Enochian Story

Main: The ultimate Campaign Chapter Two: The court of Clera

Lets talk about vampires. In the ancient times (who would wander there, i ask) there was the first murderer, Caine. This murderer was so repulsive that god himself would turn up and curse him. Then, an archangel of the lord came to curse him. Then, doubly-cursed, Caine turned to Lilith to teach him magic of power. This is the source of all modern Cainites, as the "childer" of Cain call themselves. Ruthless, wicked and wrathfull, they reign over the modern earth. A story of ancient times cannot be complete without a story about these leeches. They are antagonistic in nature, they rely heavily on their blood magic to bond strangers to their will and maybe not as paranoid as the vampires in modern times, but still: not very welcoming. They consider themselves doomed, shunned from god, caine himself edicted that they should not revere god, but still, they know god exists and that they are to be monsters.

At the beginning, there was Caine, obviously. Then there were his three Childer, thirteen Grandchilder, countless Grand-Grandchilder and so forth, until the 13th Generation of vampires, where Caines blood becomes inert and loses the power to turn a human into a vampire. For 2000-1500 BC, there may be 50 or 100 cainites on earth. A overseeable amount, you might think. Problem is that we only have two sources on these bloodsuckers, the Book of Nod and the Erciyes Fragments, which are erratic at best.

Lets say that the characters should not meet with the more powerful cainites first. In full-fledged war, a well build mage group could compete with a seventh-gen vampire - something that weak would not be possible in times of thick blood. So we have to turn to newlyborn vampires. They start with relatively low disciplines, so this would be comparable. On the other hand, we don't have to fight the players with these monsters. Maybe the group encounters a man that, in his own words, "is going to the City of Enoch to die" and becomes intrigued with him.

Why not spend a while in enoch while this yet to be named stranger is serving his time as a newlyborn vampire. Here, the characters can try blood magic without fear of being compromised as immoral, can attend to blood feasts, even take up a blood bond or two. I hope some people saw it coming that there was lots of blood involved with these ones. Not as if Clera can't wait. If contacted, they tell the players that "Better be safe than sorry - we have time, if anything:"