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<blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 3916896" data-attributes="member: 40522">The old World of Darkness setting took this approach in alot of its sourcebooks, which were mostly fluff. For example, the revised clanbooks took the format of a brief introductory story of someone's embrace, then the rest was the sire's instruction/dialogue to the new vampire. Except for crunchy rules stuff, the &quot;truth&quot; of matters depended very much on the eye of the beholder. For example, most vampires considered Caine to be the first vampire and counted their descent from him. The Followers of Set (an Egyptian-based clan) thought of Caine as little more than a campfire story that older vampires told to keep the younger ones in line. They measured their lineage from Set and considered Caine to be anecdotal at best, if they even believed that he had ever existed at all. From a player's point of view, this was cool because nobody had seen either Caine nor Set in many thousands of years, so there's no way to &quot;prove&quot; anything in the context of the setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dykstrav, post: 3916896, member: 40522"] The old World of Darkness setting took this approach in alot of its sourcebooks, which were mostly fluff. For example, the revised clanbooks took the format of a brief introductory story of someone's embrace, then the rest was the sire's instruction/dialogue to the new vampire. Except for crunchy rules stuff, the "truth" of matters depended very much on the eye of the beholder. For example, most vampires considered Caine to be the first vampire and counted their descent from him. The Followers of Set (an Egyptian-based clan) thought of Caine as little more than a campfire story that older vampires told to keep the younger ones in line. They measured their lineage from Set and considered Caine to be anecdotal at best, if they even believed that he had ever existed at all. From a player's point of view, this was cool because nobody had seen either Caine nor Set in many thousands of years, so there's no way to "prove" anything in the context of the setting. [/QUOTE]

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