Updated: 13 January 1999
CONCLUSION: Last Words?
The Veilleurs aren't a Bloodline. So I thought a lot before giving it to B.J. Zanzibar's Word of Darkness. But as I gave the Hekau Paths of Lightning and Veille, some people asked me about the Background behind these Paths of Thaumaturgy. One even asked me more and more Background about our version of the Paris by Night (Alex, I hope you'll like it...).
I believe few of you made a Chronicle in Paris, and then, few will use the Veilleurs as such. But anyone can use the Background as idea to make their own vampiric organisation. It will demand some work, but I've done the the principal and only minor changes will be necessary.
For information, I tell you how this organisation came to my mind. First were the Korrigans, created by a french RPG review. They weren't complete, so I've made the work, changed some names, added Disciplines, all this with the help of my friends Storytellers. But the most important came after.
If you were a Methuselah, alive since eons, what would you have done all this time?
I created this Methuselah, and added some Background. As there is no better ally, bodyguard and friend for a vampire than another vampire (!!!), Serpentis ***** would help keep loyalty high.
As more and more Vampires were created 8th Gen or weaker, Why not help them so reach the 7th (the Generation were anyone can create is own level six powers)?
How? By Diablerie, of course.
White Wolf publishers perhaps never thought about that, but any 4th Gen Vampire could raise any weaker vampire to 5th Gen. The same could be said for any Generation...
For example, Meryt-Neith, created an Order of Knights all 6th or 7th Gen. She encounter a young Vampire she thinks would be a good Knight. But the Vampire is only 12th Gen. Then Meryt-Neith asks him if he wanted to raise in Generation, in exchange of a service: If one day she call him to help defend her, he will come.
If the 12th Gen accept (Meryt-Neith study him long before asking him, and only asks if she feels he will accept... ever read the Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand?), Then she put him in Torpor, take out his heart and awaken him with a drop of her -Strong- blood. Then she give to him five mortals -his or her ennemies?- who were Embraced by one of her Knights (and are now 7th Gen). Drinking one after the other, the Vampire raise to the 7th Gen. As his Humanity drops, she give to him the principles of the Road of Chivalry (see Vampire: Dark Ages). The young Vampire is now a Knight of Meryt-Neith, unable to threaten her as she can destroy his heart with but a thought.
Then Meryt-Neith leaves him to his life. Some die, but others survive, become powerful, and when Meryt-Neith come back, this Knight is, perhaps, a Primogen or Bishop, a city Clan Leader or master manipulator.
Her most devout Knight could be raised to the 6th Gen and participate to Meryt-Neith's intrigues. If she started to create her Knights since -500, then some of them could be very powerful member of the Camarilla, Sabbat, Inconnu or even True Black Hand member...
And if one of them, one of the most lawful vampire even embraced, became one of the Lieutenant of one of the greatest Toreador in the world?...
And if this lawful vampire created a powerful organisation... And if he was one of her most lawful Knights but she couldn't raise him to 6th because of the Prince's powerful Auspex?
I hope it will stimulate your imagination...
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