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Character paths

The Rarer Blood

Some stories need a different door. An elder with unfinished business. An unfamiliar bloodline. A life beyond the vampires’ world. Bring the person behind the power to a Storyteller. Together, you can work out the right path, its requirements and where the story belongs.

Still taking shape. Rules, character options and application steps are subject to change as we refine the experience. Check back for the latest guidance.

Players must speak with Staff before applying to be an Elder.

More than an exception

Bring a story the city can answer.

Some characters change the temperature of a room before they say a word. Unfamiliar blood. An old reputation. Something the Kindred do not have a name for. The interesting question is not how much power they carry. It is what their presence gives everyone else to play.

Explain who they are, why Los Santos matters to them, and how they make room for other people’s stories. Being listed here is an invitation to understand a possibility, not a promise that the path is open or the character approved.

Special Kindred

A different inheritance.

Some bloodlines are always Seasonal: the Baali, the Kiasyd and the Maeghar among those offered here, with the others in the lists below. The Nagaraja are Seasonal only when made as Elders, within population caps. Their unfamiliarity is a reason to explain the concept clearly: its background, obligations, limitations and place in our chronicle.

A bloodline without its own option on the website is requested through the Rarer Blood, with a Storyteller. The configured allowlist determines the next step.

See the lineage route ↗

Seasonal stories

A story with a horizon.

A Seasonal character’s story focus is built to last a single season: an Elder from the capped list, a rare bloodline, a faction role or something beyond the Kindred. Plan goals you can reach while the focus is on you, and explain what a satisfying conclusion could look like. Afterwards the character may stay, but the main story will likely move elsewhere.

Age and power need explicit review. The Elder category is not a public shortcut to a stronger sheet; Storytellers confirm the permitted framework and any adjustments. A Camarilla Elder stays Non-Seasonal. An Elder of a clan or bloodline on the Elder list is Seasonal and subject to population caps: check availability with staff before you write.

Beyond Kindred

The night has other inhabitants.

The other-paths branch gathers Garou, Fera, Changelings, Demons, Mages, Kuei-Jin, Wraiths and Sorcerors. Each brings a different kind of story and its own questions about how it fits this city. Staff review the concept and confirm whether that path is available.

All of them are always Seasonal, except sorcerers and hedge magic, who are Seasonal only when made as Elders. Hunters are Non-Seasonal.

Hunters have a separate route connected to Mortal admission. Starting as one and becoming one through play are different possibilities, and neither is guaranteed.

Prepare the conversation

Give the idea somewhere to live.

Bring a concise concept, the relationships that make it playable, the limits you expect to work within, and any material staff need to understand it. If you are pitching together, make each character’s part clear. A review may refine the idea before it becomes a character.

Check the city’s published rulings and homebrews ↗

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 ↗

Explore the possibilities

Examples, not a menu

Open a name to read its identity and the next step. Availability follows the current allowlists.

  • 01

    A Brujah elder

    Non-Seasonal

    Elder

    Old blood from a clan anyone can play: low in generation, long in grudges. Tell us how old, how strong, and why Los Santos.

    Any clanA Camarilla Elder stays Non-Seasonal. An Elder of any other clan is Seasonal and capped: check with staff before you write.

    Make your pitch ↗
  • 02

    Kiasyd

    Always Seasonal

    Bloodline

    Tall, pale scholars of strange blood, keepers of old books and older courtesies.

    DisciplinesDominate · Mytherceria · Obtenebration

    Make your pitch ↗
  • 03

    Nagaraja

    Seasonal as an Elder

    Bloodline

    Flesh-eating necromancers, hunted nearly to nothing, who bargain with the dead.

    DisciplinesAuspex · Dominate · Necromancy

    Make your pitch ↗
  • 04

    Baali

    Always Seasonal

    Bloodline

    Infernalists hidden inside other clans, serving what should have stayed buried.

    DisciplinesDaimoinon · Obfuscate · Presence

    Make your pitch ↗
  • 05

    A Sabbat pack

    Seasonal as an Elder

    Sect

    The Sword of Caine, inside a Camarilla city. Tell us how they got in, and why they’re still standing.

    How to pitch itTogether, each of you under your own clan. Non-Seasonal below Elder.

    Make your pitch ↗
  • 06

    Garou

    Always Seasonal

    Not Kindred

    A werewolf in a city of vampires. Tell us exactly what you’re doing, and why the Kindred haven’t noticed.

    GiftsOf their breed, their auspice and their tribe

    Make your pitch ↗
  • 07

    Changeling

    Always Seasonal

    Not Kindred

    A fae soul in a mortal body, keeping their dreams alive in a city of the dead.

    ArtsOf their kith, their court and their dreams

    Make your pitch ↗
  • 08

    Mage

    Always Seasonal

    Not Kindred

    Awakened, and bending reality in a city the Kindred think is theirs. Mind the cameras.

    SpheresOf their paradigm, Tradition or Convention

    Make your pitch ↗
  • 09

    Sorcerer

    Seasonal as an Elder

    Not Kindred

    A mortal who learned magic the hard way, and keeps it hidden from the Tremere.

    PathsHedge magic, learned and limited

    Make your pitch ↗

When you are ready

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