Bloodlines in Vampire: the Masquerade

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

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

[edit] Main Bloodlines

These are the Bloodlines presented in the Books Guide to the Camarilla, Guide to the Sabbat, Storytellers Handbook (Revised Edition), and Storytellers Companion:

Bloodline	Progenitor	Disciplines	Weakness
Baali	Ashur and Saulot	Daimoinon, Obfuscate, Presence	The Baali fear and are repulsed by religion and the trappings therein, even more so than the rest of the Kindred. True Faith works at twice its normal efficacy against these creatures. Many Baali cannot bear to gaze upon or handle even the most mundane articles of religious paraphernalia, borne by those of faith or otherwise.
Blood Brothers	None (artificially created via Thaumaturgy)	Foritude, Potence, Sanguinus	May not embrace; all Blood Brothers of the same circle feel each other's pain.
Daughters of Cacophony	Melusine	Fortitude, Melpominee, Presence	The Daughters of Cacophony are so caught up in their music that they hear it constantly. As a result of this distraction, the difficulties of all a Daughters Perception rolls are increased by one. Additionally, a Daughters Alertness can never exceed three.
Gargoyle	None (artificially created via Thaumaturgy)	Fortitude, Potence, Visceratika	Appearance trait of 0, -2 Willpower to resist Dominate and other mind-controlling effects.
Harbingers of Skulls	Zemyaza	Auspex, Fortitude, Necromancy	Appearance trait of 0, all Appearance rolls automatically fail.
Kiasyd	Marconius	Mytherceria, Obtenebration, Obfuscate	Wounds caused by iron weapons inflict aggravated damage, being in the presence of iron (within a number of yards equal to the Kiasyd's Stamina) raises the frenzy's difficulties by one, and touching iron causes an immediate frenzy roll.
Nagaraja	Unknown	Auspex, Dominate, Necromancy	Must eat raw flesh in addition to drinking blood to survive.
Salubri	Saulot	Auspex, Fortitude, Obeah	Loses one health level for each Blood Point drunk from an unwilling victim.
Samedi	The Baron	Fortitude, Obfuscate, Thanatosis	Samedi are copselike and decayed, and have an Appearance Trait of 0.
True Brujah	Ilyes	Potence, Presence, Temporis	Regaining Humanity is always twice as difficult for them once it is lost - double the experience points necessary to regain Humanity or Path of Enlightenment ratings.