Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. William Cowper, Task
The first few years a Twilight Dragon serves as an Apprentice and is expected to do nothing more than watch, listen, ask questions and learn.
I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride. — Alfred Bunn, Bohemian Girl
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. — Umberto Eco
Scourge is the Discipline of flagellance and pain practiced by the Mortifiers of the Flesh.
At the end of all roads, the Crone awaits, her shears sharpened to sever the ties to life.
Just as Mara drew together a group of followers who felt that she was on the true path to transcendence, so did Anoushka.
A heresy may outlive the attempts to stomp it out, if it is given a fertile and insular home in which to flourish.
The Mortifiers of the Flesh are, in some domains, as much a faction within The Lancea Sanctum as they are a bloodline.
The enigmatic Zelani bloodline only has enough members to form a single coterie — at present.
In the 19th century, the Southern Cities Alliance was a benign, and somewhat naïve, force in the politics of the fractious and rapidly changing Kindred society of the Indian subcontinent.
This small, enigmatic and almost extinct bloodline claims, like many faithful bloodlines, to be descended from one of the first Sanctified — a former mortuary priest and scholar of the dead.
(• to •••••) ; Pre-req: Carthian Pull can never exceed a character’s Covenant Status (Carthians).
Further revealing the Romanization of the quasi-Egyptian funerary necromancy practiced by Libitinarii, this Discipline of Torpor and sleep was given a Latin name.
These Kindred seek meaning in a profound sense, delving into their own thoughts and instincts and studying the ways of the sensual world, hoping to come to a satisfactory understanding.
This power is what separates the pious monsters that descend from the unique blend of Orthodox tradition and Slavic folklore from the pious monsters of The Lancea Sanctum.
The Dragon who has taken her oath to the Ordo Dracul earlier than any other member of the Academy is accorded the title of Grand Wyrm.
Think of the way a shepherd tends to his flock. And then, when the time is right, he exploits the animals for their milk, wool and meat. That’s what the Shepherds do.
One of the smallest and most unusual bloodlines in Kindred history, the Barjot have their origin in late 1860s France.