History Characters / VampireTheMasqueradeExtinctClansAndBloodlines

Known as Graverobbers, the Cappadocians were the original Clan of Death, scholars who sought to understand the secrets of death and undeath. In pursuit of that goal, they brought the Giovanni family into the clan - only to have Augustus Giovanni diablerise the Antediluvian, and the Giovanni wipe out the Cappodocians.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: More and more so in later books. The Samedi are implied to be survivors of the Cappadocians who escalated their clan weakness to better hide themselves from the Giovanni. The Mla Watu bloodline in Africa is also heavily implied to be splintered off from the Cappadocians. Then there are the [[MultipleChoicePast Harbingers of Skulls]]... not to mention those rare few Cappadocians who survived without changing their blood.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: Cappadocius sealed forever thousands of his childer in what would be called the Feast of Folly, which essentially meant condemning many of them to death.

* MindRape: The main build for most Baali characters tends to rely pretty heavily upon this. The one-dot ability of Daimonion, [[IKnowWhatYouFear Sense the Sin]], allows the Baali to learn an enemy's weakness, as well as traumatic incidents in their past, embarrassing secrets, their greatest fears, and the like. From there, the two dot ability, [[BreakThemByTalking Fear of the Void Below]] allows one to exploit that weakness by speaking, which can induce anything from Rötscheck to catatonia, and the four dot ability, Psychomachia, creates a ''physical manifestation'' of whatever it is you learned with Sense the Sin, complete with the ability to harm its victim via YourMindMakesItReal. Combine these abilities with Presence (another of the Baali's Clan Disciplines) for truly devastating results.

* {{Glamour}}: Have Presence as a bloodline Discipline.

*** BlackEyesOfEvil

* PowerOfTheVoid:In V5, The reborn Lamia, as part of Clan Hecata, are able to use the Oblivion discipline, which taps into the power of the Underworld's eponymous soul-destroying vortex. It also combines aspects of CastingAShadow.

* {{Glamour}}: Thanks to Presence.

Technically not a clan or even a bloodline, Caitiff are pure and simple clanless vampires. Often castoffs from vampire society and almost universally looked down on, Caitiff often have a ''very'' hard time getting by night by night simply due to the fact that nobody wants them. While their lack of clan ties cuts them off from their clan benefits, however, they are not affected by the clan flaws of their sire's clan either.

The Children of Osiris are more of a sect than a clan or bloodline, focused on learning how to overcome the Beast and maintain Humanity. Vampires join by choice, rather than being Embraced, and members of any clan or bloodline can join. Children of Osiris keep their original Disciplines and weakness, and gain access to the unique discipline of Bardo. Their founder, Osiris, was torn to pieces by Set, but was brought {{back from the dead}} by Isis, at the cost of being unable to sire new childer, which led him to found the sect.

* SkullForAHead: Thanks to the decay of their bodies, the Harbingers are just a thin layer of tattered skin away from being a clear-cut example of this; they already sport a very unnerving death's head grin.

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* RealityWarper: Thanks to Mytherceria, they can use Fae magic to see trhough lies, percieve other forms of magic, temporarily erase other people's memories, [[LevelDrain permanently drain Abilities from others]], and [[HumanityEnsues make themselves fully human]] for a day.

* NotSoDifferent: To the Tremere. The Nagaraja were originally Euthanatos mages.

* FliesEqualsEvil: A particularly horrific Baali sect known as the Avatars of the Swarm embrace this trope wholeheartedly. They do not follow the Children or any of the other usual demonic entities that the Baali worship; instead, they devote themselves to the propagation of vast swarms of ghoul flies, even using human prisoners as incubators for the larvae. Favoured devotees are often haloed with clouds of insects (the Lord of the Flies flaw). Some members of the sect even make themselves into broodmothers for the swarms, allowing themselves to be used as incubators and ritualistically cutting themselves open to release the matured flies- over and over again. As for the unique embrace for this particular sect... it requires an OrificeInvasion. [[spoiler: In the introduction to the clanbook, the orifice of choice is the urethra.]] Enough said.

* EldritchAbomination: The Children; a cabal of primeval beings native to the darkness that existed prior to the creation of the world, they were almost wiped out by "Let There Be Light." Falling to the newly-created earth, the survivors burrowed into the earth and sealed themselves away there; eventually, humans discovered the sleeping monsters and began to worship them in the hopes of gaining some of their godlike power- up until they realized that doing so was actually bringing the Children dangerously close to wakefulness and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. So, in a desperate attempt to lull them back to sleep- and keep drawing power from them without fear of death- their worshippers set about committing horrific acts of mass-murder and rape. According to the clanbook, the Baali are merely the latest in line to carry on their worship.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: 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.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: A lot of the high-level abilities provided by Temporis are insanely powerful, but take a toll on the user's body and can cause him to die if he doesn't stop it at the right moment. In-game, the Temporis user can take Aggravated damage if they misuse their powers, and they WILL take it if they use some the stronger abilities. Too much abuse, and {{Permadeath}} will follow.

** [[spoiler: Subverted in their reputation as Soul-Stealers, which is not just Tremere slander, as proven by the Nkulu Zao bloodline. Although the Nkulu don’t represent the rest, and were only pushed into the desperation that lead to the soul-stealing after the Tremere slandered the Salubri.]]

** 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.]]

** [[spoiler: Whether or not Saulot is good or evil. Or both at different times.]]

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: A lot of the high-level abilities provided by Temporis are insanely powerful, but take a toll on the user's body and can cause him to die if he doesn't stop it at the right moment. In-game, the Temporis user can take Aggravated damage if they misuse their powers, and they WILL take it if they use some the stronger abilities. Too much abuse, and FinalDeath will follow.

* AlchemyIsMagic: According to ''Lore of the Bloodlines'', before their founder became a vampire, he and his sister were alchemists who sought to create the perfect being. When he lost all his resources after the Embrace, his sister sacrificed herself that he might work the transformation [[ProfessorGuineaPig upon himself]], being changed from a Lasombra to the first of the Kiasyd. The bloodline sees themselves as unliving alchemical laboratories, and experiment with the blood of the supernatural in order to transform themselves further.

* CastingAShadow: They wield Obtenebration.

* HeelFaceTurn: ''Lore of the Bloodlines'' notes that in recent years, their founder has gone over to the Camarilla, with some of the bloodline following silently in his path. The Sabbat are apparently happy to let them go.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: A lot of the high-level abilities provided by Temporis are insanely powerful, but take a toll on the user's body and can cause him to die if he doesn't stop it at the right moment.

* TimeMaster: Through the Temporis discipline.

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* PoisonousPerson: Their bloodline weakness; they were carriers of a wasting disease, and ran the risk of spreading it to those they fed on.

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Cappadocius received a vision which he interpreted to mean he should ''diablerise God'', and sought to put it into practice.]]

* AscendedDemon: Saulot himself, having reached Golconda; the surviving healer Salubri aspire to reach this state. [[spoiler:Possibly subverted: Transylvania Chronicles has Saulot's written rant against Caine and his stating a desire to become the Demon King of the Sixth Age in Kuei-Jin cosmology in a case of AGodAmI. Metaplot flip flops on Saulot being good or evil depending on the book.]]

* AGodAmI: The Celestials in particular practice infernalism not to ''serve'' demons, but to ''usurp'' them. [[spoiler:Only two Baali in history, Nergal and Mary the Black, succeeded in this. Nergal in particular really plays this trope straight, referring to himself as "Shaitan" and "Huitzilopochtli."]]

* AGodAmI: Some Danava claim to be ''asuras'' (demons) in human form. Others claim to be descendants of the goddess Danu. All seek transcendence of their mortal form.

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** [[spoiler: Subverted in their reputation as Soul-Stealers, which is not just Tremere slander, as proven by the Nkulu Zao bloodline.]]

A Sabbat bloodline created by Tremere and Tzimisce sorcerers to serve as shock troops. They're created in batches via magic, as they're unable to Embrace. Their creation process removes much of any individuality or creativity they might have possessed - anyone who comes through with their personality remaining gets killed. They operate in groups, and have usually been fleshcrafted to look alike.

* ReligionOfEvil: ''Every'' faith espoused by the Nergali Bali. Subverted for the Moloch Baali, who worship Abel as an instrument of God and support personality good spirituality (though they hate organized religion, viewing it as inherently [[PathOfInspiration corrupted by Cain]]).

* BlackAndGrayMorality: Sums up the whole paradigm between the Nergali Baali and the Molochim. The Nergali want to break the world by creating HellOnEarth, and are unapologetically evil, and are [[CardCarryingVillain damned proud of it]]. The Molochim, on the other hand, while still often using infernal powers themselves and are more than willing to commit their own atrocities, realize how [[EvenEvilHasStandards bad of an idea]] that is, and are hellbent on stopping the former, just as Moloch tried to stop Nergal himself in ancient times. Also unlike the Nergali, the atrocities the Molochim commit are done explicitly to keep [[SealedEvilInACan the Children asleep]], and are never done ForTheEvulz.

* VampiresLoveJesus: Saulot was considered the Cainite most faithful to the Lord and as such he established the Road of Light to teach vampires how to control the Beast using religious devotion.

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 human.