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* KnowledgeBroker: [[spoiler:Grace Epting]] was the most powerful information broker in Canada and the Northern US, even being described as a kingmaker. [[spoiler: Several Kindred muse that, if the secret that Corliss diablerized her ever got out, Corliss would have to flee the continent at the bare minimum in order to avoid the many who'd do anything to get their hands on whatever scraps of knowledge Grace left behind.]]

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* KnowledgeBroker: [[spoiler:Grace Epting]] was the most powerful information broker in Canada and the Northern US, even being described as a kingmaker. [[spoiler: Several Kindred muse that, if the secret that news of Corliss diablerized diablerizing her ever got out, became public knowledge, Corliss would have to flee the continent at the bare minimum in order to avoid the many who'd do anything to get their hands on whatever scraps of knowledge information Grace left behind.]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Everyone was plotting against the Prince due to his inscrutable actions that meant none of the elders or ancilla could trust him. You have to play the game extensively to realize, [[spoiler: "The alien morality of the Prince is that he actually believes his word means something and that he always will look after the people he considers his friends. Even if it's more expedient to kill them."]]
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* BungledHypnotism: You can encounter a human who's taking a little ''too'' much interest in Elysium. If you interrogate her, you'll find that she's a former ghoul who has since been released, but the mental command for her to forget all about that time of her life has worn off and she's desperate to work her way back into Kindred affairs.

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* FaceHeelTurn: While you can be nasty enough to count as a Heel from the jump if you choose, [[spoiler:taking up Trevor on his offer to join the Sabbat is ''definitely'' this.]]



** In the first chapter, it's mentioned specifically that Corliss has three Childer, which makes some people jealous because it's unusual to be granted the Right of Progeny more than once or twice. [[spoiler: Turns out she actually did only get it twice. The third time was an emergency coverup of Corliss murdering your ''real'' Sire on the very night you were Embraced.]]

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** In the first chapter, it's mentioned specifically that Corliss has three Childer, which makes some people jealous because it's unusual to be granted the Right of Progeny more than once or twice. [[spoiler: Turns [[spoiler:Turns out she actually did only get it twice. The third time was an emergency coverup of Corliss murdering your ''real'' Sire on the very night you were Embraced.]]



** Most Kindred don't dream much at all, yet recently the protagonist has been consistently dreaming of the early nights of their unlife. [[spoiler: This is because Arundel going missing triggered to breakdown of the FakeMemories implanted in them.]]
** After Vivian's crucifixion, multiple people question why most of her servants took poison, but her butler was violently murdered. [[spoiler: The butler was a spy. His true loyalties always lay elsewhere, so he wasn't brainwashed enough to kill himself for her sake.]]

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** Most Kindred don't dream much at all, yet recently the protagonist has been consistently dreaming of the early nights of their unlife. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This is because Arundel going missing triggered to breakdown of the FakeMemories implanted in them.]]
** After Vivian's crucifixion, multiple people question why most of her servants took poison, but her butler was violently murdered. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The butler was a spy. His true loyalties always lay elsewhere, so he wasn't brainwashed enough to kill himself for her sake.]]



* HeelFaceTurn: While you can be nasty enough to count as a Heel from the jump if you choose, [[spoiler: taking up Trevor on his offer to join the Sabbat is ''definitely'' this.]]

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** Trevor Haidt [[spoiler: is actually a Sabbat holdout pumping up support for a new wave of fighting against the antediluvians. While he's ostensibly in town to deliver Annabelle's message, he only took the job so he'd have a chance to recruit you, as Grace Epting was once his mentor and he wants her childe to be in the Sword of Caine.]]



* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: [[spoiler:Arundel]] says this word for word if the protagonist let's slip to him that they've [[spoiler:unlocked their suppressed memories.]] And for good reason, since [[spoiler:those memories explicitly implicate him in helping to cover up diablerie.]]

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* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: [[spoiler:Arundel]] says this word for word if the protagonist let's slip to him that they've [[spoiler:unlocked their suppressed memories.]] And for good reason, since [[spoiler:those [[spoiler: those memories explicitly implicate him in helping to cover up diablerie.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: While you can be nasty enough to count as a Heel from the jump if you choose, [[spoiler: taking up Trevor on his offer to join the Sabbat is ''definitely'' this.
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** Robert Ward [[spoiler: is working with Kashif Salik to overthrow Corliss but is not a true Anarch. He is actually Prince Arundel's lover.]]
** Prince Arundel [[spoiler: has been working to spread his Princedom all across Canada. He is also building alliances with the Banu Haqim and other sources of non-Camarilla power.]]

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** Robert Ward [[spoiler: is working with Kashif Salik to overthrow Corliss but is not a true Anarch. Anarch, although he believes in their cause and wants them in the city. He is actually Prince Arundel's lover.lover (sort of ex, sort of not).]]
** Prince Arundel [[spoiler: has been working to spread his Princedom all across Canada. He is also building alliances with the Banu Haqim and other sources of non-Camarilla power. He intended to vanish on purpose for a little bit to see what would happen, but Corliss and the Tremere got the jump on him.]]



** The Lasombra representative [[spoiler: Basaras is planning to execute the Sheriff of the city, Qui, in order to make it easier for them to enter the community.]]

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** The Lasombra representative [[spoiler: Basaras is planning not joining the Camarilla in good faith (inasmuch as vampires have such a thing). He's secretly a Shalimite who wants to execute get more converts from the city, and he wants to assassinate Qui because the Sheriff of the city, Qui, is getting in order to make it easier for them to enter the community.his way.]]



* PathOfInspiration: [[spoiler: Jordan's cult is about mortal's getting enlightenment from being fed on by vampires. It is an obvious scam.]]

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* PathOfInspiration: [[spoiler: Jordan's cult is about mortal's mortals getting enlightenment from being fed on by vampires. It is an obvious scam.]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: If you're playing as Lasombra, Corliss decided Lucca actually couldn't handle the truth of your heritage, and with the help of some judicious mental blocks by Arundel, convinced Lucca that you're all actually Malkavians pretending to be Ventrue (and that any weird feelings she might have about shadows, her reflection, or technology not working right are her "gifts from Malkav"). This decision was probably helped along by an incident in which Nathaniel, her other childe, just up and told some other neonates his true heritage, forcing her and Arundel to kill them all to cover it up.
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* ImplausibleDeniability: Should you kill [[spoiler: Durand]], another character will speedily cover your ass with the flimsy claim that [[spoiler: Durand was actually a fraud and a spy.]] It's near outright stated that nobody actually believes this, they're just not in a position to argue. [[spoiler: Really, they're not ''supposed'' to buy it, either. Arundel just can't straight-up say that he's ordering them to let you get away with killing an Archon. When Bouchard questions the story's plausibility, Arundel's response boils down to "you'll believe it because I'm the Prince and I say so".]]
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* TheUnfavorite: Lucca bitterly comments that you're the "golden childe", as Corliss completely ignored her in the decades she was handling Corliss's overseas business affairs. It's true that of your three "siblings", you're the one who gets the most attention, but whether that's actually positive for you depends on your choices. [[spoiler: If you're loyal, you will in fact turn out to be Corliss's favorite, or at least the one she considers most useful. If you're subversive, you are ''very much'' not and she only kept you around because Arundel made her.]]
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** After Vivian's crucifixion, multiple people question why most of her servants took poison, but her butler was violently murdered. [[spoiler: The butler was a spy. His true loyalties always lay elsewhere, so he wasn't brainwashed enough to kill himself for her sake.]]
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* NoKillLikeOverkill: If you choose Bouchard's route, you have to help him fight a pissed-off Tremere. He has you unload the entire magazine of an antique heavy machine gun into her while he has her distracted. There's barely anything left by the time you're done.

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* CallBack: At one point, the Archon Adeline makes a disdainful comment about how Tuscon is a backwater run by a Gangrel, referencing Lettow from ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeNightRoad''.

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At one point, the Archon Adeline makes a disdainful comment about how Tuscon is a backwater run by a Gangrel, referencing Lettow from ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeNightRoad''.''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeNightRoad''.
** Prince Annabelle's childer are digging around under Ottawa because they learned from a Gangrel scholar that something powerful and dreadful may sleep beneath the city. If you ask who they mean, they'll confirm it's Beckett himself.
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* DeckOfWildCards: There's no shortage of suspects when the Prince of Ottawa mysterious vanishes, leaving his position up for grabs. [[spoiler:Though the culprit turns out the be the most [[TheStarscream obvious traitor]] of the lot.]]
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** The Banu Haqim Sevnic [[spoiler: is this by Adeline in order to attack Robert Ward and Arundel]]

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** The Banu Haqim Sevnic Sevinc [[spoiler: is this by Adeline in order to attack Robert Ward and Arundel]]



* GoldenEnding: [[spoiler:If you play your cards right, including destroying Adeline Durand and saving Arundel, Arundel makes Ward his second-in-command, you his Seneschal, and creates a city where Anarchs and Camarilla alike actually get along and live in relative peace. Corliss is dead and gone. Kashif survives and helps destroy the last of Durand's forces. Lucca gets a promotion, instead of being blamed for what Corliss did, and Qui is able to expand the police force to better protect the Masquerade. So much positive change occurring in one go and having it end well for so many people is is unheard of in the World of Darkness.]]

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* GoldenEnding: [[spoiler:If you play your cards right, including destroying Adeline Durand and saving Arundel, Arundel makes Ward his second-in-command, you his Seneschal, and creates a city where Anarchs and Camarilla alike actually get along and live in relative peace. Corliss is dead and gone.gone (or imprisoned so you can mine her memory). Kashif survives and helps destroy the last of Durand's forces. Lucca gets a promotion, instead of being blamed for what Corliss did, Vivian quickly retakes control of the media to get the hunters off your back, and Qui is able to expand the police force to better protect the Masquerade. So much positive change occurring in one go and having it end well for so many people is is unheard nigh-unheard of in the World of Darkness.Darkness. The only downside is that Vivian never receives any punishment for the massacre of her household.]]



* RightfulKingReturns: This is one possible ending. [[spoiler: It is also a brutal violent coup that shows how vampire politics works.]]

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* RightfulKingReturns: This is one possible ending. [[spoiler: It is also a brutal brutal, violent coup that shows how vampire politics works.]]

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