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Bloodlines: The Legendary
One of you.
A score of me.
A score of us.
You will belong, blood and soul.
You will be mine and ours.
Hannah Featheringay, Melissid Matriarch
These are the vampires other Kindred whisper about in the dark. These monstrous lineages, terrifying, taboo and bizarre, mystify even the Damned. Each is surrounded with a fog of rumor and myth that makes the truth of their power impossible to know for certainuntil their fatal flesh is faced in person. This sequel to the highly successful Bloodlines: The Hidden features nine new bloodlines, each with unique supernatural Disciplines or blood magics, along with and intriguing history and collection of mysterious legends for each bloodline, so Storytellers can introduce them with an aura of fear.
Bloodlines: The Legendary is a 128-page hardcover for Vampire: The Requiem.
This book includes:
• Nine new, secretive vampire bloodlines for your chronicle
• Unique, strange and elusive Disciplines, Devotions and rituals
• New character types for players and Storytellers
128 pages, Hardcover
First published January 16, 2006
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About the author
Chuck Wendig
183 books7,296 followersChuck Wendig is a novelist, a screenwriter, and a freelance penmonkey.
He has contributed over two million words to the roleplaying game industry, and was the developer of the popular Hunter: The Vigil game line (White Wolf Game Studios / CCP).
He, along with writing partner Lance Weiler, is a fellow of the Sundance Film Festival Screenwriter's Lab (2010). Their short film, Pandemic, will show at the Sundance Film Festival 2011, and their feature film HiM is in development with producer Ted Hope.
Chuck's novel Double Dead will be out in November, 2011.
He's written too much. He should probably stop. Give him a wide berth, as he might be drunk and untrustworthy. He currently lives in the wilds of Pennsyltucky with a wonderful wife and two very stupid dogs. He is represented by Stacia Decker of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.
You can find him at his website, terribleminds.com.
He has contributed over two million words to the roleplaying game industry, and was the developer of the popular Hunter: The Vigil game line (White Wolf Game Studios / CCP).
He, along with writing partner Lance Weiler, is a fellow of the Sundance Film Festival Screenwriter's Lab (2010). Their short film, Pandemic, will show at the Sundance Film Festival 2011, and their feature film HiM is in development with producer Ted Hope.
Chuck's novel Double Dead will be out in November, 2011.
He's written too much. He should probably stop. Give him a wide berth, as he might be drunk and untrustworthy. He currently lives in the wilds of Pennsyltucky with a wonderful wife and two very stupid dogs. He is represented by Stacia Decker of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.
You can find him at his website, terribleminds.com.
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August 21, 2022
Well, I started reading this while also reading The Great Mirror of Male Love so there is no way that this horror game book could be more offensive than the book that is an almost non-stop drive on the pedo-train.
The different entries on the varies bloodlines are naturally and up and down. The first entry of cursed "holy grail" Ventrue vampires who cannot have a domain and think they came to be due to the holy grail or some other magical cauldron and seek to overcome this are interesting enough. The following Carnival vampires really do earn their names of Freaks, and considered all their deformities and their special disciplines, I would not have expected this to be a bloodline of the Daeva clan. Then again, the Daeva would fit the showman image of these vampires.
And I expected that vampires who are called suicide kings would be depressing, but man is the passage about suicide grim. And the philosophy of these vampires is pretty damn dark as well. There is only one issue: That last stage of the Despond discipline doesn't seem to make any sense. How do you go from creating deep depression to being able to turn suicide victims into vampires even hours after death?
The Galloi/Pretties are really gruesome. Their rites are probably pretty damn bloody when you read about this cult of Kybele and all. Especially since the Galloi become eerily beautiful in an androgynous way by bathing in blood and of course there are all of their other rituals related to blood, beauty and fertility.
The name of the Gulikan bloodline sounds kind of silly, so does Perfumers, Bloodhound sounds better. They do seem to fit the obsessive nature of the Daeva, albeit I do think the entry on Ortram is a bit dissapointing. Does this here even count as a discipline? Seems more like a ritual.
Compared to what came before these Kuufukuji vampire monks are really tame. Sure they have these times when they let loose but even that is no worse than any other vampire. And I really wonder where that name comes from, has it to do with that one temple in Japan of similar name? Also, invoking the tiger in naming levels of their discipline seems a bit odd, because I never saw tiger symbolism in Japanese buddhism.
Afterwards the Gluttons are back to the disgusting flair that most of these vampire bloodlines here have. And yeah, they are disgusting, they grow fatter and fatter with misshapen dead flesh, consume even flesh, not just blood, and can with their discipline convert it into blood, store said blood and use their stomach contents as weapons. And of course their banquets... oh boy.
The entry on a bloodline called the Players, and I admire their efforts with flashing out the Players and how they basically want to be celebrity vampires but despite all the cases where they added welcome disturbing stuff, it still fell flat.
The controlling Queen Bees were a much more creepy and entertaining concept with them going so far to have a Devotion that allows them to nest insects in their lungs and bowels.
The different entries on the varies bloodlines are naturally and up and down. The first entry of cursed "holy grail" Ventrue vampires who cannot have a domain and think they came to be due to the holy grail or some other magical cauldron and seek to overcome this are interesting enough. The following Carnival vampires really do earn their names of Freaks, and considered all their deformities and their special disciplines, I would not have expected this to be a bloodline of the Daeva clan. Then again, the Daeva would fit the showman image of these vampires.
And I expected that vampires who are called suicide kings would be depressing, but man is the passage about suicide grim. And the philosophy of these vampires is pretty damn dark as well. There is only one issue: That last stage of the Despond discipline doesn't seem to make any sense. How do you go from creating deep depression to being able to turn suicide victims into vampires even hours after death?
The Galloi/Pretties are really gruesome. Their rites are probably pretty damn bloody when you read about this cult of Kybele and all. Especially since the Galloi become eerily beautiful in an androgynous way by bathing in blood and of course there are all of their other rituals related to blood, beauty and fertility.
The name of the Gulikan bloodline sounds kind of silly, so does Perfumers, Bloodhound sounds better. They do seem to fit the obsessive nature of the Daeva, albeit I do think the entry on Ortram is a bit dissapointing. Does this here even count as a discipline? Seems more like a ritual.
Compared to what came before these Kuufukuji vampire monks are really tame. Sure they have these times when they let loose but even that is no worse than any other vampire. And I really wonder where that name comes from, has it to do with that one temple in Japan of similar name? Also, invoking the tiger in naming levels of their discipline seems a bit odd, because I never saw tiger symbolism in Japanese buddhism.
Afterwards the Gluttons are back to the disgusting flair that most of these vampire bloodlines here have. And yeah, they are disgusting, they grow fatter and fatter with misshapen dead flesh, consume even flesh, not just blood, and can with their discipline convert it into blood, store said blood and use their stomach contents as weapons. And of course their banquets... oh boy.
The entry on a bloodline called the Players, and I admire their efforts with flashing out the Players and how they basically want to be celebrity vampires but despite all the cases where they added welcome disturbing stuff, it still fell flat.
The controlling Queen Bees were a much more creepy and entertaining concept with them going so far to have a Devotion that allows them to nest insects in their lungs and bowels.
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