamite (sorcerer caste, now antitriibu)
Gen 1

Ikraam al-Biruni’s sire Embraced him because of the aging scholar’sknowledge of obscure Kurdish and Turkic dialects. For more than a century, Ikraam s…

Ilyana Ravidovich

Witness to Disaster

Ventrue
Gen 10

Frankly, Ilyana Ravidovich doesn’t know why she was selected for the position of archon. Nothing escapes her detection for long, though, so she has no…

Intrusion Clone

An artificial forcegrowth womb was the home for the clone, engineered specifically for a particular task. Born with all of the traits necessary to inf…

Ionna

Ionna is a remnant of the Toreador presence in Egypt: a native Egyptian, born in the early 7th century, as Byzantine rule was waning. She, like so man…

Izhim ur-Baal

Seraph of the Black Hand

Assamite antitribu
Gen 5

Where does one begin the chronicle of a creature who has survived entire civilizations? Izhim was born seventh son of a Babylonian sorcererking — prin…

Jaroslav Pascek

Brujah Justicar

Brujah
Gen 7

Born to a Slavic man and an itinerant Gypsy woman, Jaroslav was left for dead by his mother near the border of what would eventually be modern Germany…

Jayne Jonestown

Ravnos antitribu
Gen 10

Life should have held nothing remarkable for the Midwestern white trash who would later become one of the world’s most celebrated (and reviled) musici…

Jesos Alcala, El Lobo de Canto

Gangrel antitribu (City)
Gen 13

Jes6s Alcal6 supported his family by playing the accordion and singing songs. A Mexican Mafia thug liked his performances and recommended Jeslis to hi…

Jezerelle

Gangrel
Gen 1

While Catholics may place agood deal of stock in the sins of the father, Kindred society puts significant onus on heritage as far as bloodlines are co…

Jochen Van Nuys

Minister of the Office of Western Affairs

Ventrue
Gen 9

In 1994, Jochen Van Nuys arrived in San Francisco from the East Coast. At the time, the Ventrue touted him as something of a wunderkind. Two years lat…

John Dansirn

Giovanni (Dunsirn Family) NatureDemeanor: Deviant/Traditionalist
Gen 8

John was one of the first members of the cannibalistic Dunsirn clan to be Embraced when the Giovanni inducted the family. John’s occult talents and ex…

Josefa

Voice of Apocalypse

Ravnos untitribu
Gen 13

As a mortal, Josefa Teotalco joined the Church as a nun. She was not pious, but Mexico held few other escapes from grinding poverty. As Josefa mouthed…

Josefa Teotalco

Ravnos untitribu
Gen 13

As a mortal, Josefa Teotalco joined the Church as a nun. She was not pious, but Mexico held few other escapes from grinding poverty. As Josefa mouthed…

Joseph Wellesley, Dux Bellorurn

Ventrue I
Gen 7

Joseph Wellesley was born into an English mercantile family in New York in the decades before the Revolutionary War. He thus grew up with privilege an…

Justinius Theodoric

Justinius was a humble fisherman who lived in a small village located near where the Sea of Marmara meets the Aegean. He led a simple but happy life w…

Kanbujian leader of the Heaven Promise Society

Ever feel like you paid full price for the last ten minutes of the movie? That pretty much sums up Billy Wei’s entrance into San Francisco’s nights. B…

Karsh

Warlord of the Camarilla

Gangrel
Gen 5

Much as they might wish it otherwise, the Camarilla has its monsters. The first and only postulant to hold the title of warlord rarely speaks of his p…

Kearns

Brujah
Gen 10

There’s a reason the Kindred choose not Embrace too young. Childer who haven’t yet matured as mortals inevitably have difficulty facing the vagaries o…

Kelvin Wee

Camarilla Negotiator

Ventrue
Gen 8

When Hong Kong reverted to Chinese control and the Kuei-jin hunted Asian Kindred, Kelvin Wee fled to America in the hold of a cargo ship. He resided i…

Knights of the Widow’s Walk

As noted, those with an urge or need to escape (be it their own ruined lives or some enemy or ex-lover) are the primary targets for this Knighthood. B…

Kyle Forbensen

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Kyle Strathcona

Cardinal of Canada

Ventrue antitribu
Gen 8

Kyle Strathcona represents a near-extinct breed within the Sabbat. He remembers when his sect stood for independence. The new Sabbat, however, uses th…

Kyoko Shinsegawa

Tremere
Gen 10

One of the gaijin took an interest in Kyoko from the moment he saw her, and it proved her ultimate damnation. A visiting envoy to the Bishamon uji, Fr…

Lady Anne Bowesley

Queen of London

Ventrue
Gen 6

Lady Anne Bowesley, now Queen (Prince) of London, learned from her father at an early age that life gives you only what you squeeze out when you take …

La Malinche

Brujah antihibu
Gen 10

Rosa had an unpleasant life and an even worse death. Escaping poverty and civil war in El Salvador, she fled toward el norte. American border guards t…

Legate

Nosferatu
Gen 11

Look, one of the first lessons you learned as Kindred was that even the cleanest, prettiest city has a sewer full of shit. The Anarch Free States are …

Leila Monroe

Sabbat Crusader

Lasombra
Gen 10

Leila Monroe clawed her way through a brutal Creation Rite and stepped naked from the earth with the precepts of the Sabbat etched in her heart. She s…

L'Epuisette

A girl of humble means with the voice of a siren, L'Epuisette's life changed forever after she performed in Cavalli's opera Serse in honor of the marr…

Lille Haake

Tremere Primogen of Amsterdam

Tremere
Gen 6

Lille Haake was raised by her father, an instructor with the University of Amsterdam. He taught philosophy in his home, and Lille became known for int…

Lithrac

Samedi
Gen 9

Sam Mayberry was born in a New Jersey suburb to an all-American family. He had a typical suburban middle-class upbringing, went to Rutgers and eventua…

Lucinde

Ventrue Justicar and Alastor

Ventrue
Gen 6

Lucinde remembers nothing of her life before her Embrace at the fangs of Severus, then the Ventrue justicar. He chose her as his archon; she rapidly a…

Lucita

Lasombra antihibu
Gen 7

Born to the Aragonese nobility, Lucita’s willful spirit and independent nature put her at odds with her family and indirectly led to her forced Embrac…

Lucretia Giovanni

Giovanni 1 Nature/Demeanor: Deviant/Gallant .
Gen 6

Lucretia was born in the Alpine climes between northern Italy and Switzerland as a product of the Giovanni’s wealthiest human family. The great-great-…

Lupo Giovanni

Giovanni
Gen 8

Lupo runs the Oceanview Hotel. Unlike the other members of the Giovanni board who oversee Africa's affairs, Lupo chose to make Mombasa his home. In 19…

Madame Guil

Toreador Justicar

Toreador
Gen 6

The only justicar to retain her position in these turbulent nights, the Toreador’s Madame Guil is considered a necessary evil — very necessary, and ve…

Magda

Lhiannan
Gen 5

Magda was born in the years before the Fir Bolg’s final invasion of Ireland, inducted at a young age into the druidic priesthood that had recently gai…

Malone

Marcus Verus, Baron of Chester

Ventrue
Gen 5

Baron Marcus Verus was a legionnaire with the Valeria Victrix (Legio XX), inducted into the Cult of Mithras and subsequently Embraced by the Living Go…

Marie-Ange Gagnon

Tremere untitribu
Gen 10

Originally a member of La Belle Mort (“The Beautiful Death), a nomadic pack of European Tzimisce, Marie-Ange occasionally traveled to Montreal, her ci…

Marie-Helene Dutoit

Ventrue antihibu
Gen 1

Marie-H&ne was born to a middle-class French family in Montreal in the early ‘50s. She was one of the many who dreamed of the day when Quebec would re…

Marine Veteran

The frontier is hard as hell on recruits, and good men and women throw away their lives every day to protect Earth and humanity. A little training goe…

Maris Streck

Malkavian Justicar

Malkavian
Gen 8

As the child of a merchant family fallen on difficult times, Maris grew up in hardship and poverty. Once she entered her teens, she developed a taste …

Mark

Bishop of Torrance

Blood Brothers
Gen 9

Military life is a procession of order, a chain of hierarchy and command; few soldiers must show any combination of loyalty and personal initiative. M…

Marku Dobos

Marku Dobos grew up in the town of Hunedoara. Like any smart, energetic and ambitious boy in Romania, he sought a career in government. He went to col…

Matias Cazimirsky

Assamite untitribu
Gen 13

Matias Cazimirsky came from a middle class Jewish family in Polanco. That didn’t stop him from falling in with a street gang. Matias worked hard to pr…

Mazz

Brujah
Gen 12

Stephen Patrick Maslowe was Embraced over a century ago, and some of the habits of the time have died hard. As an English immigrant to the United Stat…

Mbogo Biashara

Gangrel
Gen 6

Mbogo enjoyed a long and prosperous career as a leader in the African resistance. He grew up in the Kikuyu tribe, listening to Jomo Kenyatta's dreams …

Mercy

Knight Inquisitor

Toreador antitribu
Gen 10

Despite her name, Mercy exhibits no such trait. She earned her moniker — her birth name is Allisandra — from the pleas of her victims, and she represe…

Miguel Orozco

Toreador untitribu
Gen 1

Miguel Orozco remembers poverty too well. He remembers his family’s dilapidated shack in the slums and he recalls hating his father for begging and sc…

Miguel Santo Domingo, Pack Priest

Brujah untirribu
Gen 7

DeSoto Embraced Miguel - then a small-time bandit in 1920s Brazil -because he recognized a buccaneer who sought freedom from the laws of man. As a vam…

Molly 8

Tzimisce
Gen 12

The one certainty in life is death. That was Ellen Conlynne’s philosophy. An Irish immigrant who arrived in Montreal in 1847, Ellen watched as her fri…

Molotov

Gangrel
Gen 11

You’re the sort of lick beleaguered Anarchs turn to when they can’t shake a Prince or Bishop off their asses: You come into town and stir up shit unti…

Montgomery Coven

Assamite antitribu

Growing up isn’t easy for anyone in London’s Hammersmith ghetto. Born there by chance or brought there by fate, the residents survive by whatever mean…

Montgomery Coven

Assamite antitribu

Growing up isn’t easy for anyone in London’s Hammersmith ghetto. Born there by chance or brought there by fate, the residents survive by whatever mean…

Morgan

Malkavian
Gen 12

Things took a turn for the different when David became one of the undead. In life, he could focus on frivolity drinking with friends, hanging out at c…

Mountain Guardians

Mukhtar Bey, Prince of Cairo

Mamluk (Caitiff)
Gen 7

The first lesson: War breeds opportunities for those who are crafty and determined enough to take them. The second lesson: No obstacle is so challengi…

Mustafa, Prince of Istanbul

An insidious practice among the sultans who assumed the Ottoman throne was the slaughter of all male relatives who could pose a threat to their absolu…

Nakshidil

When eunuchs who guarded die imperial harem wished to be merciful, they would first suffocate or drug the women who were to be thrown in the Bosporus …

Nicholas Chang

Toreador (antih.ibu by Embrace, but politically neutral)
Gen 12

In the nights of rampant Sabbat presence inNew YorkCity, somecainites chose who they wantedfor the Embrace and asked questions later. Nicholas’ sire c…

Nigel Lloyd-Stephens

Originally sent to Egypt to help manage British financial interests in the Suez Canal, Nigel was recruited by the Followers of Set, who have long had …

Octavia

Octavia is a familiar sight on Rio's night streets and club circuit. Many vampires have seen her in passing, though few have spoken to her. Most presu…

Old Ones

Assamite antitribu
Gen 5

Where does one begin the chronicle of a creature who has survived entire civilizations? Izhim was born seventh son of a Babylonian sorcererking — prin…

Old Volunteer

Caitiff
Gen 10

Yeah, you were there. You saw Dominguez grab the Prince’s hair and plunge her fangs into his neck. You mowed through the enemy’s ghouls with a gardene…

Ollam-Onga

One of the mightiest of the Luo is the warriorpriest known as Ollam-onga. The circumstances of his Embrace remain a mystery; what is known is that thi…

Orozco

Toreador untitribu
Gen 1

Miguel Orozco remembers poverty too well. He remembers his family’s dilapidated shack in the slums and he recalls hating his father for begging and sc…

Pain Scientist

Tzimisce
Gen 10

Most Sabbat know the infamous Sascha Vykos as the paragon of the Path of Death and the Soul, but few see that august priscus up close or for long. Whe…

Panhard

Ventrue
Gen 8

Unlife is never easy for one thrust into the limelight by a respected sire. Michaela, the Prince of New York, Embraced much like the Sabbat did, throw…

Penangallan akuma of Mikaboshi

Tjun Tjun Afiff grew up despondently poor in Jakarta. Her family sold her to a prostitution house at the age of 12. The brothel was a Scarlet Screen f…

Percival

Reluctant Archbishop of Guadalajara

Lasombra
Gen 7

Percival’s father was a professor of Medieval English Literature and his work meant all to him, so much so that he named his sons after the knights of…

Porfirio Diaz

Lasombra
Gen 13

Someone has to keep the cops in line. Although most of the Sabbat fun and games take place in the slums, now and then a pack commits an atrocity that …

Porn Star (Chymos)

Prom Queen (Plicare)

Rakoczy

Tzimisce
Gen 10

Little did the Rakoczy family know, so many years ago when it departed the Old Country, that it would be running right into the tentacles of the very …

Raphael Catarari

Raphael Catarari was the first result in a series of dark experiments conducted by Frere Marc. In 1875, following a long court battle, Catholic Bishop…

Rashid Stockton

City Gangrel untinibu
Gen 1

Fifth Ward to South Bronx- that was the move Rashid Stockton’s mother made and it doomed him. Young Rashid never had a chance. His life was the time b…

Raw Recruit

The new recruit just passed through his moment of awareness, becoming newly Empowered and discovering true Enlightenment. He's aware that he is part o…

Reed

Lasombra
Gen 10

The Sabbat of New York were without a doubt the dominant sect in the city all throughout the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. As punk crawled from the fetid …

Resplendent Crane Mandarin of the Emerald Ministry

The Emerald Ministry wu Mandarin has long been a rising star of the Blood Court and the Quincunx. He’s ambitious but young for his position, having ta…

Resplendent Crane Mandarin of the New Promise

Kuei-jin know little of Han Hui’ s life before she took the Second Breath and almost as little about the early nights of her existence, which is just …

Resplendent Crane Warrior of the Emerald Ministry

Fei Chian’s mortal life left much to be desired; wealth, freedom, opportunity… all lacking. He saw the People’s Republic army as his chance to better …

Revenant in the Know

The Salamanca branch of the Grimaldi revenant family has served the Sabbat of Mexico with distinction since before Independence. Bankers, financiers, …

Rico Loco

Ventrue untitrin’bu
Gen 13

Ricardo Alvarez came from a middleclass family in Guadalajara. He was frail and needed braces and glasses; he got picked on a lot, until he discovered…

River Keepers

Robert Davenport

Dr. Robert Davenport was a brilliant vascular surgeon and family man who made the mistake of turning down the Technocracy when they tried to recruit h…

Rojo

Ventrue untinibu
Gen 7

Despite his name, fair skin and strawberry blond hair, Joseph O’Grady is as much a chilango (Mexican City denizen) as his swarthier brethren are. Five…

Ross Callihan

Ventrue (untitriibu by Embrace, though sectarian allegiance is with the anarchs, and therefore, arguably, the Camarilla)
Gen 10

The excesses of Tammany Hall during the nineteenth century made many people very comfortable-especially Boss WilliamMarcy Tweed’s Democratic Party cro…

Rostand

Rurik Rakoczy

Tzimisce
Gen 10

Little did the Rakoczy family know, so many years ago when it departed the Old Country, that it would be running right into the tentacles of the very …

Ruth McGinley

Malkavian
Gen 9

The daughter of Irish farmers, Ruth McGinley was raised to be a subservient wife who would produce a brood of healthy children. Her family fell upon h…

Ruthven, childe of [Tzimisce]

Gen 6

Anastazi was at one time Danika’s mortal seneschal, whose responsibilities included overseeing Hunedoara Castle and maintaining contact with his count…

Sabrina

Brujah antihibu
Gen 10

Sabrina was an art student who flirted with several fringe religions and thus attracted Y itzhak‘s attention. While mortal, she studied religious artw…

Santiago DeSoto

Gen 8

DeSoto’s retirement from the Inquisition into seclusion surprised many and lent credibility to Miguel’s suspicions that his sire was more than he appe…

Sara Anne Winder

Prince

Ventrue
Gen 8

Sara Anne Winder was the firstborn of English nobleman Roger Winder, and she came of age in an era when such distinctions meant worlds of difference. …

Sascha Vykos

Caine's Angel

Tzimisce
Gen 6

Androgynous Sascha Vykos — Noddist scholar, Tzimisce scientist and Cainite monster — has long been a staunch supporter of Sabbat freedom. It is Hell’s…

Saulot

Gen 6

Mahtiel’s earliest memories are of war: endless lines of marching legions, burning villages, reeking mass graves. The soldiers took her and thousands …

Seasoned Explorer

The next hill, the hidden ravine, the neighboring countryside — these mysteries held wonder enough for the growing explorer. With time, the wanderlust…

Sect Infiltrator

Lasombra
Gen 13

This hasn’t been one of your better decades. You had worked so hard to prove yourself True Sabbat, even taking up a Path of Enlightenment under the tu…

Shining Ice Guardian, Daimyo of the Floating World

Hino-sama lived in a Nippon clinging desperately to a way of life fading under the demands of a modern world. The opening of Nippon to the Western wor…

Simon Lollen

Resources 4 Humanity: 7

Sisters

Blood Brothers

The sudden disappearance of the Tremere antitribu in the late 1990s was hardly a clean break. Although Goratrix’s house itself seems to have been swal…

Smelly

Nosferatu
Gen 9

Ellis Island was the gateway to the Americas between 1892 and 1924, 7 1 percent of all immigrants to the United States were processed there. Among the…

Soldat

City Gangrel antihibu
Gen 7

Benjamin Harris returned from World War I like so many ofthe Lost Generation: empty, bitter and above all else, disillusioned. Even years later, durin…

Sorcerer

Assamite (sorcerer caste, now antitriibu)
Gen 1

Ikraam al-Biruni’s sire Embraced him because of the aging scholar’sknowledge of obscure Kurdish and Turkic dialects. For more than a century, Ikraam s…

Steven Clarke

Followers of Set
Gen 10

The Setite presence in New York City was never one that adhered to a strict hierarchy. A few small Setitecoteries plied their trade inMorningside Park…

Stiffs and the Sewer Rats

Stockton

City Gangrel untinibu
Gen 1

Fifth Ward to South Bronx- that was the move Rashid Stockton’s mother made and it doomed him. Young Rashid never had a chance. His life was the time b…

Stormbright

Aeschylus is an angry, defiant metis who despises homids, elder Garou, and women. Most of all, however, he despises the Get of Fenris. He doesn’t know…

Streck's Pack

Sun Yang, Wise Frog

Assamite
Gen 10

The border of the Middle Kingdom has always been a hotspot for trouble between the Kindred and the Kuei-jin. With the Ravnos waging their own war on t…

Szechenyi Jolan, Mother of Horrors

Tzimisce
Gen 6

Tara

Prince of San Diego

Brujah
Gen 9

Settlers of the Western frontier traveled in groups and died in droves; despite courage and tenacity, the uneducated, poverty-stricken family of Tara …

Tariq

Assamite
Gen 13

Tariq was a soldier of Ali during the seventh Christian invasion of their homeland. He fought valiantly during the siege of Mansourah but was eventual…

Tayshawn Kearns

Brujah
Gen 10

There’s a reason the Kindred choose not Embrace too young. Childer who haven’t yet matured as mortals inevitably have difficulty facing the vagaries o…

Terranda Jackson

One of the most recent additions to Kenya's Kindred community, Terranda is an African-American who came to paint in the land of her ancestors. Terrand…

The Bell

Brujah
Gen 9

As the Camarilla’s first line ofdefense in times of crisis, those Kindred appointed to the post of archon have a deserved reputation for cruelty and m…

The Cadwallop

The Cadwallop is a cruel deceiver that feeds off fear and desperation. He approaches those lost in the Hedge and offers to help them. He’ll show them …

The Devil's Advocate

Baali
Gen 9

Ansen was born a low but very promising noble in England. His father, one of the knights who accompanied William the Conqueror, owned land, possessed …

The Hedge

The Hedge is home to many carnivorous plants, and this is one of them —this one actually buries itself in the ground or in a Hedge wall, and mimics th…

The Homeless

Toreador
Gen 10

When the semifamous Toreador violinist Tamoszius first came to the New World, he stopped briefly in New York. Before following many of his fellow Lith…

Themistocles

Brujah
Gen 6

Themistocles was a scholar from Thrace in life. His father sent him to Constantinople, where his skill earned him a place at Emperor Justinian’s court…

Theo Bell

Brujah
Gen 9

As the Camarilla’s first line of defense in times of crisis, those Kindred appointed to the post of archon have a deserved reputation for cruelty and …

The Sheriff

Toreador
Gen 9

As a loyal subject of the British Empire during his mortal life, Qadir was raised in Lucknow, India in a servant family that dwelt in relative comfort…

The Wolf

The story goes that The Wolf was an apprentice to a Son of Ether in his former life. He was a pretty unremarkable scientist with a deep love for comic…

Thomas Arturo

Toreador
Gen 10

Thomas’s introduction to the world of the Kindred coincided with his professional life as an assistant. to the prestigious architecture firm of Richar…

Tobias Smith

Lasombra
Gen 7

Tobias Smith was Embraced in Malta in the late 1880s and has been with the Sabbat ever since. A former member of several influential and respected pac…

Traitor

Brujah
Gen 6

Themistocles was a scholar from Thrace in life. His father sent him to Constantinople, where his skill earned him a place at Emperor Justinian’s court…

Tremere Justicar

Tremere
Gen 9

Anastasz was born the son of a wealthy textile importer in Slavonia during the late 1840s and raised with all the comforts of money and prestige. As a…

Twelve

The monstrous creature known only as the Sclav — "slave" — was created by Danika in the 16th century to act as a heavy shock troop when she captured h…

Tzimisce

Gen 9

They almost always choose progeny between the ages of 30 and 40 who are both intelligent and well-educated. They spend a lot of time studying their po…

Unre

Keeper of Golgotha

Brujah antitribu
Gen 12

For centuries, the Harbingers of Skulls seethed in impotent rage, trapped beyond the wall of death. Only the nigrimancies of the Capuchin and Unre, ea…

Unwitting Prole

She has a normal job and a normal life, a college degree and some hopes for the future. The unwitting prole just follows her boss's directives. Occasi…

Valentine

Ventrue
Gen 10

An uneasy entente cordiale of French Ventrue and Toreador marked the Embrace of Edouard Clause. With both parties observing a quiet cold war of promin…

Valerius (Regent of London)

Ventrue
Gen 7

Valerius was Embraced by the powerful Ventrue patriarch Bindusara (an ancient Ventrue scholar) after the mortal sustained a fatal injury at the Battle…

Vengeance

Ventrue

Ventrue
Gen 6

At the turn of the 4th century A.D., Cret decided he needed an aide to take over his duties at his Mithraist temple, so he could spend more time on ma…

Ventrue antitribu and akuma of Mikaboshi

Ventrue
Gen 10

Top of his high school class, business degree from UCLA, hot prospects in Silicon Valley… Peter Kwan’s future looked very bright indeed. In the early …

VIDAL JARBEAUX, MADAME GUIL’S RENARD

Toreador
Gen 7

Charming, suave, good-humored, always ready with a right word, endearing, sexy, genuine, a bit of a rascal but never malicious; Kindred often use such…

VILLANOVA

Malkavian unticribu
Gen 10

Eliza was just another of the beautiful monsters of Camarilla Atlanta until 1997. Then. like a spike driven straight into her brain, the madness retur…

VINCENT DAY, PALADIN AND PARAGON

Ventrue antitribu
Gen 9

The third son of an English lord, Vincent Day seemed destined for service to the Church. Upon Vincent’s coming of age, his father sent him to Canterbu…

VINCF CFRUTTI

Gen 13

Pulled partially unwillingly into the world of the Damned by his brother, Vince is the one of the pair who has changed the most since becoming Kindred…

Void Engineer (2)

A former Void Engineer with a gift for cartography, Jessica got her start helping the Engineers map the Web. After several violent encounters with Vir…

VONODFOF GARBAGE

Tzimisce
Gen 13

In life, Jaime was a petty bully with a knack for catching rats. He lived in a garbage dump, and so a wicked chance turned him into a Cainite. He soon…

WAN ZHU

Tremere
Gen 7

Wan Zhu fled China’s Cultural Revolution, knowing there would be no place for an intelligent, educated woman in the new People’s Republic. Like many o…

Warlord of Mikaboshi, Master of the Hollow City wu

In the mid-18th century, the first ship of Chinese immigrants set sail to San Francisco, leaving behind a China torn by Opium Wars and conflict with E…

Widow

Harbinger of Skulls
Gen 8

Centuries ago, there was life and obsession, a terrible hunger to understand the secrets of the universe hidden from man. From pagan witches hiding in…

Wife

Brujah
Gen 7

Katherine is aprofoundly potent Cainite for someone no other Kindred has ever heard of before. And that’s how she prefers it. In fact, should no one e…

Wise Centipede shugenja

Sakurai Mitsumune was too young to fight in World War II, but he recalls the war well; particularly Japan’ s defeat when the atomic bombs fell. His fa…

Yasmin the Black

Tremere antitribu

Y asmin, an archaeology student, was involved in a dig in eastern Lebanon when her party came across an ancient tomb. Unbeknownst to her, Mamius, the …

Y Grimaldi, Revenant in the Know

The Salamanca branch of the Grimaldi revenant family has served the Sabbat of Mexico with distinction since before Independence. Bankers, financiers, …

Yitzhak, Coven Priest

Toreador antitribu
Gen 8

Y itzhak was born AaronTouro and served as the first rabbi of the small Sephardic Jewish community that arrived in Montreal after the British conquest…

Yoel Rosen, Sin-Eater

Tzimisce
Gen 1

The Tzimisce researcher Dr. de Sancha sought to test mortal piety. He abducted a dozen kine who seemed more than usually religious, and tortured them.…

Yokoshi

Herd 2, Resources 4, Retainers 1 Humanity: 7

Yulan-jin Rootless Tree and Guide of the Blind

Yulan-Tao has no memory of life, only of death, burning pain and his own screams. He remembers the pain stretching on forever, his soul flayed by the …

Zadkiel Renaron, The Abyss Mystic

Lasombra
Gen 9

Zadkiel’s history extends long beforl his birth. When Spain and Portugal expelled thei Sephardic Jewish populations, many Sephardim fled tc Brazil, wh…

Zookeeper

Tzimisce
Gen 8

Mexico City’s Sabbat call Efrain Sortano the Zookeeper because he claims the zoo in Chapultepec Park as his personal domain. Any Cainite who wishes to…