if you're playing this clan in vampire the masquerade and you like werewolf the apocalypse
let's face it there's a very high likelihood that you are a furry i'm sorry i don't make the rules
that's just how it is today we're going to look at the gangrel clan i'm going to tell you how they
are in the modern setting and world of darkness i'm also going to try to blend in some of the
werewolf tribes that you could use as antagonists or maybe unlikely allies before we dive into this
there are some version differences between vampire 20th edition and vampire 5th edition and it will
be up to your storyteller how they want to run it for their particular game for example in 20th
anniversary edition the gangrel is still part of the camarilla and in fifth edition the the gangrel
have just kind of left they're no longer part of the camarilla well there's a small group that is
and i'll talk about that later in the video game girls are nomads and they prefer to be in the wild
you can find them in the cities but they do look very out of place because they would probably be
very uncomfortable they're also much closer to their beast aspect than some of their other
cousins or the other clans this tends to make them look a little bit more animalistic as well
the gangrel were one of the seven founding members of the camarilla however in the final night
setting they became disillusioned with what the clan represented and the clan elders eventually
decided to sever their ties with the camarilla all of this happened near the same time that the
sabbat were invading the east coast the camarilla had lost one of their founding members and some of
them actually joined the sabbat i should mention that some also stayed with the camarilla as well
but by and large they went for a more independent clan approach word on the street is that jessica
xavier went before the inner circle said one sentence and left nobody but the inner circle
knows what that sentence was gangril history is a little bit muddied as well i'm not going to focus
too much on the history for this particular video as i want to do a different series around some
of the older ages having said that the gangrel history is very diverse in the sense that a lot of
it is oral and there's varying accounts of where the clan came from and the different aspects that
came together to create them as a clan some of the common threads in many of these stories though
depict the gangrel as nomads they always wandered they were very tribal and they lived on the land
finding places that they could hide from the sun caves burrows things like that some gangrel myths
talk about how kane and inoya who was the daughter of lilith was cast out of the clan because of a
betrayal to the ravnos antediluvian and because they were cast out they were forced to live on
beasts and drink the blood of them or embrace the beasts and this is where the clan supposedly gets
their animalistic tendencies from at least that's one version that is told in the gangrel histories
the scandinavian gangrel tell a slightly different story but it does have some common threads
and i'm going to butcher the pronunciation of this but i will try my best so bear with me on
that the scandinavian story goes einergyarl and canarel these two were cursed by odin and that is
why the clan has some animalistic features another story that's told but isn't very popular with the
gangrel clan or the werewolves the story goes that inoya who was the daughter of lilith and
i've changed the pronunciation of that so maybe the second way was right is the mother of the
romani and it's from this line that the gangrel descend from as well as the werewolves in present
day though by and large most of the gengar clan doesn't really care where they came from just that
they survived today following the sabbat invasion of the east coast and the camarilla losing
a founding member the gangrel clan the select few that did decide to stay with the camarilla
were referred to as atarkies now you can become an atarki's voluntarily or involuntarily if you
do this voluntarily you are turning your back on your clan you are rejecting their political
beliefs if you're doing this involuntarily you've been excommunicated from your clan gangrel are
very similar to werewolves in the sense that their hierarchy and how they operate is very similar for
example status in the gengrel clan is determined by merits and by rights rights involve one of two
things bragging boasting or combat this is very similar to most werewolf tribes in the sense that
they will brag and they will fight if two gangrel know each other very well they will probably just
have a sparring match between them and they will back off each other respectfully usually
if the fight seems to be going in one particular direction for the gang girl if they don't know
each other that fight isn't ending until someone ain't getting up i don't mean dead i just mean
knocked out now when it comes to boasting this particular method is much more about the one
up but if you make a hollow boast for example and can't back up your claim with proof you lose that
right and you will actually be looked down upon not only can you be looked down upon but you can
lose status by doing this and the one-upping boasting thing doesn't stop until somebody
says you didn't do that give me proof so as a gang girl if you get into one of these arguments
be careful what you say and don't want up too quickly unless you actually have the proof to back
it up for those vampires who are in the right but not fighting or boasting usually what'll happen
is members of the clan will get together share stories share information they'll discuss local
matters and for those who are participating in the rights for fighting and boasting whoever wins
those will end up running the meeting as one might expect these rights can absolutely take
a while to happen usually a couple of days and this process repeats every right it's not usual
that the same gangrel will run a right twice in a row or even twice in general but it does happen
once the right is finished and the leader has been determined they get to decide what happens their
word is the final say for everything that was discussed in that meeting there is another type
of clan meeting that happens but it is extremely rare and it is considered by and large a bad omen
not a good sign you don't want to see this happen this would be a grand gather or it's also called
an all thing only the most respected members or the most feared members within the clan
can call one of these when it is called every clan member must go to wherever it's being held
and you need to show up unlike the rights where these can be called by somebody who is
influential within the clan just because they called it doesn't mean they're going to be the
leader of it you still have the process where you have shows of strength as well as status to figure
out who is going to run the grand gather and also unlike the rights there is no time limit for how
long this can take it is very possible for a grand gatherer to go for weeks for months at least until
a leader is decided no one in the gangrel clan has called for one of these in a very long time
simply because they are universally believed to be bad luck now the gang girl have many
clan bloodlines there are two common ones that you will find and i wanted to talk about one
uncommon one because i think it's cool and it ties in very well to werewolf the apocalypse
the first variant we're going to talk about is the city gangrel this particular variant
reminds a lot of the kindred of coyotes while the coyote is naturally suited to be in nature
it can make itself at home if a little awkwardly in the city this particular variant associates
itself with the sabbat they also tend to embrace quite a bit in the city simply because there's
just lots of choices there's lots of opportunity to do so in the city but a city gang girl's life
expectancy is not that high compared to one who would live in the wilderness this is because of
all the other supernatural threats that they run into you have your vampire hunters you have mages
you have the werewolves who live in the cities you have other changing breeds that live in the cities
not to mention some of the other supernatural beings that like to call the city home in the
entirety of world of darkness you'll find that there is a lot of conflict in the cities there's
a lot of supernatural war going on now while the city gang girl may look human on the outside
make no mistake they are a predator and they are dangerous now the other offshoot of the
gangrel is the country gangrel and unlike their city counterparts they are untamed they are wild
they are savage brutal vicious they hunt in packs they're very reminiscent of wolves in how they
hunt you can see some blending with this clan and with the werewolves maybe this gives some credence
to some of the myths around this particular clan the country variant also serves the sabbat they
tend to be more assassins and scouts with their superior command of animals they tend to use
these for information gathering this makes them very useful in the forests the forests are very
dangerous for vampires not just because there's more werewolves in the forest but there's also
other supernatural beings in there and you can also run into the odd rogue vampire just looking
to make chaos now one of the less common gangrel variants is the mariners and i really wanted to
talk about these because i got excited when i saw it also called gangrel aquari these are a very
small offshoot of the gangrel variant but they are more geared towards the sea they make their homes
in the water or near the water and all of their features that make them look more fish-like have
evolved over time rather than types of inbreeding that happens with some of the other vampire clans
this bloodline is also not necessarily inherited it is partially a choice there are those who the
sea calls to and it doesn't call to everyone but if you're one of those people who has the call of
the sea and you're not a vampire if you become embraced you can become part of the mariners
now in the source book it says there is only about 30 mariners in the entirety of the bloodline your
mileage may vary depending on your storyteller some of the older mariners those who have been
around for a very long time their physical appearance has changed so much so that even those
in the gangrel clan do not recognize them they are often mistaken for monsters and hunted by many of
the vampire clans and the werewolves as well as a changing breed that they could encounter although
i don't feel that this changing breed would attack them i feel that they would actually be more
allied now if you're looking for antagonists for a city gangrel you have a couple of options here
obviously you have the glass walkers they're a tribe of werewolves that just like to live in
the city and they use human technology to further their own purposes they would actively fight the
vampires so i can see this happening using them as an antagonist to one of your stories but if
you wanted to have an interesting story where you have three groups who are kind of at a stalemate
in attacking each other or a war if you will i would think about combining the glass walkers
with the yaren the yaren are a group of wear monkeys who are actively fighting the werewolves
they were a mockery breed that was created by an evil organization in the world of darkness known
as pentex vampire involvement within this company is highly likely for the country gangrel i can see
using the girl as an antagonist some force that they could come against the girl are wear bears
they are very powerful very ferocious they view it as their job to cleanse and heal the earth
what they would call gaia i can't see any instance where a girl would be allied with a vampire unless
we were literally looking at the end of the world and even then they might be a little hesitant to
do that another tribe that would potentially work with the country gangrel would be the black furies
they are mostly women but their tribe does have male members nobody is higher or lower
simply because of their gender and the black fury views tend to go from one extreme to the other
as well as anywhere in between and it's because of this that i can see them either working with
or being against the vampire clan now the rokia are a changing breed of were sharks now the rokea
numbers when you compare them to the mariners there's a lot more rokea but the rokea lived
through an event which basically cut the numbers of their tribe in half it killed half of them in a
single event the rokae's relationship with most of the changing breeds would be considered tense at
best so if they can gain an advantage by working with the gangrel mariners i can see them doing it
the rokea are a simple species they don't really get the concept of lying manipulation it just kind
of goes above them and this is largely because they've separated themselves from humanity it
was just not something they were exposed to so it wasn't something that they picked up and learned
now if you'd like to learn a little bit more about some of the other vampire clans i have a playlist
on the screen for you now as well as one for the rokea tell me in the comments below what you
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