Bloodline (World of Darkness)

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World of Darkness Vampire series

Settings Dark Ages Victorian Age Masquerade Eternal Struggle Requiem

Vampirism Blood bond · Blood point · Bloodline · Clan · Childe · Dhampir · Diablerie · Discipline · Embrace · Frenzy · Ghoul · Revenant · Rötschreck · Vitae · Wassail

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

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

Masquerade History Cainite Heresy · Time of Thin Blood · Gehenna

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

A bloodline is a fictional category of vampires, from White Wolf Game Studio's role-playing games Vampire: The Masquerade or Vampire: the Requiem. 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 these games vampires create other vampires by draining all the victim's blood and providing a drop of the progenitor's vitae, though Requiem adds a requirement that the sire willfully embrace. Because of this, the childe shares many attributes of the sire. In Masquerade this is represented by the childe's immediate adoption of the bloodline, though in Requiem a childe simply receives eased entry into the line.

Bloodlines in Vampire: the Masquerade

Bloodlines in Vampire: the Requiem