[davidtmoore]

Okay, thought exercise that may develop into a campaign.

The premise is fairly straightforward: the Earth of the Banestorm setting is the Earth of World of Darkness (original, not reboot), and the Banestorm brought much of our world's weirdness to Yrth with it.

I've got some ideas, but I wanted to shake the forumbrain first.

So some initial thoughts:

Yttaria by Night

- Vampirism was unknown on Yrth before the Banestorm; any new nonhuman bloodlines are ultimately descended from original Clans and bloodlines.

- Elves are horrified by vampirism (they see it as disrupting the cycle of nature implicit in the Eternal) and destroy vampires with fire and love; any surviving elven vampires live in human communities.

- Dwarves are basically cool with vampirism (they see it as becoming something like the Eternal yourself, and at any rate avoiding sunlight is no biggy); there are probably a couple of dwarven bloodlines (at least one, I would say, descended from Toreador, emphasising craftsmanship).

- Orcs love vampirism; it makes you a super-strong immortal! More warlike Clans (like the Brujah and Gangrel) have tried Embracing Orcs a soldiers in the past, and it's usually backfired, leading to a smattering of minor Orcish bloodlines. Orcish vampires handle the difficulties of life in the Wastes by blood-bonding tribal leaders and getting them to help protect them from the sun and collect blood tithes.

- Goblins love them some magical power. They have strongly bought into the Tremere (which is now a majority-Goblin Clan) and may have spawned one or two new bloodlines.

- It's unlikely that many low-generation vampires have been brought across, and there's no real way to make more; assume 5th Gen is the cap (except for campaign secrets).

- As such, the distinction between Clan and Bloodline has more or less vanished. Very old vampires born on Earth still maintain the distinction, but for most the two terms are indistinguishable; the only important factor is political and supernatural power.

- The main period of immigration (1050-1200 CE) was pre-Camarilla/Sabbat split; assume the model of Megalan/Caithnesser/Cardien Cainite society was the pseudo-feudal society of Vampire: The Dark Ages. The Sabbat would have turned up, along with the Giovanni, in Araterre in the 15th century.

So what's happened? How did vampire society evolve and develop on Yrth since then?