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The books would be out of print until 2020 when Crossroad Press would republish them and 2024 when they republished the anthology.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: In "Queen of the Night", Mozart is inspired to write Queen of the Night by catching a glimpse of Lucita killing some Sabbat.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Virtually every ghoul is treated this way in the book, being utterly subservient to their masters.
** The unnamed protagonist of "Turning the Face" spends years serving his corporate master unquestionably as his blood bound servant before becoming a similarly blood bound vampire.
* DisproportionateRetribution: "Sins of the Father" has Gaston hunting down every generation of a family and exterminating all but a single member of the bloodline to carry it on. This is after he ruins their lives, all because of their ancestor killing his family.
* FemmeFatale: [[spoiler: Daini]] in "Selfless" plays Khalil like a fiddle and makes him fall in love with her so she can betray him to Hazimel.
* HeelRealization: In "Angel Mine", Aisling suffers one of these when she tries to call out Nigel for murdering his mortal lover. He just repeats her own words about mortals not mattering back to her.
* IronicEcho: In "Angel Mine", Aisling Sturbridge receives one of these when Nigel recites her own words back at her that make her suffer a HeelRealization.
--->"The boy is dead. They die all the time, these mortals. It is the single defining act of their existence."
* NaiveNewcomer: In "Embarkation", Erich Vegel is a member of a ReligionOfEvil and has spent years training in their service but still comes across this way to Hesha.
* PetTheDog: Fatima al Faqadi in "Turning the Face" uses her powers to free the protagonit from his enslavement to his sire.
* SinsOfTheFather: Taken literally in "Sins of the Father", Derek Joiner's family has been stalked by an insane Nosferatu for centuries due to the fact said Nosferatu's moral family were murdered by one of Derek's ancestors.
* VictoryIsBoring: In "Flesh of my Flesh", Vykos has this attitude after conquering Washington DC and the sudden death of Goratrix, ending their millennia-long rivalry.
* WasItAllALie: Khalil gives [[spoiler: Daini]] this question [[spoiler: after she betrays him to free herself from Hazimel.]] She more or less says, yes, yes it was. [[spoiler: She does show him how to free himself, though, if he could only remember the words.]]
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: In "Queen of the Night", Mozart is inspired to write Queen of the Night by catching a glimpse of Lucita killing some Sabbat.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Virtually every ghoul is treated this way in the book, being utterly subservient to their masters.
** The unnamed protagonist of "Turning the Face" spends years serving his corporate master unquestionably as his blood bound servant before becoming a similarly blood bound vampire.
* DisproportionateRetribution: "Sins of the Father" has Gaston hunting down every generation of a family and exterminating all but a single member of the bloodline to carry it on. This is after he ruins their lives, all because of their ancestor killing his family.
* FemmeFatale: [[spoiler: Daini]] in "Selfless" plays Khalil like a fiddle and makes him fall in love with her so she can betray him to Hazimel.
* HeelRealization: In "Angel Mine", Aisling suffers one of these when she tries to call out Nigel for murdering his mortal lover. He just repeats her own words about mortals not mattering back to her.
* IronicEcho: In "Angel Mine", Aisling Sturbridge receives one of these when Nigel recites her own words back at her that make her suffer a HeelRealization.
--->"The boy is dead. They die all the time, these mortals. It is the single defining act of their existence."
* NaiveNewcomer: In "Embarkation", Erich Vegel is a member of a ReligionOfEvil and has spent years training in their service but still comes across this way to Hesha.
* PetTheDog: Fatima al Faqadi in "Turning the Face" uses her powers to free the protagonit from his enslavement to his sire.
* SinsOfTheFather: Taken literally in "Sins of the Father", Derek Joiner's family has been stalked by an insane Nosferatu for centuries due to the fact said Nosferatu's moral family were murdered by one of Derek's ancestors.
* VictoryIsBoring: In "Flesh of my Flesh", Vykos has this attitude after conquering Washington DC and the sudden death of Goratrix, ending their millennia-long rivalry.
* WasItAllALie: Khalil gives [[spoiler: Daini]] this question [[spoiler: after she betrays him to free herself from Hazimel.]] She more or less says, yes, yes it was. [[spoiler: She does show him how to free himself, though, if he could only remember the words.]]
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Sabbat are treated less like an organized sect opposed to the Camarilla with a BlueAndOrangeMorality but a SwarmOfAlienLocusts. They constantly attack one another, engage in pointless violence, and are shown to be petty vindictive bullies. Played with as the rest of the vampires vary tremendously in their morality.
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* AffablyEvil: Jan Pieterszoon is as pleasant a vampire as you're likely to ever meet. [[spoiler: But he's still capable of horrific evil.]]
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The ''Vampire: The Masquerade Clan Novels'' are a series of thirteen novels set in the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness and specifically the TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade during the transition from 2nd Edition to Third Edition. They are written by multiple authors and each focuses on a different clan of vampires as well as a Signature Character that represents them.
The premise is that the year is 1999 and the Sabbat are about to launch a massive Crusade to take as much of the East Coast as possible from their rival sect in the Camarilla. The attack starts in Atlanta, Georgia and proceeds to spread up toward Baltimore. Unbeknownst to the Camarilla, a mysterious artifact called the Eye of Hazmiel was meant to be sold in Atlanta during this time and falls into the hands of a Neonate named Leopold who is warped horribly by its powers before becoming an existential threat to Kindred. The looming specter of Gehenna hangs over everything as the petty power games of the Kindred mean nothing to the possibility of the world's end.
* Clan Novel 1: Toreador (1999)
* Clan Novel 2: Tzimisce (1999)
* Clan Novel 3: Gangrel (1999)
* Clan Novel 4: Setite (1999)
* Clan Novel 5: Ventrue (1999)
* Clan Novel 6: Lasombra (1999)
* Clan Novel 7: Assamite (1999)
* Clan Novel 8: Ravnos (2000)
* Clan Novel 9: Malkavian (2000)
* Clan Novel 10: Giovanni (2000)
* Clan Novel 11: Brujah (2000)
* Clan Novel 12: Tremere (2000)
* Clan Novel 13: Nosferatu (2000)
* Clan Novel Anthology (anthology; 2000)
Eventually, all of the scenes from the novels were assembled into four collections that framed the story in chronological order.
* Clan Novel Saga 1: The Fall of Atlanta (2003)
* Clan Novel Saga 2: The Eye of Gehenna (2003)
* Clan Novel Saga 3: Bloody September (2004)
* Clan Novel Saga 4: End Games (2004)
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The novels contain the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Lucita, Fatima, and Ramona.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Hesha has this as his cover identity and is seeking the Eye of Hazmiel.
* AffablyEvil: Jan Pieterszoon is as pleasant a vampire as you're likely to ever meet. [[spoiler: But he's still capable of horrific evil.]]
** FauxAffablyEvil: Hesha proves to be this as events tear away the pleasant facade he's cultivated for himself.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: Victoria Ash sells her body, dignity, and sanity at various points to get in position to become Prince of New York. Then, due to the absurd rule she set for herself to live by chance, has to pass on it.]]
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The Camarilla is only marginally better than the Sabbat as they repeatedly prove. They're just far more subtle in their evil.
* ArtifactOfDoom: The Eye of Hazmiel can turn even a Neonate into a vampire as powerful as a Methuselah.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Jan Pieterszoon is cordial, friendly, and AffablyEvil at worst. [[spoiler: He also has a woman raped so he can feed off her.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: There's multiple bad guys spread throughout the novels (not including the protagonists). Moncada, Vykos, Vitel, and [[spoiler: Leopold]] for a start.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Most of the East Coast has fallen to the Sabbat but New York has been reclaimed by the Camarilla. Moncada, one of the most politically powerful Lasombra alive, is slain. So is Leopold. The Gangrel have left the Camarilla.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Leopold is a Tremere ''antitribu'' who is brainwashed into believing he's a Toreador.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Marcus Vitel is 2000+ years old and one of the most powerful (awake) vampires in the world. Theo Bell, Cristof, and a handful of ghouls as well as Archons kill him. [[spoiler: Except not.]]
* EntertaininglyWrong: Played for drama with the fact Xavier assumes that Leopold is an Antediluvian.
* EvilVersusEvil: What the Camarilla vs. Sabbat conflict amounts to. Most of the other conflicts are similar.
* FriendOrIdolDecision: Fatima must choose between her lover Lucita or Clan.
** TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: She ends up persuading Haqim himself to spare her.]]
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Ramona is about the only decent person among the undead. She's also among the youngest.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Leopold goes from being a wimpish Toreador trying to find his sire to one of the greatest threats to Kindred society.
* HopelessSuitor: Jan Pieterszoon has an enormous crush on Lucita. Lucita is in love with Fatima and has a centuries-long love/friendship with Anatole. She never even thinks of Jan during the books.
* HypocriticalHumor: Khalil objects to a racist comment about Romani being thieves by Liz. [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne He points out that, yes, HE is a thief (and a murderer) but his father was an honest tinsmith.]] He may be displaying EvenEvilHasLovedOnes.
* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler: Technically, by the time of the novel, Leopold is the last living Tremere ''antitribu''.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Whoever wields the Eye of Hazmiel is nothing more than a puppet to Hazmiel.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The dismissive attitude of the Camarilla leadership offends Xavier the Justicar and causes the entire Gangrel clan to leave their organization. They forgot the Gangrel fight based on respect and not political ties or greed.
* OddFriendship: Theo Bell, ex-slave Brujah, and Jan Pieterszoon, Kindred royalty.
* OnlySaneMan: Talley "the Hound", one of the recurring non-Signature viewpoint characters, is this for the Sabbat. A genuinely AffablyEvil ConsummateProfessional Lasombra knight, most of his appearances are dedicated to just trying to do his damn job in a sect dominated by StupidEvil and EvilIsPetty where everyone else embraces their HairTriggerTemper. He is constantly found snarking, [[FirstPersonSmartass internally]], and when he can get away with it, also [[DeadpanSnarker externally]], about the self-destructiveness, pointless sadism and antagonistic scheming of his sect-mates and the way they undermine the purpose and success of the organization. He eventually falls into a CrisisOfFaith wondering why he even bothers playing underling to people he despises and who all but ignore the cause they're nominally sworn to, but, after watching Theo Bell for a while, resolves it's simply because he's decided to for himself the task is worth doing. Many years after the events of the novels, [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition V5]] would conclude this story-arc by having him be made the delegate of Clan Lasombra who facilitates their entry into [[ALighterShadeOfBlack the Camarilla]].
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: The Sabbat take much of the Eastern United States, including Washington D.C. only to lose New York, their second most powerful stronghold after Mexico City.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: Used to shocking effect when it is revealed that Jan Pieterszoon is only able to feed from rape victims.]]
* ScaryBlackMan: Theo Bell is well aware he comes across as this and doesn't help his case by terrifying people who annoy him.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Gangrel leave the Camarilla once it's discovered that the Antediluvians are real. [[spoiler: The irony being that they only discovered a possessed Toreador.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: Lucita's fondest desire is to become one by killing Moncada. [[spoiler: She finally succeeds with the help of Fatima.]]
* SmugSnake: Khalil Ravana is completely lacking any redeeming qualities or grandiose villain attributes. He's nothing more than a burglar that has delusions of grandeur.
* StopBeingStereotypical: Leopold admonishes himself for being one of the most stereotypical Toreador vampires (unalive). [[spoiler: It proves to be {{Foreshadowing}} that he's actually a brainwashed Tremere ''antitribu''.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: The Camarilla and Sabbat both pull this on Marcus Vitel. Later books would confirm he survived.]]
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The ''Vampire: The Masquerade Clan Novels'' are a series of thirteen novels set in the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness and specifically the TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade during the transition from 2nd Edition to Third Edition. They are written by multiple authors and each focuses on a different clan of vampires as well as a Signature Character that represents them.
The premise is that the year is 1999 and the Sabbat are about to launch a massive Crusade to take as much of the East Coast as possible from their rival sect in the Camarilla. The attack starts in Atlanta, Georgia and proceeds to spread up toward Baltimore. Unbeknownst to the Camarilla, a mysterious artifact called the Eye of Hazmiel was meant to be sold in Atlanta during this time and falls into the hands of a Neonate named Leopold who is warped horribly by its powers before becoming an existential threat to Kindred. The looming specter of Gehenna hangs over everything as the petty power games of the Kindred mean nothing to the possibility of the world's end.
* Clan Novel 1: Toreador (1999)
* Clan Novel 2: Tzimisce (1999)
* Clan Novel 3: Gangrel (1999)
* Clan Novel 4: Setite (1999)
* Clan Novel 5: Ventrue (1999)
* Clan Novel 6: Lasombra (1999)
* Clan Novel 7: Assamite (1999)
* Clan Novel 8: Ravnos (2000)
* Clan Novel 9: Malkavian (2000)
* Clan Novel 10: Giovanni (2000)
* Clan Novel 11: Brujah (2000)
* Clan Novel 12: Tremere (2000)
* Clan Novel 13: Nosferatu (2000)
* Clan Novel Anthology (anthology; 2000)
Eventually, all of the scenes from the novels were assembled into four collections that framed the story in chronological order.
* Clan Novel Saga 1: The Fall of Atlanta (2003)
* Clan Novel Saga 2: The Eye of Gehenna (2003)
* Clan Novel Saga 3: Bloody September (2004)
* Clan Novel Saga 4: End Games (2004)
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The novels contain the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Lucita, Fatima, and Ramona.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Hesha has this as his cover identity and is seeking the Eye of Hazmiel.
* AffablyEvil: Jan Pieterszoon is as pleasant a vampire as you're likely to ever meet. [[spoiler: But he's still capable of horrific evil.]]
** FauxAffablyEvil: Hesha proves to be this as events tear away the pleasant facade he's cultivated for himself.
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: Victoria Ash sells her body, dignity, and sanity at various points to get in position to become Prince of New York. Then, due to the absurd rule she set for herself to live by chance, has to pass on it.]]
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The Camarilla is only marginally better than the Sabbat as they repeatedly prove. They're just far more subtle in their evil.
* ArtifactOfDoom: The Eye of Hazmiel can turn even a Neonate into a vampire as powerful as a Methuselah.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Jan Pieterszoon is cordial, friendly, and AffablyEvil at worst. [[spoiler: He also has a woman raped so he can feed off her.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: There's multiple bad guys spread throughout the novels (not including the protagonists). Moncada, Vykos, Vitel, and [[spoiler: Leopold]] for a start.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Most of the East Coast has fallen to the Sabbat but New York has been reclaimed by the Camarilla. Moncada, one of the most politically powerful Lasombra alive, is slain. So is Leopold. The Gangrel have left the Camarilla.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Leopold is a Tremere ''antitribu'' who is brainwashed into believing he's a Toreador.]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Marcus Vitel is 2000+ years old and one of the most powerful (awake) vampires in the world. Theo Bell, Cristof, and a handful of ghouls as well as Archons kill him. [[spoiler: Except not.]]
* EntertaininglyWrong: Played for drama with the fact Xavier assumes that Leopold is an Antediluvian.
* EvilVersusEvil: What the Camarilla vs. Sabbat conflict amounts to. Most of the other conflicts are similar.
* FriendOrIdolDecision: Fatima must choose between her lover Lucita or Clan.
** TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: She ends up persuading Haqim himself to spare her.]]
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Ramona is about the only decent person among the undead. She's also among the youngest.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Leopold goes from being a wimpish Toreador trying to find his sire to one of the greatest threats to Kindred society.
* HopelessSuitor: Jan Pieterszoon has an enormous crush on Lucita. Lucita is in love with Fatima and has a centuries-long love/friendship with Anatole. She never even thinks of Jan during the books.
* HypocriticalHumor: Khalil objects to a racist comment about Romani being thieves by Liz. [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne He points out that, yes, HE is a thief (and a murderer) but his father was an honest tinsmith.]] He may be displaying EvenEvilHasLovedOnes.
* LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler: Technically, by the time of the novel, Leopold is the last living Tremere ''antitribu''.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Whoever wields the Eye of Hazmiel is nothing more than a puppet to Hazmiel.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The dismissive attitude of the Camarilla leadership offends Xavier the Justicar and causes the entire Gangrel clan to leave their organization. They forgot the Gangrel fight based on respect and not political ties or greed.
* OddFriendship: Theo Bell, ex-slave Brujah, and Jan Pieterszoon, Kindred royalty.
* OnlySaneMan: Talley "the Hound", one of the recurring non-Signature viewpoint characters, is this for the Sabbat. A genuinely AffablyEvil ConsummateProfessional Lasombra knight, most of his appearances are dedicated to just trying to do his damn job in a sect dominated by StupidEvil and EvilIsPetty where everyone else embraces their HairTriggerTemper. He is constantly found snarking, [[FirstPersonSmartass internally]], and when he can get away with it, also [[DeadpanSnarker externally]], about the self-destructiveness, pointless sadism and antagonistic scheming of his sect-mates and the way they undermine the purpose and success of the organization. He eventually falls into a CrisisOfFaith wondering why he even bothers playing underling to people he despises and who all but ignore the cause they're nominally sworn to, but, after watching Theo Bell for a while, resolves it's simply because he's decided to for himself the task is worth doing. Many years after the events of the novels, [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition V5]] would conclude this story-arc by having him be made the delegate of Clan Lasombra who facilitates their entry into [[ALighterShadeOfBlack the Camarilla]].
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: The Sabbat take much of the Eastern United States, including Washington D.C. only to lose New York, their second most powerful stronghold after Mexico City.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: Used to shocking effect when it is revealed that Jan Pieterszoon is only able to feed from rape victims.]]
* ScaryBlackMan: Theo Bell is well aware he comes across as this and doesn't help his case by terrifying people who annoy him.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Gangrel leave the Camarilla once it's discovered that the Antediluvians are real. [[spoiler: The irony being that they only discovered a possessed Toreador.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: Lucita's fondest desire is to become one by killing Moncada. [[spoiler: She finally succeeds with the help of Fatima.]]
* SmugSnake: Khalil Ravana is completely lacking any redeeming qualities or grandiose villain attributes. He's nothing more than a burglar that has delusions of grandeur.
* StopBeingStereotypical: Leopold admonishes himself for being one of the most stereotypical Toreador vampires (unalive). [[spoiler: It proves to be {{Foreshadowing}} that he's actually a brainwashed Tremere ''antitribu''.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: The Camarilla and Sabbat both pull this on Marcus Vitel. Later books would confirm he survived.]]
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