NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bloodline (World of Darkness)

A bloodline is a fictional category of vampires, from White Wolf Game Studio's role-playing games Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Requiem. While the term clan refers to considerably populous and well-known groups, bloodline refers to smaller groups. In most cases, a bloodline is an offshoot of a clan, possessing similar features and abilities with some significant twist. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is a role-playing computer game played from the first-person shooter perspective and is developed by Troika Games using Valve Softwares Source engine. ... For hereditary bloodlines, see heredity. ... The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires or vampyres are mythological or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy). ... White Wolf, Inc. ... A role-playing game (RPG, often roleplaying game) is a type of game in which the participants assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create stories. ... Vampire: The Masquerade (Revised Edition) cover. ... This articles content is specific to the fictional setting known as the World of Darkness. ... In White Wolf Game Studios role-playing games about vampires, a clan (often in uppercase) is a group of vampires joined by blood relations (i. ...

In both of White Wolf's Vampire games, vampires create other vampires by draining all the victim's blood and providing a drop of the progenitor's vitae. Because of this, the childe shares many attributes of the sire. In White Wolf Game Studios role-playing games about vampires, vitae is a synonym of blood, especially as the symbol of life (cf Latin vita, life, whence English vital). Vitae is the blood of living creatures from which vampires feed, and also the blood that circulates within the undead... In White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games, a childe ( childer) is the vampiric offspring of another vampire, referred to as the sire. ... Sire can refer to several things: Sire is how one spells Eris backwords. ...

Vampire: The Requiem

In Vampire: The Requiem, the childe of a member of a bloodline always belongs to that bloodline's parent clan. To become a member of a bloodline, the childe must join one through force of will, though in some cases this can happen unconsciously. A vampire can only join bloodlines that split off from her own clan, but she is not limited to her sire's bloodline if her sire belongs to one. Vampires of sufficient age and potency of blood may create their own bloodlines rather than joining ones already established; the process is irreversible, and no vampire may belong to more than one bloodline. The advantage of creating or joining a bloodline is easier access to one or more new Disciplines, or vampiric power; the disadvantage is that bloodlines invariably have an additional flaw or weakness that sets them apart from the parent clan.

The list of bloodlines mentioned in Vampire: The Requiem follows. For information regarding the individual clans, see Clans in Vampire: The Requiem.

Clan

Bloodlines

Daeva

Anvari, Asnâm, The Carnival, Children of Judas, Duchagne, Gulikan, Kallisti, Mortifiers of the Flesh, Nelapsi, Spina, Toreador, Xiao

Gangrel

Anavashra, Anubi, Annunaku, Bohagande, Bruja, Carnon, Childer of the Morrigan, Mara, Matasuntha, Moroi, Oberlochs, Taifa, Vedma

Mekhet

Agonistes, Alucinor, Khaibit, Kuufukuji, Libitinarius, Lynx, Mnemosyne, Morbus, Norvegi, Osites, Players, Qedeshah, Sangiovanni, Sons of Khalil, Tismanu

Nosferatu

Acteius, Azerkatil, Baddacelli, Burakumin, Galloi, Gethsemani, Morotrophian, Noctuku, Rakshasa, Yagnatia

Ventrue

Architects of the Monolith, Beni Murrahim, Bron, Cassians, Dragolescu, Gorgons, Icarians, Licinii, Macellarius, Malkovian, Malocusians, Melissidae, Nahualli, Rötgrafen, Sotoha

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Vampire: The Masquerade

In Vampire: The Masquerade the childe of a vampire who belongs to a bloodline will always belong to the same bloodline as her sire, and there's no set way to change one's lineage. Bloodlines in Masquerade are generally the product of unique supernatural events, and are functionally just smaller clans. Unlike in Vampire: The Requiem, bloodlines in Vampire: The Masquerade aren't necessarily tied to specific clans.

The exhaustive list of potential bloodlines in Vampire: The Masquerade is as follows:

Clan

Bloodlines

Assamite

Shango (probable), Sorcerers, Viziers, Warriors, Assamite antitribu

Brujah

Osebo, True Brujah (according to legend, the original usurped clan), Brujah antitribu

Baali

Tremere, Nagaraja

Cappadocian

Giovanni, Harbingers of Skulls, Lamia, Mla Watu, Samedi

Followers of Set

Children of Osiris (debated), Daitya, Ecstatic Setites, Serpents of the Light, Tlacique, Warrior Setites

Gangrel

Anda, Ahrimanes, Akunanse, City Gangrel, Country Gangrel, Laibon, Lhiannan, Mariner Gangrel, Noiad

Giovanni

Pisanob (Central and South American witches), Dunsirn (Scottish bankers who practice cannibalism), Milliners (a prominent New England family dating back to the turn of the 20th century)

Lasombra

Kiasyd, Xi Dundu, Lasombra antitribu

Malkavian

Malkavian antitribu

Nosferatu

Guruhi (probable), Nictuku, Nosferatu antitribu

Ravnos

Kalderash, Kinyonyi, Phuri Dae, Urmen, Vritra, Ravnos antitribu

Salubri

Nkulu Zao, Tremere, Salubri (itself became a bloodline through depredation), Children of Zao-Lot, Salubri antitribu, Baali

Toreador

Daughters of Cacophony, Sons of Discord, Ishtarri, Toreador antitribu

Tremere

Telyavelic Tremere (extinct), Gargoyles (artificial bloodline), Tremere antitribu (extinct)

Tzimisce

Bratovitch Tzimisce, Naglopers, Old Clan Tzimisce, Koldun Tzimisce, Tremere, Blood Brothers (artificial bloodline)

Ventrue

Ventrue antitribu

Other

Caitiff, Panders, Nagaraja

Categories: Vampire: The Dark Ages | Vampire: The Masquerade | Vampire: The Requiem The Assamites, in a role-playing-game context, are a clan of vampires, from White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games, based on a historical group, by the same name. ... The Brujah are a fictional clan of vampires in White Wolf Game Studios World of Darkness books and role-playing settings. ... The True Brujah are a fictional clan of vampires, associated with the Camarilla, from White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games. ... The Baali are a fictional bloodline of vampires, from White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Dark Ages books and role-playing games. ... The Cappadocians are a clan of fictional vampires in the Vampire: The Masquerade role-playing game. ... The Followers of Set (Setites) are a fictional clan of vampires (also known as The Snake Clan), from White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games. ... The Children of Osiris are a fictional group of vampires in White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade. ... The Tlacique are a fictional clan of vampires that reside in South America, from White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games. ... The Gangrel are a clan of vampires, often associated with the Camarilla, from White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade, Vampire: The Dark Ages, and Vampire: The Requiem books and role-playing games. ... The Giovanni are a fictional clan of vampires, from White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games. ... The Lasombra are a fictional clan of vampires, associated with the Sabbat, from White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games. ... The Kiasyd are a fictional bloodline of vampires in White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games, sometimes also appearing in Changeling: The Dreaming. ... The Malkavians are a fictional clan of vampires from White Wolf Game Studios books and role-playing games Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Dark Ages. ... This articles content is specific to the fictional setting known as the World of Darkness. ... The Ravnos are a fictional clan of vampires, from White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games. ... The Salubri are a fictional bloodline of vampires from White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games. ... In the game Camarilla, the Toreador are a fictional clan of vampires, described in Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games. ... The Daughters of Cacophony are a fictional clan of vampires, from White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing game. ... The Tremere are a fictional clan of vampires, from White Wolf Game Studios books and role-playing games set in the World of Darkness (Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Dark Ages). ... The Tzimisce (pronounced Zhi-mee-see) are a fictional clan of vampires in White Wolf Game Studios books and role-playing games Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Dark Ages. ... The Ventrue are a fictional clan of vampires, associated with the Camarilla, from White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade, Vampire: The Dark Ages, and Vampire: The Requiem books and role-playing games. ... The Caitiff are a fictional group of vampires in Vampire: The Masquerade role-playing game by White Wolf Game Studio. ... The Panders are a fictional group of vampires in the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade. ...