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The Followers of Set (Settites) are a fictional clan of vampires (also known as "The Snake Clan"), from White Wolf Game Studio's books and role-playing games set in the World of Darkness (Vampire: The Dark Ages and Vampire: The Masquerade).

Unlike most vampires, in the modern setting the Setites are associated with neither the Camarilla nor the Sabbat sect. Much of the Setite symbology is Egyptian, and they claim that their organization was founded by the god Set and not Caine. They see themselves as having a divine mandate to revive their master, Set, in order to create an era of paradise for vampires and they are willing to work towards this in any way possible without drawing attention to themselves. The Followers of Set are generally found near Cairo, in sub-Saharan Africa, India, and the Caribbean though they travel worldwide in their search for knowledge to help them find and revive Set.

Due to this connection to Set, all Settites see things a little differently than other vampires.

All settites count all generations from Set instead of Caine effectively lowering a Settite's generation count by three (though not effecting their strength).

Even when compared to other vampires, the Settites are especially pained by sunlight having it deal more damage to them faster than for any other kind of vampire. Only their antitribu, the Serpents of the light, escape this fault. According to in-game lore, Set was cast from his family to become a vampire by Ra for his hand in killing Osiris and Ra's hate is what causes the sunlight to burn Set and all his children more than all other kindred.

The Settites are known as keepers of secrets, particularly those of a magical nature. Indeed, the Followers of set tend to know anything anyone needs to know or can find it for them- for a price. Many vampires warn each other to never trust a Settite, and they are right to as Followers of Set do not follow the Path of Humanity like most other vampires, instead they have their own Path of Enlightenment which exalts amongst other things the corruption of others. Many who are snared by the Followers of Set do not realize the danger until it's too late and either they are forced to join the Followers of Set, are dangerously indebted to them, or worse. In the Followers of Set Handbook it is revealed that the Settites were responsible for the Inquisition, which was a turning point in the fictional history of the World of Darkness.

The Disciplines of the Followers of Set are...

Obfuscate - the ability of becoming invisible
Presence - an ability used to draw attention to oneself
Serpentis - a strange collection of abilities drawn vaguely from Typhonic lore with things such as being able to turn into a giant snake.

There is an antitribu sect of the Settites, called Serpents of Light. Like most antitribu, they're associated with the Sabbat. The Serpents of the light practice an alteration of voodoo taught to them by a Haitian holy woman during the 1960's. They do not associate with the Followers of Set at all.

[edit] References

Vampire: The Masquerade (Revised Edition) by White Wolf (1998)

[edit] Links

Vampire NPC gallery Unofficial NPC (non-player character) gallery with examples of Setite characters
Luke Slater's Settite Book- PDF file An in depth webbook explaining in detail the Followers of Set.
The Followers of Set- a View from Without An In-character look at the followers of Set as seen by most other vampire clans.
The Followers of Set- A View from Within An In-Character look at how most Followers of Set see themselves.