Cappadocian (World of Darkness)
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The Cappadocians are a clan of fictional vampires from White Wolf Game Studio's role-playing game Vampire: The Dark Ages.
The Antediluvian founder of the Cappadocians was a third generation vampire known as Cappadocius. Unlike the other Antediluvians, he sought peace, understanding of the world and of the curse of his blood in order to hopefully escape from its grasp. Late into his search, around the time of the Dark Ages, Cappadocius had his second in command bring to him a powerful man named Augustus Giovanni to him to be Embraced into the clan.
Augustus Giovanni turned on Cappadocius and diablerized him, thus making himself a third generation vampire. Augustus then founded the clan Giovanni and had nearly all Cappadocians hunted down and killed.
The Cappadocians were marked by a desire to understand the limits between life and death. Some of them meticulously studied death and decay; others chose to focus on the possibility of bringing life back into a dead body. Their clan Discipline, Mortis, gave them the power to animate corpses (or parts thereof). As their interests met, some Cappadocians shared information with scholars of the occult from the Tremere clan; others kept correspondence with Jewish Kabbalists regarding the powers inherent in the name of God (the manufacture of golems from inert matter might be an example).
It is believed that a few Cappadocians live on as the Samedi bloodline, cursed with the appearance of death. The Sabbat bloodline calling itself The Harbringers of Skulls also claims descent from the Cappadocian clan.
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