Bloodlinebook: Limonae Sample file 1 Credits Written and Edited by: Ben Allsop & Sam Myatt With thanks to: Richard Dakan for Clanbook: Ventrue Revised A Note on Art and Language Bloodlinebook: Limonae, unlike other V20 products, is written in British English since that is the form the authors are familiar with. We must also apologize for not crediting the artists whose works is used in this book, but we have so far been unable to identify them. We would appreciate being informed so that credit can be given. S&B © 2018 White Wolf Entertainment AB. All rights reserved. Vampire: The Masquerade®, World of Darkness®, Storytelling System™, and Storytellers Vault™ are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of White Wolf SampleEntertainment AB. All rights reserved.file For additional information on White Wolf and the World of Darkness, please, visit: www.white-wolf.com, www.worldofdarkness.com and www.storytellersvault.com. 2 Bloodlinebook: Limonae Bloodlinebook: Limonae Table of Contents Chapter One: Chapter Three: Leagues 37 The Blood of Legends 4 Pagan Beliefs 19 Templates 37 The Fall of Alexandros 4 The Divine 19 Digital Defender 37 Unknown Origins 5 The Calling 19 Humanitarian 38 Ventrue 5 The Path of Hubris 20 Labourer 38 Brujah 5 The Ethics of the Path 21 Kingpin 39 Folowers of Set 6 History 21 Carnie 39 Salubri 6 Current Practices 21 Notable Limonae 39 The Clash of Kings 6 Description of Followers 21 Macaria 39 Limonae Across the World 6 Following the Path 22 Detective Kendrick 40 Acursed Comics 7 Hierarchy of Sins 23 The Centurion 41 The Fine Line 7 Chapter Four: Hjalmar 42 The Destroyer 43 The Hero’s Kiss 8 Gifts of the Gods 24 Chapter Two: Aristeia 24 The Way of the Hero 9 Arche 24 Limonaes 9 Anguished Cry 26 Limonaes Antitribu 11 Blessing 27 Divinity 12 Dominion 29 Vigilance 13 Trapping 30 Merits and Flaws 13 Avatar 32 Heroic Artefacts 13 Call of the Undying 32 Disposition for Exposition 14 Divine Instruments 34 Costume 14 Chapter Five: Resilience 15 Hall of Legends 36 Ghouls and Retainers 15 Legends 36 Labours 16 SampleStory Hooks 36 file Sidekicks 16 Lone Heroes 36 Minions 16 Lone Villains 37 Kindred Affairs 17 Bloodlinebook: Limonae 3 Chapter One: The Blood of Legends The Fall of Alexandros by living a year with him in the Abyss; if he were to survive, he would be given Hemera’s hand in Heroes have heard the Abrahamic creation myth marriage. Alexandros took this offer and travelled for their race and have chosen to cast it aside as to the Abyss. He was immediately bombarded by nothing more than Judeo-Christian revisionism. nightmare beings the likes of which were never These Kindred not only believe there is no one god seen upon the earth. but in fact they each feel a connection to their own personal deity. Their history tells of how reality Alexandros finally submitted to these beasts was carved into being many millennia ago by the three days before the end of his challenge. work of several divine families: Olympians, Titans, Expecting to feel the release of death, he let go Primordia, and Gigantes. Each deity within these and was greeted by another goddess: Limos, the families took a tribe or a caste of humans to reign goddess of starvation. She offered to protect him over and protect. from the horror of the darkness so as long as he drank of her blood each day until his release. Within one such rural tribe patronised by Starving and battered to the point of delirium, he Artemis, goddess of the hunt, a young man named agreed and accepted her bargain, drinking blood Alexandros became famed for his selflessness, from her malnourished wrist for three days until strength, and courage. He would travel across he was finally given freedom by Erebus. Limos’s Greece combating monsters forgotten by time and blood had kept him bodily alive but drained him saving any who needed him. During his travels of his soul; she had taken as much as she had he had fallen in love with a goddess of a different given. tribe named Hemera, the goddess of the day. He pined for her all night and danced with her until Upon seeing his drained and deathly figure, sunset which drew the ire of her brother Erebus, Hemera cast Alexandros aside, knowing that he the god of the darkness. had worshipped another goddess simply to save himself. She threatened to kill him if she were to SampleErebus attempted to fend the mortal off by ever set eyes upon him again.file Traveling now only claiming that he was not worthy of his sister’s at night through fear of the sun’s retribution he love, which Alexandros denied with all his fury. arrived at his tribal home where Artemis, disgusted Erebus challenged Alexandros to prove his worth 4 Chapter One: The Blood of Legends by his decision to worship others, also enacted them. Yet again, Alexandros accepted. vengeance. The goddess implanted the mind of her hunting dogs into his head to make him fall into a Alexandros recruited more to the Calling, those frenzy from base, animalistic desires, and all those with a natural urge to aid humanity for no other who saw him knew that he was now far less than reason than selfless morality. His children wore human. their curse with pride in calling themselves the Limonae. They were seen as Heroes amongst their Alexandros had lost everything, so he turned various tribes as each time they grew hungry, they his blade upon himself and sliced open his own had no choice but to save a person in need. The throat, but to his horror no blood seeped out. bloodline developed a Discipline, Aristeia, to help Limos appeared to him, declaring that she had channel their deities’ essences and use them in promised to stop him from ever entering the their nightly patrols, creating for the Heroes the underworld. Once more she offered her bleeding opportunity to earn some sense of divine approval wrist and Alexandros could do nothing to resist from their deity. drinking from the red fountain as he was overcome by her accursed hunger. Forever after the fallen Unknown Origins hero walked in the darkness, ravaged by Artemis’s Though the same can be said for many baying Beast within his mind, eternally starving bloodlines across the globe, Limonae do not know but unable to die. which Clan they hail from. They know that their In a bid to rid himself of the insatiable hunger progenitor was not an Antediluvian because of thrust upon him, Alexandros fell on his knees his age and generation, but which of the ancient and begged Hebe, the goddess of life, to give blood gods spawned Alexandros is lost to history. him a blessing. He asked that if he were to A few claims have been made by the various Clans once again defend humanity as he had done of ownership of the Limonaes, but none stand up before his shameful disgrace, she would reward to rigorous examination. Ventrue, Brujah, Salubri, him by allowing him to once again feel the and the Followers of Set are the most commonly sensation of life and an alleviation of Limos’ held theories. Clans Malkavian and Baali have hunger. She agreed under one condition that even been suggested as the bloodlines parent he must afterwards consume their blood to Clan in times gone by, though those Limonae earn this satisfying sensation, an act that will that do take part in Kindred affairs refute these eternally remind him of his treachery to the gods. suggestions almost instinctively. Alexandros accepted gratefully. Ventrue As centuries passed by, Alexandros grew lonely. The first Clan to claim parentage of this He turned to the gods once again to give him bloodline were the Ventrue rulers of many Greek company in his vigilance over humanity. Zeus city-states, including mighty Sparta. They relate the discussed the request in Olympus with the head Heroes Path of Hubris to the Path of Power and of each other divine family. They decided to grant the Inner Voice so popular amongst elder Ventrue him company due to his countless labours in (especially in the past, when it was known as the service to their faithful mortal subjects. To earn Road of Kings) and point out that the bloodline’s himself a companion he would have to mimic weakness is similar to their own. Limos’ act of damnation in the abyss and feed a dying human his own blood, but not before Brujah putting them through labours dictated to him The fact that the first Limonae appeared in by ZeusSample and ultimately sacrificing them to a god the city-state of Athens is causefile enough for Clan of Olympus. Each Hero would in turn serve the Brujah to lay claim to the bloodline. Their passion Calling of whichever god had decided to resurrect for change and the betterment of the human race Bloodlinebook: Limonae 5 is reminiscent of many values held by Clan Brujah. the seed of revolt amongst the kine and ghouling This is paired with the no less than two Disciplines particularly strong champions of the group. Finally shared between Limonae and Brujah. his unexpected attack led to the destruction of Medon, burning him where he sat on his throne. Followers of Set The Setite claim to spawning the Limonae is Limonae Across the World strong but often overlooked. The divinity held Once the Trojan War reached its conclusion, by all Limonae is seen as a shadow of the cult the bloodline was thrown into disarray.