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Boiler! Wasn't quite sure what to do with this one so I just upgraded all texture detail to actual mesh shapes to catch some light. Thanks to @vonaether.bsky.social for the text stencil. #rtxon #bloodlines #vampirethemasquerade

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Some wanted to continue the war immediately, others wanted to guide humans. Amassing worshippers grants the demons the Faith to use their powers, so many demonic cults arose. Many demons wondered... where is Lucifer, our leader? Is he still trapped in the Abyss? Has he emerged?

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1999's Reckoning cracked Hell open, and demons started emerging. They could manifest by inhabiting a human body who had lost their soul, either through very recent death or through the corruption of sin. Wearing a human form unexpectedly taught many demons empathy, tempering their eon-long rage.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The rebels gifted humans with consciousness. Everything changed. God was furious, and a great battle ensued between the loyal angels and rebels, culminating in a loyalist victory. Rebels were exiled to a void of no sensation or communication called the Abyss. Others called it Hell.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When they were done, they conducted nature to perform a grand symphony for God's special creation, the humans. The humans didn't notice or care. They were little more than beasts. Frustrated with the inability for humans to know the love the angels had for them, some rebelled.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The final game in the World of Darkness, Demon: The Fallen has thus far only received a single edition. Long ago, the seven Houses of angels helped the Creator create the universe, with each House having their own area of responsibility.

A graphic showing the only (so far) rulebook for Demon: The Fallen, using the Revised-era rules.

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Safemilk @safemilk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No detail too small... Sprinkler done. #rtxon #bloodlines #vampirethemasquerade #vtm

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Amenti divide themselves up into Dynasties based on which part of their soul is strongest. The old 42 Shemsu-heru are still around, acting as mentors.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The new mummies called themselves "Amenti," in honor of the now-destroyed Egyptian underworld. While the old Undying were... well, undead, the new Spell of Life made them truly alive. Colors brighter, sounds sharper, they could appreciate the world around them like no other.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That all ended with 1999's Reckoning. The old Spell of Life was failing. A new one was devised. Thousands of newly-dead mortals around the world were given a second chance, brought back with the weakest parts of their souls replaced by a fragment from an Egyptian soul.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Undying were incredibly powerful. They could regenerate their bodies and return to life from nearly anything, even a mote of dust left behind from a nuclear explosion. They would have to reckon with the Judges of Ma'at in the underworld before being allowed to return, however.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Shemsu-heru (companions of Horus) served the forces of balance (Ma'at). In a place like the World of Darkness, trying to serve balance means you're probably going to be one of the closest things the world has to a force of pure good.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

While there were tens of thousands of vampires in the world, there were a mere 42 of the Undying, having been created from Horus' most loyal followers by Isis' Spell of Life.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Existing in the periphery of the World of Darkness, the covers seen here make up 75% of the total number of tabletop Mummy books available. The original book was a Vampire: The Masquerade supplement, released even before Werewolf, making it the first non-Vampire supernatural released for the WoD.

A graphic showing Mummy in its three incarnations: 1992's "Mummy," a Vampire: The Masquerade supplement. 1997's "World of Darkness: Mummy 2nd Edition," a general World of Darkness supplement. And 2001's "Mummy: The Resurrection."

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Safemilk @safemilk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sorry for the long silence! Very busy lately! Here's Boiler4, thanks to @vonaether.bsky.social for recreating the stickers and helping me track down reference for some little details! #bloodlines #vtmb #rtxon #vampirethemasquerade

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

While Hunter 5e focuses on a different kind of hunter, the Imbued might still be out there, somewhere, as suggested by one of the callers in to the Bet of Night in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.

RADIO CALLER: And that's the rub of the whole thing. I saw something last night... and it was like this urge was lit up inside me. And no matter how hard I try or what I do, I cannot go back to the life I had. I have to do something - anything - to figure out what that thing was and how I can stop it.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In a way it was a reversion to earlier "The Hunters Hunted" books for Vampire, which covered various groups of mortal hunters.

The cover of Vampire: The Masquerade's "The Hunters Hunted." On a green marble background is an illustration of four people, bedecked in various tools like stakes and hammers, shine a flashlight down a trap door. A pair of eyes watches them from the shadows.

The cover of the Vampire: The Masquerade sourcebook "The Hunters Hunted II." On a green marble background, an illustration of four hunters holding down the arms of a vampire and driving a stake into his chest.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hunter 5th Edition was considered by some to be a different game entirely. The Imbued were nowhere to be seen, and the focus was on regular unpowered mortal hunter cells, with little organization above the cell level.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hunters were, in a sense, the immune system of humanity finally kicking in against the supernatural infection preying on them. If you played the Hunter console games, they were about the Imbued. 2002: Hunter: The Reckoning (GameCube/XBox) 2003: HTR Wayward (PlayStation 2) 2003: HTR Redeemer (XBox)

A lone silhouette in a jail. The silhouette is wearing a trenchcoat, a crossbow, and has a cross strapped to his back. The cover art is for an XBox game titled "Hunter: The Reckoning," with the subtitle "Deliver us from evil."

Five hunters backed up against each other, facing off against the darkness. Some zombies can be seen approaching them in the distance. The cover is for a Playstation 2 game, Hunter: The Reckoning - Wayward.

A young woman wielding a sword and staring into the camera. Her sword has some unrealistic details, like some bolted-on spikes. In the sword's reflection, a number of monsters can be seen. The cover is for an XBox game, Hunter: The Reckoning - Redeemer.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That human is then given the power to see the supernatural creatures hiding among them, and the power to stop them. Having been imbued with power, they called themselves the Imbued. The way you responded to the call would determine your creed, the type of hunter you became.

A man in a leather jacket in a subway looking angrily at a number of other commuters, who are literal zombies. A sign above them reads THEY DO NOT LIVE!

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hunter: The Reckoning arose in the wake of 1999's Reckoning event, presaging the end times. Various people were visited by mysterious "Messengers," giving directives: a sign reading "Making all regular stops" changes to "YOU MUST MAKE THEM STOP.

A graphic showing the covers of two Hunter: The Reckoning rulebooks: the original, using Revised-era rules from 1999, and the more recent 2022 rulebook using 5th Edition rules.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love Spooktober because that's when everyone does their annual Bloodlines playthroughs on Twitch

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Coincidentally, if you're looking to try out any of the World of Darkness game lines I've been featuring, DriveThruRPG is running a Month of Darkness sale with 40% off all World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness content: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?af...

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And that concludes the first week, covering the five originally-planned World of Darkness games, Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Wraith, and Changeling (or Vampire, Werewolf, Magus, Ghost, and Faerie). But the World of Darkness didn't end there! I'll pick up next week with additional game lines.

Vampire is only the first of five games in the Storyteller™ game system, all of them based on the same mystical version of our own world, each of them a modern fable. The others are: Werewolf™, Magus™, Faerie™, and Ghost™. Because of their compatibility, it is simple to use one with the other, and together they create one all-encompassing game system.

White Wolf: A Renaissance in Games

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Despite the bright colors of its books compared to other World of Darkness games, Changeling is considered by many to be among the darkest, due to its themes.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A series of unexplained arsons with no witnesses might be the fault of an angry dragon chimera; changelings are often called to deal with them for the safety of the community.

Anneke, a troll in armor, facing off against a large dragon looming over a playground.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Other creatures of the Dreaming, collectively called chimera, also exist. Technically "imaginary" but to the fae, also very real. They can interact with the mortal world, as long as no mortals are present. (Think the toys from Toy Story). And they can harm changelings.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Balanced between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, changelings often immerse themselves in courtly intrigue as they try to find a way back home to Arcadia, deep in the Dreaming.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Changelings, and those they specifically enchant, can see each others' true forms. Just as dreams often follow archetypes, changelings divide themselves into distinct kith: the brutish trolls, the elf-like sidhe, passionate satyrs, inudstrious boggans, and more.

An illustration of a trol. He's muscular, tall, with blue skin and horns. To the left is a close up of his braids, and to the right is a close up of a dragon-shaped fae brooch of honors. He's wearing various kinds of armor, holding a short sword in one hand, and wearing a multi-colored cloak with Norse designs.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Creatures of imagination, of dream and nightmare. The fae come from another realm, the Dreaming, but were stuck here long ago. The world is inimical to them, rife with Banality, the force of uncaring tedium and disbelief. In order to survive, they cloaked themselves in human seemings.

A graphic depicting Changeling: The Dreaming's three editions: 1995's 1st edition, 1997's 2nd edition, and 2017's 20th Anniversary Edition

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Apologies, I've been sick, and had limited energy yesterday, so no WoD post. Picking that back up.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Orpheus agents could project out and conduct the perfect industrial espionage, or commit impossible murders, and command a hefty fee... at least at first. The Orpheus game line was only six books, conceived as a miniseries, and each book resulted in a big change in the plot's status quo.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wraith came to a conclusion in 2nd Edition, so rather than a Wraith Revised, we got a new ghost game, Orpheus. A cryogenics company discovered that those suspended could wander the Earth disembodied. Ghosts were real, and we could walk among them. The Orpheus Group was founded to monetize it.

A couple of technicians monitor the body of an Orpheus agent being placed into a suspended state.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ultimate force of destruction and entropy, Oblivion is like a black hole at the center of the underworld, and they're the main force that Stygian society was set up to fight against.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Much like a vampire's survival instincts get supercharged into an inner "Beast," a wraith's dark side gains its own voice as the Shadow. A wraith whose Shadow has totally taken over is a spectre. Spectres want to drag everything and everyone into Oblivion.

A wraith, Ed Miller, wearing a green opened hoodie and holding a kitchen knife. Behind him stands a manifestation of his Shadow, who is dressed the same but darker and with a distorted face.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Most PCs belong to Guilds, based around the powers one can learn as a wraith. Puppeteers deal with possession, Haunters cause chaos like bleeding walls, etc. Some are legal as they have a legitimate use in Stygian society, others are strictly forbidden, most exist in a gray zone.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stygia -- based loosely on Rome -- divides its citizenry into various Legions based on the method of your death, with their power largely dependent on their size. After the first World War and Spanish Flu, that was the Grim Legion (victims of violence) and Skeletal Legion (disease).

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Unfortunately, interfering with the Skinlands is also against Stygian law. So if you want to resolve the things keeping you bound to the underworld so that you can finally move on, it's going to involve... at least *bending* the law.

Two yellow wingback chairs on either side of a small round table in a sunlit room in the Ocean House Hotel.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In most games, death is the end. In Wraith: The Oblivion, death is just the beginning. You're a wraith, a ghost. The empire of the underworld, Stygia, is run by Charon. You're here because there's something you've left unfinished in the material world (the "Skinlands").

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mages can run the breadth of the universe and its otherworlds, and can manipulate reality in nearly any way they can think of. They can be incredibly powerful, if properly prepared, but are still ultimately mortal.

A woodcut representation of the Umbrae as a series of concentric circles, going from the Underworld at the innermost, the Spirit Wilds, the Astral Reaches, the Courts of the Umbrood, the Epiphamies, the Horizon, Etherspace, and the Deep Umbra at the outermost reaches.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Order of Hermes are notable to Vampire fans for being the parent organization of House Tremere, who sought to replace their failing immortality spells by becoming vampires a thousand years ago.

A man wearing robes, with a number of ouches and tools o his belt. Based on his hand gestures, he's performing "intéllego ignem" (perceive fire). Smoke emerges from one open palm and wraps around him.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Traditions range from the witches of the Verbenae and the classic robed wizards of the Order of Hermes to the cybernauts of the Virtual Adepts creating a new world in virtual space.

Lore of the Traditions wallpaper, showing members of each of the Nine Traditions

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In response for the Pogrom against them, a number of magickal societies formed together as the Council of Nine Mystick Traditions (commonly just "the Traditions"). They support the freedom of everyone to live in the world they want, chase their own dreams, and shape reality to their liking.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mages? Why, they're Reality Deviants doing dangerous Science, like giving a loaded gun to a two-year old, and they must be stopped at all costs.

Several Black Suits trying to cordon off a building from which a number of giant tentacles are emerging.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Technocratic Union don't believe in magick -- what they're doing is "Enlightened Science." They're not mages, they're scientists. The bleeding-edge work they do is gradually perfected and introduced to the Masses as mundane science and technology.

Artwork from the cover of Technocracy Reloaded. Two agents with laser rifles crackling with electricity face in opposite directions, next to some recently-slain monster. Between them crouches a third agent, manipulating a third device.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The mass of humanity's beliefs can influence reality as a collective. Mages are people who have Awoken to their innate potential, and can influence reality on an individual basis. They call this "magick."

The covers of four editions of Mage: The Ascension: 1993's 1st edition, 1995's 2nd edition, 2000's Revised Edition, and 2015's 20th Anniversary Edition

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 1 @vtmbloodlines.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Garou fight Pentex, Black Spiral Dancers, and other foes in their efforts to protect Gaia. Ultimately, they know the battle is hopeless. They cannot win. But they will still fight to the very end.

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