Bloodline (World of Darkness)

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World of Darkness Vampire series

Settings Dark Ages Victorian Age Masquerade Eternal Struggle Requiem

Mythology Caine · Lilith · Antediluvians · Book of Nod Revelations of the Dark Mother The Erciyes Fragments

Vampire history Cainite Heresy · Gehenna · Time of Thin Blood

Vampire society Anarchs · Antitribu · Autarkis · Black Hand · Blood hunt · Bloodline · Caitiff · Camarilla · Clan · Inconnu · Laibon · Kuej-jin · Masquerade · Sabbat · Tal'mahe'Ra

Vampirism Blood bond · Blood point · Childe · Dhampir · Diablerie · Embrace · Frenzy · Ghoul · Revenant · Rötschreck · Vitae

Requiem Requiem Clans · Requiem Bloodlines · Carthian Movement · Circle of the Crone · Invictus · Lancea Sanctum · Ordo Dracul This box: view • talk • edit

For the computer game, see Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.

For other uses, see Bloodline (disambiguation).

A bloodline is a fictional category of vampires, from White Wolf Game Studio's role-playing games Vampire: The Masquerade. 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.

In Vampire: The Masquerade 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 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.

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

Clan	Bloodlines
Assamite	Assamite antitribu,Assamite Sorcerers, Assamite Viziers, Assamite Warriors, Shango
Brujah	Brujah antitribu, Osebo, True Brujah
Baali	None
Cappadocian	Giovanni, Harbingers of Skulls, Lamia, Mla Watu, Samedi
Followers of Set	Children of Damballah, Daitya, Ecstatic Setites, Serpents of the Light, Tlacique, Warrior Setites
Gangrel	Anda, Ahrimanes, Akunanse (Laibon in V:DA), City Gangrel, Country Gangrel, Lhiannan (extinct), Mariner, Noiad
Giovanni	None (Though several sub-families exist.)
Lasombra	Kiasyd, Lasombra antitribu, Xi Dundu
Malkavian	Malkavian antitribu
Nosferatu	Guruhi, Nictuku, Nosferatu antitribu
Ravnos	Kalderash, Kinyonyi, Phuri Dae, Ravnos antitribu, Urmen,Vritra
Salubri	Baali, Children of Zao-Lot, Nkulu Zao, Salubri, Salubri antitribu, Tremere
Toreador	Ishtarri, Toreador antitribu
Tremere	Gargoyles (artificial), Telyavelic Tremere (extinct), Tremere antitribu (extinct)
Tzimisce	Blood Brothers (artificial), Bratovitch, Koldun, Naglopers, Old Clan Tzimisce, Tremere,
Ventrue	Ventrue antitribu
Other	Caitiff, Children of Osiris, Daughters of Cacophony, Nagaraja, Pander, Sons of Discord (extinct)