Character paths
Mortals
You have rent to pay, people to love and a life that can still surprise you. Start with a human caught in the strange machinery of Los Santos. No prior World of Darkness knowledge needed. Bring a person; we’ll help you find their first scene.
Still taking shape. Rules, character options and application steps are subject to change as we refine the experience. Check back for the latest guidance.
A life worth living
You do not need fangs to leave a mark.
A night-shift nurse. A mechanic with a debt. A journalist whose source stops answering. Mortals give Los Santos its pulse: work, ambition, friendships, loyalties and all the ordinary things someone will eventually ask you to betray.
You do not need to know Vampire: The Masquerade to begin. Your character can discover the hidden city through play. Staying mortal is a complete story, with its own risks and victories.
Build a person first
What keeps them here?
Start with three things: a reason to stay in Los Santos, someone they cannot afford to lose, and a problem they cannot solve alone. A job gives them a routine; a want gives them somewhere to go. Leave room for other players to matter.
Keep what you know separate from what your character knows. Reading the Chronicle does not give them its secrets. A strange encounter can remain strange until the story gives them a reason to understand it.
Admission and identity
One admission. Your own beginning.
The server admission is the shared admission step for players. It is not a requirement to play a human before requesting a different approved starting character. Admission, character permission and sheet approval are separate decisions.
Choose a Mortal experience category in your saved character application; the creation guide explains each starting framework. If your concept needs another permission, follow its branch on the application map. An idea is welcome; approval is a separate step.
When the ordinary breaks
Some witnesses become hunters.
A mortal may come face to face with something the city insists does not exist. What they do with that knowledge belongs to the story. Hunter status is not automatic: you may request it as a starting concept, or potentially reach it through events in the city.
Ghouls follow a different path: a living person sustained and changed by vampire blood, with a relationship to the Kindred that brings both power and obligation. They use their own creation package.
Mortals, hunters and ghouls are Non-Seasonal: their stories can run across many seasons.
Seasonal or Non-Seasonal
Every character is one or the other.
A Non-Seasonal character may carry a story across several seasons. A Seasonal character’s story is built to last one season: plan goals you can reach while the focus is on you.
Non-Seasonal
A story that may run across several seasons. Elders included.
- Bystanders, mortals and hunters
- Ghouls
- Dhampirs and thin-bloods
- The Camarilla clans: Brujah, Gangrel, Malkavian, Nosferatu, Toreador, Tremere and Ventrue
Seasonal as an Elder
Non-Seasonal below Elder. Made as an Elder, they are Seasonal and subject to population caps: check availability with staff before you write.
- The Sabbat’s Lasombra and Tzimisce
- Lasombra antitribu
- Tzimisce antitribu
- Assamite
- Followers of Set
- Giovanni
- Ravnos
- Caitiff
- Nagaraja
- Gargoyles
- Daughters of Cacophony
- Samedi
- Sorcerers and hedge magic
Always Seasonal
A story built to last a single season. Afterwards the character may stay, but the main story will likely move elsewhere.
- Every other line that isn’t Kindred: the Garou, changelings, mages and more
- Baali
- Blood Brothers
- Harbingers of Skulls
- Kiasyd
- Salubri
- True Brujah
- Ahrimanes
- Anda
- Cappadocians
- Children of Osiris
- Lamia
- Lhiannan
- Maeghar
- Noiad
- Tzimisce Koldunists
- Abyssal Mystics
- Custom, Storyteller-approved concepts
Not sure where your concept falls? Ask a Storyteller before you write. A line without its own option on the website is requested through the Rarer Blood. Read the ruling in the Archive ↗
When you are ready
Give the idea a beginning.
Taking applications
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