The Five Lessons
The First Lesson: Beginnings
The First Lesson: Beginnings This night’s cold, not that the packmates are about to admit it. The winter storms blast of…
The Second Lesson: Antiquity
The Second Lesson: Antiquity The worst of the storm is past now, leaving a legacy of winds chill enough to keep the ice …
The Third Lesson: The Great Revolt
The Third Lesson: The Great Revolt The Festival of the Dead is over. As always, the police and the mayor scramble for ha…
The Fourth Lesson: The Rest of the World
The Fourth Lesson: The Rest of the World It’s been fifteen nights since the battered freighter left Bangkok. Andrew and …
The Fifth Lesson: Into the Final Nights
The Fifth Lesson: Into the Final Nights Demba returns to Portland in mid-October. She’s been traveling around California…
Culture, voice & night
A Tale of Two Childer
Like the other Antediluvians, Lasombra created countless childer, for reasons of his own. Many he slaughtered for weakne…
Africa
of the diviner’s arts, secrets of concealment and disguise and some forms of blood magic. Auspex in particular is as com…
After the Last Sunset
Andrew surveys his newly constituted pack. They all bear the scars of last night’s Creation Rite and reek of Sire’s Gamb…
Baltimore Street
Buffalo, New York Sheldon and Mary walked down Baltimore Street without a care in the world. They were hunting Camarilla…
Becoming Lasombra
Very few people successfully set out to become vampires. In general, the desire to become an undead creature of the nigh…
Bethlehem Steel Plant
Friday, 13 August 1999,12:47 AM Bethlehen Steel Plant Buffalo, New York Hell, Baughman decided, was built entirely out o…
Claims You
The Darkness Everything belonged to him — but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many pow…
From Founding to Me
Many Lasombra show a flair for the sea, perhaps reflecting part of our dark founder’s mortal preferences. The antitribu …
From Life to Unlife
A candidate who remains driven and active despite adversity at least meets his sire. He probably doesn’t learn at that t…
Hatching the Sabbat
The Devil in the Details Oso’s account differs in some ways from the ones found in other Vampire books. From the vantage…
Human Hardcore
Lasombra argue about the merits of Embracing serial killers and other particularly violent, driven criminals. Some vampi…
Interstate 90
Just east of Buffalo, New York “Buffalo: 13 Miles,” Adele read the sign with tangible excitement. “Beautiful.” “Shit, M…
Lasombra Culture
The Lasombra revel in the endless struggle for survival and mastery. At least that’s what they say when asked, and what …
Last Words First
My name is Ming, and I am a child of darkness. You don’t need to know the name I bore when I was alive. That part of my…
New Tools New Conquests
the African lineages would feature prominently in clan history. As it is, they’re scarcely a footnote. The Fifth Lesson…
Origins in Darkness
on their creators or would-be manipulators. Here is the lesson of Caine again. Do not underestimate the kine. And if th…
Origins on Earth
result of haphazard psychosis. None of you have met a truly deranged elder yet, have you? Just wait till the next Palla …
Private Submarines
Yes, they really exist. Most of them operate as the submersible equivalent of glass-bottomed boats in the Bahamas, South…
The Fourth Lesson: The Rest of the World
The Fourth Lesson: The Rest of the World It’s been fifteen nights since the battered freighter left Bangkok. Andrew and …
Unlit Halls
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to m…
Viewpoints
Individual Lasombra see the world and their role in it many different ways. For survival’s sake, like-minded vampires te…