One of my favorite things as a vampire ST is designing ancient histories and feuds that the local kindred have and how these come to haunt the PCs. Every single chronicle I've done with my groups has been in North America for the simple reason that I have not been to Europe and I get worried I would end up depicting London, Paris, or Berlin as some sort of Hollywood inspired theme park city.
So instead I focus a fair deal on North America's history and occasionally have had a few elders with rich histories across the Atlantic that immigrated here for one reason or another, but most of my North American elders are settlers that showed up here at most 400 years ago. However we have very very little lore of any sort concerning Native Americans in the New World of Darkness (nWoD not CoD, I play 1e), which is a pretty crucial aspect to the history of those Elders that settled here. We know that there were definitely Native American Kindred in both North and South America before Europeans showed up (the Sta-Au, the Choctaw Elder of New Orleans, and the Central American Bloodlines are evidence of this), but we know very little about them.
The thing is that is a pretty huge aspect of North America's history, whether you're focusing on the European settlers or not. This basically implies there are entire lineages of vampires, entire covenants even, that European Kindred likely interacted with, whether they fought them, traded favors with them, existed in the same domain, or had tenuous agreements to leave each other the hell alone. I'm not even going to get into the fact this is just as true for all the other supernatural critters out there (werewolf and changeling anyone?) and just focus on vampires for now.
So I thought I'd ask you all if you've done much with Native American Kindred, if the Circle of the Crone was taken a certain direction, if you've made or used certain bloodlines, etc. Hell I wonder if you guys think if some clans would even have existed in North America of if the Americas may have even had their own clans. Gangrel and Nosferatu we know seem to exist damn near everywhere, but Ventrue seem almost solely European.
When it comes to real world inspiration I've dug around online for Native American vampire myths and the myth of Jumlin cropped up several times, but if anyone knows of any other sources of inspiration they're definitely appreciated.
So instead I focus a fair deal on North America's history and occasionally have had a few elders with rich histories across the Atlantic that immigrated here for one reason or another, but most of my North American elders are settlers that showed up here at most 400 years ago. However we have very very little lore of any sort concerning Native Americans in the New World of Darkness (nWoD not CoD, I play 1e), which is a pretty crucial aspect to the history of those Elders that settled here. We know that there were definitely Native American Kindred in both North and South America before Europeans showed up (the Sta-Au, the Choctaw Elder of New Orleans, and the Central American Bloodlines are evidence of this), but we know very little about them.
The thing is that is a pretty huge aspect of North America's history, whether you're focusing on the European settlers or not. This basically implies there are entire lineages of vampires, entire covenants even, that European Kindred likely interacted with, whether they fought them, traded favors with them, existed in the same domain, or had tenuous agreements to leave each other the hell alone. I'm not even going to get into the fact this is just as true for all the other supernatural critters out there (werewolf and changeling anyone?) and just focus on vampires for now.
So I thought I'd ask you all if you've done much with Native American Kindred, if the Circle of the Crone was taken a certain direction, if you've made or used certain bloodlines, etc. Hell I wonder if you guys think if some clans would even have existed in North America of if the Americas may have even had their own clans. Gangrel and Nosferatu we know seem to exist damn near everywhere, but Ventrue seem almost solely European.
When it comes to real world inspiration I've dug around online for Native American vampire myths and the myth of Jumlin cropped up several times, but if anyone knows of any other sources of inspiration they're definitely appreciated.
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