Archive for February, 2010

  • Know Your Kindred – Apache Jones

    Know Your Kindred – Apache Jones

    Over time Jones keeps getting stranger. He used to answer to the name Walter, but now decided he's an Apache Indian and speaks in the kind of Pidgen English dialect used by Indians in dime store novels about famous gunslingers

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  • Know Your Kindred – Uriel

    Know Your Kindred – Uriel

    It is said that after Samiel's death, Saulot was in such sadness that he became withdrawn from the world and from his clan. But it was Uriel who found Samiel's writings, which had become known as the warriors' Code. Uriel took up Samiel's mantle and lead the clan's warrior class with a new sense of purpose.

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  • Know Your Kindred – Jack Dawson

    Know Your Kindred – Jack Dawson

    Jack was left to die in a field when Baron Samedi found him and offered him the Embrace. Jack accepted and he became a Samedi vampire.

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  • Know Your Kindred – Tsunda

    Know Your Kindred – Tsunda

    Tsunda was the magaji of a sizable territory in Kenya. His domain was granted to him by the Guruhi and circumstances had left him with a land populated by younger Laibon who were unable to influence him.

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  • Know Your Kindred – Alejandro Aguirre

    Know Your Kindred – Alejandro Aguirre

    Alejandro was a snake oil sales man, traveling through Mexico, Texas and California selling a miracle tonic that could cure any aliment imaginable.

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  • Know Your Kindred – Lucy Markowitz

    Know Your Kindred – Lucy Markowitz

    Lucy was born in New York City. She married young and her husband wanted to move out West. Being the good wife, Lucy agreed and they settled in Texas. A week later the Comanche Indians attacked and killed her husband and daughter.

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  • Know Your Kindred – Las Hermanas Hambrientas

    Know Your Kindred – Las Hermanas Hambrientas

    After the Tremere antitribu disappeared, many of their experiments were left behind. The Hungry Sisters are one of these experiments.

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  • Know Your Kindred – Xeper, Sultan of Lepers

    Know Your Kindred – Xeper, Sultan of Lepers

    Xeper was originally an Egyptian trader traveling through Damascus. He entered Baali servitude as a ghoul messenger to help keep the scattered infernalists linked across the scattered regions.

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  • Know Your Kindred – Annazir

    Know Your Kindred – Annazir

    Annazir was the most powerful Cainite in ancient Damascus. He has resided there since he was a young infernal recruit during its years as a Greek outpost over 2000 years ago.

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  • Know Your Kindred – Baroque

    Know Your Kindred – Baroque

    Baroque looks like a tall, handsome black man wearing a dapper white suit. He is completely bald and speaks with a Jamaican accent. He is friendly to everyone and laughs in a booming, good-natured way. But this image is false. Baroque's physical appearance is really an illusion covering the wizened old Tibetan vampire named Shih Hsu

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  • Know Your Kindred – Rusticus

    Know Your Kindred – Rusticus

    Rusticus is a former Tzimisce turned Gargoyle. He has little memory of his life before the Embrace. He remembers gardening and at one time being a professional soldier, but that is all. He spends most of his time staying in the Chantry providing security and manual labor.

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  • Know Your Kindred – La Viuda Blanca

    Know Your Kindred – La Viuda Blanca

    The White Widow feeds only from the blood of infants, as they taste the sweetest to her. She has now teamed up with a Tzmisce scholar named Esteban del Agua y Tierra. He found her wandering the city delirious. He gave her shelter and blood, helped her piece together the realities of the modern life and unlife and of the approaching Gehenna. This belief and the circumstances of her discovery helped baptize her bloodline as the Harbingers of Skulls.

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  • Know Your Kindred – Qawiyya el-Ghaduba

    Know Your Kindred – Qawiyya el-Ghaduba

    Name:  Qawiyya el-Ghaduba Clan:  Salubri Generation:  5th Embrace:  636 AD Although few of Saulot’s line remain, those who still remember know that his favorite childe was Samiel, who single-handedly launched the warrior’s path from within the clan of healers; who founded the Code that bears his name, and who was killed by the same monstrosities he swore to destroy. Before [...]

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  • Know Your Kindred – Nahum Ben Enosh

    Know Your Kindred – Nahum Ben Enosh

    Nahum was a Jewish scholar, studying all the fine points of Jewish Law. One evening, while heading home, he regretted the fact he was getting older and was approaching closer to death. He mourned the fact that he would not have enough time to acquire all the knowledge he wanted to. Saulot overheard Nahum's comments and so he Embraced him.

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  • Know Your Kindred – White Lily

    Know Your Kindred – White Lily

    Almost nothing is known about White Lily's past. The story is that she was Embraced by a powerful Black Hand assassin, who trained her. She is one of the Hand's best, most reliable agents, and has also maintained an identity within the Camarilla. She travels the world, destroying anyone who is a danger to the sect.

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  • Know Your Kindred – Joe “Boot” Hill

    Know Your Kindred – Joe “Boot” Hill

    A tall, lean gunslinger from the old west, Joe “Boot” Hill became a vampire after getting into an argument with a fellow named Bernard del Gado. Joe was tired of hearing Bernard's boastful remarks, so he shot him in the chest. But Bernard got up and reminded Joe it was rude to shoot an unarmed man. So Joe shot him again and mopped up the floor with his head.

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  • Know Your Kindred – Owain Evans, The Wanderer

    Know Your Kindred – Owain Evans, The Wanderer

    Owain Evans has the power to heal others with his blood. He obtained this ability after he drank the blood of Joseph of Arimathea centuries ago, although he did not discover he had this power until 1999 when the Kindred world was in the grip of a terrible blood curse.

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  • Know Your Kindred – Spider Killer

    Know Your Kindred – Spider Killer

    Very little is known about the vampire called Spider-killer. He haunts the cities and wastes of the American Southwest, wreaking chaos and destruction wherever he travels. His mastery of illusions is well known and very powerful. Many vampires have met their end trying to destroy him.

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