By charlottevtes
Things to do with the Edge
Burn the Edge to Untap:
- Emily Carson during your discard phase.
- Isouda de Blaise during your discard phase.
- Torvus Bloodbeard during any Methuselah’s minion phase.
Burning the Edge for a vote will:
- Give Melissa Barton 1 blood.
- Give Tyler McGill an additional vote.
- Give you an additional vote while playing Free States Rant.
- Give you an additional vote if you control Vincent Day.
- Give you 2 additional votes if you control a ready Nkule Galadima.
- Give you 2 additional votes while playing Echo of Harmonies.
Burning the Edge will:
- Make Keith Moody burn a blood.
- Gain you two pool if Victoria is ready during your master phase.
- Let you see another Methuselah’s hand if Alonzo Guillen is ready on your untap or discard phases.
- Give you an additional master phase action if Sarrasine is ready.
- Give a Black Hand vampire an optional maneuver if you control Soldat.
- Move Eric Kressida out of torpor during any other Methuselah’s discard phase.
- Give Angra Mainyu +1 stealth on a non-bleed action.
- Let Hrothulf rush a ready minion as a (D) action.
- Cause a weenie bleed action against you to fail if you control Victorine Lafourcade.
- Give you 1 pool during your discard phase if you control Hartmut Stover.
- Let you discard a card at random & draw its replacement from your ash heap if you control Lady Constancia.
- Give Lucinde 1 blood during your untap phase.
- Move pool counters from 419 Operation back to your pool.
- Remove all your target counters from Deploy the Hand.
- Remove the -1 hand size penalty from a Hand Intervention.
- Burn 3 of your prey’s pool when played with Enticement.
- Remove all Extortion cards on you.
- Remove the transfer penalty if you played Kings Rising on yourself.
- Give your minion +1 bleed while playing Leverage.
- Gain 4 additional transfers during your influence phase with Mapatano Utando.
- Will remove a vampire’s title & burn 2 pool from his controller when played with Patsy.
- Steal Powerbase: Zürich from another Methuselah during your master phase.
- Burn a Tragic Love Affair on your Toreador.
If the Edge is uncontrolled:
- Jazz Wentworth may take a +1 stealth action to get it.
- Gain 2 pool from playing Instability.
Gain the Edge without bleeding if:
- Sargon successfully performs any action.
- Tereza Rostas steals it from another Methuselah as a (D) action.
- You control a ready Cyseck and any Methuselah plays a Gehenna card.
- You play Esteem after performing a (D) action against the Methuselah who controls the Edge.
- Successfully pass Regaining the Upper Hand.
If a Methuselah gains/loses the Edge:
- Sennadurek will untap if it’s not during your turn.
- Move Curse of Nitocris to another Methuselah.
- Put another counter on Form of Corruption when your prey gets the Edge.
If you gain pool from the Edge:
- Give it to Heather Florent as a blood instead of putting it in your pool.
- Tap Dreams of the Sphinx to gain an additional pool.
- Tap Using the Advantage to gain an additional pool.
While You Control the Edge:
- Ondine Boudicca Sinclair gets +1 stealth when bleeding.
- Urraca gets +1 bleed.
- Amenohobis gets +1 bleed while bleeding you.
- Bulscu can (D) steal a location or equipment that costs 3 or less pool.
- Gain 1 pool when any Methuselah who plays a Gehenna card if you control Marcel de Breau.
- Gracetius may play reaction cards and attempt to block as if untapped.
If you control the Edge during your untap phase:
- Gain 1 pool.
- Give a Methuselah 1 pool to tap a minion of your choice if Intisar is ready.
- Lucina gains 1 blood.
- Look at another Methuselah’s hand and discard up to 2 Gehenna cards if you control Alicia Barrows.
- Tap Dreams of the Sphinx to gain an additional pool.
- Tap Using the Advantage to gain an additional pool.
Not controlling the Edge:
- Costs Vasily an additional blood to contest his title.
Know Your Kindred – Dr. Allan Woodstock
Name: Dr. Allan Woodstock
Clan: Gangrel
Generation: 10th
Embraced: 1916
Dr. Woodstock was a researcher at Cambridge University with a wife and young daughter. When World War I broke out he was drafted into the armed forces and rushed into a military lab, where he helped refine and develop mustard gas and other chemical weapons. His commanding officer was unsatisfied with testing the gases on animals, so he ordered Woodstock to test them on some of their own wounded men. Woodstock’s conscience would not allow him to carry out that order, so he was demoted and sent out with the infantry. At the Battle of Verdun, Sergeant Woodstock died.
A scavenging Gangrel found him on the filed. Dr. Woodstock does not remember his sire and wonders what made him stand out from the other soldiers dying on the battlefield. The Kindred blood filled Woodstock’s broken body and gave him the strength to sink deep into the ground. When he reemerged, the war was now over, and his wife had remarried, which was probably for the best.
Dr. Woodstock took refuge in his science and over the years focused on the strange magical abilities possessed by vampires. He’s tried to define Disciplines precisely, mathematically, scientifically. He has blinded young vampires and Embraced the congenitally blind to compare how they adapt to the Protean Discipline. He has Embraced and ghouled identical twins and studied their learning speed and skills. His experiments with human and Kindred subjects has been of much interest to the princes and elders. As such, Dr. Woodstock has good relations with the Camarilla and the princes.
The subject of his most recently completed experiment is a young Toreador named Anna. Dr. Woodstock watched her grow from infancy to a beautiful woman and onto a vampire. He’s spent a king’s ransom keeping her alive. Her sire wanted to invoke the right of destruction, but Woodstock can not imagine his life without her.
Dr. Woodstock’s appearance has degraded over the years. His left leg now bends backward at the knee like a hind leg of an animal. His torso is covered with a patchwork of fur.
– Source: Clanbook: Gangrel (Revised), pg 97-98
Know Your Kindred – Ankla Hotep
Name: Ankla Hotep
Clan: Ravnos
Generation: 5th
Embrace: 1727 BC
Ankla has been locked away in torpor for the past 60 or so years. Even with his amazing powers, he was not able to avoid the explosion aboard the R.M.S. Lusitania that injured his body and threw him into torpor. The Nazis managed to obtain Ankla’s body and they brought him to Berlin for use in medical experiments.
The Setite Nefertiti discovered Ankla in Berlin. Back in her mortal teenage years, Nefertiti and Ankla were lovers, until then she discovered the truth – Ankla was really a vampire and he had been using Nefertiti for her body and her wealth. Nefertiti was incredibly hurt to learn this, but by then Ankla was long gone. Even after she was taken in by Set, Nefertiti never forgot the shame Ankla brought upon her.
So while Ankla laid in torpor, Nefertiti manipulated his mind to forget who he really was and to believe he was Caine. She had a special amulet made for him that increases his powers even more. Nefertiti hopes to use the newly brainwashed Ankla as her servant and destroy both the Camarilla and Sabbat for the glory of Set.
Ankla is very powerful. And with the help of the amulet his Chimerstry powers increase to the level of an Antediluvian. While using his Chimerstry he is for all intents and purposes Caine and can alter reality around him within a five-mile radius.
Ankla is a large dark skinned man with wide shoulders who looks generally attractive, in a roguish way. He wears colorful clothes and smiles frequently. He loves to tell stories about the amazing things he has seen in his world travels.
Source: Berlin By Night, pg 118, 120-121
Know Your Kindred – Lucian, the Perfect
Name: Lucian, the Perfect
Generation: 3rd
Clan: Unknown (maybe Nosferatu or Guruhi)
Embraced: Unknown
Lucian is a very (very) ancient vampire who turned away from Caine and the other Antediluvians to seek out something grander for himself. In the final nights of Gehenna, Lucian is one of Lilith’s “Apostates” – a group of seven unknown or forgotten Antediluvians who each lived a quiet existence. They either stumbled upon or sought out Lilith and are now serving the Dark Mother in her feud against Caine.
Lucian is intelligent, confident, charismatic and preternaturally attractive. Lucian has a special ability he is unable to control, which has caused him untold difficulty over the years. His physical form is so perfect and radiant that anyone looking at him in his natural form is automatically entranced and can do nothing else but stare.
There is a connection between Lucian and the Nosferatu clan, but no one knows how the two fit exactly. There are theories that Lucian and the Nosferatu Antediluvian, Absimiliard, were broodmates or maybe brothers in life. Perhaps he is secretly the progenitor of the Nictuku or African Guruhi legacy.
It may be possible that Lucian is the Nosferatu Antediluvian himself and that his perfect appearance is an illusion. Maybe all Nosferatu descend from him, but he cursed his own bloodline with ugliness because his childer Embraced without his permission.
– Source: Time of Judgement: Gehenna, pg 98-99.
Know Your Kindred – Delilah Monroe
Name: Delilah Monroe
Clan: Daughters of Cacohony
Generation: 10th
Embraced: 1981
Delilah was a dumb valley girl singing in a band. All went well until her van broke down in San Diego and some guys took her hostage for money. Then some women stormed into the room, killed the men and made Delilah a vampire. She was a little mad they didn’t bother to ask if she wanted to be a vampire, but she’s made adjustments in her new life, like giving up her sun tan.
At first Delilah was in the Sabbat, but she found it boring and did not like all their rules. She joined the Anarchs and has made several trips to Los Angeles and Seattle, recruiting anyone interested in helping her launch a little crusade against the Sabbat in Mexico City.
Delilah is a vision of angelic beauty, until you add the spiked hair, safety pins in her cheeks, ears and eyebrows, and the exceedingly vulgar language that spews from her mouth.
Note: Delilah is a devil worshiper.
– Chaos Factor, pg 60
Know Your Kindred – Tariq, The Silent
Name: Tariq, The Silent
Clan: Assamite
Generation: 5th (now 13th)
Embraced: 1250
With the exception of Kemintiri, Tariq has been on the Red List longer than any other vampire. For the last 500 years he has been a wanted criminal and exiled from his own clan. Despite this he still serves his clan as a symbolic martyr and scapegoat.
In the 13th century, when Assamites were taking advantage of the Anarch Revolt and the Inquisition, Tariq made a name for himself as a serial diabolist. His deeds were so well known that when the newly formed Camarilla won its seven year war against the Assamites, Tariq was used as a political bargaining chip. The Assamites exiled him, he would be cast out and hunted until the end of his unlife.
Tariq was once a proud Muslim warrior who defended his homeland against the Christian forces during the Seventh Crusades. He was captured and tortured, but never let his captors get the better of him. He insulted them and called them cowards. They responded by cutting out his tongue. Waiting for death, Tariq awoke to find a man standing over him. The stranger had been watching Tariq and was very impressed with his devotion and valor. Tariq was Embraced and he fully dedicated himself to serving the Assamite clan.
The mid-13th century was a time for the Assamties. With the anarchs and elders fighting one another, the Inquisiton and the birth of the Sabbat, the Assamites were free to roam the world, diablorizing Kindred at will – and Tariq was the most notorious killer of Kindred. After the creation of the Camarilla, a Blood Hunt was called on the Assamites and a seven year war was waged. Despite heavy casualties, the Camarilla was on the verge of discovering the Assamites’ most sacred haven – the Alamut. To prevent this from happening, Assamite elders agreed to a truce and the clan was subjected to the now famous Blood Curse, making vampire blood poisonous to them.
Tariq escaped the curse, as he was out on a covert mission at the time. When he tried to return to the Alamut, he was greeted in the wilderness by some of his clan mates. They gave him the bad news and informed him that he was to be exiled. As the most notable diabolist in the clan, he was to be the scapegoat for all their crimes. He would always be on the run and would never be able to return to the Alamut. Tariq nodded and agreed this was best for the clan. Before he left, the Assamites attached a spirit guardian to Tariq – a wraith who would always alert him when danger was near.
The Assamites publicly rebuked Tariq and promised the Camarilla they would help hunt him down. But infact they have done nothing. Even in exile Tariq is a benefit to the clan, allowing them to occasionally kill off an enemy and frame Tariq for the crime.
Tariq’s spirit guardian proved to be a valuable asset. The spirit was so helpful, it was virtually impossible to ever surprise Tariq. The Tremere Antitribu began to seek out Tariq, hoping to recruit him into the Sabbat. After years of failed attempts and many slain warlocks, they discovered Tariq’s spirit guardian and were able to sever the connection. Tariq was finally captured and subjected to every torment possible. But after months of torture, Tariq refused to bend and the Tremere antitribu gave up in disgust.
Instead of killing Tariq, they performed the Ritual of Quenching the Lambent Flame, a spell that effectively reduced him to a 13th generation vampire. Now a weak neonate in a world full of enemies, Tariq was dumped into the middle of Camarilla territory. But he refused to give up. With over 500 years of experience behind him, Tariq began a series of attacks on Camarilla havens, destroying the fearful vampires who couldn’t escape in time. News of these attacks spread and many began to believe the Red Lister had gone mad.
Djuhah, the Black Hand Seraph, learned about Tariq’s plight and sensed an opportunity. He assigned a pack of Black Hand elite to recruit Tariq at all costs. The pack was to refer to Tariq as their “Dominion” (pack leader). So for now it would appear Tariq commands a permanent Black Hand column. For his part, Tariq is aware his spirit guardian has been figuratively replaced by this column of Assamite antitribu.
Tariq is a striking fellow with light eyes and jet-black skin. But since his encounter with the Tremere antitribu, his ageless face has begun to wrinkle and his hair is starting to turn gray.
– Sources: Children of the Night, pg 15-16. Kindred Most Wanted, pg 68-74.
Know Your Kindred – Ambrosio Luis Moncada
Name: Ambrosio Luis Moncada
Clan: Lasombra
Generation: 6th
Embraced: 1153
For centuries Cardinal Ambrosio Luis Moncada led the Lasombra clan. His chambers beneath Madrid were the epicenter of Lasombra culture. He commanded fear that few others in the Sabbat could match. He was very nearly beyond the reach of the regent and the Black Hand.
Not much is known about Moncada’s early life, except that he was a talented Catholic priest with big ambitions and an unshakable religious faith. However, the politics of the church kept him an outsider. But Moncada’s honesty in a time when corrupt clergy were commonplace caught the eye of a certain Lasombra.
Moncada was not changed much by the Embrace. Within weeks many vampires became regular visitors to his confessional and Moncada quickly obtained a position of supremacy among the Lasombra. But he saw this quest for power as a quest for God, not himself. And now that he was immortal he had all eternity to do the Lord’s work. Moncada’s influence rapidly grew in mortal and immortal society. The network created around him gave Moncada a power few Cainites could match.
In 1190, Moncada embraced a young noblewoman named Lucita. He was enthralled by her beauty and free will – so much so that it grew into an unholy lust for her. He embraced her and hoped to make her his forever, but her rebellious spirit spurned him and the Sabbat.
As the centuries passed, Moncada’s faith never wavered, but evolved into something dark and terrible. From Moncada’s perspective, only God can grant salvation, and since there is no salvation available to vampires, they are all damned in God’s eyes. Moncada felt it was his duty to do his best to earn that damnation, because it was God’s mission for him. Many scholars believe the Path of Night was created by Moncada’s dark faith.
As time went by, Moncada’s influence consolidated. He was still a spiritual anchor for Lasombra who remained Catholic, but his influence with younger Sabbat waned. Moncada stayed confined in his haven, protected by a maze of corridors around his inner chambers. Moncada was immensely fat, almost repulsively so. However he moved with a grace and silence remarkable for a man his size. Intruders in his maze never heard his approach.
In the end, Moncada’s haven and awesome power could not protect him. He met an agonizing Final Death from the Assamite Fatima. The female assassin was put on a contract to kill the cardinal. After the two fought in his inner chamber, Moncada lost his left arm and shoulder, but was able to summon the shadows around him, grappling Fatima in a crushing grip. But Fatima called upon the blood inside her and it welled up her throat, spewing out her mouth and into Moncada’s face. His skin peeled off, his eyes shriveled, and his whole head burned away, leaving behind a smoldering heap on the floor.
Since his death, Moncada’s haven became a pilgrimage destination for devout Lasombra (and some Cainites of other clans too), who come to see where one of the greatest Cainites once roamed and to ponder their own uncertain futures.
– Sources: Transylvania Chronicles I, pg 80. Children of the Night, pg 27-28. Clan Novel Saga: End Games Vol 4, pg.103-105. Clanbook: Lasombra (Revised), pg 96-97.
Know Your Kindred – Enkidu, The Noah
Name: Enkidu
Clan: Gangrel
Generation: 4th
Embraced: 2200 B.C.
Enkidu is on the Camarilla’s Red List for killing many Kindred over the years. The Camarilla does not consider Enkidu anything more than a wild animal, otherwise he would rank higher on the list. But the one the Gangrel call “the Noah” is not a wild beast, he is the caregiver to many strange and exotic animals living within him.
Enkidu was entrusted with this task by Gangrel herself, who had been storing inside her flesh the Typhonic Beast – a malicious creature created by the Egyptian god Set. The Antediluvian had been storing it and other rare creatures in her body and now they would be given to Enkidu’s care.
After a century of training, the Antediluvian passed the creatures onto Enkidu. But the Typhonic Beast is evil and Enkidu had a difficult time keeping the animal tamed within his huge bulk. The Typhonic Beast uses Auspex at all times to call out to Set’s followers. It wasn’t long before the Setties came looking for their pet. The Gangrel’s home city of Ur was destroyed and Enkidu has been wandering the Earth ever since.
Enkidu kills humans and vampires without remorse. He uses their blood to feed the ghouled creatures inside him. But he keeps the Typhonic Beast starved, in order to keep it weak and manageable. Enkidu has learned that he must keep a hold on his humanity if he is to keep the Typhonic Beast contained. As such, a part of Enkidu’s mind has splintered off into a female form called Sabrina. He can transform himself into this form to maintain a mental grasp on human concepts. While in his Sabrina form, he goes into the cities and searches for any Setties in the area. Then he’ll come back later in his Enkidu form to hunt them down.
In life Enkidu hated his own race, who he saw as greedy and arrogant. He found solace only with animals. That has continued in his unlife. He has compassion for uncivilized creatures and sees civilization as a monstrosity. He detests the noise and pollution they create. He avoids the Werewolves, except for the city-dwelling Glass Walkers.
Enkidu stays just outside of cities, so he has a supply of Kindred blood available to feed his creatures. He often uses zoos as havens, staying near other large animals like elephants and rhinos. Many of his creatures hunt with him during the night and act as guardians during the day. But the Typhonic Beast is kept on a tight leash at all times.
In his bitterness for safeguarding the Typhonic Beast, Enkidu has thought about killing it, but he has compassion for the creature and instead transfers blame to the Setties, believing if they are all destroyed the beast will no longer be corrupt. The Setties consider Enkidu one of their primary objectives. He holds prisoner a creature they believe will lead them to their dark god. Enkidu’s hatred for them has grown to new depths and hunting them became an obsession.
The Gangrel are Enkidu’s biggest political foe. They urged the Camarilla to put Enkidu on the Red List and are now lobbying to move him further up the list. There is a split with the Gangrel elders over Enkidu’s value. Some only seek Enkidu for the vampires he’s killed while others seek the unique creatures locked inside his flesh.
Due to Enkidu’s enhanced Animalism, he is extremely attractive to animals. He can communicate with all animals and can summon all animals near him.
Enkidu is a gigantic creature who takes on a new form every night. His Sabrina form is a young woman with short black hair and disturbing green-blue eyes. She dresses in whatever clothing she can find after emerging as the dominant personality.
– Source: Kindred Most Wanted, pg. 33-38.
Know Your Kindred – Khalid
Name: Khalid
Clan: Nosferatu
Generation: 6th
Embrace: 1191
During the Crusades Khalid lived up to the reputation of the hideous Muslim warrior the Christian Knights so feared. He freely performed cruel deeds in service of his god. A Byzantine Nosferatu named Alexius arrived in the Holy Land and believed embracing the Islamic leaders was the best way to corrupt and weaken the enemy. She was fascinated by Khalid’s extreme cruelty, so he was the first to be Embraced.
Khalid was horrified by his curse and in a rage killed his own men before fleeing into the desert. Starving to death in the wilderness, Khalid was discovered by a reclusive Jewish hermit who pulled the neonate out of the sun’s deadly rays and nursed him back to health. The hermit taught Khalid about the occult and other forms of mysticism. When Khalid left the hermit, he was a new person on a path for peace.
For 600 years Khalid wandered the world and met others like him. He learned about Golconda and the quest to achieve it became his purpose. Over the centuries, Khalid saw the best and worst examples of the Camarilla’s meddling in human affairs. By the end of the 19th century he arrived in Chicago, where rumors said an Inconnu slumbered beneath the city. Allegedly this creature would whisper secrets of Golconda to visitors. Khalid searched in vain for this ancient creature.
Chicago was still rebuilding after the Great Fire of 1871 and Khalid felt compelled to help rebuild the city. He got involved in Kindred politics and became the city’s Primogen. He has a lot of subtle influence among the city’s Kindred. He knows almost everything that goes on in the city. But now Khalid is ready to leave Chicago and continue searching for the deepest of Kindred mysteries.
Khalid has an expert mastery of Obfuscate. He can conceal objects that are important to him (like his haven) even when he’s not present. Unlike most Nosferatu, Khalid does not have their normal horrific appearance, but he still bears the scars from the sun he received his first day as a vampire.
Note: Khalid embraced two Chicago children after seeing the painful lives they lived. Tammy and Peter Walenski
– Source: Clanbook Nosferatu (Revised), pg 98-99. Chicago By Night, pg 95-96.
Know Your Kindred – Ankou
Name: The Ankou
Clan: Malkavian
Generation: Perhaps 5th?
Embraced: Unknown
There are many tales about the being known as Ankou. It is an ancient terror that stalks the night and appears in Malkavians’ dreams as a remorseless, lifeless monster that silently treads country roads with an ox-cart and scythe.
Most reliable visions hint that it is a Methuselah, grandchilde of Malkav and faithful servant of his 4th generation creator.
The Ankou can roam through Lupine territory untouched, through a busy downtown unseen, and even vanish from one place and appear miles away, visible to only it’s victims.
Malkavians vanish from their hunting grounds all the time, but sometimes after a disappearance, the Madness Network vibrates with whispers repeating “Ankou.”
– Source: Clanbook Malkavian (Revised), pg 100