Bloodlinebook - Ahrimanes.pdf - rpg - VikingVixen

A Net Sourcebook for

Vampire: the Masquerade

by Mark Antill

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Credits and Thanks:

Jess Heinig - For suggesting having a Lhiannan connection

Sven Skoog - For suggesting having a Yaryan connection

Chris Tembreull - The Ahrimanes logo

Rebeca Lloyd - The terms Ritemother, Wildform and Third Birth

Kabael - For some ideas from his Ahrimanes stuff, most notably "Another Slant"

Krissy Knight - For helping with most of the rules stuff during our game, and being a

wonderful ST.

Mark Antill - Everything else

A big thank you to everyone who emailed me or posted to alt.games.whitewolf with

suggestions, comments and advice

The cover picture comes from an online image archive

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Introduction

The Ahrimanes are a small Bloodline,

an all female offshoot of the Sabbat

Gangrel first introduced in the

Storytellers Handbook to the Sabbat ,

and getting a very brief mention in the

Vampire Storyteller’s Handbook . You

do not need either book to use this work

as all the information required here. The

purpose of this book is to expand on the

given information there, to give some

depth, purpose and hopefully interest to

the Bloodline by updating and expanding

on the original 2nd edition information.

In the end, use this like any

supplement, take the bits from it you like

and incorporate it into you game world in

the way that suits you best. If some people

find some things they like and use here,

I’ll consider this work a success.

First Birth : Being born a mortal

Indulging : Spending most of the time

in or around just one of the Three Worlds.

Some Ahrimanes do this to better

understand a world, others believe it is a

loss of control and balance.

Kingdom : Another term for one of the

three worlds. So, for example, the World

of Beasts is sometimes referred to as the

Kingdom of Beasts.

Manitou : A spirit.

Medicine: Magical power including

but not limited to Disciplines. Younger

Ahrimanes sometimes call it Mojo.

Lexicon

As a rather culturally isolated group, its

not unsurprising the Ahrimanes have

developed some terms of their own.

Mentor : An older Ahrimane who is

training up a Gangrel as a potential

member. Sometimes called a Mother as

well.

Big Chief : Muricia, the Bloodline’s

founder. Used by younger Ahrimanes and

never in her presence.

Ritemother : A Mentor who has

successfully lead their charge through the

Third Birth is now that Ahrimane’s

Ritemother.

Cat : An Ahrimane, not considered

derogatory.

Second Birth : The Embrace.

Chief : Informal term for an Ahrimane

pack leader.

Shaman, Shamaness : An Ahrimane

pack priest, both terms apply to females.

Den : A place where a founded

Ahrimane pack dwells, rationally a remote

estate in southern USA but that has been

changing recently.

Third Birth : The ritual that transforms

a female Gangrel into an Ahrimane.

Wildform : The Cat-woman form

granted by the fifth level of Spiritus.

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Witch : Someone who calls upon evil or

malevolent spirits. Doing such things is

considered witchcraft.

It is also probably worth noting that

Ahrimanes do not go around using Lupine

and Mage terminology. No Cat talks about

the ‘Umbra’, ‘Gafflings’, ‘Preceptors’ and

other such terms. Very few of them would

have the slightest idea what such terms

mean, even if they are familiar with the

concepts.

World of Beasts: The world of animals

and also the vampire’s Beast, also called

the Beastsworld.

World of Man : The world of

humankind, of mortals, also sometimes

called Mansworld. Some Ahrimanes insist

on the term ‘humans’ rather than ‘man’.

World of Spirits : The place the spirits

dwell in, also called the Spiritworld, the

Otherworld and the Umbra.

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Chapter One:

History and Practices

History

Like the Gangrel from which they came

the Ahrimanes have a very strong tradition

of oral history, and storytelling is

customary at any of their gatherings.

Given the small size and relative youth of

the bloodline its not surprising many

stories do not involve its members at all

but draw their sources from the native

myths and legends of the spirit world. One

story that is about an Ahrimane is story of

Muricia, the founder and mother of the

bloodline. That story is told to all

Ahrimanes and although, as with any

culture with an oral history, the details

change with each telling the following is

something that all Ahrimanes can usually

agree upon.

The history of the Ahrimane bloodline

starts with the history of its founder, the

Gangrel antitribu Muricia. Muricia

originally came to America with her sire

and his pack but before then they had been

roaming the dwindling wilds of Europe.

As befitted a Country Gangrel, Muricia

often travelled apart from her pack and it

was during one of these periods that the

seeds of the Ahrimanes creation was

sown.

While journeying by herself, Muricia

came across an ancient, long neglected

burial mound surrounded by imposing,

carved standing stones and hidden in the

depths of a forest. Intrigued by this place

she decided to force her way inside to see

what it contained. The large stone over the

entrance would have kept out any mortal,

but eventually her vampiric strength

enabled her to move it and enter the

mound.

The darkness inside was no obstacle to

one as adept at Protean as she and with her

powers she could clearly see the inhabitant

of the mound. Lying on a stone slab was

the form of a torporus vampire.

Completely naked, she was covered from

head to foot in pagan symbols which were

etched into her flesh with blood. Having

found what she believed to be the resting

placed of an Elder, Muricia did what any

Sabbat would do, she diablerised her.

It soon became apparent that this elder

had been a practitioner of some form of

blood magic. Muricia soon found herself

exhibiting some strange new powers under

stress, although she was unable to call

upon them at will. Fascinated by this she

started to study pagan history, beliefs and

magic as she was finding herself being

drawn closer to natural and spiritual

world, and she was convinced that this

was the root of her new abilities.

However, her studies were soon cut

short by her sire, who was taking his pack

to America where the Sabbat were rapidly

expanding while fighting a bloody war

against the Camarilla for control of this

new land. Unable to resist the ties of the

Vinculum and her vestigial feelings of

loyalty towards him, Muricia went with

him to the new land. However, the war

she found their was not the one she had

been expecting. Factions within the

Gangrel antitribu had gone to war with

each other, Country Gangrel against City

Gangrel and her sire had joined the

fighting against his own kind with a relish

that revolted her.

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