Table of Contents Destinies 30 Introduction 7 The Chronicle 31 What is Half-Damned? 7 Diamonds and Rust 32 What’s Inside? 7 Doom 32 Dhampir 7 Blood Sense 33 Themes 7 Blood Lust 33 Revenants 8 Blood Sympathy 34 Themes 8 Insomnia 34 Ghouls 8 Marks of Damnation: Twists, Malisons, and Afflic- Themes 8 tions 34 Inspirational Material 9 Turns of Fate 34 Dhampir 9 Learning Twists 34 Revenants 9 Using Twists 35 Ghouls 9 Daeva Themes 35 Other Chronicles of Darkness Books 9 Daeva Twist: Me, Me, Me 35 Attention 35 Chapter One: Dhampir 12 Desire 35 Submission 35 Family Planning for the Hungry Dead 12 Gangrel Themes 35 The Motivation 12 Gangrel Twist: Flexibility 35 The Means 13 Adaptation 35 Dhampir Among Us 14 Release 36 Carthians 14 Subsistence 36 Circle of the Crone 15 Mekhet Themes 36 Invictus 16 Mekhet Twist: Inside Job 36 Lancea et Sanctum 16 Identity 36 Ordo Dracul 17 Paranoia 36 Secrets 36 The Attitudes of the Clans 17 Nosferatu Themes 36 Daeva 17 Nosferatu Twist: Kneejerk Reaction 36 Gangrel 18 Grotesquerie 36 Mekhet 18 Solitude 36 Nosferatu 19 Terror 37 Ventrue 19 Ventrue Themes 37 The Others 20 Ventrue Twist: Entitlement 37 Werewolves 20 Birthright 37 Mages 21 Control 37 Changelings 21 Victory 37 Demons 21 Twists 37 Growing Up Dhampir 22 One Dot 37 Nature, Nurture, and the Unnatural 22 Dissent 37 Taking Charge 22 Bestial Echo 37 Unliving Arrangements 23 Karma 37 Absentee Vampires 23 Foreboding 37 The Truth Revealed 24 Blood’s Call 38 Playing House 24 Draught of Secrets 38 Fitting In 26 Two Dots 38 Half-Lives and Deaths 26 Fate’s Call 38 Dhampir in Kindred Politics 27 Draught of Power 38 Nights Amongst Monsters 27 Defiance 38 Dhampir in the Dark 28 Sibyl’s Curse 38 Dhampir at Dusk 28 Portent 38 Dhampir in Daylight 29 SampleFortuity file38 Dhampir Character Creation 29 Three Dots 38 The Concept 29 Intuition’s Call 38 The Execution 30 Insurgence 39 Table of Contents 3 Doubling Down 39 Revenants 58 Heir’s Draught 39 Ghoul & Dhampir 58 Perdition 39 Mortals 58 Doom’s Behest 39 Preparing for the Inevitable 58 Dhampir Blood Magic 39 Life on the Outside 59 Learning Malisons 39 Dying in Style 60 Using Malisons 40 Malisons 40 Revenant Dynasties 60 The Ceceya 60 Blood Oath 40 The Lodge of Saint Coloman 60 Haruspicy 41 The Prophets of Hell 61 Katabasis 41 The Red Eagles 62 Nemesis 41 Life Amongst the Damned 62 Pallor of Death 41 Shadow Play 42 Joining the All Night Society 63 Wrack and Ruin 42 Perception 64 Unmasking 42 Clans 65 Conditions 43 Clan Daeva 65 Blood Siblings 43 Clan Gangrel 65 Afflictions 43 Clan Mekhet 65 Daeva: Malcontent 43 Clan Nosferatu 65 Clan Ventrue 66 Gangrel: Feral 43 Covenants 66 Mekhet: Voyeuristic 43 The Carthian Movement 66 Nosferatu: Alienated 44 The Circle of the Crone 67 Ventrue: Domineering 44 The Invictus 69 Dhampir Merits 44 The Lancea et Sanctum 70 Beloved Stranger 44 The Ordo Dracul 72 Blood Dissonance 44 Revenant Character Creation 73 Hand of Doom 44 The Concept 74 Mother’s Army Recruit 45 The Execution 74 Night’s Child 45 Becoming Kindred 75 Omen Sensitivity 45 Disciplines 75 Requiem Counterpoint 45 Chary 76 Thief of Fate 45 Daily Bread 76 Vampire Hunter 45 Eating Flies 76 Dhampir as Storyteller Characters 46 Predator as Prey 77 Who Are Dhampir Antagonists? 46 Less Damned Tonight 77 Established Entanglements 46 Freethinker’s Trick 77 Unforeseen Encounters 46 Blood Sorcery 77 The Ale 47 Ban of the Spiteful Bastard 78 Other Dhampir Storyteller Characters 47 The Rite of Ascending Blood 78 Ten Thousand Tricks to Survive a Night 79 Chapter Two: Revenants 50 Merits 80 The Scum of the Damned 50 Blood Farm 80 A Revenant’s Requiem 51 Burrow 80 Chains for Hungry Fenrir 80 The Uplifting 52 Clan Impostor 80 Perverse Triangles 52 Fertile Vitae 81 The Dynasties of the Debased 53 Revenant Status 81 Life After Death 54 Sanctioned Tracker 81 Ideal Candidates 55 Sire Sense 81 The Unanticipated Requiem 55 Twilight Walker 81 Finding A Way 56 Community Benefits 56 Chapter Three: Ghouls 84 TheSample Communities Revenants Build 57 file Our Masters, Our Mothers, Our Lovers 84 Revenants’ Associates 58 The Bonds of Tradition 84 Kindred 58 Relationships Founded on Abuse 86 4 Half-Damned A Parent’s Love 87 Family Resources 106 An Unhealthy Kind of Lust 88 Of the Blood 107 Ghouls by Clan 89 The Crosses 107 Daeva 89 Star-Crossed 107 Gangrel 89 Crossed Out 108 Mekhet 90 At a Crossroads 108 Nosferatu 90 Across the Century 108 Ventrue 91 The de Portocarrero Dynasty 109 Ghouls by Covenant 92 A Family of Faith 109 Impurity 110 The Carthian Movement 92 Fresh Ambitions 111 A Liminal Space 92 The Gold Family 111 Vox Populi 92 Made to Perform 111 Do as Thou Wilt 92 A New Generation 112 The Circle of the Crone 93 Starry Eyes 114 The Blood of the Covenant 93 Further In, Further Down 93 Ghoulish Aberrations 114 An Eternity in Darkness 93 Animal Ghouls 114 The Invictus 94 Mandragora 115 Surrender unto Us 94 Small Mandrake Unbroken Fidelity 94 (i.e. Rosebush, Thistle Weed) 116 The Lancea et Sanctum 94 Medium Mandrake Lambs of God 94 (i.e. English Ivy, Japanese Knotweed) 116 Beyond My Wants 95 Large Mandrake Thy Rod and Thy Staff 95 (i.e. Black Locust Tree, Giant Pitcher Plant) 117 The Ordo Dracul 95 Mnemonic Ghouls 117 Dragon Eggs 95 Guru 117 Hatchlings 96 ` 117 Caught Between Worlds 96 Heisenbergs 118 Tug of War 96 The Gorged 118 Noli Me Tangere 96 Ghouls as Antagonists 119 Reaching Out 97 The Alley Men 120 Our Kin 99 Protectionists 121 Treasured Siblings 99 Phagians 121 Deadly Rivals 100 Ghoul Merits 122 Life Lessons 101 Ghoul Status 102 Family Ties 122 Inherited 122 Ghoul Families 103 Insomniac 122 Family Ways 103 Lurch 122 Every ghoul family has a regnant. 103 Ghoul families are just that — families. 104 Sexualized 122 Not all ghouls in a ghoul family serve the same regnant. 104 Unobtrusive 122 Breeding first, power second. 105 Ghoul Conditions 123 Family first, to hell with the rest. 105 Detached (Persistent) 123 Creating a Family 105 Energized 123 The Original Regnant 105 Hunger 123 The Original Ghoul 106 Inbred (Persistent) 123 Current Status and Size 106 Recovery (Persistent) 123 Sample file Table of Contents 5 Sample file Vampire: The Requiem is a game about personal horror, and life she never considers. The woman she killed while feeding, the choices one makes which lead to that horror. Sometimes who came back as a revenant. The young boy she gave birth the story is about the vampire, but all too often the story is to in an unholy ritual as a pinnacle of her expression of love. about those the vampire leaves in her wake. Sometimes it’s the These are the Half-Damned. The people created by a people she takes Vitae from just to survive another night, and vampire — either by design or by accident — who now navigate sometimes it’s the people she bends to her will, making them the edges of the All Night Society, not human, but not fully her servants. Other times, it’s just those who end up on the vampire. Some of them find solace in others; some of them wrong end of her selfish nature. She touches people’s lives — seek retribution for their lots in life. Their relationships with using them, making them fall in love with her, riling up their vampires are complicated, messy, and ripe for excruciatingly passions and then leaving them in the dust. What remains are beautiful roleplay. the after-effects of her presence. The ghoul whose day-to-day What is Half-Damned? Half-Damned explores how a vampire’s choices affect the lives long-lost mother is one of the living dead. of others, and the stories told by those who sit on the fringes of Half-Damned is devoted to those creatures who live on the Kindred society. It might be the story of a ghoul, who accepted edges of vampire society, not quite vampires, but not mortal any the blood of her regnant in a lust-fueled haze the night before, longer. Sometimes they are created by design, and sometimes by and is now bound to him in duty and addiction. Or maybe the accident, but either way, they exist and want attention. These story of a revenant, one night a party boy, the next a hungry are their stories, trials, successes and failures, and the choices creature seeking blood at any cost. Or possibly the story of a that they make. dhampir suddenly awakened to her powers, unaware that her What’s Inside? This book contains information for use with Vampire: The Requiem Second Edition to allow players to take on the roles Themes of these vampire-adjacent characters. It includes rules for playing Playing dhampir is about family. It’s about reconciling what these as characters as well as using them as antagonists in your you are and where you came from with your own Integrity Vampire chronicle. and the realities of living in the All Night Society’s shadow as a human being who’s neither a slave nor food. It’s about the intersection of love and hate, and it’s about learning how to forgive — or how to stop being so forgiving. It’s about the secrets Dhampir you keep for family’s sake, and the power you wield over your The first chapter in this book explores what it means to be parents with what you know.

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