KROVIKAN

By Brian Connors (connorbd@bc.edu) (9 April 1996)

Description

No one ever noticed the Krovikans being created. That is apparently how they like it.

The Krovikans are a bloodline that appears to be descended from the Lasombra or the Ravnos. Those who know of them speak of them in whispers; there are few of them, but their power is unquestionably the most dangerous of any vampire's.

It seems that the embrace of a Krovikan contains the peculiar ability to automatically blood-bind the childe. This bizarre ability extends also to ghouls and the Krovikans' few revenants, and one in three blood bonds with other vampires are immediate after the first taste of vitae, though it generally involves severe blood pool depletion when it does happen.

The Krovikans follow a modified Dominate discipline called The Leash that makes it possible at level 3 for the Krovikan to ward off but not control vampires of lower generation. It is generally the same otherwise; no vampire other than a Krovikan can learn it. A few Krovikans have also learned Vicissitude; this may have given rise to the rumors of soul-stealing angels.

Nickname

Souleaters

Appearance

Pale and quiet. Most have the wrinkled, paper-thin skin of mountain peoples and blood-red eyes. Despite that, most are fairly attractive.

Haven

Krovikans will generally choose tiny spaces in isolated areas, safe from lupines but near their feeding grounds.

Background

Most Krovikans are cowards, and few will have ever had serious money or connections. All Krovikans must take Autism as a derangement.

Character Creation

Mental attributes are primary. Social is almost always the weakest one; most have all three Social points in Appearance.

Clan Disciplines

The Leash, Obtenebration, Auspex

Clan Weaknesses

Krovikans also try to avoid speaking; if there is a need to speak a Willpower point must be spent for any speech longer than a sentence (Derangement: Autism).

Stereotypes

Assamite: Child's play. Picking them apart is like knocking apart two fists: don't go against the main direction of force, and you will always succeed.

Brujah: They tend to be immune to our bond, but we can dominate them the same as all the others. They are simply no use to us, though.

Setites: To enter their minds is to enter Hell itself. To touch one of them is to either be disgusted or simply go insane.

Gangrel: The easiest to manipulate, the hardest to keep.

Giovanni: We are friendly, but not friends. Their involvement in Pentex, however, may prove to be dangerous.

Lasombra: We learned all we know from them. At least that's what they think.

Malkavian: They are like roller coasters. You will make yourself sick if you can't keep them straight.

Nosferatu: Very interesting...

Ravnos: Believe nothing. Even their thoughts lie.

Toreador: Nothing of interest in their heads. They are so stunningly self-absorbed that they may as well be us.

Tremere: You find the most fascinating things in a Tremere's mind. It's just incredibly difficult to comprehend them.

Tzimisce: They are actually the most susceptible to our talents.

Ventrue: There is so much more to them than staredowns, but most of them are too stuck-up to ever admit it.

Magi: A bit alien, but no less interesting than their Kindred brethren, the Tremere.

Lupines: Obsessive and annoying. They are a synaptic swamp of derangements that happen to produce coherence.

Wraiths: Leave them for the Giovanni. We have no interest in the dead.

Fae: Like nails across a blackboard. They are better strangled than drained, if you ask me.