WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18 Foul blood-sucking minions! – While ghosts harry mortals and Kindred alike, the rest of the week we'll be talking specifically about vampiric foes. Belial's Brood is truly a hellish faction of Kindred. Members exult in their wickedness, inflicting pain and misery with no remorse and even less discretion. While Belial's Brood is about, buildings burn, mortals die, and shocked victims covered in blood stagger down streets before collapsing. Belial's Brood rarely survives long in any given domain. Its behavior is antithetical to the continued existence of the Kindred, both under literal and interpretative understandings of the Masquerade, so few Princes suffer its ilk to establish havens or stay in their demesnes. Even if Princes didn't rally entire domains against them, members of the Brood would probably bring their own Final Death about sooner rather than later. Their overt acts and blatant wickedness tend to earn them the attention of witch-hunters, mortal authorities and other groups who don't want the demoniacal murderers threatening them. |
Belial's
Brood – A loose confederation of Satanists, demon-worshippers
and overt miscreants, the "covenant" known as Belial's
Brood claims that the Damned originate literally from Hell itself.
Vampires are not their own unique species, they are "demons" given
mortal form or devils who have found passage from the Pit's sulfurous
depths to the surface of the world. The purpose of the Damned,
in the opinion of this covenant, is to indulge the dark urges that
the Beast imparts.