#vtm caine

[mortifying-macaroni]

"𝖂𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖙𝖔?"

[thecupsmith]

God in the World of Darkness

[badass-at-fandoming]

Do you think Beckett takes baths or showers, and does he bother with personal hygiene at all? Im pretty sure that due to his profession as an adventurer archaeologist who probably camps out in the wilderness and dusty old ruins quite often as well as being yknow a gangrel his attitude towards cleanliness is probably cavalier at best, but does he still enjoy feeling clean and warm baths?

[has personally written three whole fanfictions in which Beckett bathes and gets fucked during or after] I think he likes them.

Okay, this was very fun and silly to research. Beckett was born in a time that bathing was controversial. While people in the Middle Ages loved a good, long bath, the 1600s & 1700s saw a decline in bathing. The Wampanoag tribe said the Pilgrims stank to high heaven. A literal queen took to bathing regularly and her people were still incredibly dubious.

Unlike other elders, Beckett's not frozen in time, rigidly holding onto the overton window of when he was Embraced. Even if he didn't like bathing before, he'd probably bathe regularly now. For the Masquerade if nothing else! There are cleaning options, even in the bush. During one of the promotions of Hardsuits Labs' version of Bloodlines 2, Cara Ellison, a lead narrator who was not familiar with VtM, asked Paradox a list of questions. If I'm remembering rightly, one was if vampires wear socks (yes) and another was if vampires shower. The answer is yes, for two reasons. First, mortals are more likely to notice a vampire if they stink. Weird smells stand out. Second, hot water heats up the vampire's body temperature, making them feel more "alive." Some vampires would find that comforting. Also apparently Hardsuit Labs sent out promotional Vampire: the Masquerade bath bombs?

Again, you can interpret Beckett however you want. I like giving him baths because he is scrungly and deserves tender care and treats. I've been around people who rarely bathe, I didn't like it, so I avoid giving that trait to my romantic heroes. But you can do what you want!

Thanks for the ask! Historical musings are fun! :D :D :D

[chiss-ticism]

Vampires doing mundane shit is the spice of life. I need to see Caine making a withdrawal at the bank

[svampira]

oc lore drop👆📢‼️

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elias (died 19 cur 21)

lives in his middle aged best friend's basement. his job is onlyfans. kills people for fun but not food. id smash

social media star murdered an embraced by his obsessive stalker > his sire was executed by diamila on the prince's orders for turning him without permission. doesn't have any memories of his human life

occasionally acts as a camarilla "enforcer" despite being a chronic masquerade breaker himself. Somehow maxed out his presence powers just weeks after his undeath

diamila (died 26 currently 45) the middle aged best friend. Also canon fledgling > spent the last 20 years playing attack dog for the camarilla and doesn't feel like she has anything to show for it

ventrue, maxed out dominate, very high firearm skills. Has never killed anyone to feed. def did it for other reasons though

Cressida (died 65. currently 65, looks like she's in her 40s because she was a ghoul) clan tremere's newest embrace, she had been picked by her sire 20 years before her death. She was already a ghoul during the events of vtmb, and has known and disliked diamila for over a decade. Ambitious but fiercely loyal to her clan, she ends up butting heads with the equally ambitious but much less trustworthy ventrue

brooklyn (died 21 currently 40) an unpredictable vampire whose allegiances change every couple weeks. kept around because of her frequent (although cryptic) visions and her coming across as relatively saner than the average malkavian. emphasis on coming across.

eden (died 24 current 43) an anarch malk who pretends hes a brujah. has the same sire as brooklyn and they were dating before they were turned. Hackerman. Doesn't experience visions of the future and barely seems to be afflicted by the clan curse. or does he > his curse is his portrait came out kind of bad here

[lunegrimm]

Part II the work I did for the " Book of Nod Deluxe Artifact Edition" for Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition by Renegade Game Studios!

[galejro]

Finally I can showcase a revised and updated gunplay combat up to modern standards, short gameplay of hunters, some walkaround of revised London + crime system and a sprinkle of sewer horror, took some work to make Skyrim look modern .

[thebaronofvenicebeach]

"Are you certain? The fee will be steep."

[knight-parzival]

Night 11: (Eternal) Wander

A damned fratricide who will never have peace and who will never find shelter anywhere.

[vamp-orwave]

[kentuckycaverats]

my lasombra boy oisin mcdewey (antitribu, autarki) by the brilliant @cainternn !

oisin is an ex-corsair who has devoted the rest of his unlife to protecting his late best friend/former ghoul angelo's mortal family. he's helped raise 11 generations of angelo's descendants out of the family's funeral home and doesn't have the time for kindred bullshit, thank you, because one of his kids is doing her first standup routine at the grade 3 talent show this evening and he will Not fucking miss it.

[suntiger745]

I know for much of our real life, monotheism is the order of the day and "the one true God" is spoken of as a triumph, a special kind of truth, or even as a threat.

But (partially inspired by Siaska in High Rollers Aerois), what if there is only one god - because all the others have been killed/eaten. Where "There is but one God" isn't a triumph or threat, it's a lament.

Where the God who is left alone is close to desperate and need the help of mortals, not only to hold back the eldritch horrors that ate their siblings, but simply to stave off the grief and loneliness.

Perhaps they will take on a humanoid or quadruped form and walk into a tavern, or join a family of animals in a burrow, to hear music and laughter, share a drink and some food, hear people tell stories great and small, to prevent themselves from going insane over the monumental task now resting on their shoulders.

[badass-at-fandoming]

I have an image in my head of Beckett deciding to visit a creation museum just for the hell of it cuz he felt bored, and stands around bemused as he takes in the absurd exhibits and displays purporting to show that humans really did coexist with dinosaurs while the tour guide prattles on, unaware that before them stands a cursed, unholy creature of hell(tm).

As a scholar who doesn't believe in Caine I think he would find kine literalist interpretations of the Bible to be very amusing.

I didn't know creationist museums existed [searches DuckDuckGo] oh snap there's a famous one in Kentucky. Doesn't sound as fun as the Center of PostNatural History in Pennsylvania. No idea the connection between creationist belief and demons. A creationist may believe the world is young, but the appreciation of demonic booty is not.

Regardless, you've touched on a fun irony of Beckett. Our fav Noddist believes the story of Caine and Abel mythologizes the transition from hunter + gather society to settled agrarian society. I can't speak to Protestant sects, but today's Catholics and Catholic scholars also believe that. Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, and Seth may have been literal, historical people, but it's impossible to know for sure. They for sure are narrative archetypes and play out the consequences of original sin (aka whatever triggered life to suck sometimes). Some scholars think Caine and Abel play out the tensions between nomadic desert tribes and the establishment of cities. Scholars propose that Caine founded the first city, but it was tiny and sucked major ass. Catholic Encyclopedia Answers here.

Another fun element of your proposed scenario is Beckett was definitely alive for Catholic scholars to go bananas about the Ussher chronology of earth. That's the one referenced at the beginning of Good Omens, if you've watched/read/listened to that. Some fucking nerd interpreted the Book of Genesis super literally so he could make Ye Official Timeline. Earth is a Libra. I bet Beckett hated Ussher with a passion 😂 He was probably SO glad when Ussher's ideas lost popularity.

Nowadays Catholicism has no official teaching on the age of earth, but there is an injunction to celebrate and uplift science and scientific thought: the findings of modern science "[...] have splendidly enriched our knowledge of the age and dimensions of the cosmos, the development of life-forms and the appearance of man. These discoveries invite us to even greater admiration for the greatness of the Creator, prompting us to give him thanks for all his works and for the understanding and wisdom he gives to scholars and researchers," (Catechism 283). The Cathechism is like this brick-sized synthesis of Catholic theology and morality. I think the closest Jewish equivalent would be the Mishneh Torah? It's a lot of Catholic Thought™️ brought back down to earth so the layman can look up references and specific questions.

In any case, World of Darkness dropkicks all progression of theological thought out the window and says Caine is literally real, literally a vampire, and literally wants to boink Beckett.

Thanks for the ask! This was fun to think about. I feel like you activated by Catholic trap card, haha.

[chiss-ticism]

the time between being cast into the Land of Nod and finding Lilith must've been a grueling thing to endure. Forced to wander alone for an indeterminate amount of time with no feasible hope of finding anyone, like, ever because you killed what was one of the 4 people you knew to be alive at the time... I would've gone insane within the week

[lamiaoflilith]

i personally think all of vampblr should hear this song

these lyrics…. aaaaauggghhh

[gorbalsvampire]

Of Gehenna

There seems to be a recurring fascination with the Gehenna sourcebook. Every few months the same thread pops up on Reddit dot Com, the other app and website on which I dispense the starry wisdom and the Lord's justice, asking how us old farts who were around for Revised Edition coped with its ending. Here's how I dun did it...

It starts with the vision. Every Kindred in the world has the same dream, at the same time:

After sunset, after midnight, a valley stirs. Once this was a horrid vale, awash with soot and gore, foul with the filth of a holy city. Now it is a quiet place. Now trees have reclaimed the dry soul, and from the high hill above you can look down across thousands of sleeping souls. It is not an empty place. Bare feet disturb the dust of ages. Those feet in ancient times did tread among the slaughter and the sacrifice and the sewered muck. Now they know peace, or something like it, as the wanderer slouches toward the city. He is not alone. She waits for him, as she has waited since these stones were raised and these trees were planted and these tales were spun and spoken by the first speakers ere the Tower fell. Dark of eye and lovely, she has wept, but she weeps not now. They talk, the old and easy talk of old lovers, of old hurts bled dry and stitched and sealed away. He weeps; she smiles. They climb together, toiling up the oldest hill to take in that sight of that city sweet and wounded, sleeping at their feet. On his knees, he looks to the east, away from the city, into a far distant land he walked so long ago. On his knees, he gives her his confession. It is done. He has sinned. May he be forgiven? At least by her, who he has wronged almost the most of all? It is not her place, she says, to forgive him. The One who can forgive is far away and long ago. And yet, she says, perhaps the time has come - And Caine says yes, and with weary eyes he looks across the vale of Hinnon and greets the first dawn in an aeon; and Lilith descends into the valley of Gehenna alone, in this, the hour of her victory.

The Mark of Caine begins to resolve itself, with the powers of the lowest generations starting to fail, and then the ancient Kindred themselves perished. The Tremere, however, seem unaffected... almost as if they were never TRULY descended from the one who slew Caine, i.e. Caine himself.

A conclave of elders in London work this out, and Mithras (cruising at higher generation thanks to being diablerised) recruits the PCs for a strike on Ceoris itself. He's not about to yield up the world to the Usurpers just because they didn't have the decency to die like everyone else... and he knows this one Sabbat pack who used to do three impossible things a night, back in their Victorian heyday.

The PCs of my older Victorian Age game, now ancillae, agree and accept the guidance of a mysterious vampire child. She may or may not be the Malkavian Antediluvian trying to cheat the Mark by focusing their disparate consciousness into a thinblood body that won't burn out as fast. Malakai(?) leads the PCs to Ceoris, with the help of their old Cardinal mentor in Transylvania, and they confront Tremere Himself... using the Cardinal's dying blood to awaken the land and consume the False Antediluvian, ensuring nobody has to live in a world ruled by the Usurper. The Lasombra PC does get mindwhammied to death by godlike Auspex, though. The others presumably died in the collapse...

BUT. Here's what happened next: how we kept the stories going when another ST took over from me, and how I've bridged the game I ran into V5.

The Mark only resolved upon the descendants of the slayer of Cain unto the seventh generation, in accordance with the prophecy. As such, the board is now cleared... but not empty. By 2012, the Red Star has set and the eighth generation awake to mastery of a new world order, suspiciously similar to the old.

Faced with a war they couldn't win and weren't even needed for, the Sabbat has gone feral, attracted the emergent Second Inquisition, and collapsed into deep cover packs. Enough of the forward facing Camarilla survive to maintain the now hollow structure, keeping up the lie that there is an Inner Circle somewhere in the absence of any actual whispers in their Blood. The Anarchs inherit the ashes of a hundred domains, but what does a sect defined by the struggle do when the struggle is over?

And what are these rumours that what transpired did not, that at least one Antediluvian was "killed" but not truly dead? What happened when London burned, and did Prince Mithras survive? Why are the Harbingers of Skulls still around, and why have they taken over the Clan Formerly Known As Giovanni? And what were the Tal'mahe'ra really doing all those centuries? Were they the worshippers of those who slept in lost Enoch... or their jailors?