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New World of Darkness
Vampire: The Requiem: Bloodlines: The Hidden
Foul Ancestry
"In the dark corners we dwell, still-born Kindred for whom your clans have no meaning. Our blood is your blood, yet different. It has been willed, strained and afflicted until it has taken a different course in our veins. We are your worst nightmare, childer who defy your designs to forge our own veiled destinies. Placate us, serve us and we might give you a taste of our secrets."
Horrors of the Modern Night
Bloodlines: The Hidden is the first in a new Vampire series that focuses on the refinements and abuses of undead blood. Drawn from the shadows are 12 bloodlines from all five clans, lineages that diverge from the clans and that have dedicated the ages to keeping their existence secret, or to lurking on the edges of discovery, devising their own inscrutable machinations. And now you can play them. Hardcover.
"In the dark corners we dwell, still-born Kindred for whom your clans have no meaning. Our blood is your blood, yet different. It has been willed, strained and afflicted until it has taken a different course in our veins. We are your worst nightmare, childer who defy your designs to forge our own veiled destinies. Placate us, serve us and we might give you a taste of our secrets."
Horrors of the Modern Night
Bloodlines: The Hidden is the first in a new Vampire series that focuses on the refinements and abuses of undead blood. Drawn from the shadows are 12 bloodlines from all five clans, lineages that diverge from the clans and that have dedicated the ages to keeping their existence secret, or to lurking on the edges of discovery, devising their own inscrutable machinations. And now you can play them. Hardcover.
125 pages, Hardcover
First published March 14, 2005
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June 11, 2022
This book was a typical mixed bag. Starting with the Alcinor bloodline and their Insomnia discipline (still an odd name for a dream manipulating power), that is quite tame in comparison. Those Anvari drug vampires were... ok, I guess, but the Architects of the Monolith (also called Masons) are more interesting with their rituals that have them influence cities on a mystical level as well as their cult-like mentality to bring about a new vampire world via city planing. Albeit if they are that obsessed with ley lines and skyscrapers, they should go to China, albeit I doubt the makers knew of the chinese building boom.
The luck stealing and manipulating Bohaganda, the religiously fanatic Gethsemani with their stigmatas and the Khaibit (former warriors against worse monsters, now mostly bodyguards) were a good upgrade in regards to the content of these book. However, I can't help it with my feeling that these Morotrophians who feed on the insane and otherwise hopeless and confined are based on the evil german doctor stereotype.
The Nahuali being Aztec inspired (not actually Aztec descended) based on 19th century documents was a good idea, albeit their unique discipline is really not that special, the Nepali are rather a blood quirk, basically super thirsty vampires, but these Oberlochs... yeah, them being of Swiss-German origin and being racists and looking for tough as nails recruits... yeah, that stinks of stereotyping to me. Too bad that the Oberlochs got so much coverage but the Qedeshah vampires so comparitively little, even though a concept of Vampire mothers who might even offer protection to other vampires is not a a bad concept. Albeit I do wonder why on earth that one 4 level discipline power allows her to know where her target is when the rest all focus on support and easing of injury.
The Rakshasa vampires and their "dharma" of it being their place to be demons and corruptors (or general nuisance) like their counterparts was a good ending for this book.
PS. I should probably note this as well: There are some obvious spelling and word mistakes from time to time in this book.
The luck stealing and manipulating Bohaganda, the religiously fanatic Gethsemani with their stigmatas and the Khaibit (former warriors against worse monsters, now mostly bodyguards) were a good upgrade in regards to the content of these book. However, I can't help it with my feeling that these Morotrophians who feed on the insane and otherwise hopeless and confined are based on the evil german doctor stereotype.
The Nahuali being Aztec inspired (not actually Aztec descended) based on 19th century documents was a good idea, albeit their unique discipline is really not that special, the Nepali are rather a blood quirk, basically super thirsty vampires, but these Oberlochs... yeah, them being of Swiss-German origin and being racists and looking for tough as nails recruits... yeah, that stinks of stereotyping to me. Too bad that the Oberlochs got so much coverage but the Qedeshah vampires so comparitively little, even though a concept of Vampire mothers who might even offer protection to other vampires is not a a bad concept. Albeit I do wonder why on earth that one 4 level discipline power allows her to know where her target is when the rest all focus on support and easing of injury.
The Rakshasa vampires and their "dharma" of it being their place to be demons and corruptors (or general nuisance) like their counterparts was a good ending for this book.
PS. I should probably note this as well: There are some obvious spelling and word mistakes from time to time in this book.
March 3, 2019
A great book for the Vampire RPG that I had fun using.
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