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The Caitiff are a fictional group of vampires in Vampire: The Masquerade role-playing game by White Wolf Game Studio. Vampire A vampire is a fictional creature in the role-playing games and books based on the World of Darkness setting by White Wolf Game Studio. ... Vampire: The Masquerade (Revised Edition) cover. ... A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create narratives. ... White Wolf, Inc. ...


The Caitiff are clanless vampires, holding no real power as a group, though the Sabbat's Caitiff are treated as a clan called the Panders, a title deriving from the name of a politically powerful Caitiff. Most Caitiff are outcasts and sometimes might find themselves on a Tzimisce's dissection table if they don't make themselves useful to the Sabbat. Most Caititff are lucky if they are even given a crash course in being a vampire before their first sunrise. The Sabbat are a fictional alliance of vampires, composed of two clans, from White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games. ... 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. ... The Panders are a fictional group of vampires in the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade. ...


The word Caitiff refers to a contemptible or cowardly person, and is an archaic French word derived from the Latin word captivus, meaning a captive or prisoner. It is somewhat of an insult reserved to the wretched and miserable person. However, they are often referred to as the equally derogatory term, "Thin Bloods". Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... An insult is a statement or action which affronts or demeans someone. ...


The Caitiff


The clansless. Caitiffs, are a new aspect to the vampire's society. They don't have anyone to teach them Disciplines, and no one to tell them of the Traditions. This doesn't mean they don't know any Disciplines, they could very well make their own, but usually they figure out a few small tricks to a few Disciplines. Some may even group together every once in a while, but not likely. They prefer their freedom, and the will to do what they will.


Caitiff are vampires with no clan to call their own. This usually happens because their sire despised them and left them to die. And the occasional victim of feeding gets lucky, and some how gets some of the vampires blood. They are also the rebellious ones, and some take leave of their sire and do as they will, most of the time moving to a new city or some where remote.


Most of the other clans look upon the Caitiff as trash, weak blooded, no knowledge of who and what they are and leave them to them selves as long as they don't cause any trouble, and most defiantly don't break the Masquerade.


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World Wide Words: Caitiff (216 words)
It came through French from Latin captivum, with the same sense (captive comes from the same Latin word by a later re-borrowing, again through French, so it and caitiff make a doublet).
As captives were not in the best of circumstances, caitiff began to mean a wretched or miserable person.
Chaucer uses it several times in the Canterbury Tales, as in the Knight’s Tale: “And now I am so caitiff and so thrall / That he that is my mortal enemy / I serve him as his squier poorely”.
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