Caine sired the second generation who then sired the third. The third are known as the antediluvians. They sought power and so they killed the second generation which pissed off Caine who cursed each and every one of them. This curse also carried over to their descendants. And each of these third generation vampires is the Progenitor of one of the bloodlines (except for Tremere and few other exceptions but that's a bit more complicated)
The actual lore is that God only cursed Cain with immortality because eternal life is eternal suffering. Afterwards Cain was exiled in the land of Nod, where he found Lilith who knew magic and taught that knowledge to him, thus Cain became a extremely powerful blood mage. All vampire powers come from this. But then God sent angels one after the other to give Cain the chance of repentance. But Cain in his absolute stubbornness and arrogance refused each angel, one by one the angels left and each of them decided to leave Cain with a different course and weakness. The hunger for blood, the beast of darkness, fear of the sun, being a literal corpse instead of just a immortal dude. In the end, he became a vampire. Then some shit happened and Cain returned to the world, to find out that it was filled with the descendants of Seth, his other younger brother. Then Cain, who was a lonely person and had a falling out with Lilith, decided to build a city and he sired several humans into vampires to rule the city with him. He invented several other vampire abilities during this time, just so you know. All those vampiric disciples only exist to the weak modern day vampire, Cain could create a new one out of nowhere as long as he felt like it. Anyway, Cain feel in love with a woman and embraced her but even after she became a vampire, she did not love him back. So Cain (with the help of an old and powerful witch) invented the blood bond, where vampires could enslave others with their blood. Cain became an absolute powerful king, ruling over his city and making a perfect utopian society with a empire that grew day by day. His first children sired the antediluvians by this point and there were way WAY WAY MORE than 13. Everything was going too well, and Cain was too happy, so God said "No u" and the flood began. God wanted everyone to die except for Noah and his family, so Cain was fucked. Cain was lost in the world because of the flood but he managed to survive. Eventually after years, he discovered that the vampires had survived. But the antediluvians (which now were only 13) betrayed their creators and killed all of Cain's favored children. This pissed him off greatly and so Cain cursed them all. All unique clan weaknesses come from this. Afterwards Cain, now fully depressed, decided to disappear from the world. It is unknown what is doing in the current Vampire the masquerade world.
He looks so weird because Tzimisce can manipulate and sculpt flesh and bone lines with some kind of putty. They can create horrific monsters this way, change your appearance, or even make you extremely beautiful. The possibilities are endless. They can also use this ability on themselves to make themselves look, however, they want - most Tzimisce make themselves look extremely monstrous to terrify their victims.
VtM Is part of an extremely expansive series of urban fantasy tabletop games that have been around for around 20 years and have metric shit tons of lore, they've covered other supernaturals such as werewolves and mages. Vlad is a Tzimsce, vamps that specialize in "flesh sculpting", they usually look pretty fucked up. Every Clan has an inherent weakness, Nosferatus are fuck ass ugly for theirs. Cain sired several Vampires himself back in the biblical Era called the Antediluvians, 13 of which survived the great flood, each had almost godlike powers and went on to found the modern clans after Cain disappeared, most are either dead or in hibernation in the modern day.
From what little of the lore I've dived into, the more monsterous looking vampires have abilities that mask their true appearance. So that's probably how Vlad hid his vampiric form.
Not exactly. The clan that Dracula belongs to in this game do a lot of 'flesh shaping', hence they often do some work on themselves for the kicks. Think Hellraiser with fangs.
So the term 'Anarch' is actually a bit of a misnomer. The Anarchs are called that because it's the name the elder vampires gave to their rebellious childer that were pissed off about being used as meatshields against the Inquisition and decided to rebel. The Anarch Revolts were put down and a peace summit was held, wherein the Camarilla was founded as an official governmental body to formally codify and enforce the Traditions, a series of six laws that vampires had unlived by for thousands of years. The Anarchs accept the Traditions, especially the 1st Tradition of the Masquerade, but they take exception to the idea of the Traditions heavily favoring their elders, giving them virtually no say in vampire government without kissing ass, and punishes minor infractions like Siring without permission, killing people, being spotted doing vsmpire things, or not announcing yourself to the local Prince with strict and severe punishment. Usually death. The Anarchs themselves believe more in self-governance and relying on the community to enforce the Traditions with fairness and consideration instead of a de facto secret police force at the beck and call of an immortal senator and a committee of elders. Among the Anarchs, all vampires are fundamentally equal, and it is only their accomplishments among the community that elevate them above their peers. The extremists of the Anarch Revolt who believed that vampires should rule over humanity openly and rejected the Masquerade became the foundation of the Sabbat, a sect that embraces the vampiric condition, rejects their humanity, and generally seeks to undermine and destroy the Camarilla and human society as we understand it in favor of a Darwinian paradigm where vampires rule. In short, the Camarilla are Republicans, the Anarchs are Democrats, and the Sabbat are full-on Anarchists.
There are other supernatural races in the World of Darkness; Vampires, Werewolves, Mummies, Wraiths, Mages, and even the Fey all exist in this world. But each supernatural race has certain sub-races or distinct philosophical branches. With Vampires, you have the Clans, 13 major lineages descended from the Antediluvians, a group of ancient vampires from before the biblical Flood. These Clans are made distinct from one another by certain powers, peculiarities, and a distinct curse placed upon the Antediluvians by Caine himself for various transgressions. As an example, the Malkavians were cursed with madness because their founder, Malkav, pestered Caine with questions that he did not care for, particularly the question of why he did not accept forgiveness from God when it was offered to him. So Caine cursed Malkav with all the knowledge in Creation, giving him the answer to every question, which broke his mind and damages the psyche of all Malkavians with a permanent derangement upon their Embrace. The Clans and their various traits are there to explain the various discrepancies of vampire lore, embodying certain troped. For instance, the vampiric ability to turn into wolves, bats, and other animals is attributed to the Discipline of Protean, which gives vampires a degree of shapeshifting. This is predominantly used by Clan Gangrel, but is also shared by Clan Tzimisce, who use a variant of Protean called Vicissitude that allows them to mold the flesh and bones of both themselves and others like clay, and the Followers of Set, who use another variant of Protean called Serpentis that lets them take on the form of snakes instead of bats and wolves, as well as a few other more mystical abilities.
Give it up to my Malkavian brothers and sisters! Cliff Notes: God turned Cain into the first vampire and Cain ONLY turned 13 people into vampires. Those 13 are the basis of the 13 clans, two of which were wiped out. I want to stress that I can be wrong, this is just my basic understanding. If someone wants to clarify or correct me, I will not take it personally. Sseth is 100% right. This game is brilliant and great. Highly recommended, even if you played it once before. 😎 👍
If I remember right, the 13 antediluvians are all 3rd generation, so they were not sired by Caine himself, they were just sired by Caine's sired children (most of which I think died long ago), and some of the 13 shared the same sires. Beyond that, I think there's a possibility of God having also turned Lilith into a vampire too, but there's no confirmation on that.
The actual lore is that God only cursed Cain with immortality because eternal life is eternal suffering. Afterwards Cain was exiled in the land of Nod, where he found Lilith who knew magic and taught that knowledge to him, thus Cain became a extremely powerful blood mage. All vampire powers come from this. But then God sent angels one after the other to give Cain the chance of repentance. But Cain in his absolute stubbornness and arrogance refused each angel, one by one the angels left and each of them decided to leave Cain with a different course and weakness. The hunger for blood, the beast of darkness, fear of the sun, being a literal corpse instead of just a immortal dude. In the end, he became a vampire. Then some shit happened and Cain returned to the world, to find out that it was filled with the descendants of Seth, his other younger brother. Then Cain, who was a lonely person and had a falling out with Lilith, decided to build a city and he sired several humans into vampires to rule the city with him. He invented several other vampire abilities during this time, just so you know. All those vampiric disciples only exist to the weak modern day vampire, Cain could create a new one out of nowhere as long as he felt like it. Anyway, Cain feel in love with a woman and embraced her but even after she became a vampire, she did not love him back. So Cain (with the help of an old and powerful witch) invented the blood bond, where vampires could enslave others with their blood. Cain became an absolute powerful king, ruling over his city and making a perfect utopian society with a empire that grew day by day. His first children sired the antediluvians by this point and there were way WAY WAY MORE than 13. Everything was going too well, and Cain was too happy, so God said "No u" and the flood began. God wanted everyone to die except for Noah and his family, so Cain was fucked. Cain was lost in the world because of the flood but he managed to survive. Eventually after years, he discovered that the vampires had survived. But the antediluvians (which now were only 13) betrayed their creators and killed all of Cain's favored children. This pissed him off greatly and so Cain cursed them all. All unique clan weaknesses come from this. Afterwards Cain, now fully depressed, decided to disappear from the world. It is unknown what is doing in the current Vampire the masquerade world.
@@BunnyHoper7 The antediluvians killed the 2rd generation, which is why Cain cursed them with their Clan specific weaknesses. Did you know the Nosferatu antediluvian used to be the most beautiful one?
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 From memory, I think I remember some stories of Caine cursing some of the antediluvians for more petty reasons than that, and it isn't clear which of the 13 killed their sires... Like, I remember a story of Malkav receiving his curse because he was asking Caine too many questions, and Caine got fed up with him. Also, the story of Nosferatu was that he was the most beautiful as a human, but got a scar during his embrace that he became obsessed with, until Caine eventually cursed him.
The lore is kinda confusing for this but essentially the closer your vampire "generation" is to 1 the more powerful you are. So Caine infected the second generation, they created a 3rd generation which turned around and ate the 2nd generation. This made them powerful enough to project parts of themselves down their entire bloodline
I suppose Vampire bloodlines split the same way humans did. We all came from the same place, yet now we have all sorts of cultures and not everyone looks the same.
Tell me you don't know anything about the World of Darkness without telling me... "Ps2 era game, older game" ( Genius, of course if it"s this old it is old... Now that"s some hard fact) "Why does he look so weird" ( talking about an old generation Tzimisce ) " is Cain even in this game" (you should try some uber my dude); Oh God Furies... ( Yeah Yeah, No No No! werewolfs are bloody nightmares inducing especially for run of the mill vampires) "They are to be more vampires created by god" (Cain's sin is not a joke, no need for more god's curse in this world) "The original is the table top rpg game" ( No my dude the original is Cain, all the way through.). Ps: you skip the end of the video , pisha is the best and the madness network is life. ¨Pps: don't open it"
Me realizing at the end that I've played a game in this series before...
Caine sired the second generation who then sired the third. The third are known as the antediluvians. They sought power and so they killed the second generation which pissed off Caine who cursed each and every one of them. This curse also carried over to their descendants. And each of these third generation vampires is the Progenitor of one of the bloodlines (except for Tremere and few other exceptions but that's a bit more complicated)
The actual lore is that God only cursed Cain with immortality because eternal life is eternal suffering.
Afterwards Cain was exiled in the land of Nod, where he found Lilith who knew magic and taught that knowledge to him, thus Cain became a extremely powerful blood mage. All vampire powers come from this.
But then God sent angels one after the other to give Cain the chance of repentance.
But Cain in his absolute stubbornness and arrogance refused each angel, one by one the angels left and each of them decided to leave Cain with a different course and weakness.
The hunger for blood, the beast of darkness, fear of the sun, being a literal corpse instead of just a immortal dude.
In the end, he became a vampire.
Then some shit happened and Cain returned to the world, to find out that it was filled with the descendants of Seth, his other younger brother.
Then Cain, who was a lonely person and had a falling out with Lilith, decided to build a city and he sired several humans into vampires to rule the city with him.
He invented several other vampire abilities during this time, just so you know. All those vampiric disciples only exist to the weak modern day vampire, Cain could create a new one out of nowhere as long as he felt like it.
Anyway, Cain feel in love with a woman and embraced her but even after she became a vampire, she did not love him back. So Cain (with the help of an old and powerful witch) invented the blood bond, where vampires could enslave others with their blood.
Cain became an absolute powerful king, ruling over his city and making a perfect utopian society with a empire that grew day by day. His first children sired the antediluvians by this point and there were way WAY WAY MORE than 13.
Everything was going too well, and Cain was too happy, so God said "No u" and the flood began.
God wanted everyone to die except for Noah and his family, so Cain was fucked.
Cain was lost in the world because of the flood but he managed to survive. Eventually after years, he discovered that the vampires had survived. But the antediluvians (which now were only 13) betrayed their creators and killed all of Cain's favored children.
This pissed him off greatly and so Cain cursed them all.
All unique clan weaknesses come from this.
Afterwards Cain, now fully depressed, decided to disappear from the world. It is unknown what is doing in the current Vampire the masquerade world.
He looks so weird because Tzimisce can manipulate and sculpt flesh and bone lines with some kind of putty. They can create horrific monsters this way, change your appearance, or even make you extremely beautiful. The possibilities are endless. They can also use this ability on themselves to make themselves look, however, they want - most Tzimisce make themselves look extremely monstrous to terrify their victims.
VtM Is part of an extremely expansive series of urban fantasy tabletop games that have been around for around 20 years and have metric shit tons of lore, they've covered other supernaturals such as werewolves and mages.
Vlad is a Tzimsce, vamps that specialize in "flesh sculpting", they usually look pretty fucked up.
Every Clan has an inherent weakness, Nosferatus are fuck ass ugly for theirs.
Cain sired several Vampires himself back in the biblical Era called the Antediluvians, 13 of which survived the great flood, each had almost godlike powers and went on to found the modern clans after Cain disappeared, most are either dead or in hibernation in the modern day.
From what little of the lore I've dived into, the more monsterous looking vampires have abilities that mask their true appearance. So that's probably how Vlad hid his vampiric form.
Not exactly. The clan that Dracula belongs to in this game do a lot of 'flesh shaping', hence they often do some work on themselves for the kicks. Think Hellraiser with fangs.
So the term 'Anarch' is actually a bit of a misnomer. The Anarchs are called that because it's the name the elder vampires gave to their rebellious childer that were pissed off about being used as meatshields against the Inquisition and decided to rebel. The Anarch Revolts were put down and a peace summit was held, wherein the Camarilla was founded as an official governmental body to formally codify and enforce the Traditions, a series of six laws that vampires had unlived by for thousands of years. The Anarchs accept the Traditions, especially the 1st Tradition of the Masquerade, but they take exception to the idea of the Traditions heavily favoring their elders, giving them virtually no say in vampire government without kissing ass, and punishes minor infractions like Siring without permission, killing people, being spotted doing vsmpire things, or not announcing yourself to the local Prince with strict and severe punishment. Usually death.
The Anarchs themselves believe more in self-governance and relying on the community to enforce the Traditions with fairness and consideration instead of a de facto secret police force at the beck and call of an immortal senator and a committee of elders. Among the Anarchs, all vampires are fundamentally equal, and it is only their accomplishments among the community that elevate them above their peers.
The extremists of the Anarch Revolt who believed that vampires should rule over humanity openly and rejected the Masquerade became the foundation of the Sabbat, a sect that embraces the vampiric condition, rejects their humanity, and generally seeks to undermine and destroy the Camarilla and human society as we understand it in favor of a Darwinian paradigm where vampires rule.
In short, the Camarilla are Republicans, the Anarchs are Democrats, and the Sabbat are full-on Anarchists.
There are other supernatural races in the World of Darkness; Vampires, Werewolves, Mummies, Wraiths, Mages, and even the Fey all exist in this world. But each supernatural race has certain sub-races or distinct philosophical branches.
With Vampires, you have the Clans, 13 major lineages descended from the Antediluvians, a group of ancient vampires from before the biblical Flood. These Clans are made distinct from one another by certain powers, peculiarities, and a distinct curse placed upon the Antediluvians by Caine himself for various transgressions.
As an example, the Malkavians were cursed with madness because their founder, Malkav, pestered Caine with questions that he did not care for, particularly the question of why he did not accept forgiveness from God when it was offered to him. So Caine cursed Malkav with all the knowledge in Creation, giving him the answer to every question, which broke his mind and damages the psyche of all Malkavians with a permanent derangement upon their Embrace.
The Clans and their various traits are there to explain the various discrepancies of vampire lore, embodying certain troped. For instance, the vampiric ability to turn into wolves, bats, and other animals is attributed to the Discipline of Protean, which gives vampires a degree of shapeshifting. This is predominantly used by Clan Gangrel, but is also shared by Clan Tzimisce, who use a variant of Protean called Vicissitude that allows them to mold the flesh and bones of both themselves and others like clay, and the Followers of Set, who use another variant of Protean called Serpentis that lets them take on the form of snakes instead of bats and wolves, as well as a few other more mystical abilities.
Consider watching Hunter: The Parenting, a really good web series by Bruva Alfabusa set in the same universe.
Give it up to my Malkavian brothers and sisters!
Cliff Notes: God turned Cain into the first vampire and Cain ONLY turned 13 people into vampires. Those 13 are the basis of the 13 clans, two of which were wiped out. I want to stress that I can be wrong, this is just my basic understanding. If someone wants to clarify or correct me, I will not take it personally.
Sseth is 100% right. This game is brilliant and great. Highly recommended, even if you played it once before. 😎 👍
If I remember right, the 13 antediluvians are all 3rd generation, so they were not sired by Caine himself, they were just sired by Caine's sired children (most of which I think died long ago), and some of the 13 shared the same sires. Beyond that, I think there's a possibility of God having also turned Lilith into a vampire too, but there's no confirmation on that.
Fade World ...Cool. I've ONLY played this game, so my knowledge of the World Of Darkness is limited.
The actual lore is that God only cursed Cain with immortality because eternal life is eternal suffering.
Afterwards Cain was exiled in the land of Nod, where he found Lilith who knew magic and taught that knowledge to him, thus Cain became a extremely powerful blood mage. All vampire powers come from this.
But then God sent angels one after the other to give Cain the chance of repentance.
But Cain in his absolute stubbornness and arrogance refused each angel, one by one the angels left and each of them decided to leave Cain with a different course and weakness.
The hunger for blood, the beast of darkness, fear of the sun, being a literal corpse instead of just a immortal dude.
In the end, he became a vampire.
Then some shit happened and Cain returned to the world, to find out that it was filled with the descendants of Seth, his other younger brother.
Then Cain, who was a lonely person and had a falling out with Lilith, decided to build a city and he sired several humans into vampires to rule the city with him.
He invented several other vampire abilities during this time, just so you know. All those vampiric disciples only exist to the weak modern day vampire, Cain could create a new one out of nowhere as long as he felt like it.
Anyway, Cain feel in love with a woman and embraced her but even after she became a vampire, she did not love him back. So Cain (with the help of an old and powerful witch) invented the blood bond, where vampires could enslave others with their blood.
Cain became an absolute powerful king, ruling over his city and making a perfect utopian society with a empire that grew day by day. His first children sired the antediluvians by this point and there were way WAY WAY MORE than 13.
Everything was going too well, and Cain was too happy, so God said "No u" and the flood began.
God wanted everyone to die except for Noah and his family, so Cain was fucked.
Cain was lost in the world because of the flood but he managed to survive. Eventually after years, he discovered that the vampires had survived. But the antediluvians (which now were only 13) betrayed their creators and killed all of Cain's favored children.
This pissed him off greatly and so Cain cursed them all.
All unique clan weaknesses come from this.
Afterwards Cain, now fully depressed, decided to disappear from the world. It is unknown what is doing in the current Vampire the masquerade world.
@@BunnyHoper7
The antediluvians killed the 2rd generation, which is why Cain cursed them with their Clan specific weaknesses.
Did you know the Nosferatu antediluvian used to be the most beautiful one?
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 From memory, I think I remember some stories of Caine cursing some of the antediluvians for more petty reasons than that, and it isn't clear which of the 13 killed their sires... Like, I remember a story of Malkav receiving his curse because he was asking Caine too many questions, and Caine got fed up with him.
Also, the story of Nosferatu was that he was the most beautiful as a human, but got a scar during his embrace that he became obsessed with, until Caine eventually cursed him.
Well, you know you rules people. When you watch a review, it's time to replay the game
The lore is kinda confusing for this but essentially the closer your vampire "generation" is to 1 the more powerful you are. So Caine infected the second generation, they created a 3rd generation which turned around and ate the 2nd generation. This made them powerful enough to project parts of themselves down their entire bloodline
my favorite clan is the Giovanni, for two reasons, the first one I played was a Giovanni and the second is because they are Italian 🇮🇹😂
Top-tier RPG right next to Deus Ex 1.
If you check out Russian Badger's Space Marine review, i think youd like it
Caine didn't get his powers by God btw. He learned it from Lilith
Man i need to finish this game that only if my saves are still there
I suppose Vampire bloodlines split the same way humans did. We all came from the same place, yet now we have all sorts of cultures and not everyone looks the same.
Tell me you don't know anything about the World of Darkness without telling me... "Ps2 era game, older game" ( Genius, of course if it"s this old it is old... Now that"s some hard fact) "Why does he look so weird" ( talking about an old generation Tzimisce ) " is Cain even in this game" (you should try some uber my dude); Oh God Furies... ( Yeah Yeah, No No No! werewolfs are bloody nightmares inducing especially for run of the mill vampires) "They are to be more vampires created by god" (Cain's sin is not a joke, no need for more god's curse in this world) "The original is the table top rpg game" ( No my dude the original is Cain, all the way through.).
Ps: you skip the end of the video , pisha is the best and the madness network is life.
¨Pps: don't open it"