Gehenna (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

In the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade by White Wolf, Inc., Gehenna is the vampires' prophecied armageddon.

Gehenna is the time when the Antediluvians (the grandchildren of Caine, the first vampire) will rise to consume the blood of all the younger vampires and construct a city in which they will rule for one thousand years. The prophecy of Gehenna is most thoroughtly detailed in the Book of Nod, the story of Caine's banishment and cursing by God. There are also portents found in the Book of Nod, claiming the coming of the "Dark Father" and the "Dark Mother". Who these are is uncertain, but it is believed these two figures could be the mythical Caine and Lilith, respectively. Gehenna is said to be preceded by the Time of Thin Blood, in which successive generations of vampires past the thirteenth lose the potency of their blood, become incapable of siring children or exercising their vampiric powers, and even develop a tolerance to sunlight.

Several possible Gehenna scenarios were depicted in the final Vampire: The Masquerade sourcebook, which was titled Gehenna, as part of the Time of Judgment that ended the original World of Darkness.

[edit] Refernces

• Dean Shomshak et al., Gehenna (White Wolf Game Studio, 2004, ISBN 1-58846-855-0)
• Justin Achilli, Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition (White Wolf Game Studio, 1998, ISBN 1-56504-249-2)
• Andrew Greenberg, The Book of Nod (White Wolf Game Studio, 1994, ISBN 1-56504-078-3)