BROTHERHOOD OF SALVATION

By Kent Southworth (cantius@hotmail.com)

Description

Once upon a time, there was an Italian immigrant of Chicago named Valentino. One way or another, Valentino wound up in the employ of one Al Capone (perhaps you've heard of him), working as a hit man. By this point in time, he was a ghoul, and like most ghouls, he was treated as expendable. Since he was, by quirk of fate, unable to be blood bound, he never developed any sort of romantic notions about his job as Capone's pet assassin. He soon took it upon himself to teach all of vampiredom a lesson. He decided that vampires took their human prey and their ghoul servants entirely for granted, and he was just the one to show them the error of their ways. He began stockpiling the blood of his victims so that he could more thoroughly teach his lesson to vampires -- by embracing himself. He arranged for several of his friends to exsanguinate him and replace all of his blood with a mixture of blood from every clan: Camarilla, Sabbat, and Neutral. Upon being 'embraced,' his immunity to blood bonds manifested itself as the unique discipline Tueri.

It is the crusade of the Brotherhood of Salvation to free oppressed ghouls from servitude by vampires. Their methods range from steal-the-ghoul-away-secretly to kick-in-the-door-and-shoot-the-domitor-in-the-face.

Nicknames

Crusaders

Background

Almost all of those Embraced by the bloodline were either ghouls or humans somehow hurt by vampires. Concepts include just about anything appropriate for ghoul servants, plus vampire hunters, etc.

Character Creation

Any attributes may be primary. Appropriate natures/demeanors include visionary and fanatic, although just about any are acceptable. One common merit is Unbondable. Many of them will be Hunted by vampires whose servants have been liberated.

Disciplines

Celerity, Potence, Tueri

Weakness

Not only are Brothers of Salvation unable to form a blood bond, once they have learned the second level of Tueri, they can not learn Presence or Dominate.

Organization

The Brothers are a tight-knit organization. They must stick together in order to avoid the wrath of angry elders. There is no real hierarchy, as it's a pretty egalitarian group, but Valentino is revered as leader.

Quote

"Like my father always said: 'If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Then shoot 'em in the back of the head.'"
-- Valentino, 7th gen. founder of the Brotherhood of Salvation

Stereotypes

Camarilla: Toleration of these assholes is safest, at least to their faces, but trust them about as far as you can throw them.

Sabbat: If you run across one of these guys, try to remove a limb or two before killing him.

Brujah: As Cammies go, these guys are tolerable. They at least make an attempt at equality.

Gangrel: They don't mess with us, we don't mess with them.

Malkavian: They don't make much sense, but they sure are entertaining.

Nosferatu: Someone who steals secrets and then sells them qualifies as a fuckhead in my book.

Toreader: They keep people as pets as often as anything else. Only a small fraction of them deserve to exist.

Tremere: They manipulate everyone equally, so I guess they're better than some -- maybe.

Ventrue: Don't trust them. It can be fun to use them like they used you, though.