By Kaine Andrews (devilsad@powernet.net) for the DeLaurent bloodline.
"Shortly after my grandchildren's Embrace, the mortal population began to suspect what their rulers had become. By this point, the Tzimisce success with their "ghoul families" or Revenants as they called them, was becoming known, and so to cement our power, we began to gift our mortal children with our blood, so as to allow them to better protect their Cainite predecessors from the rebelling peasants. Like ourselves at that time, they quickly became adept at Auspex and Dominate, but for some reason the Ashurian art of Mortis never evidenced itself in them until their Embrace. Rather, we discovered our children had learned to move faster than the winds, and many also became as strong as, if not stronger, than their fathers. And by the time the foolish Giovanni had taught us their abilities to contact the dead, our revenants had become to cemented in their ways to learn it. There is perhaps truth in the old atavism that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks. Instead they retained their power of Auspex, which has served us well. As gifts for faithful service, many of them have also been chosen to join our ranks, as have our more ordinary ghouls...thus were the Revenants of House DeLaurent created."