Clan (World of Darkness)
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In White Wolf Game Studio's role-playing games about vampires, a clan (often spelled Clan, in uppercase) is a group of vampires joined by blood relations (i.e. the vampiric equivalent of an extended family or lineage). A clan is usually a large group, acknowledged widely in the vampiric society, and not a small offshoot (which is called a bloodline).
In each version of the World of Darkness, it is assumed that each clan descended from a single progenitor (called Antediluvians in Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Dark Ages, though unnamed in Vampire: The Requiem), who passed to each of his descendants, or childer, his unique gifts and flaws. However, in the original World of Darkness, it is also assumed that each of these Antediluvians came from a common source: commonly accepted to be Caine, the first murderer, whereas no such assumption is made in Vampire: The Requiem.
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Unlike other clans, the Tremere of Vampire: The Masquerade did not all descend from a single progenitor. Rather, they were mages that used the blood of Tzimisce to become vampires. The wizard Tremere then gained the status of an Antediluvian by performing diablerie on Saulot, the Antediluvian father of the Salubri clan. Despite this, the Tremere are still considered a clan by most modern-day vampires, presumably because of their usefulness to the Camarilla.
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Assamite · Baali · Brujah · Caitiff · Cappadocian (The Dark Ages) · Followers of Set · Gangrel · Giovanni (The Masquerade) · Kiasyd · Lasombra · Malkavian · Nosferatu · Ravnos · Salubri · Toreador · Tremere · Tzimisce · Ventrue |
[edit] New World of Darkness
For the clans that appear in the vampire game for the new World of Darkness, Vampire: The Requiem, see Clans in Vampire: The Requiem.
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