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[AnubisXy]

In his guise as the Capuchin, Lazarus had fairly extensive dealings with the Tal'mahe'Ra, and that would have included the Nagaraja. After the destruction of the Tal'mahe'Ra, he was in a powerful position to offer the surviving Nagaraja sanctuary and provide them an invitation to the Family Renuion. He also had extensive dealings with the Followers of Set, which could give him a better understanding of the Nagaraja's condition than nearly anyone else in the World of Darkness.

We know the Baali have a ritual that can turn vampires of any clan into Baali. It's plausible that Lazarus...

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If you want to run things that way, it seems pretty possible. His higher soul transcended the Curse of Cain and traveled to a new reality. His Beast was left behind in his body and went on a rampage. For all intents and purposes, Ravnos the Antediluvian is now deceased and gone and never coming back....

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Many places off monetary payments for blood and plasma donations, so there's already a market price for selling your blood. As such, the most ethical thing to do is to pay people for their blood. Even if they volunteer it due to the Kiss, you should give them at least the market value in exchange.

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[Tzimisci] and Gangrel are the two surviving Antediluvians in final storyline in the Gehenna book. It's hard to beat [Tzimisci] simultaneously becoming every living being on the entire planet. Other than Gangrel becoming the planet...

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Interestingly, even in both of the Caste books where they were introduced, both Lyta and Havesh were given setup for character arcs that could see them change and develop. For example Lyta starts off hating all of the Dragon Blooded and wanting to execute them. Then you see at the end of the book she has Dragon Blooded followers and has come to the conclusion that Dragon Blooded aren't inherently evil, rather it's the Realm that is evil and corruptive and the Dragon Blooded living it are bad because they grew up in it, not because they were born that way. Dragon Blooded from places other than...

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Oh for sure, Heresy is a big problem with the Setites. It's not like the Ministry just appeared overnight (I mean it sort of it did with V5 but there were lead up elements in earlier books) so logically there were denominational splits in the Setites and disagreements over whether people were worshipping Set the right way, or indeed, worshipping Set at all.

Still, in general though, I feel that the idea that those Setites who started becoming too monstrous, or picking up too many investments (whether demonic or fomori gifts or what have you) tended to get hunted down and killed by...

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Yeah. I used to be able to post, and then go back and quickly edit my post to catch a typo or something. But it feels like I'm getting posts flagged as spam more often than I used to....

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Yeah. I imagine it generally depends on the org in question though. I could see the independent orgs like the Arcanum or the Society of Leopold mostly approving of, or at least not really caring too much about local hunter cells, as long as those guys aren't getting too much underfoot. You might even have some open sharing of data or information between those orgs and those hunters. But then you have those orgs that are affiliated with governments, and they probably don't care much for independent hunters causing chaos. Even if individual agents are cheering for those independent hunters, as a...

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Yeah, for the most part I don't see Hunter Orgs too interested in the local hunter cells, except for when the local hunter cell screws up some big plan. "Hey cowboy, that vampire you killed last night? He was friends with 5 others and they were going to have a meeting tomorrow night. We had a bomb set to blow them all to kingdom come, but since you killed one now the other five are spooked, have gone to ground and that meeting is canceled. Thanks for fucking nothing."

Or maybe a scenario where the Hunter Org decides to use the local hunter cell as bait, or they engage in...

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Heck, they're even the most necromantically aligned clan outside of the Cappadocians/Giovanni, with unique Rituals and thaumaturgy for binding and manipulating ghosts and corpses.

In my games, I have the Setites use fomori, ghosts, banes and such with relative frequency. Still, it's important to keep in mind that the Followers of Set are a religious cult and the first and foremost being they venerate is Set, not Apophis (the Wyrm). Setites who start getting too chummy with banes or start getting demonic investments or begin being viewed as more loyal to Apophis than Set are very likely...

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Bane Mummies can create lesser Bane Mummies called Asekh-sen, so it seems reasonable that Setites other than Set could create something similar. That said, I suspect that the corrupted Spell of Life is the Setite Clan's biggest and most well kept secret, and only a relative handful of the oldest and most respected members of the Clan would have access to it. Though in V5, with the way the Setite Clan split in two, who knows if the Spell of Life has spread to the vampires in the Ministry or not, and how it might be spread or used from there.

Ultimately such lesser bane mummies would...

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One idea I had off hand for this Bane Mummy's personality, maybe he had a bit of an inferiority complex in life due to having to hold a lower rank simply because he was Egyptian rather than Greek. After he was reborn, he ended up believing that the Greeks were superior to Egyptians, causing a rift between him and the Followers of Set. Worse, he ended up adopting the dress, demeanor and language of the Greeks so well that, along with a bit of mystical magic, he was able to pass himself off as Greek. After the Greeks were defeated by the Romans, he became extremely pro-Roman believing that the Romans...

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Interestingly, you might see some werewolves agreeing with that. There is a belief, to some degree, that werewolves were tainted by the Wyrm, and they blame that Wyrm taint on stuff they do when 'falling to the Thrall of the Wyrm" during frenzy. Are werewolves really cursed by the Wyrm? Is their Rage tainted by the Wyrm? Are they just blaming the Wyrm for their own failings? Who knows, but none of the other shapeshifters have the Thrall of the Wyrm mechanics, so it does suggest that werewolves are touched by the Wyrm in a way that other shifters aren't....

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Honestly I kind of disagree. I think the storyline of a group of people who thought fascism wasn't that problematic, and were willing to ignore it and even accept racial supremacists to bolster their numbers, eventually realizing that fascism and racial supremacy are a serious problem, purged it from their group, and then had to deal with the after-effects of making a deal with the devil and soul searching and seeking atonement is probably more relevant now than it ever was. What the Get of Fenris did is what we wish all groups that tacitly allow fascists and racial supremacists into their group...

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There was also likely worries about spillover from V5, after one of the sample characters there was a neo-Nazi, and the book was accused of having some other white supremacist dog whistling. After that, having a group of werewolves that, at one point, were seemingly okay with neo-Nazis was probably viewed as more trouble than it was worth....

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According what we know, the Get of Fenris have fallen into "Haglust" which is sort of the opposite of Harano. It's basically like a permanent psuedo-frenzy. They're obsessed with fighting and destroying the Wyrm and trying to save Gaia or get revenge for her, to the point that they're willing to kill other werewolves. So the Get of Fenris are basically an NPC only tribe now and no longer permitted to be player characters. Also, the Stargazers left, they're gone, we don't know what happened to them, so they're not around either anymore and also won't have support for player characters....

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Yeah, it's a problem and I recall that it was noted in one of the First or Second edition books as the reason why the Realm traditionally did not tend to employ mounted horsemen as a major part of their military tactics. That said I'm pretty sure there was a Ride charm that allowed a Dragon Blooded to avoid killing their mount, which would pretty much be mandatory for any Dragon Blooded planning to use Ride charms. Don't know if it's in 3rd edition. If it's not, add it because otherwise it'll be problematic for any Dragon Blooded that decides to heavily invest in the Ride charm tree....

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Yeah. Those street hunters aren't going to be taking out the Tremere's Chantry in Vienna....

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I'd theorize that the explanation lays with the Brujah.

The Brujah left the Camarilla and, with the help of the Gangrel and the Ministry basically set the Anarchs up as a new, rival sect. They carry a grudge against the Ventrue and are using their new faction to smash up the Ventrue's faction because like, fuck Ventrue, I guess. The Brujah made up the majority of the Anarchs even before the clan officially left the Camarilla, and they probably continue to make up a majority of the sect, especially in leadership positions where they don't really have any rivals (the Gangrel generally...