An elder wakes up from torpor and sees the state of the world. There are almost eight billion people and the earth's biosphere is facing collapse. A large number of kine are in professions that produce no goods, draw sizable salaries and spend money on consumer goods. He is also made aware of the threat of the Second Inquisition. So, he comes up with a simple solution.
He starts embracing mortals who he deems to be the most destructive to nature and then advises his progeny to prepare defenses against the second inquisition. Through his existing contacts with whatever vampire sect he belongs to, he organizes a disinformation campaign that characterizes vampire society as being dedicated to consuming the planet's resources. He makes up legends that ancients (like himself) have the ability to grow in strength from the destruction of nature. This disinformation is targeted at the second inquisition.
The progeny he has created are forced to define themselves in opposition to the roles they played in their mortal lives, while evading the second inquisition. When the second inquisition does catch one of them, they are further convinced that the planet-leeching legends are true. They unwittingly take up the elder's cause, their attention redirected at those humans who are agents, witting or not, of planetary destruction. When the inquisitors run out visible or known vampire targets, they begin looking at the human population through an environmental lens. They are forced to confront problems with humanity itself.
The members of the bloodline, if it can be defined that way, have a distinct characteristic. They are not only trying to hold onto their humanity, but also atoning for the sins they committed as greedy consumers in life. They are vampires, something unnatural, trying to reconcile the relationship between humans, vampires and nature itself. Their role as an apex-predator above humans can be regarded as essential to the defense of nature.
A new Discipline for this fledgling bloodline?
He starts embracing mortals who he deems to be the most destructive to nature and then advises his progeny to prepare defenses against the second inquisition. Through his existing contacts with whatever vampire sect he belongs to, he organizes a disinformation campaign that characterizes vampire society as being dedicated to consuming the planet's resources. He makes up legends that ancients (like himself) have the ability to grow in strength from the destruction of nature. This disinformation is targeted at the second inquisition.
The progeny he has created are forced to define themselves in opposition to the roles they played in their mortal lives, while evading the second inquisition. When the second inquisition does catch one of them, they are further convinced that the planet-leeching legends are true. They unwittingly take up the elder's cause, their attention redirected at those humans who are agents, witting or not, of planetary destruction. When the inquisitors run out visible or known vampire targets, they begin looking at the human population through an environmental lens. They are forced to confront problems with humanity itself.
The members of the bloodline, if it can be defined that way, have a distinct characteristic. They are not only trying to hold onto their humanity, but also atoning for the sins they committed as greedy consumers in life. They are vampires, something unnatural, trying to reconcile the relationship between humans, vampires and nature itself. Their role as an apex-predator above humans can be regarded as essential to the defense of nature.
A new Discipline for this fledgling bloodline?
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