The Story Behind Camille Devereux and The Raven

For many years, playing a Gangrel deck usually featured two vampires who had the exact same capacity and discipline spread – Camille Devereux and Raven. Some players probably thought it was amusing, if not puzzling, that there were two Gangrel who were exactly alike.

Well, there was a reason for this. In 1994, when Jyhad was released, Camille Devereux was one of the original cards printed in the game’s debut release, but the card’s artwork by L.A. Williams was taken directly without permission from a photo published in a Victoria’s Secret catalog of the model Stephanie Seymour.

A year later, when the base set was reprinted under the game’s new title Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, a replacement card was created called Raven, with a different illustration by L.A. Williams.

Both cards were considered unique onto themselves and did not contest with each other. That changed in 2004, for the Tenth Anniversary Edition, when both characters were combined into one card.