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something I just wanted to put down since it is fun
My campaign used Fair is Foul as a basis for the backstory and I made what is essentially a telenovela mess of personal relationships when it comes to the antediluvians using various bits of old lore and my own stuff
Full House of Caine
Tzimisice: Is the first Third Generation but was embraced illegally because Irad and Enoch were experimenting with how vampirism worked and were both thinking about how to get supporters for their internal power struggles with other members of the 2nd gen. Enoch did put his beast in Tzimisce when he was a human, followed by Irad embracing him because they wanted to see if that would result in a Double Up on the Beast. This resulted in his personality and mind being shattered upon coming back from the dead and the warring beasts in him causing the destruction of his body into a mass of blood and flesh on the floor that they locked up to run more experiments upon. Eventually the sheer spite and attempts to regenerate resulted in his Vicissitude. Before that he had been one of many scribes and pages in the First City.
Ventrue: The first member of the Third Generation who was embraced legally. She had been sent to the first city as a child along with various other children of various early warlords when Caine was subjugating human tribes and had been the daughter of one of the larger ones that had first managed to breed and tame horses. Caine basically just walked in and Presenced them into joining. She was actually good at administration and levelheaded so Caine had Enoch ghoul her and work as another of the daytime bureaucracy. She, Lasombra, and Mekhet had been ghouls and investigated Enoch due to wanting to undermine him. They found out about Tzimisce and brought the information to Caine who punished Enoch by having him embrace Ventrue and then place Ventrue in Enoch's old role before staking him and leaving him deep underneath the palace.
Mekhet, Ravnos, Toreador, Gangrel, Malkav, Malakai: three sets of twins born by Lilith by Adam, Caine, and Lucifer. None of them were told which father which had and were early mages. They went to the first city in their wanderings due to hearing that Caine was there and he ghouled them (and later had them Embraced) to reduce Lilith's access to reality warping mages. He had a bit of buyers remorse since Magic got replaced with Blood Magic but considered it good enough.
Set: One of Irad's childer, actually started out as a overall good warrior and bodyguard whose job was to protect the second generation when they were sleeping and organize the war against werecreatures. His brother Osiris had sex with his wife and managed to get her pregnant while Set had difficulty doing so due to his ghoul nature, starting their hatred for each other. Saulot had come to him and explained what he knew of the situation with Werewolf cosmology after they had both become vampires and convinced him that he could devour Wyrm spirits to prevent their attacks on others (the third generation already knew about diablerie at this point so it made sense to Set that drinking a monster dry could mean the destruction of their soul while he gained the power). This had bad results.
Saulot: Actually is as bad as all the rumors say. He had gone East in an expedition to figure out "What the fuck is going on over there, we keep hearing stories about blooddrinkers that aren't us" and came back after having sampled Deviil Tiger and other Kuei-Jin philosophy and gone full ham. He went around posing questions to the other Antediluvians and nudging them towards different fucked up paths due to wanting to see if he could make similar "Dharmas" which could result in enlightenment and use the others as examples for what to do himself by seeing who crashed and burned and who gained "enlightenment." He created the Baali and manipulated the situation so he would be one of those in charge of hunting them so he could keep more of his experiments running.
Cappadocius: Really did lose part of his soul when he came back and is crazy due to that, fully believing that he needs to eat god and remove the barrier between life and death to have full control over the world and reunite everyone who has ever lost anyone while he is loved and adored as the one true merciful God.
Nosferatu: Was embraced by Zillah and was offended by the fact that she didn't want to bone him, the difficulties he had in boning woman after becoming a vampire, and the tiny scar on his face from when he was hunted by her. An extreme egotist who tried to date Gangrel and Toreador at the same time while not telling them about each other and the subsequent beatdown by them when Malakai said it during a meeting led to him having an eternal grudge.
Lasombra: Was part of a seafaring culture and sent to Enoch as a hostage like Ventrue, eventually becoming a ghoul in charge of the river and sea operations. Competition with Ventrue was a constant element of his existence and he grew increasingly vain, using the wealth from his operations to flaunt success and become increasingly conscious of how he looked, the wealth around him, and everything else in an attempt to one up Ventrue. Legends of creatures of the deep came to him and Saulot pointed out Set's new powers as evidence that devouring supernatural beings could grant amazing abilities, resulting in him going to the deepest depths of the ocean and devouring monsters within to obtain Obtenebratioin. Is full sitcom arch-nemesis with Ventrue and snubs her by wearing better and more expensive clothes by figuring out the exact materials and tailors she used.
Brujah (The Younger): Is full redhead muscle girl delinquent who caused the nerdy scholar to fall in love at first sight. The Elder's panic over the fact that he had illegally embraced and knowledge of what happened with Enoch made him want to destroy her, which resulted in her rampaging too get away and eventually hiding out with Toreador who got very into Tall Musclegirl aesthetic and hid Brujah while they worked on an art project for a hundred years before presenting it to Caine while revealing Brujah's presence. This is the "Past Transgression" which the two were forgiven of in one of their myths as the transgression was Toreador sheltering Brujah.
Assam: Another of the war leader ghouls. He was one of the last to be embraced among the original third gen, having earned it after killing the "king and queen" under Caine's orders and trying to suck all their blood only to learn that it hadn't transformed him. The transformation was more of a bit of amusement on Caine's part as he made him take their old role instead of continue on the Go Go Murder War train, forcing Assam to calm down and work on other Projects. Gangrel, Assam, Set, Mekhet, Tzimisce, and Lasombra worked together in researching blood magic, creating a great laboratory in their studies while Brujah the Elder was involved in more mundane research, causing the the two institutions to have a low key hate of each other and the former helping conceal Brujah the Younger after Ariel came up with an idea to have the Elder replaced.
Ravnos: Mentioned earlier and lover of his sister Ennoia/Gangrel, they were sent to the east after Saulot came back and were to make a border state to make sure the Kuei-Jin didn't invade, but Saulot's influence caused them to have a falling out and attack each other. with Gangrel returning to the third city after several of their lesser third gen subordinates (Laibon/Ikopabe and Lhiannan) left to avoid the commanders fighting. is actually still on Caine's order to eradicate all of the Kuei-Jin due to the weirdness with hell and barely ever went back west because he was monofocused on killing them all to spite Gangrel and show that he didn't need her help.
the lot of them are a mess of family relationships, friendships, and rivalries where anyone actually killing anyone one will result in the rest coming down to kick the offenders teeth in which is why they all managed to survive for so long. anytime someone got close to ending a grudge resulted in someone else getting involved either out of friednship or refusal to let anyone else kill their nemesis (and they rarely actually plan on killing their nemesis since the grudges and plots are a way of life where they have no idea what they'd do if hit ever ended)
My campaign used Fair is Foul as a basis for the backstory and I made what is essentially a telenovela mess of personal relationships when it comes to the antediluvians using various bits of old lore and my own stuff
Full House of Caine
Tzimisice: Is the first Third Generation but was embraced illegally because Irad and Enoch were experimenting with how vampirism worked and were both thinking about how to get supporters for their internal power struggles with other members of the 2nd gen. Enoch did put his beast in Tzimisce when he was a human, followed by Irad embracing him because they wanted to see if that would result in a Double Up on the Beast. This resulted in his personality and mind being shattered upon coming back from the dead and the warring beasts in him causing the destruction of his body into a mass of blood and flesh on the floor that they locked up to run more experiments upon. Eventually the sheer spite and attempts to regenerate resulted in his Vicissitude. Before that he had been one of many scribes and pages in the First City.
Ventrue: The first member of the Third Generation who was embraced legally. She had been sent to the first city as a child along with various other children of various early warlords when Caine was subjugating human tribes and had been the daughter of one of the larger ones that had first managed to breed and tame horses. Caine basically just walked in and Presenced them into joining. She was actually good at administration and levelheaded so Caine had Enoch ghoul her and work as another of the daytime bureaucracy. She, Lasombra, and Mekhet had been ghouls and investigated Enoch due to wanting to undermine him. They found out about Tzimisce and brought the information to Caine who punished Enoch by having him embrace Ventrue and then place Ventrue in Enoch's old role before staking him and leaving him deep underneath the palace.
Mekhet, Ravnos, Toreador, Gangrel, Malkav, Malakai: three sets of twins born by Lilith by Adam, Caine, and Lucifer. None of them were told which father which had and were early mages. They went to the first city in their wanderings due to hearing that Caine was there and he ghouled them (and later had them Embraced) to reduce Lilith's access to reality warping mages. He had a bit of buyers remorse since Magic got replaced with Blood Magic but considered it good enough.
Set: One of Irad's childer, actually started out as a overall good warrior and bodyguard whose job was to protect the second generation when they were sleeping and organize the war against werecreatures. His brother Osiris had sex with his wife and managed to get her pregnant while Set had difficulty doing so due to his ghoul nature, starting their hatred for each other. Saulot had come to him and explained what he knew of the situation with Werewolf cosmology after they had both become vampires and convinced him that he could devour Wyrm spirits to prevent their attacks on others (the third generation already knew about diablerie at this point so it made sense to Set that drinking a monster dry could mean the destruction of their soul while he gained the power). This had bad results.
Saulot: Actually is as bad as all the rumors say. He had gone East in an expedition to figure out "What the fuck is going on over there, we keep hearing stories about blooddrinkers that aren't us" and came back after having sampled Deviil Tiger and other Kuei-Jin philosophy and gone full ham. He went around posing questions to the other Antediluvians and nudging them towards different fucked up paths due to wanting to see if he could make similar "Dharmas" which could result in enlightenment and use the others as examples for what to do himself by seeing who crashed and burned and who gained "enlightenment." He created the Baali and manipulated the situation so he would be one of those in charge of hunting them so he could keep more of his experiments running.
Cappadocius: Really did lose part of his soul when he came back and is crazy due to that, fully believing that he needs to eat god and remove the barrier between life and death to have full control over the world and reunite everyone who has ever lost anyone while he is loved and adored as the one true merciful God.
Nosferatu: Was embraced by Zillah and was offended by the fact that she didn't want to bone him, the difficulties he had in boning woman after becoming a vampire, and the tiny scar on his face from when he was hunted by her. An extreme egotist who tried to date Gangrel and Toreador at the same time while not telling them about each other and the subsequent beatdown by them when Malakai said it during a meeting led to him having an eternal grudge.
Lasombra: Was part of a seafaring culture and sent to Enoch as a hostage like Ventrue, eventually becoming a ghoul in charge of the river and sea operations. Competition with Ventrue was a constant element of his existence and he grew increasingly vain, using the wealth from his operations to flaunt success and become increasingly conscious of how he looked, the wealth around him, and everything else in an attempt to one up Ventrue. Legends of creatures of the deep came to him and Saulot pointed out Set's new powers as evidence that devouring supernatural beings could grant amazing abilities, resulting in him going to the deepest depths of the ocean and devouring monsters within to obtain Obtenebratioin. Is full sitcom arch-nemesis with Ventrue and snubs her by wearing better and more expensive clothes by figuring out the exact materials and tailors she used.
Brujah (The Younger): Is full redhead muscle girl delinquent who caused the nerdy scholar to fall in love at first sight. The Elder's panic over the fact that he had illegally embraced and knowledge of what happened with Enoch made him want to destroy her, which resulted in her rampaging too get away and eventually hiding out with Toreador who got very into Tall Musclegirl aesthetic and hid Brujah while they worked on an art project for a hundred years before presenting it to Caine while revealing Brujah's presence. This is the "Past Transgression" which the two were forgiven of in one of their myths as the transgression was Toreador sheltering Brujah.
Assam: Another of the war leader ghouls. He was one of the last to be embraced among the original third gen, having earned it after killing the "king and queen" under Caine's orders and trying to suck all their blood only to learn that it hadn't transformed him. The transformation was more of a bit of amusement on Caine's part as he made him take their old role instead of continue on the Go Go Murder War train, forcing Assam to calm down and work on other Projects. Gangrel, Assam, Set, Mekhet, Tzimisce, and Lasombra worked together in researching blood magic, creating a great laboratory in their studies while Brujah the Elder was involved in more mundane research, causing the the two institutions to have a low key hate of each other and the former helping conceal Brujah the Younger after Ariel came up with an idea to have the Elder replaced.
Ravnos: Mentioned earlier and lover of his sister Ennoia/Gangrel, they were sent to the east after Saulot came back and were to make a border state to make sure the Kuei-Jin didn't invade, but Saulot's influence caused them to have a falling out and attack each other. with Gangrel returning to the third city after several of their lesser third gen subordinates (Laibon/Ikopabe and Lhiannan) left to avoid the commanders fighting. is actually still on Caine's order to eradicate all of the Kuei-Jin due to the weirdness with hell and barely ever went back west because he was monofocused on killing them all to spite Gangrel and show that he didn't need her help.
the lot of them are a mess of family relationships, friendships, and rivalries where anyone actually killing anyone one will result in the rest coming down to kick the offenders teeth in which is why they all managed to survive for so long. anytime someone got close to ending a grudge resulted in someone else getting involved either out of friednship or refusal to let anyone else kill their nemesis (and they rarely actually plan on killing their nemesis since the grudges and plots are a way of life where they have no idea what they'd do if hit ever ended)
. Or maybe he already is "healing" Horse. Medicine for Horses obtained on black market stinks of Pentex.
