I'm planning on running a Hong Kong game set a few decades after the British takeover, and want to incorporate elements of the Kindred of the East and Ravnos mythos quite heavily in the campaign. Ravnos will take the informer/broker role usually played by the Nosferatu, and obviously the Keui-jin will want to do something about encroaching kin-jin influence.
My question is do I need to think about how the various myths are true underneath it all? I dislike the default "Noddism is always correct" view, and was wondering if there were ways of reconciling the three cosmologies. Ravnos already has a degree of connection (if I understand it correctly, the Ravnos think they're the "righteous" version of what the Keui-jin are, guardians of the cosmic cycle), and generation can be fixed fairly roughly by replacing "generation" with age as the primary power stat.
I'd also be inclined to say that the antediluvians are the original vampires/yama kings; everything indicates that the phenomenon of generations didn't set in until after them, suggesting they are potentially a different category of spirit/vampire than everything else. With the disappearance of the Second Generation, that could be written off as myth, or a forgetting of an original war against the gods.
The only other thing to clear up is the Embrace process. Maybe if the Keui-jin idea of the soul returning to the body can be facilitated by another (the sire)? That's my first thought, but i don't know whether holes can be poked in it.
I assume someone's tried this before, but I don't know what to search for, and whether the various efforts have been successful.
My question is do I need to think about how the various myths are true underneath it all? I dislike the default "Noddism is always correct" view, and was wondering if there were ways of reconciling the three cosmologies. Ravnos already has a degree of connection (if I understand it correctly, the Ravnos think they're the "righteous" version of what the Keui-jin are, guardians of the cosmic cycle), and generation can be fixed fairly roughly by replacing "generation" with age as the primary power stat.
I'd also be inclined to say that the antediluvians are the original vampires/yama kings; everything indicates that the phenomenon of generations didn't set in until after them, suggesting they are potentially a different category of spirit/vampire than everything else. With the disappearance of the Second Generation, that could be written off as myth, or a forgetting of an original war against the gods.
The only other thing to clear up is the Embrace process. Maybe if the Keui-jin idea of the soul returning to the body can be facilitated by another (the sire)? That's my first thought, but i don't know whether holes can be poked in it.
I assume someone's tried this before, but I don't know what to search for, and whether the various efforts have been successful.
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