the hecata are a new clan of vampire in world of darkness this is a particular group that
specializes in necromancy so let's get into it now the hecata are a little weird in the sense that
well other than dealing with necromancy tends to make you a little bit off they're no malkavians
this particular clan does not hail from a single anti-diluvian with a uninterrupted bloodline
it is however made up of two clans the giovanni and the cappadocians and these two
are unlikely allies because they kind of were at war with each other and the giovanni killed
most of the cappadocians but now they're working together as well as a small group of
naga raja and when they all come together they form the new clan of death clan hecata because
most of the participants are giovanni it still functions a lot like a mafia family it's just
a bigger mixed family the hecata are also one of the last remaining independent clans they are
still quite large now a particular discipline that this whole group mind you all of the participants
all of the clans that made up this one unified force they all practiced in a discipline called
oblivion and what this allows you to do is draw from the unnatural it allows you to draw from
oblivion calling forth supernatural beings from the depths of the deepest blackness
it's very metal oblivion if you are unfamiliar is a place where spirits and wraiths are destroyed it
consumes and eats matter and not only that but spiritual essence as well it is a wholly
terrifying thing it is always growing and there is nothing you can do to stop it i talk a little
bit about it in this video up here while the discipline of oblivion is very dangerous to use
for those who are able to master it it is quite powerful the nagaraja are an interesting bloodline
in the sense that they are feared vampires on all sides the reason they are feared is because
they are cannibals this particular group of vampires does not hail from a single anti-diluvian
they were instead created by a group of mages these particular mages followed the chakravanti
tradition and what they were trying to do was make their own vampires they did this by
running experiments on vampire blood whatever you think of these particular folks their experiments
they worked they were able to create some vampires without going through the process of being
embraced before we move on to an overview of the giovanni and the cappadocians if you're enjoying
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you know when my videos are available the giovanni family is just that they are a mafia style family
of vampires at least that's kind of how they function they were many families that formed
one clan of the giovanni and the giovanni were notorious for only embracing those within their
families i say mafia style because it's fun and that's kind of what's in my head when i think
about the giovanni but they're not necessarily italian but they all value their family the
cappadocians were a clan who was dedicated to the mysteries of death and what happens to the body
or the soul after the beyond this particular family was destroyed after a crusade by
augustus giovanni what he performed was a coup de family it's the same thing as a coup d'etat except
for it's not against the state it's against the family and in the family was the capped
oceans unfortunately for the giovanni because the cappadocians were such masters in the art of death
who knew that somebody who was very experienced in death and the beyond would be hard to kill
so while a great many of them did die not all of them did there was so few cappadocians left after
this event that none of them would be considered a special variant because everyone was a different
variant when everybody's special nobody's special in the v5 timeline augustus giovanni
is no longer the picture nobody really knows what happened to him he is assumed to be either dead
diablerized or just simply gone into hiding which is a problem because there was a large
amount of wraiths and specters who were bound to him or under his control in some way and when he
disappeared that control over them well they don't it's not there anymore and those angry specters
and spirits they went after the giovanni in the wake of all of these specters and wraiths being
released a meeting was called and they called it a family reunion basically it was a sit down
the giovanni capped oceans the samidi the lamia and the harbingers of skulls all of these groups
came together talked about their differences and figured some [ __ ] out keep in mind there was a
lot of things going on in the background to all of this as well there was the second inquisition
that was happening the harbingers had actually attacked some of the giovanni holdings in venice
the disappearance of augustus the you know there was also the rumors of the promise of
1528 coming to an end in 2028 the sit-down and the negotiations led to the formation of clan hecata
now when it comes to particular variants for this clan there's a lot of them simply because
of the mishmash of different bloodlines that happened to make this one unified force you have
of course the giovanni from previous editions they are mostly in all the leadership positions
in clan hecata simply because there's more of the giovanni than there is of anyone else
the harbingers of ashur this is the rest of the cappadocians and the harbingers of skulls combined
into one descendants of baron these are the last remnants of the samidi you've also got the gorgons
which is the last of the lamia line the flesh eaters who are the last bits of the nagaraja
the bankers of dunsrin this is a family who used to belong to the giovanni they are a scottish
family who is deeply entrenched in banking the children of tenochtitlan this particular bloodline
was allies with the giovanni back in the day they have also been brought into the fold of the clan
the criminal puttanesca this is a sicilian crime family also related to the giovanni the little
siblings this was the rosalini family they used to be rivals to the giovanni at one point
but now they are working together they also were very strong in the area of necromancy as well
as a matter of fact this particular group is known to treat wraiths and spirits
very very poorly we're talking cruelty and exploitation here and the last variant is your
grudge masters this used to be a minor giovanni family however they do still have crime ties
if you're looking to integrate some of the other world of darkness games into your
vampire chronicle i have two things we need to talk about one werewolf the apocalypse
shadow lords you're gonna want to use these guys while not necessarily militaristic they are very
heavy into politics and manipulation they are deeply entrenched in eurasia and this particular
tribe prizes brain over brawn they are still very capable warriors make no mistake about that
their goal is power and i feel like this lines up with a lot of what the hecata are standing for and
for shadow lords being that the ends justify the means they would be very likely to work
with the vampires if it suited their goals the shadow lords have their own rival when it comes to
other werewolf tribes and they are looking to gain the upper hand on the silver fangs the second way
you can do some blending here is around wraith the oblivion i've talked about one particular guild
or one particular group in my wraith series and that is the harbingers i feel like as a group who
interacts with wraiths and spirits on the regular they would be very familiar with the harbingers
the harbingers use magic called argos to safely travel through the shadow lands going from the
different cities or the necropolis that exist in the shadow lands the shadowlands are where the
wraiths live the werewolves might call this the umbra but it's a layer of the umbra the
harbingers tend to ferry spirits around so they are very adept at traveling in the shadow lands
whether through legal means or the illegal means if you think you can escape bureaucracy from death
you got something else coming if you want to know a little bit more about the vampire clans check
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