is incapable of ruling, consensus rules generally apply. In some cases, the successor is named well in advance; in other cases trial by combat still prevails.
-A nation of families/tribes can be ruled by a single king or queen. This is not necessary and may cause intertribal warfare. This is to our advantage as it weakens them and makes it easier to hunt and dispatch.
9.
Vampire History
The basic structure of vampire society is a combination of feudal medieval values and tribal autonomy. Vampires cling to their youthful cultures and deeply respect tradition and ritual.
They can be ruled by a king or queen and their royal court. Primogeniture is not the general mode of royal succession, though it can sometimes be relied upon. Usually the right to rule is determined by political worth and/or usurpation. There has never been, to our knowledge, a monarch that rules over all the vampires of the world. Usually, kingdoms are determined by modern country territory lines, though some earlier historical lines may also be used. Most families are more concerned with following their matriarch or patriarch, or their personal sires.
Solitaries and renegades reject the power of the family unit, the sire, and the royal courts.
Royal Crest: Ruby crown with sword
Current Queen (self-styled): Lady Natasha (long white-blond hair)
Not in power anymore, thank God!
Lady Natasha was abandoned by her sire, the shaman-king Leopold, in 1722, Switzerland. She survived and was adopted into a Russian vampire family (Romanikovs) in 1851. She took over the North American vampire throne in 1957 when the king (Edward Gopi) was mysteriously chained to a tree and died at sunrise. The culprit was never found though popular belief points to Lady Natasha. "Lady" is a title she appropriated from her aristocratic foster family. The only remaining family member is her step-sister Juliana Romanikov.
She ate a raw deer heart thinking it belonged to Solange. She was way scary.
The Araksaka:
Lady Natasha’s personal guard. Marked with a tattoo of three raven feathers on the left side of their faces.
Reapers:
In the 1980s Lady Natasha sent her reapers through the streets of Violet Hill. She was staying in the royal caves inside one of the more remote Violet Hill mountains, once said to belong to the Hounds (see section 12), and demanded victims be brought to her to feed on. Her favorite reapers were the Domokos siblings, Elisabet and Lyle. They were dispatched in 1983.
Mom helped with that! And so did Bruno. And I think they might have dated but neither of them will admit to it.
Raktapa Council:
The three ancient families of Drake, Joiik, and Amrita form the Raktapa Council. They hold some sway over other vampire tribes, but exactly how much is not known.
10.
The Host
Leander Montmartre is known to all vampires and hunters. He has been creating his own army of vampires for centuries. They are known as his "Host." Once a lover to Lady Natasha. Reason for separation unknown.
Montmartre was a creepy old perv.
Habitat:
-Manor houses in private countryside settings
Distinguishing Characteristics:
-Fealty oaths sworn to Montmartre
-Act as his personal bodyguard and army
-Uniform of brown leather tunics
Food:
-Blood, preferably human. Take unwilling donors.
Strengths:
-Trained fighters
-Extremely fast and strong, well-developed sense of smell and sight, quick healers
-Unified in purpose
-Loyalty
Weaknesses:
-Usual vampire weaknesses (see section 8)
-Arrogance, blind obedience to Montmartre, power-lust
Reproduction:
- The Host are turned by a vampire bite (from Montmartre, traditionally) and abandoned to suffer the bloodchange without guidance or a sufficient quantity of the sire’s blood. This is believed to make them strong. If they survive, Montmartre returns to claim them as his own. This process is notoriously unstable and vampires often go mad. This is how many of the current
Hel-Blar
plague were created.
Political
-A nation of families/tribes can be ruled by a single king or queen. This is not necessary and may cause intertribal warfare. This is to our advantage as it weakens them and makes it easier to hunt and dispatch.
9.
Vampire History
The basic structure of vampire society is a combination of feudal medieval values and tribal autonomy. Vampires cling to their youthful cultures and deeply respect tradition and ritual.
They can be ruled by a king or queen and their royal court. Primogeniture is not the general mode of royal succession, though it can sometimes be relied upon. Usually the right to rule is determined by political worth and/or usurpation. There has never been, to our knowledge, a monarch that rules over all the vampires of the world. Usually, kingdoms are determined by modern country territory lines, though some earlier historical lines may also be used. Most families are more concerned with following their matriarch or patriarch, or their personal sires.
Solitaries and renegades reject the power of the family unit, the sire, and the royal courts.
Royal Crest: Ruby crown with sword
Current Queen (self-styled): Lady Natasha (long white-blond hair)
Not in power anymore, thank God!
Lady Natasha was abandoned by her sire, the shaman-king Leopold, in 1722, Switzerland. She survived and was adopted into a Russian vampire family (Romanikovs) in 1851. She took over the North American vampire throne in 1957 when the king (Edward Gopi) was mysteriously chained to a tree and died at sunrise. The culprit was never found though popular belief points to Lady Natasha. "Lady" is a title she appropriated from her aristocratic foster family. The only remaining family member is her step-sister Juliana Romanikov.
She ate a raw deer heart thinking it belonged to Solange. She was way scary.
The Araksaka:
Lady Natasha’s personal guard. Marked with a tattoo of three raven feathers on the left side of their faces.
Reapers:
In the 1980s Lady Natasha sent her reapers through the streets of Violet Hill. She was staying in the royal caves inside one of the more remote Violet Hill mountains, once said to belong to the Hounds (see section 12), and demanded victims be brought to her to feed on. Her favorite reapers were the Domokos siblings, Elisabet and Lyle. They were dispatched in 1983.
Mom helped with that! And so did Bruno. And I think they might have dated but neither of them will admit to it.
Raktapa Council:
The three ancient families of Drake, Joiik, and Amrita form the Raktapa Council. They hold some sway over other vampire tribes, but exactly how much is not known.
10.
The Host
Leander Montmartre is known to all vampires and hunters. He has been creating his own army of vampires for centuries. They are known as his "Host." Once a lover to Lady Natasha. Reason for separation unknown.
Montmartre was a creepy old perv.
Habitat:
-Manor houses in private countryside settings
Distinguishing Characteristics:
-Fealty oaths sworn to Montmartre
-Act as his personal bodyguard and army
-Uniform of brown leather tunics
Food:
-Blood, preferably human. Take unwilling donors.
Strengths:
-Trained fighters
-Extremely fast and strong, well-developed sense of smell and sight, quick healers
-Unified in purpose
-Loyalty
Weaknesses:
-Usual vampire weaknesses (see section 8)
-Arrogance, blind obedience to Montmartre, power-lust
Reproduction:
- The Host are turned by a vampire bite (from Montmartre, traditionally) and abandoned to suffer the bloodchange without guidance or a sufficient quantity of the sire’s blood. This is believed to make them strong. If they survive, Montmartre returns to claim them as his own. This process is notoriously unstable and vampires often go mad. This is how many of the current
Hel-Blar
plague were created.
Political
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