Vampire the Masquerade Lore: The Top Ten Ghouls

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  • @dragonhunter4592
    @dragonhunter4592 3 роки тому +81

    Hearing about an inbred cannibal growing a mutant warhound named Muffin honestly feels very charming. A boy and his dog.

  • @DarthMatusHolocron
    @DarthMatusHolocron 3 роки тому +48

    My dude for real. You are the Ken Burns of World of Darkness. I aspire to your levels of awesome with my channel. Please keep it up

  • @Bum_Numba_One
    @Bum_Numba_One 3 роки тому +116

    I like how the Ghoul symbol looks like a pawn.

    • @skeletonking4119
      @skeletonking4119 3 роки тому +13

      Ghoul are unwilling pawn of the game of vampires and so dose the neonate and so the elders before them. Even the methuselahs

    • @unatco1148
      @unatco1148 3 роки тому +2

      lol

    • @Bum_Numba_One
      @Bum_Numba_One 3 роки тому +5

      @꧁༒Charlest༒꧂ Yeah, I know what an Ankh is, idk why youtube deleted my comment. I was saying that actual Ankhs are skinnier, longer and pointier, look at Egypt and the Camarilla. This one is obviously squished to resemble the pawn chess piece.

    • @311JW
      @311JW 3 роки тому

      Heh heh yeah

    • @obamawtrump8432
      @obamawtrump8432 2 роки тому +4

      And just in the game of chess.
      The right ghoul, with the virtue of having a closer understnding of humans, and society.
      And with the right past human personality.
      Can both reach high.
      Imagine such scenarios as WW2.
      Working as a systems engineer, for the postal stamps for concentration camps.
      Giving him insight. In how to a
      Obtain ravnos vitaie, in the primarily gypsy ravnos vampire.
      Being able to. Secretly obtaining vitae.
      And perhaps. Being part of operation paperclip.
      Where former SS, where drafted to work for America.
      Where CIA. Were founded by with ex SS intelligence officers where put in the Americans branch.
      That is a wery powerfull ghoul.
      That now have influence. To pull vampire strings.

  • @wiederganger1959
    @wiederganger1959 3 роки тому +14

    Dude, dude, you should absolutely do a top 10 Wyrm servants .
    Or perhaps a video giving more in depth lore on the Nictuku.
    By the way, awesome work, keep it up!

  • @steampunker7
    @steampunker7 3 роки тому +64

    Won't lie, always had a soft spot for ghouls. The concept just offers so many avenues for character exploration and storytelling and allows for peaks behind the curtain of the Masquerade without giving everything away. For concepts Ghouls can be loyal retainers, brutal enforcers, single minded fanatics, deluded cultists, broken addicts, simpering slaves, elite mooks, middle managers and fronts, boon companions or dangerous predators in any Vampire or Arcanum game. And since most usually only have just enough functional knowledge of the darker powers in the WoD but are often ignorant of the deeper details, histories, and contexts they are great sources of in universe misinformation and misdirection. A curveball you can throw at players who might be a little too overconfident in their abilities or if you need an antagonist that's a cut or two above regular mortals but not necessarily a full fledged creepy crawly in their own right.
    Like maybe the players might be investigating a rash of grisly murders thinking some rogue neonate is a binge feeder risking the Masquerade. Only it turns out to be an independent ghoul whose got a vampire staked and captive, force feeding them stolen blood and harvesting vitae for their own purposes and ends.
    Or maybe the players are dealing with some cult or decadent family or shady business whose inner circle is getting a little extra boost from their "patron" who hides the doling out of their blood in some kind of weird but otherwise benign looking ritual. The recipients have no idea exactly WHAT it is they are imbibing. Only that it's liquid dynamite that makes them feel like a million bucks.
    Or what about hunters and occult investigators who figured out juicing with vampire blood gives them an edge in their arcane studies or fighting the forces of darkness? A dot or two of Celerity or Potence or some random Thaumaturgical path or Vampiric power doesn't sound like much on its own. But it can quickly flip the script and put the players on their back foot if they don't see it coming.
    And then you've got the Revenant families whose cliquish natures, physical prowess and societal influence rival even some of the Clans, with branches and alcoves that can pop up in the strangest places and bring with them their own squicky set of secretive agendas, bizarre abilities, and unsavory habits.
    Thus in a way ghouls are kind of the in universe bridge in the WoD. Though still technically mortal they have just enough exposure and knowledge of what's really going on to be a threat to others but also a potential danger to themselves as their mucking about in "that which mortals were not meant to know" can set them up to take a fall. This makes them a fungible resource and tool that can be a sign that the story is indeed moving one step beyond or the threat has escalated without it being immediately clear as to the exact nature of what the players might really be up against.

    • @konradstrom2976
      @konradstrom2976 3 роки тому +4

      Thanks for the ideas. I can def use them.

    • @steampunker7
      @steampunker7 3 роки тому +1

      @@konradstrom2976 Most welcome. :)

    • @heavenseeker2320
      @heavenseeker2320 3 роки тому +1

      That a really good way to thought abo the ghouls from a story teller perspective

    • @steampunker7
      @steampunker7 3 роки тому +4

      @@heavenseeker2320 Thank you. Like I said, the concept really is a fascinating one. Ghouls are, basically, the parasites living off of parasites. The quislings and collaborators who sold out the rest of humanity and themselves to be pets rather livestock to the Vampires. Even the so called "independent" ones chase down their next vitae hit for no other reason than the rush and power it gives them, however small. You could argue that Vampires do what they do because they have to. It's the only way they can survive. Ghouls do what they do because they want to. Because they got a taste of something amazing and now won't let it go.
      There's something sinister, tragic, repulsive, and sobering in that and it's fun to explore in game. ^.^

    • @steampunker7
      @steampunker7 2 роки тому

      @James Sunderland Not really. But you're free to assume what you like. However wrong you may be. 🤷‍♂

  • @zackkilgore528
    @zackkilgore528 3 роки тому +10

    Buddy you are a boon to the series please don’t stop making excellent content

  • @rustyshackleford3160
    @rustyshackleford3160 Рік тому +3

    Aneska of Prague gets my vote!
    She's not from the tabletop game, but she's from the World of Darkness. Although she's not a playable character in Vampire The Masquerade: Redemption she's absolutely the protagonist of that story!!
    Woooooo!! I'm glad you thought so too to rate her so high

  • @wiederganger1959
    @wiederganger1959 3 роки тому +9

    Thank you so much for this!
    Your grasp on the lore is amazing, I'm not easily out-nerded, but there you go..

  • @NIS0RA
    @NIS0RA Рік тому +3

    As someone who absolutely loves playing a ghoul, this was a real treat for me!

    • @lazarofstygia2241
      @lazarofstygia2241  Рік тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed it!

    • @konradcurze939
      @konradcurze939 Рік тому

      ​@lazarofstygia2241 all your content is amazing. Your voice delivery and descriptions are just great

    • @jackfoxx6351
      @jackfoxx6351 11 місяців тому

      My favorite character was basically a ghoul.

  • @robertderienzo2145
    @robertderienzo2145 3 роки тому +9

    Not being able to sleeps means I got to see this early, just in time

  • @rhatthecat
    @rhatthecat 3 роки тому +6

    You are my number one place i go to for the fantastic lore of VTM. Great work! And thanks for all your videos.

  • @marysmith4909
    @marysmith4909 3 роки тому +6

    Damn, I never knew I needed this video until now! Thank you so much for this video dude!

  • @zacharyhawley1693
    @zacharyhawley1693 3 роки тому +28

    Always remember to never mistreat your ghouls, treat them well like family and you'll never have to worry about betrayal.

    • @lazarofstygia2241
      @lazarofstygia2241  3 роки тому +21

      Unless you condition your ghouls to believe that abuse is love. It works (most of the time) for the Tzimisce.

    • @zacharyhawley1693
      @zacharyhawley1693 3 роки тому +10

      @@lazarofstygia2241 Ah. The fiends who operate under the assumption that all one needs to be a monster is permission. Nephandi of the vampires

    • @ThatBlueSkull
      @ThatBlueSkull 3 роки тому +3

      @@zacharyhawley1693 or use dominate on them until they learn there place

    • @ilnigromante666
      @ilnigromante666 3 роки тому +6

      @@zacharyhawley1693 In a crossover chronicle, an alliance between the Tzimisce and Nephandi mages should come as no surprise.

    • @wolfsbanealphas617
      @wolfsbanealphas617 3 роки тому +1

      @@lazarofstygia2241 so like hector in castlevania

  • @vanzetti1927
    @vanzetti1927 3 роки тому +4

    Heather at the end was a nice surprise! Good job.

    • @lazarofstygia2241
      @lazarofstygia2241  3 роки тому +2

      Thanks. I didn't want to leave her off but I already had my ten.

  • @skeletonking4119
    @skeletonking4119 3 роки тому +21

    IMPOSSIBLE!!!!
    Ghouls too?!
    Dam!!
    Sir you Nailed it!

  • @gaarajeffri1512
    @gaarajeffri1512 3 роки тому +6

    wow love your topic and how your present it Ghouls are rarely talked about and their deeds yet their life is a vital thing to masters !

  • @lennoxshepherd3905
    @lennoxshepherd3905 3 роки тому +14

    He lives!
    Also love how two of the ghouls was from the plots of the two vtm games
    It hurt to see heather get killed though after saving her, would of been great if she more fleshed out as a character.

    • @mayalewis2956
      @mayalewis2956 3 роки тому +3

      I made her leave lol. After feeding her once compared to other ghouls she was obsessed a bit more than I was expecting then if you keep.the agme just forces you to stand there and watch like? Iv been slicing my way through this place it would of been easy to save her.

    • @rhatthecat
      @rhatthecat 3 роки тому +8

      @@mayalewis2956
      She was obsessed because of your potent blood, since you were kind of bloodbound by Cain himself if i remember right, which is why you also grew as fast in both strength and power. Strauss and Andrei were the ones who noticed that something was off with you, because you never diablerised anyone but still had power that would take a new fledgling centuries to get.

    • @mayalewis2956
      @mayalewis2956 3 роки тому +5

      @@rhatthecat yeah if I'm remembering right Caine can boost a kindred powers/lower thier generation that and I think we are 8th? Generation

    • @joshshin6819
      @joshshin6819 2 роки тому

      @@rhatthecat I do not recall you being blood bound to Cain during the entire events of the game. Like at all.

    • @joshshin6819
      @joshshin6819 2 роки тому

      @@mayalewis2956 Cain's blood didn't reduce your generation. It only temporarily enhanced your powers while it was in your system but it wasn't permanent.

  • @jackfoxx6351
    @jackfoxx6351 11 місяців тому +1

    My favorite charactor ive ever played was born from two parents of 15th gen thin bloods on the week of nightmares. So this was an interesting video for me. Ty

  • @DarkVeghetta
    @DarkVeghetta 2 роки тому +6

    Given just how thorough I was when handling the Sabat, I was ENORMOUSLY angry when they kidnapped Heather. So angry, in fact, that I replayed that section for several hours, squeezing all the vengeance I could from those foolish, accursed Sabat. In fact, I was so incensed at the railroading and lack of meaningful options for taking care of Heather, that I put down V:tM for years.
    Finally, after some thorough research and the V:tM unofficial patch, I was able to craft a story for Heather that was satisfactory and that didn't lead to her doom nor her permanent estrangement from my character. It took literal years, but I was happy with the result. What can I say - loyalty bequeaths loyalty.

    • @DarkVeghetta
      @DarkVeghetta 2 роки тому +1

      @@samphadhavihara4035 Unfortunately, the entire endgame is rushed - likely due to Troika's impending dissolution. V:tM is a masterpiece, but sadly a deeply flawed one.
      Thankfully, the fans have improved the experience via fan-patches over the years; it's much better now than it was the day it came out and improvements are still being added.

  • @Sarcastic_Sophist
    @Sarcastic_Sophist 3 роки тому +4

    Amazing video. I still hope to one day play or run an all ghoul game. Also I shall miss ghoul number 11. Yet i shall remember her fondly.

  • @randver5656
    @randver5656 3 роки тому +6

    I most definitely was not expecting to hear a song from scratches. I feel old...

  • @honkeykong4049
    @honkeykong4049 3 роки тому +5

    *Assuming this series is still going, I would like to float the idea of the "Top 10 Scariest Creatures in the World of Darkness" or something like that. I remember reading about a character called the Long Man or something like that who specifically hunts vampires to eat, and the scene I'm thinking of was pretty cool. Just a thought though.*

  • @Breakfst4dinner
    @Breakfst4dinner 3 роки тому +1

    Can't wait for more content, these videos are fantastic and I always learn something new.

  • @skeath36
    @skeath36 2 роки тому +4

    One time while playing a Nosferatu the Storyteller gave everyone some free time during the session where he planned out different scenarios based on what we did to make a long story short I saved a girl being attacked in an alley while going to our supplier from the Shadows and gave her some of my blood when she was injured saving her life I was surprised a few games later when she showed up asking return the favor.
    I took her in because likely she would have been killed if I turned her away because of the masquerade and that's how I ended up getting a ghoul servant.

  • @hobo8420
    @hobo8420 3 роки тому +2

    Mate thanks so much for uploading another vtm vid, u should seriously set up a patreon or something cuz u deserve the money

  • @JohnSmith-xm4dk
    @JohnSmith-xm4dk 3 роки тому +4

    Its been a while Lazar, hope you're doing good and that you'll continue talking about world of darkness in the future.

  • @davidberkowitz7411
    @davidberkowitz7411 3 роки тому +3

    Great work!

  • @truesalubriseraphiel8227
    @truesalubriseraphiel8227 3 роки тому +1

    Fantastic video!

  • @ethans.1905
    @ethans.1905 3 роки тому +1

    This channel is fantastic.

  • @TheDevian
    @TheDevian Рік тому

    Thanks for adding Heather, she was tragic.

  • @onemoregodrejected9369
    @onemoregodrejected9369 2 роки тому +2

    Prias story is simply amazing.
    An antediluvian like ghoul

  • @ilnigromante666
    @ilnigromante666 3 роки тому +9

    If a ghoul is strong and smart, he or she can with time earn the trust and favor of its domitor, getting into position to one day turn the tables on the hapless vampire.

    • @lazarofstygia2241
      @lazarofstygia2241  3 роки тому +7

      A very dangerous, high-staked game to play

    • @ilnigromante666
      @ilnigromante666 3 роки тому +2

      @@lazarofstygia2241 Well, the most dangerous games are the ones that yield the greatest rewards.

  • @potandpoliticswithmr.broph1420
    @potandpoliticswithmr.broph1420 3 роки тому +5

    Woot! I'm early enough to be Caine!

    • @TheRavenShadowsWolf
      @TheRavenShadowsWolf 3 роки тому +3

      I see what you did there, but I'll give you points for enough creativity not to just say "first."

    • @lazarofstygia2241
      @lazarofstygia2241  3 роки тому +1

      But not early enough to be Lucifer.

  • @louiemercado5595
    @louiemercado5595 3 роки тому +4

    Good job on the ghouls from Vampire the Masquerade my friend. But there's one popular culture for ghouls is the best selling, hardcore, gory, bloody and horrifying manga and anime is Tokyo Ghoul which everybody loves so much.

  • @BlackIce3190
    @BlackIce3190 3 роки тому +1

    Ah, the Bratovitch. For when you wanna make the most Sabbat of Sabbat. I’ve been messing around with one embraced by a Gangrel.

  • @TheKagar
    @TheKagar Рік тому

    Thank you for Upload :)

  • @natesnarrations7215
    @natesnarrations7215 Рік тому +4

    Salamanca….. DING DING DING DING DING

  • @FatalErrorHxC
    @FatalErrorHxC 3 роки тому +2

    Omg, you forgot Izaha oO
    Feelsbad but love your work
    Keep it up fellow scholar

    • @lazarofstygia2241
      @lazarofstygia2241  3 роки тому

      He's not really a 'ghoul' though, is he?

    • @FatalErrorHxC
      @FatalErrorHxC 3 роки тому +1

      @@lazarofstygia2241 xD I see, well it’s unknown and rumored to be a ghoul. Although he’s indisputably an insane work of a char :>
      Still you are doing a great deal of a work, hidden lore of fluff in our wod is so important for coloring our lives. Thanks for spreading your hours of diving in books to the public!

  • @sneedchuckington
    @sneedchuckington 3 роки тому +2

    I miss these videos king. You expecting to be able to get back to it any time soon?

  • @DCPTF2
    @DCPTF2 3 роки тому +1

    pretty good, looks like this might have been grabbed by the algorithm

  • @mohammedosman4902
    @mohammedosman4902 3 роки тому +2

    Quality content

  • @doinwork5824
    @doinwork5824 3 роки тому +4

    does anyone know the source for the bratovich family in arkansas? i am building a character for a game and a cannon brato family in Arkansas would be perfect for my needs

    • @lazarofstygia2241
      @lazarofstygia2241  3 роки тому +2

      Mediums.

    • @____________838
      @____________838 3 роки тому

      I too would like to know. I figure it was only the general “inbredness” of the Brats that seems to correlate with Arkansas, but I’m not sure if the connection was ever made in official print.

  • @Mr_m33k
    @Mr_m33k 3 роки тому +1

    Have you ever done a video on the mekhet? Or he morbus?

  • @TheRavenShadowsWolf
    @TheRavenShadowsWolf 3 роки тому +4

    Now I am very glad I deleted my last comment... and you get ALL the bonus points as an epic "troll." Bravo. Too bad you need a mod to get her to survive, but at least it's there. : )

  • @Kholan95
    @Kholan95 3 роки тому +2

    What book is Caspar Bratovich in? Love the description!

    • @____________838
      @____________838 3 роки тому +1

      Might be in Tradition Book: Euthonatos, that seems to be where most of the info on the Orphic Circle comes from, but I don’t have the book on hand and will have to wait another month to Scribd it.

  • @nonenone7567
    @nonenone7567 3 роки тому +1

    Oh! Can we get a history of the First Cabal next?

  • @pauloamaral4650
    @pauloamaral4650 3 роки тому

    Thanks for the vid 😘

  • @raulmenendez2312
    @raulmenendez2312 3 роки тому +1

    ok this is epic

  • @timengelhardt154
    @timengelhardt154 11 місяців тому

    In the vampire games my group would run. We would be ghouls for around 20 sessions before we would even be up for embrace. We played a game from time until modern nights and we were ghouls for around 2 years irl. Honestly some of the most fun I've had has been as a ghoul.

  • @Actalzy
    @Actalzy 3 роки тому +1

    Any thoughts on doing a video about Abominations? They always seemed like interesting creatures, forever tormented and lost. One of very few creatures that when seen can unite kindred and garou even if just to kill it or drive it off.

    • @____________838
      @____________838 3 роки тому

      I only remember two or three ever being mentioned.

    • @gypsyg9612
      @gypsyg9612 Рік тому

      @@____________838
      There are many, there are even active one jumping to my mind in Chicago named Harold Goodston

  • @taustyz5875
    @taustyz5875 2 роки тому

    You should do a video on Abominations, Garou and other Fera turned into Vampires.

  • @nateperkins9860
    @nateperkins9860 2 роки тому

    Now we just need top 10 kindred of the various bloodlines.

  • @Posturtle
    @Posturtle 3 роки тому +8

    The Ghouls & Revenants V20 sourcebook is one of my favorites. They fascinate me. A Ghoul-based game sounds cool but I think of it, not unlike a below decks campaign for Star Trek: it might present too many difficulties unless all involved were really gung ho about it.

    • @steampunker7
      @steampunker7 3 роки тому +2

      That's a pretty good descriptor actually. A "lower decks" story. Given how often ghouls are used as fronts, envoys, liaisons, and "middle managers" in Vampiric organizations it would be kind of interesting to explore the Jyhad from their perspective. The "boots on the ground" so to speak who often have no real insight or understanding of the big picture. They just play their part and carry out their orders.
      Be fun to see what happens when a small group of loyal ghouls who think their domitor is some big wig muckity muck find out they are really a loser and poser in the Vampire ranks. Do they stick with them? Try to trade up? Leave them for independent life?
      Or what about if a cadre of independents roll into town, casing the city and looking for blood suckers to juice, having to gather intel and navigate the local underworld as they zero in on their prey.
      Or maybe they are groomed and sent to infiltrate the local Arcanum chapter house or Pentex branch office, having to keep their cover while finding out what the targets know about their master and its operations.
      Or maybe run a kind of fighting tournament where various ghoul characters are made to fight Mortal Kombat style for the pleasure of their vampiric overlords.
      Or maybe they run afoul of one of the Revenant families. Maybe the player ghouls are sent in to deal with one of their holdings and find out the hard way there are things arguably worse than even vampires.
      Lot of directions you could go with it if you get the right crew. :)

    • @lazarofstygia2241
      @lazarofstygia2241  3 роки тому +4

      That's the case with most games. We all have to be on the same page (more or less) for the game to function.

  • @LucaS-lc2cu
    @LucaS-lc2cu 2 роки тому

    Honorable mention: Guillermo de la Cruz

  • @CEZA-123
    @CEZA-123 3 роки тому +1

    Capadocianssss top ten

  • @Ratzy-h8q
    @Ratzy-h8q 3 роки тому

    Damn i miss your videos =-(

  • @jadehathaway4336
    @jadehathaway4336 Рік тому +2

    Heather probably survived and were probably pregnant with the fledgling baby therefore she gave birth to a Dhampir child and more follow after

  • @dirtyoldgrognard6427
    @dirtyoldgrognard6427 Рік тому +3

    You forgot George Soros. Im pretty sure he's a Giovanni Ghoul

  • @ServinPL
    @ServinPL 3 роки тому

    It's time for a new video... Enough torpor...

  • @tombirmingham7033
    @tombirmingham7033 2 роки тому +1

    I used to play a Ghoul at the larps that I would go to. I would role in, find some idiots to use as my shock troops and weaken the biggest badass of the game. Then I would blow his head off with a double barrl3d sawed off shotgun full of dragon flairs.
    Don't mess with me.

  • @onisinn1
    @onisinn1 3 роки тому

    🌈👍

  • @skllarty6959
    @skllarty6959 3 роки тому

    Адракс прийди и переведи!

  • @t.d.w.maverick5727
    @t.d.w.maverick5727 2 роки тому +2

    Hey 👋 You Might 👋 🤔 Say The Ghoul Symbol 😏 😉 is 🇺🇸 A Panwnk: (Ank' -_Pawn,).