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The Vampires

In this section you will find information about the vampires within the world of Stockholm by Night.

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The Clans

In almost every instance a vampire is created into a clan. That clans powers and weaknesses flows in the vampires blood, it is a part of it. Below you can find information about the different clans that can be played in SBN. Click on the links below.

Brujah

Klan Brujah består av nytänkare, punkare, rebeller och revolutionärer av alla slag. Fast klanen utgörs av en brokig skara utan gemensam agenda bakom sina rebelliska handlingar, fullföljer de sina ideal med en brinnande glöd som få andra klaner kan matcha. Deras Äldre är filosofer och akademiker, generaler och erövrande regenter, skickliga i argumentation och debatt såväl som i strategi och taktik. De unga är ofta passionerade idealister, allt från hårdnackade gängmedlemmar som hatar snuten och lagar, till sluga datahackers och desperata socialarbetare. Oavsett vilket mål den har, kommer en Brujah att slåss för detta till helvetets portar.

I moderna dagar försöker vissa Brujah att sluta sig samman bakom karismatiska talare och ledare av sin klan, i hopp om att återskapa den forna glansen. Andra följer den som ger bäst chans att få vältra sig i sporadiskt våld. Slagskämparna kan ofta samla sig i grupp när det gäller att störta det korrupta samhället, men de kan sällan enas om vad som bör ersätta det. När dammet lägger sig återgår de allt som oftast till sina respektive livsstilar.

Då de är en mycket stridsduglig klan utgör klan Brujah en stor del av huvudstyrkan som Camarillan kan samla för att försvara en stad. Stereotypen av en Brujah är en läderklädd buse med färgat hår och alltför många kroppsutsmyckningar, utrustad med fler vapen än hen kan bära. Sanningen är att en Brujah kan se ut hur fan de än vill - från tweedklädd akademiker, till gatu-grunge och allt däremellan. Eftersom en Brujah förväntas vara rebellisk kan många komma undan med grovt uppförande som inte skulle tolereras från andra klaner. Många Brujah utnyttjar sådan underskattning till sin fördel och kan på så vis främja sina egna mål och överraska mer trångsynta klaner.

Rollspelstips:

Revolution är ditt mål, passion är din styrka. Du hänger dig med kropp och själ åt allting som kan störta de gamla stela lärorna och ge plats åt de nya. Fastän du kanske bara längtar efter att kaosa eller att slå sönder saker, har du några ideal som du vill se realiserade och denna vision driver dig framåt. Du använder dig av de färdigheter du har, oavsett om du subtilt manipulerar prinsens hov och de Besläktades samhälle, eller om du hellre brutalt slår ner oppositionen med våld. När du och din klan samlas lägger ni allt annat åt sidan och hänger er helhjärtat åt er gemensamma sak - att initiera förändring. När revolutionen väl är över, slåss du för dina egna specifika ideal, vilket kan ställa dig mot andra Brujah vars mål inte matchar dina egna. Det hela handlar om att förändra världen till något som du anser är bättre - kanske bara för dig själv, men kanske även för hela mänskligheten.

Nackdel:

Klan Brujah bär ärr efter många förolämpningar och förtryck från det förflutna. Därför är dess medlemmar snabba att ta till vapen samt övergå i Raseri. Till och med en passionerad debatt kan orsaka ett raseriutbrott hos en modern Brujah. Alla Brujah lider av minus ett (-1) på sina Kontrollutmaningar. OBS! Detta betyder inte nödvändigtvis att alla Brujahs reagerar med ilska på allting, utan att de har svårare att hålla Besten borta när provokationen väl blir för svår.

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Alla i klan Brujah har 1 poäng i Background: Arsenal

Brujah Clan Disciplines

Potence

A vampire power that gives your character superhuman strenght. Veary good for fighting or utility.

Celerity

A vampire power that gives your character superhuman speed. A power that demands a lot of blood from your character but lets you do more actions during fights.

Presence

A vampire power that makes the user the center of attention. Either be faschinating, seducing or intimidating.

The Gangrel are one of the thirteen vampire clans found in the World of Darkness. Nomads who hold closer ties to the wild places than most of their city-bound cousins, they are also closer to the animal aspect of the Beast, and are masters of the Protean Discipline. They were one of the seven founding clans of the Camarilla, but became disillusioned with the sect in the Final Nights, its elders eventually deciding to sever its ties and become an independent clan.

Due to their inherent clan weakness, Gangrel are very close to the Beast within; as they succumb to it, it leaves its mark on their bodies. Every time a Gangrel Frenzies, they gain an animalistic feature. This feature is determined by the player and Storyteller; it might be tufted ears, a pelt, a tail, catlike eyes, a snarling voice, tusks, even scales or feathers. Every five such features acquired permanently reduce one of the Gangrel's Social Attributes by one.

As of V20, this weakness was modified to a temporary form. Gangrel who Frenzy acquire temporary animal traits. However there can be circumstances where the vampire Frenzies too much or suffers a particularly intense frenzy that leave the Gangrel with permanent animal features. In V5, the Gangrel bane changed again. In frenzy, Gangrel gain one or more animal features: a physical trait, a smell, or a behavioral tic. These features last for one more night afterward, lingering like a hangover following debauchery. Also, they have the Compulsion of Feral Impulses: returning to an animalistic state, the vampire regresses to a point where speech is hard, clothes are uncomfortable, and arguments are best settled with teeth and claws. For one scene, the vampire gains a three-dice penalty to all rolls involving Manipulation and Intelligence. They can only speak in one-word sentences during this time.

Clan Culture

Status in general among the Gangrel is decided by rites, and these rites involve one of two things: combat or boasting. Combat is usually basic and unarmed; two Gangrel who know each other well may simply spar, but those who are strangers battle until one of the fighters is incapacitated or surrenders. Boasting involves the two Gangrel making larger claims until one Gangrel backs down or asks for proof. The challenged Gangrel must then show proof of their claims or lose the rite and their status.

What little formal organization the Gangrel has is placed around the aptly-named Gather, which are occasional meetings at which local and visiting Gangrel can exchange news, information and stories and decide on local matters. Gathers usually involve notice weeks in advance, as news travels more slowly among the limited network of the Gangrel. Once begun, Gathers usually involve the rites demonstrating status to decide on leadership for the meeting. The rites can take days to accomplish, and must be redone for every Gather, as no two will have the same Gangrel meeting under the same circumstances. Once the hierarchy for the Gather is established, the business at hand can be dealt with. No matter the circumstances, Gathers always break up after a week.

Gathers can also be used to form Revels, which are essentially calls to battle. The Gangrel who participate in a Revel form parties to track down and destroy enemies, such as enemy kindred, Garou, or others who have dared to invade the clan's territory.

There are also meetings called Great Gathers. As a Great Gather relies on a powerful Gangrel who is respected by most of the clan to be called, they are extremely rare. When one is called, any member of the clan who can must travel to the meeting place. There, similar rites of strength and status that are found in a regular Gather take place; however, there are no time limits to either the rites or the Great Gather. Even more rare but related are Grand Revels, which are essentially wars and battles involving the entire clan. Both are considered to be signs of bad luck by most Gangrel, and the fact neither have been called in centuries is seen as a good sign.

Gangrel Clan Disciplines

Protean

A vampire power that gives your character the abilitie to alter its form.

Animalism

A vampire power that makes it possible for your character to talk to and control animals.

Fortitudee

A vampire power that makes your character tougher and harder to harm.

Malkavians are the brood of Malkav and one of the great vampiric clans. They are deranged vampires, afflicted with the insanity of their Antediluvian progenitor. The Malkavians always had a dangerous reputation due to their madness and their signature Dementation discipline, which can induce madness in others. With the Inquisition and the formation of the Camarilla, the clan faced possible extinction at the hands of other clans – the Malkavians were just too dangerous to continue existing. In order to prevent this, the elders of the clan changed the Clan in ways unknown and incomprehensible – the result was that the majority of Clan Malkavian discarded Dementation in favor of the Dominate discipline. More disturbingly, the majority of Malkavians, even those present at the time of the change are unaware that this happened.

Clan Culture

Malkavians are an enigmatic and deeply disturbed group of Cainites. Due to their inherent clan weakness every last one of them is irredeemably insane in some form or another. Among the Kindred, some attribute their insanity to a curse of the blood forced upon them by Caine himself, while the Lunatics themselves actually call it a special blessing, a gift of insight.

The mortal mind collapses as it goes through the Malkavian Embrace, and the resulting vampire is a being forever changed by the experience. From the moment they are created, Malkavians begin to suffer from at least one derangement that can never be permanently overcome. Their insanity can be temporarily fought with Willpower, but madness is never far away and as a result their members are unpredictable at best.

Members of the clan have assumed the roles of seers and oracles among Kindred and kine, eerie figures bound by strange compulsions and the ability to perceive what others cannot. They are also notorious pranksters whose "jokes" range from silly to sadistic. Against all odds, however, the children of Malkav are among the oldest surviving vampiric lineages. They are one of the 13 original Cainite clans and can trace back their history to times preceding the biblical Deluge. They were also among the founders of the powerful Camarilla, and are widely known as one of its pillars in modern nights.

Brujah Clan Disciplines

Dementation

A vampire power that gives your character the ability to change and alter other peoples emotion and even making them insane.

Obfuscate

A vampire power that allows your character to become invisible and travel around unnoticed and undisturbed.

Auspex

A vampire power that gives the user superhuman senses, from sight and smell, to even reading others minds.

The most visibly cursed of all Kindred, the Embrace warps each Nosferatu into a hideously deformed creature. The archetypal Nosferatu resembles Max Shreck's Count Orlok, though the curse has any number of variations. The Nosferatu are the spymasters of the dead, collecting information and selling it for a dear price. They are also the masters of the underground, living in the sewers for protection.

Due to their inherent clan weakness, all Nosferatu have Appearance ratings of zero. They may not improve Appearance with experience points. Most Social actions based on first impressions, except intimidation and the like, fail automatically. In Fifth Edition, where Appearance is absent, this translates into all Nosferatu having the Repulsive Flaw, being unable to increase their rating in the Looks Merit, and being penalised by their Bane Severity on any attempts to disguise themselves as non-deformed.

Clan Culture

In the modern nights, the Nosferatu feel their Antediluvian metaphorically breathing down the back of their necks. Technically savvy, the Sewer Rats adopt every technique they can to protect themselves, encouraging the fears evoked during the Cold War to use many of the now deserted bunker systems as supplements for their own warrens. Most notably, the Nosferatu developed an information sharing network – ShreckNET, a parallel internet that the Nosferatu used to enhance their traditional information gathering and reporting skills.

The most terrifying and unique event in the early 1990s was the rise of the Shadow Curtain in Russia, a mystical barrier that separated the vampires of the former Soviet Union from the rest of the world. The Shadow Curtain eventually was revealed as the product of Baba Yaga, a fourth generation Nosferatu of almost incalculable power. Most frightening of all was not the witch, however, but her demise. In the late 1990s, Baba Yaga was destroyed by a Nictuku.

As with all of the Antediluvians, the Nosferatu Antediluvian (referred to as Absimiliard) was Embraced in the shadow of Enoch. Powerful and vain, Absimiliard was a hunter of great skill and beauty who attracted the attention of one of the second generation, who stalked him down as prey. The Embrace was quick, but left him with a tiny facial scar that inflamed his vanity. His wounded pride, coupled with his ego, led him to resent, then hate, then kill his sire, precipitating the revolt by the Antediluvians.

As with his brethren, Absimiliard had sired a small clique of childer by the time of the Second City. His childer, hunters all, remained loyal to him except for one woman who fled further than he could chase. When Caine returned in judgment, he cursed Nosferatu with hideousness, a curse passed to all his descendants, including the hidden maid. Since that time, Absimiliard's eldest descendants, the Nictuku, have chased her. The maiden came to be known as the Matriarch for according to legends, she gave birth to the entire modern incarnation of the Nosferatu clan. Through his loyal Nictuku, Absimiliard hopes to exterminate all of the Matriarch's childer in atonement for his crimes against the laws of Caine – or in bitter vengeance, some would say.

In the beginning, most Nosferatu resorted to hunt humans as prey, as they were unable to coexist with them in their cities, as the mortals either ran away in fear or resorted to fire and violence to drive them out. Most hid from the sun in subterranean caves or in the grounds of rivers and lakes. Many Nosferatu hid in the great rivers like the Tigris or the Nile to prey on farmers at night. The development of the catacombs in ancient Rome connected the Clan with mortal society, although they were regarded as low-blooded by the ruling Ventrue and Malkavians. Rumors, however, tell of the dyulamansa, the Hidden Kings, who ruled Nosferatu Kingdoms in sub-Saharan Africa. This may refer to the Guruhi.