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 Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:38 pm
Baali Clan
"Nemo repente fuit turpissimus."
'No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.'
-- Juvenal (A.D. 60-130?), Satires, 2, 83
Clan Name: Baali
Nickname: Demons
Founder: Nergal, Moloch, and (The Crone) and/or Shaitan
Parent Clan: Possibly Salubri, Cappadocian, Gangrel, or none
Sect: Independent
Disciplines: Obfuscate, Presence, Daimoinon
Clan Quote: "You think you possess power? Your teachers have taught you nothing. They are fearful of you, of what you might become. They seek to keep you weak, prevent you from becoming a threat to their stagnating existence. Come with me, and I will help you attain your full potential."
Cold, cruel, callous, and utterly evil, the Baali are the “boogie-men” other Kindred tell their Childer about to scare them. This line originated in Mesopotamia and is generally thought to have been eradicated centuries ago by a coalition of the other clans who couldn’t stomach the Baalis’ depraved practices. Baali are devil worshippers and only embrace the most intelligent, driven, and callous of kine. They wait for the day when their Dark Masters will roam the earth, making it into a virtual hell. But until that time, they will do all they can to corrupt as many mortals and Kindred to the Forces of Darkness as possible.
Demon worshippers, serial killers, diabolists, and traitors -- the Baali are all these things and more. The Baali represent the darkest side of the kindred. They live a life of fear, forever hiding from vampiric society, pretending to conform.
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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:41 pm
The Baali Clan
The Baali are a bloodline of vampires associated with demon worship. Much of the Baali in-game symbolism is inspired by real-world Mesopotamian and Phoenician sources. The very name Baali is originated from the Phoenician word Ba'al, meaning "great lord". Some versions present the true purpose of the Baali as keeping demons sleeping by feeding them with carnage and destruction. Most presentations show them as Infernalists, using demon worship to gain additional power. The Baali had rules for the unique Daimoinon discipline. Additionally, many practiced Dark Thaumaturgy, a name given to Thaumaturgy learned from demons.
They have a somewhat complex heritage, appearing at times as a bloodline and at times as a clan. There is some indication that they may be a bloodline of the Salubri, but their origin may also be as descendants of the Gangrel line. Additionally, they recruit vampires from other clans to become Baali, further confusing the issue.
The in-game history has the Assamites, Followers of Set, and Salubri waging wars against the Baali. The Salubri and Assamites in particular had a deep seated hatred for the Baali. The Assamite warriors' blood addiction can be traced to a curse leveled by the Baali. Partially as a result of these wars and having been hunted by both the Camarilla and Sabbat, the Baali were almost extinct in the modern era of the game.
Origins
The Baali were infernalists who once dealt in the names of ancient beings that existed before God created the world (as simply knowing the names of such powerful beings can give one access to some of that power). The game's background has Baali legends stating that there was a group of people called the "First Tribe" who discovered the existence of those old ones and became their acolytes. They were degenerates, who murdered their parents and raped their children, and threw the corpses of their victims into deep wells or pits. An unknown vampire (speculated to be either Saulot, the antediluvian father of the Salubri, or Ashur, the founder of the Cappadocians), encountered the "First Tribe" and killed them before he buried the "First Tribe" in their own pits and spread drops of his blood over the "First Tribe"'s corpses. Only three (Nergal, Moloch, and a third unknown individual sometimes said to be "The Crone") crawled out of the pit, and thus the vampiric bloodline Baali began.
An alternative story of the bloodline speaks of a single progenitor, called Shaitan, who was in life a slave-boy with a beautiful singing voice who attracted the attention of an unknown vampire. This version of their creation does not explain the origin of the corpse-pit embracing ritual the bloodline is often known for. Additionally, Shaitan is known to be a false name of Nergal.
The Past
The Baali became so numerous that they were widely considered to be a clan. They also garnered many enemies among the greater clans, particularly the Assamites and Salubri. It is after one such battle between the Assamites and Baali, that the Baali managed to enact a blood-curse on the entire Assamite tribe making every last one addicted to vampiric vitae. However, despite the many wars fought the Baali were often the losers and their numbers dwindled.
Many Baali during this time imitated their legendary creation by embracing mortals in a similar fashion. That is, to create a new vampire, a Baali sire-to-be will drain all the blood out of a target mortal and throw his body into a pit of corpses, then the vampire will spill some of his own vampiric blood into the pit. Only the strong-willed who drink the blood will survive and become Baali. This practice is very different from that of other vampires; the Baali childer are not turned into vampires by their sires, but they become vampires on their own. In the modern era setting, this practice was largely abandoned explained by the difficulty of procuring the number of corpses required without attracting the attention of law enforcement. The background rumors also spoke of the Baali ability to "re-embrace" existing vampires, converting them to the Baali cause.
The Present
In the modern era, the Baali are in decline, having been hunted to near extinction by both the Camarilla and Sabbat. Those who remain are divided into two camps: Baali who simply crave power and are willing to deal with infernal entities to get it, and Baali who actively attempt to pacify the dark beings whose names they once used to give them power.
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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 4:01 pm
"It is better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven."
-- Milton, Paradise Lost
Clan Beliefs
Baali feel that they have been wronged by God. Caine was a brilliant man, and therefore a threat to God. God removed the threat to His sovereignty by cursing Caine with vampirism. Therefore, they consider themselves to be God's enemies.
This does not mean that they consider themselves evil. Rather, they were the losers in the first battle, and the victor always writes the history books. They have been unfairly persecuted over the years, and now they will exact their revenge. To call them evil is to see things from only one perspective. What one man calls rebels, another calls freedom fighters. God drew the battle lines millennia ago, and the Baali associate with the forces of "darkness" under the principle that the enemy of their enemy is their ally. So far, it has been a mutually beneficial alliance.
Goals
Baali and Setites are considered to have the same goals by Camarilla vampires. This is completely false, though it is an illusion the Baali try to foster. Rather, their goals are are far more insidious than simple corruption.
Baali consider the corruption games of the Setites to be useful, but often short-sighted. Setites feel corruption is the goal; Baali see it as means to an even greater end. Thus, they will often have Setites as pawns.
The ultimate goal of the Baali is the utter destruction of the world as we know it. They are the favored children of the forces of darkness, the vanguard of Gehenna. Their job is to make the world suitable for occupation by their demonic masters, turning it into a global charnel house. By the proper use of rituals and manipulation, they attempt to increase the suffering in a given area. Political unrest, racial divisions, intolerance, poverty, sickness, starvation, pain, loss of hope: these are what they strive for. Once an area is "prepared," it is suitable for occupation by lesser spirits such as Banes. As greater and greater heights of misery are reached, more and more evil is drawn into the place, until the pain of the entire populace can be offered up to their masters as a sacrifice. It is believed that at that point, Shaitan will awaken and lead the Baali in a great ritual that will open a gate for Ba'al and his minions. When this happens, on the night of Gehenna, only the Baali and their allies will emerge victorious. As a reward for their servitude, the Baali will govern the earth for their masters.
Weakness
Baali are affected by all religious symbols, and take double damage from Faith.
Haven
Again, either the Tremere Chantry or a pack's communal haven. Their coven location, however, will be out of the way and well-hidden.
Embracing
Baali only embrace those who are intelligent, driven and completely callous. They have usually been corrupted by the Baali or Setites long before the embrace is given. All have had some interest in the occult during their lives, usually the darker side of it, and all are practitioners after the Embrace.
Appearance
Baali try to fit in with whatever sect they are infiltrating. Camarilla Baali look like the typical bookish Tremere, while those of the Sabbat favor leather and lace.
Nicknames
Usually unprintable vulgarity, ranging from heated Brujah invective to more eloquent Toreador curse sonnets. However, the general consensus is that the Baali are "ichor-guzzling gutter whores." The Baali, of course, refuse to comment, preferring action to mere words...
Organization
All Baali have at least two identities, if not more. Among their own kind, they organize into small, tightly-knit groups called covens, usually in three or six. These covens meet only rarely, gathering only to perform some dark ritual or discuss matters of dire consequence. They prefer to meet under the new moon, though lunar eclipses hold great meaning for them and major rituals are performed at that time. Covens meet in secret places where their activities will not be disturbed, yet still within the city they wish to prepare. They frequently ally with Black Spiral Dancers and make use of their tainted caerns. A grand ritual ivolving both Baali and Black Spirals usually portends some great and awful occurrence.
These meetings are few and far between, however. In the interim, Baali usually pose as upstanding members of either the Camarilla, Sabbat, or both, depending on who controls the city. Contrary to popular belief, they do not pose as Caitiff -- Caitiff are distrusted enough on general principle alone. Instead, they are far more devious, hiding behind a mask of blood passed down through millennia: they pose as Tremere.
The blood of Saulot runs through Tremere's veins since his diablerie close to a thousand years ago. Now, almost all Tremere are descended from their founder, and therefore from Saulot himself. With the Baali descended from Shaitan, Saulot's first childer, their blood is almost indistinguishable from Tremere. Only those with a high proficency in Thaumaturgy can detect even a slight difference and even then it is usually dismissed as a minor change in blood chemistry -- perhaps the vampire's sire was of House Bonisagus or Flambeaux. Reports of corruption deep within the Tremere hierarchy are scoffed at. Surely the Tremere, the masters of deception and manipulation, would know of a conspiracy within their ranks!
But this conventional wisdom is wrong. With the immense occultic resources of the Tremere, the Baali are gaining strength like never before. They have access to supplies, knowledge, and potential recruits. They have even started two secret orders within the clan: the Order of the Wyrm and the Illuminated Brotherhood.
The Order of the Wyrm is the more mainstream of the two, the conservative front for the more radical Brotherhood. Through the Order, the Baali hope to attract Tremere who share some of their beliefs, who have the potential to be recruited, corrupted, or both. Once an applicant has progressed high enough in the Order, they are inducted into the Illuminated Brotherhood. Only after their corruption is complete, their turn to evil assured, do the Tremere meet their Baali masters -- and their masters' Masters.
Sabbat Baali have an easier task in some ways, harder in others. While the vampires of the Sabbat have forsaken their humanity, the inquisition within the sect limits their activities.
Whatever sect they belong to, however, the Baali are united in their cause. Their eventual goal is to turn both the Camarilla and the Sabbat to their infernal masters -- and if that doesn't work, to destroy them. Indeed, many Sabbat-Camarilla conflicts can be attributed to the machinations of Baali on both sides, destroying those who oppose them while garnering greater influence and power. After all, power is the name of the game.
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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 4:01 pm
Disciplines
Obfuscate: allows vampires to conceal themselves and create some manner of illusions.
Presence: supernatural allure and emotional manipulation.
Daimoinon: a way to bring someone closer to the Baali god.
Semi-Disciplines
Assamite - Quietus: allows the vampire to inflict weakness upon others.
Brujah - Celerity: grants vampires supernatural speed and finesse by expending vitae.
Gangrel - Protean: gives the vampire the ability to adapt better to the natural world.
Giovanni - Necromancy: gives the vampire the ability to animate the dead.
Lasombra - Obtenebration: grants the vampire control over shadows.
Malkavian - Dementation: draws on the vampire's own insanity and uses it to achieve profound insights or inflict madness upon others.
Nosferatu - Animalism: brings the vampire closer to their animalistic nature.
Ravnos - Chimersty: gives the vampire the ability to create sense based illusions.
Setite - Serpentis: provides shapechanging abilities.
Toreador - Auspex: grants vampires supernatural senses.
Tremere - Thaumaturgy: grants vampires the ability to use blood magic and other sorcerous arts.
Tzimisce - Vicissitude: grants the user power over flesh and bone.
Ventrue - Dominate: overwhelms another person's mind with the vampire's will, forcing victims to think or act according to the vampire's decree.
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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 4:03 pm
The Baali "Bible"
A strange title, perhaps you think, but everything has a meaning if one looks hard enough - if one stares until the straight lines bend and in the words you see the author's thought revealed. Of course, she knows that to be a lie.
You wonder what I mean when I am not here and not here to be asked? - but spare a thought.
To strike a crass blow with the strength of thunder and the delicacy of a true love's touch (is that not power truly harnessed?) No, it is not so shallow, thunder which is delicate or a caress which can crush, true strength is to be found only when both are as one, when assumptions are proved false and certainties revealed as lies. That is power, to forge impossible links - to shame the term "impossible."
And bright shadows, to illuminate that which is shrouded - to form illumination from the shroud - to make plain what is hidden - to see truth in what is blotted out - to adduce from what is absent, and, and and - but if you do not understand she wastes her explanation, for no one can learn what is not already half-known in the heart, and no secret is ever made plain in a language evolved to disguise, to rape, to murder the truth.
On - on - to the meat of the matter, or rather, to the maggots of the matter - to the source of life shunned and derided as unclean...
To harness the plow horse, to drive the mule, to slaughter the rude beasts to feed our families - who dares complain? To carve the marble block into our own likenesses, to plunge shafts into the hills, to slice furrows through the fields that we might prosper and create - who dares complain? But if we take communion with the iron powers, the fiends, rather than our patronizing patriarch - who dares not complain?
Such hypocrisy, such mealy-mouthed absurdity. Our race is destined to tame our world, to bind nature to our bidding. We can and we must - for to shirk is to squander our potentials - though demons roll and scream and heaven shakes.
Yet still we make distinctions and false comparisons, saying "Yes, this part of nature you must tame, but this is holy and apart and not for us to touch." Absurdity, hypocrisy, gullible slander! It is not apart - look, see how my Art reaches out to it, makes the transcendent the mundane - and Holy is just a sound in your mouth, real only in your mind.
Unclean! Unclean! they cry. Blasphemy! Blasphemy!
Fie on you all! Your words are wind.
Smothered with our own prayer shawls, impaled on our own beds of nails, we lie chained in manacles that we ourselves have made - and the deluded multitude scream and wail if they are offered their freedom. It is said that we are born free but place ourselves in chains - but no! - we are born slaves to our priests and rulers, and we guard our steel bonds like golden bands, forging new sets for our Childer.
So what then, where then, how then might we fortify ourselves against these divine dung beetles, how might we break our bonds and bend them to our will? Oh, she smiles at the two-fold impudence, for the righteous affrontery to overthrow masters who are worthless, and for the naive query of the Diabolist's Art!
For to learn the knots and bindings that survive into the present day - even these few paltry remnants - is a lifetime's work for the greatest of mortals. Yet it is not unreasonable to seek a liberation and to search out the power to avenge ourselves and rectify this inverted state of supplication.
First - unlearn your language! Know that "sin" and "crime" are merely words, just sounds forged into steel form to chain you! Unlearn these empty syllables and free your mind - so reveling in all joyous depravity and forbidden pleasure - holding bloody hands aloft, shreiking like lions into the night, to know that in the butchered forms before you you have found the Truth - and to Hell with them!
Second - burn and topple, shatter and rend - for it is a lie that only in creation is there worthy purpose. Understand the virtue in destruction - realize the fulfillment of desolation.
Third - Know Thine Enemy! For it is not enough to merely know the enemy, but one must know of the enemy, its weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
Know that we are no less than what we were, and all we ever have been stays with us - and so with these once-mortal creatures. Know who they were - what, where, and when they were - what then was used against them, who commanded and controlled their destinies - and know above all other things how they were called! And as they were then called, so were they, and thus they are now. So calling upon that which they were, one reaches out to touch what they are still - and a touch, as every torturer and lover knows, has power. Use this power! It is a tragedy and wasteful crime (she smiles, I think) to do otherwise.
She wonders at the swiftly woven knot, recalling that simple spell which the low creatures have so oft been fooled with, and wonders what reader will understand - and understand the understanding, or rather, perceive the complexity of the comprehension. For it is a lie that one is one, and adding one to one is two - it is a lie that this is thus, that anything is itself or otherwise - the kind of lie that they would bind us with - but we (or at least, she and I) are not so foolish.
So reach out and gain a hold - a finger's brushing on a lonely cheek, the crash of fist on tender flesh, the grip that brings men low - and make all that you can of it. Proclaim your confidence of your invulnerability, so that the wounded pride and battered mind might heave and shudder - so that they will obey or flee from you, fear you or refrain from striking back. Reach out when weaving knots, when carving wards and cutting slaves, when confronted without other means and - most importantly - for the
joy of the triumph.
But why should we think that a person only may be named by sounds or letters? Astrologers insist that the stars beneath which a mortal is born determine that person's future - for again, they name him, or (and she knows that this is the same) they create him. He is the stars, and they are him (but what a reach you would need...). The two were and are simply one - and so when the stars stand thus again the time makes that person once again, and once mortals may be affected just as mortal folk.
Numerology, too indicates, accesses and creates a person - the place of birth and the site of rebirth - recreation, "elevation" - also stand as the person. And what then of forgotten, outgrown relics (teeth knocked out in battle or dislodged in childhood, blood or valued objects), for nothing is ever abandoned, nor even truly discarded. And can we not then find a secret "name", a shape, or sound or substance which can designate - can reach, can be that creature.
What then, where then, how then - the third answered, and the first as well (parasites, husks - need she be repeated again?) - so now on again to delve into the maggot-flesh - to plunge in our hands as Scanderis has done, to grasp a bloody truth.
Where, then, to strike, where to dig in and to defend, and where to build?
Though rare among our race, we who have the courage to name black as white are not alone, nor without aid. For there are those above even the harsh confines of Earth who recognize our virtue and support our righteous cause (the knot, again, pulled fast), and the creatures of the Spiral cannot be reconciled as grim foes.
And so we should make use of those allies that Fate has given use, knowing that those who hate our enemies are most naturally our friends - or, rather, that they might thus become our tools. For there is nothing more natural for our race than to enslave, and nothing more laudable that to wield another's power. (Pulled fast!)
So we might make a stand on ground held by those who hate our foes, and so turn their power to our own defense. For can a creature proud and "holy" bear the power of a place where Truth burns fierce and cruel as molten stone? No more than bats can brave the day, or crabs defeat the crashing surf!
So here, where bloody sacrifice and muttered curses glorify our spirit (knot) - here where pitiful and pointless supplication is replaced by bold embrace - here where brimstone smolders and weaker souls are sped below, in all such places can we flex our powers, and revel in our theft of another Natural force: for here the controlling creatures cannot readily tread, and here their powers are peeled and pried from out of their grips and sordid armors rent.
She looks upon her writing and considers who will draw the obvious conclusion? That there is no place which always holds a potency, nor anything which never fades away. So wise men and women can take up a thing and carrying it with them alter what is "here". So with a tool of mystical power a mystical place may be made. So those Unnamed Ones who stand behind the truth of all creation can ensure that now is what will be.
A Demon's heart - a perfect and portable shrine for those of us who see that worship is for fools - but ask yourself - if this of all a creature's form contains its Form - represents, contains and radiates (consider that!) all that it is (which of those three is it that the creature is?) - then where might we look for the embodiment of undeserving, holy power?
Our unspeakable foes might have no souls, or hearts, or feelings - even minds? - But where better than in their heart might the heartless preserve their cowardice? For just as valor, hate and passion dwell within a mortal's heart, so might the lack of valor, absence of driving hatred or higher passions be contained within the absence of a heart.
The dilemma is profound. How can one capture the absence of a thing - and, moreover, to extract that absence from a thing which is nothing but a phantasm? A question, perhaps, for the philosopher, rather than the magician - but can any courageous mortal truly be one and not the other?
So what has one gained, to have extracted this vacuous repository? Think upon it; what does a rhetorician gain when learning phrases from her tutor? how does the master sailor tack into the wind? what does a blacksmith's iron hammer shape?
The simple-minded might sneer that to extract an absence from a non- existence is a futile task - but these are the same fools who bow and scrape in snivelling submission beneath that which it is their Destiny and duty to o'er-rule. For all the wisdom and the power contained within these empty vessels might provide a greater mastery than any concrete thing - as fire fights fire - if only an "upright" mortal could be unaffected by such base contact.
So also, as the sage would have it, we must be ready not only to examine the blood, but to note its sticky presence between our fingers. Always alert to the approach of the serpents, an ear to the ground, listening for their slitherings.
More earthly, earth remedies must now suffice, since our great heritage is lost (she curses Lomansies's name, and all who aided her). So here we must resort to farmers', hunters' perhaps most aptly poachers' tricks, observing Nature that through one part another is revealed.
As spiders run for shelter before a storm, as drones of flies will buzz between the showers, so other beasts might run or cluster as our puffed- up foes approach or flee.
They say that dogs, and sheep, cats and other common pets - as gutless, mindless syncophants - follow these conceited creatures. And as these beings are vain, so are their fawning accomplices remarkable for their pristine or immaculate appearances.
Thus likewise creatures who demand or deserve respect refuse to lower themselves to truck with these gross creatures. The wily fox, the cunning wolf, the bat who sees all through blinded eyes, the hyena who laughs last at all other creatures' final defeats - all of these and others such will scatter as these beings approach.
Not merely observation of untamed Nature should suffice - for have you still not learned that mastery makes mortals to fulfill themselves, gives to them the power they are destined to possess? A creature in a cage will serve, here, even ignorantly. The resourceful rat - constrained but preserved in adequate health - might furnish the wise with great insight, and other beasts (like crows and beetles) the same.
With practice and with wisdom the philosopher-magician might divine from the behaviors of such captive beasts whenever any noxious foes approach, and with time the observer comes to tell what time and for what purpose it approaches, what sort of guise it wears and what rank of abomination it might be.
She hopes you might see clearly your own destiny - whoever you might be - see how we might slam fast our father's doors upon them and grasp our own potentials as we should. She expects that you see how the common mortal flails in self-delusion - see how heavens' puppets remain obedient.
It is our duty and fate to master and destroy these empty husks, as with every form of nature - to make ourselves supreme above all, supremely served by all - and to crush beneath us all that comes before or falls below us, all who cannot see their destiny, and all who hold us back from reaching ours.
May these words fuel the fires in your hearts, give form to your hate, your loathing and your other higher emotions - so that with us - with her, or me - you might stride onwards, crushing all beneath your heel.
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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 4:04 pm
Do:
● Practice restraint in your desires and machinations
● Corrupt others whenever possible.
● Manipulate others for your own ends.
● Break any rules restraining you.
● Betray those close to you if necessary.
● Explore and know your own darkness.
● Assume power in any form.
● Exploit any weakness.
● Allow no one to control or limit you.
● Study your opponents and your self.
● Seek knowledge as diligently as you would power itself.
Don't
● Fail to attempt to exploit or corrupt more powerful or inaccessible targets.
● Have your plans exposed or uncovered -- don't be caught within your own web.
● Fail to pursue knowledge of a target's weakness.
● Exhibit altruism -- motive is everything.
● Place another person or power's interests above your own interests.
● Fail to take appropriate action to remain hidden in your aims.
● Fail to attempt to corrupt an accessible target, or to exploit a known weakness.
● Ignore a chance for benefit.
● Allow a law or rule to bind you when it is advantageous to not.
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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 4:05 pm
Baali Antitribu
The story of the Baali Antitribu begins just before the Inquisition. A young Priest named Father Gabriel had just moved to Paris, France, where he would be taking the place of his predecessor, an old priest who had died under mysterious circumstances. He was giving his first mass, when, in the back pew, he noticed a beautiful woman who was silently praying. He immediately began having lustful thoughts about her. After just barely stumbling through the rest of the mass, Father Gabriel dismissed his congregation. As he cleaned up the altar, he noticed that the woman was still there. Father Gabriel asked the woman if there was any problem. She said that she needed to confess a serious crime. Father Gabriel took her to the confessional, where she made her confession. She told him that she had committed adultery and proceeded to describe to the priest exactly what she had done. When the priest was completely inflamed with desire, she left the confessional. That night, while Father Gabriel was praying for guidance, there was a knock at the door. The young priest opened the door and before him stood the same young woman from that morning. She walked in and closed the door. Father Gabriel asked her if anything was the matter. She answered by kissing him full on the mouth. The two made love that night, and in the morning when Father Gabriel woke up, his lover was nowhere to be seen. After this, Father Gabriel fell into a deep depression. He had committed a mortal sin, one he thought was unforgivable. He began dipping into the sacramental wine on a regular basis. When the Bishop can to the church, he was shocked and dismayed at the young priest he had known a mere three months earlier that had been so full of life and faith, had turned into a drunkard. He was stripped of his priesthood and forbidden from entering the church ever again. He wandered the streets of Paris for days, barely managing to stay alive. And then she came. It was the woman whom he felt was responsible for his fate. When he tried to straggle her, she merely laughed and pushed him away with a shocking strength. She told him that she knew a man who could help him, but only if he wanted to. Gabriel, having nothing to lose, accepted. That night, the woman led Gabriel to his Baali sire.
Gabriel served the dark lords of the Baali for decades, even through the Inquisition that raged through Europe. And then one night, the event that would change Gabriel's unlife came. Gabriel was stalking his prey for the evening when he heard a sound that he had not heard in a long, long time. Church bells. It was midnight mass in a small church a few block from where he was. The sound enchanted him, and he walked toward the church. When he got there, he barely noticed that his weakness as a Baali was not in effect. He walked into the church and tears streamed down his face, as he felt his faith, which he thought long dead, returning to him. After the mass he went into confession and confessed his many crimes through the rest of the night. When it was almost dawn, Gabriel Embraced the priest, and retired to a back room to sleep. The next evening, Gabriel and his childe prayed for a long time. After they were done, Gabriel decided to hunt those who had lead him down the dark path, and if they could not be turned as he was, they would be destroyed.
Nicknames
Betrayers (by the Baali), Paladins.
Background
Childer are usually chosen from those few who truly wish to fight evil, and if not from them, then those who are able to fight and kept hidden, such as Navy SEALS, are Embraced.
Disciplines
Obfuscate, Potence, Deus
Weakness
The Baali were created to be intrinsically evil. The Baali Antitribu, who despise their own evil, have managed to separate from the evil in a way. All Baali Antitribu have a darker half, a Shadow of sorts, that constantly tempts them to turn back to the darkness. The darker half has a connection with the Beast.
Organization
It is extremely rare that two or more Baali Antitribu meet, but there are rumors of groups of them banding together to hunt down Infernalists.
Quote
"So, evil one, you thought your demon could harm me? I am protected by the power of the holy one, which is more than I can say for you."
Stereotypes
Baali: We will either bring our Infernal brothers into the light, or we will destroy them. "HA! That meager bunch? They will scream the loudest when the Dark Lords come!"
Assamites: They have helped us in the past, though they do not know it. Respect them.
Brujah One might be tempted to think that these Kindred would be the first to fall to the Baali because of their rash behavior. In the end, that may be all that saves them.
Gangrel: They may have the right idea, avoiding the politics of the other Kindred. We may have an ally among their kind.
Giovanni: These necromancers are almost as bad as the Baali. They must be destroyed when the time comes.
Lasombra: The Keepers claim to know darkness, but they are like children playing with matches, too curious to leave them alone, too ignorant to put them down after burning themselves.
Malkavian: A man possessed or a prophet? Judge each by his own merits.
Nosferatu: While they wear the visage of a demon, they often are the most noble at heart.
Ravnos: I hope that the true Baali find them as annoying as we do.
Setites: Just another of the dark one's tools that must be destroyed before it is to late.
Toreador: They have potential to be the most angelic of Kindred, but far too often, they fall to vice and depravity.
Tremere: We are still uncertain as to whether our brothers are responsible for their kind, but things do look in that direction.
Tzimisce: The face of evil itself! These kindred are some of the most corrupt creatures that walk this world. They will be a difficult thing to deal with when we must.
Ventrue: Walk carefully, blue-bloods. You tread a thin rope. Should you fall, you'll be as dark as our brothers.
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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 4:07 pm
Members
Disciple: Nergal/Shaitan (Three Tailed Fox)
Antediluvian: N/A
Methuselah: N/A
Elder: N/A
Ancillae: N/A
Neonate: Cresil Nicor (Pinka), Darius Sangre (???), Moloch (Fatal Irony)
Fledgling: N/A
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 8:51 pm
Special Notes
● Baali clan members may breed with other clans' members, as long as this privilege is not abused. (If an owner is seen abusing this rule, the privilege will be taken away from them.)
● Custom Baali vampires may be created with the appearance of other clans' members.
● It may be allowed that lower-ranked (fledgelings and neonates) vampires from other clans can be re-embraced into the Baali clan.
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