History Characters / VampireTheRequiem

* BeneathNotice: The Occultation Merit designed especially for Shadows (and [[MageTheAwakening Mages]]). It makes them very difficult to notice. It is so powerful that some start forgetting who themselves are.

* PlaceOfPower -- They regularly seek out "Wyrm's Nests", places where there's high weirdness afoot. Mind you, this often leads them to [[WerewolfTheForsaken Loci]], [[MageTheAwakening Hallows]], and [[TabletopGame/GeistTheSinEaters Haunts]]...

Their [[{{Sourcebook}} clanbook]] introduces the [[SecretCircleOfSecrets Shadow Cults]], which serves to emphasize the mage thing, but they're [[NotThatKindOfMage Not That Kind Of]] '''[[MageTheAwakening Mage]]'''. It also introduces the possibility of Mekhet being able to [[BackFromTheDead embrace mortals after a few days of their actual death]], but these individuals, have a higher chance of being raised as '''Hollow Mekhet''', the clan's original form when they arose in AncientEgypt. Instead of extra flammability, a Hollow lacks a [[AnatomyOfTheSoul Ka]], meaning he doesn't cast a reflection...of any sort, meaning his voice lacks an echo, he doesn't cast a shadow, and recording devices (cameras, bugs, ''phones''...) can't actually pick him up. [[BlessedWithSuck This can be a bit of a double-edged sword]].

* OwlBeDamned: The most common form they take.

*** Also, interestingly invoked: Many of their older bloodlines are ruler archetypes, even more than the Ventrue.

* EvilIsCool
* EvilIsSexy

* Bohagande: Gamblers with the power to manipulate chance. The members of this bloodline style themselves as {{Magnificent Bastard}}s or as lucky simple souls, while Kindred society treat them all as {{Jerk Sue}}s who are dependant on their supernatural power of cheating to achieve success. A possible SpiritualSuccessor to the Ravnos.

* UncannyValley: They can be fugly bat-faced monsters out of your worst nightmares or they can be beautiful... perfectly beautiful... ''disturbingly'' beautiful.
** Some of their bloodlines lack any flaws in their appearance, but are so taken by their BlueAndOrangeMorality that it's the same issue.

* The Cockscomb Society: [[TheWoobie The girls and guys]] of this bloodline [[AngstWhatAngst maintain an upbeat demeanour]] and [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute try to be socially active in spite of their clan's condition.]]

* RuleAbidingRebel -- Some Carthians try to find reforms for the Requiem that don't disrupt the Invictus-derived model of praxis, lest they get boots on their necks.

* En: Babylonian [[TheChessmaster schemers]] and [[EvilOverlord nobles]] in a [[TheSymbiote symbiotic relationship]] with a demon called an alu, which fuses with their Beast as they join the bloodline. At higher Blood Potency, can Embrace mortals without spending Willpower dots, resist Viniculum, and slow the degenerative effects [[YourSoulIsMine diablerie]] has on them, which lead to them being such a plague that a cabal of Babylonian mages created a race of anti-vampiric superweapons, the Edimmu, to get rid of them.

* En: Babylonian [[TheChessmaster schemers]] and nobles in a [[TheSymbiote symbiotic relationship]] with a demon called an alu, which fuses with their Beast as they join the bloodline. At higher Blood Potency, can Embrace mortals without spending Willpower dots, which lead to them being such a plague that a cabal of Babylonian mages created a race of anti-vampiric superweapons, the Edimmu, to get rid of them.

* En: Babylonian [[TheChessmaster schemers] and nobles in a [[TheSymbiote symbiotic relationship]] with a demon called an alu, which fuses with their Beast as they join the bloodline. At higher Blood Potency, can Embrace mortals without spending Willpower dots, which lead to them being such a plague that a cabal of Babylonian mages created a race of anti-vampiric superweapons, the Edimmu, to get rid of them.

* Moroi: Despite their relative numbers, these vampires are mostly unknown, and the Ordo Dracul intends to keep it that way. Reputedly developing on their own from both Gangrel and Nosferatu in a remote area of rural Romania, they were visited by Dracula, who shared his knowledge and spoke with them on many topics. These vampires promised to serve him if he ever had need and called for them. Some time after he vanished, they reappeared, having hunted down and slain many of those who attempted persecution of the Dragons in the covenant's early, vulnerable years. Those who joined the covenant have since been used as hunters and assassins. Those who did not either hunted down or escaped. Brutal and malicious, the mingled blood of savages and haunts has produced a perfect killing machine--but the machine is decidedly imperfect at doing anything else.

In the ''Shadows Of Mexico'' supplement, the indigenous Daeva, called Xoxocti, served as the [[SexyPriest majestic priests]] of the [[AztecMythology Aztec Gods]] and they viewed humans as above them and worthy of being allowed to [[TheChainsOfCommanding rule over humans and vampires]] alike. Modern Mexican Daeva are more or less like the standard Deava and it is because of this the Xoxocti view them as [[SonOfAWhore illegitimate children]].

* {{Troll}}: They do this on a societal level.

* ISeeDeadPeople: Certain Nosferatu have an affinity for ghosts, [[ItGotWorse as if they weren't scary enough]].

** This being Requiem, [[SubvertedTrope it's also quite possible that they're more heroic then any of the clans put together]]. See the note under CompleteMonster.

* CompleteMonster -- By the standards of mainstream vampire society these guys are considered pretty evil. Not the worst mind you, unless the ST decides they're KarmaMeter is running on BlueAndOrangeMorality.
** ''By the standards of mainstream vampire society.'' As one might guess from the other books, [[{{Hypocrite}} that part may be the one with emphasis]]. The Akhud are [[HunterOfHisOwnKind monster hunters]] with a literal inability to betray each other, the Betrayed have a [[MoralEventHorizon very legitimate reason]] to hate Kindred, and the Sleepers [[ObliviouslyEvil don't understand that what they do is wrong.]] [[SarcasmMode Yeah. Real evil, right there]].

* StrawmanHasAPoint -- The [[TheHunter VII]] [[YouRebelScum criminals]] are destroying much of [[VillainProtagonist Kindred]] [[WretchedHive society]]. AndThatsTerrible.

* CompleteMonster {{invoked}}: Their Virtues are literally not any form of moral compass-just the way their Vices are expressed.

* Nelapsi: A rare bloodline from Eastern Europe. Share the same nickname as the Macellarius ("The Gluttons") because they have the curse of needing vastly more blood than other vampires. In game terms, even the most powerful vampire needs to only spend 1 point of blood to wake up each night -- Nelapsi need to spend an amount of blood ''equal to their Blood Potency'' to do so. Have a number of special tricks, including developing a "shadow heart" that gives them a chance to resist being staked, but no bloodline power.

* Morotrophians: Shut-ins who can control almost every aspect of the institutions they inhabit.

* Bron: Arthurian themed Vampires cursed by the Holy Grail to become literal [[FisherKing Fisher Kings]] in their own realms.

* EvilIsStylish

* XanatosGambit
** GambitPileup
** GambitRoulette
** OutGambitted
** SpannerInTheWorks
** UnwittingPawn
** XanatosSpeedChess

* Toreador: A homage to the Toreador clan of the previous game. Arrogantly fashionable, this bloodline takes the clan's hedonism and narcissism to BeyondTheImpossible levels.

!The Stryx

Reoccuring villains, the Striges are shadowy, birdlike specters that have haunted the Kindred since Ancient Rome. They claim to be the embodiment of the vampiric beast, and seek to make Kindred less human. Initially, they exterminated the Julii clan in Ancient Rome for breaking a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with them]], but recently, have been released into the world [[TheUnfettered bereft of any purpose.]]

* CompleteMonster

* DealWithTheDevil: How the Kindred initially got their attention.

* ForTheEvulz: They have no motivation at the moment, beyond pure, selfish, hedonism.

* EvilIsPetty: They have no grand scheme, and simply prefer to ruin vampire unlives [[ForTheEvuls for the lulz]].

* GlamourFailure: When possessing someone, their eyes glow like an animal's caught in light. However, they are clever eough to exploit this, and can make non-possessed people display this as well.

* Jerkass