Histories of the Night
Myths, lessons, and reckonings drawn from the blood's own chronicles.
25 histories across 8 factions
Lasombra
Faction chamber →The Second Lesson: Antiquity
The Second Lesson: Antiquity The worst of the storm is past now, leaving a legacy of winds chill enough to keep the ice frozen. Andrew’s pack spends two nights seeking out stranded motorists and feeding on them. Andrew makes it a training game, with the object of inflicting the m
The First Lesson: Beginnings
The First Lesson: Beginnings This night’s cold, not that the packmates are about to admit it. The winter storms blast off the North Pacific and up the Columbia River, driving sleet like knives. The wind hasn’t fallen below 25 miles an hour since sunset. Gusts sometimes move as f
From Founding to Me
What can I say about the centuries after that? Many Lasombra show a flair for the sea, perhaps reflecting part of our dark founder’s mortal preferences. The antitribu seem to do even better at sea than the main clan. Pirate fleets harassed the clan’s financial interests and made
The Fifth Lesson: Into the Final Nights
The Fifth Lesson: Into the Final Nights Demba returns to Portland in mid-October. She’s been traveling around California, trying to make sense of the continuously evolving chaos among Cainites there, and not at all sure she understands what’s going on. She decided to celebrate th
The Fourth Lesson: The Rest of the World
The Fourth Lesson: The Rest of the World It’s been fifteen nights since the battered freighter left Bangkok. Andrew and his pack are having a marvelous time. They came on business: The Pacific Rim cardinals “asked” several reliable bishops to investigate rumors of heterodoxy and
The Third Lesson: The Great Revolt
The Third Lesson: The Great Revolt The Festival of the Dead is over. As always, the police and the mayor scramble for hasty explanations about all the extra bodies. As always, they tried to cover it up, but amused Sabbat made sure to keep the local media informed, and the corpses
Tremere
Faction chamber →BLOOD BONDS VINCULI
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THE MOVE TO VIENNA
the following year after his castle was attacked by anarchs led by the Brujah Tyler, and the proposal seemed forgotten. Few knew institutions of mankind: politics, commerce and the Church. THE END OF THE ORDER As the decades wore on and vis grew less and less plentiful, the old
The Sabbat
Faction chamber →Brujah Antitribu
Nickname: Rabble-rousers Brujah antitribu are just like their Camarilla counterparts, except that within the Sabbat they are not viewed as dissidents. After all, most vampires within the Sabbat, regardless of clan, are considered rebels. The antitribu continue to share a strong s
Sabbat Rituals
The lust for vampire blood is strong within the Sabbat. Diablerie is condoned, with the Methuselahs outside the sect as the main targets. Packs of Sabbat gather into groups known as War Parties to hunt specific elders. The challenge is to see which pack, if any, gets the elder fi
The Sabbat of Today
Storytellers Guide to the Sabbat Many of the anarchs whose clans had joined the Camarilla saw surrender as their only opportunity before their own clans hunted them down. The Assamites swore an oath prohibiting future aggression against the Camarilla, but refused to commit to the
The Structure of the Sabbat
Storytellers Guide to the Sabbat part of the establishment. The Brujah antitribu hate the Camarilla more than any of the other clans, but try the hardest to convert anarchs to their side. * Gangrel Antitribu: The Gangrel of the Sabbat may be divided into two categories, City Gang
Ventrue
Faction chamber →Carthago Delenda Est
The second war with Carthage came 20 years later, and it had nothing to do with Kindred at all. It began in faraway Spain, where only a few Brujah neonates resided with the cruel Lasombra. The mortal Hannibal and his fellow Carthaginians set the city to war on their own by captur
DAMNATION
characters contend, all seeking to have last word on what's right. Never forget that might makes right. Sandman. A look at a family of immortal supernatural beings and what it means to be a part of it.
Renaissance and Reformation
After establishing the Camarilla, Clan Ventrue experienced a powerful resurgence that began in the 16th century, and a whole new world of possibilities opened up before them. With most of the anarchs subsumed into the Camarilla, the Ventrue-led sect had the muscle to fight the Sa
Sparta
No one learned to fear the power of mortals better than the Ventrue who took the name Artemis. She, along with a number of other Ventrue, had settled in the prosperous region of Greece called the Peloponnesus. The Dorian Greeks had built on this peninsula the foundations of commu
LEGACY
characters contend, all seeking to have last word on what's right. Never forget that might makes right. Sandman. A look at a family of immortal supernatural beings and what it means to be a part of it.
Nosferatu
Faction chamber →CHATAMAUGA WARREN
THE TALE OF HORACE SLATER LOREKEEPER OFI CHATAMAUGA WARREN If there’s a god - do you know his name? If there’s a god - if there’s a god - why do 1 feel so ashamed?
NIGHT OF THE TOXIC
NIGHT OF THE TOXIC VAMPIRES DATE: 10-23.89 TO: Xerxes FROM: Jameson RE: Arlington Warren Per your request, I set out on foot to discover why communications between the Arlington Warren and our own have ceased. I arrived at Morrow’s Cave, the traditional entrance to the warren, a
THE CURSE
Let us go then, you and I When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table. Let us go through certain half-deserted streets The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells.
UNDERGROUND
As the victims literally trip themselves to death, the sturdier Nosferatu feed on them. The doped-up Nosferatu then volunteer for the most dangerous War Parties. The victims are used as fertilizer for the gardens. THE UNDERGROUND attracted to them as cheap labor to build network
Tzimisce
Faction chamber →The Ministry
Faction chamber →The Camarilla
Faction chamber →The Inner Circle
The Upper Echelons As described by Fearless Alys, Kingmaker of Clan Tremere, Traditionalist Faction, Bucharest There’s them and there’s us. Yeah, we’re Camarilla. We uphold the Traditions, play our political party games, and quaff rare vintages of bloody nectar while a string qua
Victoria Ash
apartments that have not been lightproofed. I suggest you sell them. You will also gain access to my accounts, offshore holding companies, and financial advisors. The advisors need a steady supply of vitae. You will have most of the things I will not be taking with me, but not e