This bloodline is an offshoot off the Assamites. It began in the Dark Ages when the Assamites called a blood hunt (the nature of the crime has never been discovered) on one of their own (who has remained nameless). In the hopes of survival the renegade Assamite fled to London. He then captured, embraced, and blood bound a guardsman of one of the nobles. The renegade planned to start an army of his own to ensure his survival. The guardsman (he called himself Alan Palin; he could not remember his given name), now turned vampire, suffered from amnesia and could remember nothing of his mortal life. His sire flew into a frenzy one night and fearing for his life Alan also succumbed to the Beast and diablerized his sire. A Ventrue lord took him in and accepted him, even though he was Caitiff. Alan had learned the disciplines and ways of the Assamites, he used them in the service of his lord. He set out to create his own bloodline and a unique disciple of his own. He called his bloodline Cruentor, a word with its roots in Latin that means those who are bloodthirsty. The discipline was called Evanescere, a Latin word meaning, vanish. The path that the Cruentor follow was named Mactae, another word with it s roots in Latin meaning, honoring (and/or) slaying.The Cruentor believe that the way of achieving perfection is through diablerie; their goal is to get as close to Caine as possible. They are a very tight knit clan; it's all for one and one for all. They normally act as bodyguards and assassins. Even though they openly practice diablerie, they are extremely honorable and would never act against their own clan or anyone that they have sworn loyalty to. The clan will always unite together to aid it's own when needed.
The clan never sided with the Camarilla or the Sabbat; instead it remains a separate entity of if it s own. Each individual clan member is free to ally himself with either side they choose, as long as they don t work against another clan member (i.e. no clan member will accept a contract against somebody who is protected by another clan member or has a another clan member working in her service).