History Characters / VampireTheMasqueradeExtinctClansAndBloodlines

* DefectorFromDecadence: Inverted - Adonai, burning with a need to punish the Tremere, defected ''to'' decadence by joining the Sabbat and founding the Salubri ''antitribu''.
** [[spoiler: Not quite accurate due to retconning. Adonai is likely the Adonai mentioned in Clan Book Salubri, the founder of the 'Vengeful' faction of warrior Salubri that existed in the Dark Ages. This would mean there was no defection, as he was likely never one of the 7 Healer Salubri that follow what was once the Path of Tears.]]

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: The healers are likely to invoke this, as their weakness is that they lose health if they feed from an unwilling victim.

** VillainWithGoodPublicity: Possibly justified. Valeren/Obeah is implied via Kindred of the East to be a bastardised version of the Kuei-Jin Dragon Tears power that Saulot made after studying under Arhat Xue. [[spoiler:Possibly Saulot himself or rather Zao-lat. Saulot may be nothing more than a mask hiding Zao-lat's true nature.]]

* {{Retcon}}: Initially, the healers were the only Salubri, with the warriors, watchers, and ''antitribu'' being added later.

** TokenEvilTeammate [[spoiler: The 'Fallen Angels', Warrior Caste survivors, made demonic pacts in a case of ThenLetMeBeEvil in order to avenge themselves upon the Tremere. Saulot himself might be able to hold this position among the Antediluvians due to him being one of the first [[PayEvilUntoEvil Devil Tigers]], and his aspirations of becoming the Demon Emperor, as he believes [[DoWrongRight he'd do a better job.]]]]

** AnimalEyes: A common form of the above; notably, their modern founder possessed cat-eyes as a result.

* DoesNotLikeMen: There were no male Ahrimanes, because the bloodline's founder had no interest in converting them. It's technically possible, but no one has ever done it.

* BeeAfraid: Inverted. The Cult of Moloch holds bees and wasps to be sacred animals and things to idolize in their particular Path of Enlightenment (the Path of the Hive). They're the ''nice'' Baali.

* OneGenderRace: Subverted; there is nothing preventing them from recruiting men, and during the Victorian era, they did. But the men all disappeared around Revised and they stopped embracing them after that. However, the V20 corebook leaves the possibility of male members of the bloodline open, and ''Lore of the Bloodlines'' confirms there are a few.

* BerserkButton: The Giovanni. Also, the Tzimisce strongly advise against offering to repair their faces with Vicissitude; even being marginal allies with the Sabbat doesn't stop them from retaliating violently.

* TheReveal: ''The Black Hand: A Guide to the Tal'Mahe'Ra'' reveals [[spoiler:there's another faction of the bloodline in the Underworld which isn't interested in avenging themselves on the Giovanni, instead preferring to focus on necromantic pursuits. This branch of the Harbingers ''does'' Embrace in order to stay abreast of the living world]].

* MechanicallyUnusualCharacter: Despite technically being a tiny Sect, the Children of Osiris are mechanically treated as a Bloodline any vampire can freely, if not easily, join, complete with their own unique Bardo discipline, while gaining an additional weakness in the form of sterilized blood.

* MercyKill: One of the abilities granted by Obeah. Euthanasia on its own wouldn't be ''that'' out of place for a clan of healers, but notably, doing this actually ''strengthens'' the Salubri, which certainly doesn't help the "soul stealer" stereotype.

* BrownNote: Can evoke this with their songs and their Discipline, Melpominee.

* ShroudedInMyth: Their clan of origin. Toreador, Malkavian, Ventrue, and Caitiff have all been suggested.

* {{Necromancer}}: It's one of their disciplines. Their speciality is the Vitreous Path, which only Nagaraja practice. The only others to have even heard of it are a few Giovanni.

* {{Necromancer}}: One of their disciplines.

* TheCorrupter: They attempt to corrupt the Camarilla and Sabbat to serve their masters, and if that doesn't work, [[KillEmAll kill them.]] The Cult of Moloch [[GoodCounterpart does the exact opposite]], to it being a major sin in the Path of the Hive to not try to redeem an infernalist having second thoughts.

* HatedByAll: The Giovanni are hated by everyone, but when it comes to the Baali, [[EveryoneHasStandards most everyone's]] policy is [[KillEmAll kill on sight.]] It's a measure of just ''how'' hated the Baali are that, in ''The Black Hand: A Guide to the Tal'Mahe'Ra'', the Black Hand goes to extreme lengths, even by vampire standards, to ensure that the leader of the anti-infernalist faction is telling them the truth, including mentally and physically torturing him, thaumaturgically binding him, and ensuring that he and all the members of the faction are blood bound to patrons among the Black Hand, and even then there's still a good chunk of the Hand who want him killed painfully.

In the Revised timeline, Osiris, now effectively [[TabletopGame/MummyTheResurrection the god of the underworld Egyptian myth held him to be]], transformed loyal members of the Children into humans.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Other Kindred don't like discussing where the Tremere's original Gargoyles come from.

* NighInvulnerability: Fortitude., primarily, although one Visceratika power allows them to bolster it.

* SuperStrength: Potence.

* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Free Gargoyles.
** Then again, Tremere [[ManchurianAgent indoctrination runs deep]], and most Gargoyles retain subtle programming so that, if nothing else, they won't defect to the Sabbat. So in spite of their animosity, most Freemen join the Camarilla, where the Tremere can keep an eye on them.

* DyingRace: With the eradication of the Treme ''antitribu'', no more Blood Brothers can be made, and more die every night. Eventually, none will be left.

* MercyKill: One of the abilities granted by Obeah. Euthanasia on its own wouldn't be ''that'' out of place for a clan of healers, but notably, doing this actually ''strengthens' the Salubri, which certainly doesn't help the "soul stealer" stereotype.

* SuperToughness: Fortitude.

* SuperToughness: Fortitude.

* SuperToughness: Fortitude.

* SuperToughness: Fortitude, primarily, although one Visceratika power allows them to bolster it.

A mysterious cabal of necromancers and sorcerers, the Harbingers of Skulls are commonly allied with the Sabbat - but only out of convenience. Though there are only fifty Harbingers in existence and none of them have ever embraced, their proficiency in magic and necromancy makes them a force to be reckoned with. Desiccated and corpselike, the few members willing to talk have claimed that they have actually escaped from the Underworld to inhabit the bodies of corpses, and are now seeking vengeance against the clan that wronged them...

* BackFromTheDead: What they claim. [[spoiler: It turns out they're telling the truth; more to the point, they're actually Cappadocians - hence their vendetta against the Giovanni.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in a literal sense but played straight in a figurative one. They are just survivors of the Feast of Folly.]]

* SuperToughness: Fortitude.

* SuperToughness: Fortitude.

* NotQuiteDead: Although the Healer caste Salubri were mostly wiped out in Europe, a few of them managed to survive. The Watcher caste remained unaffected and the Warrior caste was single-handedly revived by Adonai.
* ThePurge: The entire European clan was a victim of this, courtesy of the Tremere and their allies.

** TokenEvilTeammate [[spoiler: The 'Fallen Angels', Warrior Caste survivors, made demonic pacts in a case of ThenLetMeBeEvil in order to avenge themselves upon the Tremere. Saulot himself might be able to hold this position among the Antedeluvians due to his aspirations of becoming the Demon Emperor.]]