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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 7987486" data-attributes="member: 6686357">Okay, ideas for vampire organizations and bloodlines.So a bloodline is a group of vampires who descend from the same progenitor. Where progenitors come from is variable: a pact with Hell, a curse, stubbornness in the face of death, sheer bad luck, etc. That's assuming the vampires are ex-humans, which isn't necessarily the case. For example, incubi and nekomata are demons who assimilate into human society. A vampire's bloodline generally determines their superpowers and weaknesses, but it doesn't determine their personality.There are many different possible organizations with different goals. Some are akin to fraternities, others to philosophies, political parties, religions, vocations, etc. As with mere muggles, vampires may have affiliation or rapports with several different groups based on their personal development.For example (and these are very general examples):<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The vampire supremacists believe that vampires should rule the world. They see muggles as nothing more than cattle, pets at best.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The orthodox predators believe in hunting muggles as prey, rather than draining harmless amounts of blood like parasites. They treat the hunt as a sacrament and prefer to hunt worthy prey because they believe that they consume the soul along with the blood. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The adversaries believe they were placed on Earth by God (or whatever ones believes in) in order to tempt mortals into sin and punish them when they fail to resist.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The guardian angels style themselves as vigilante superheroes, protecting the weak from the wicked or more paranormal threats like demons or abuse of magic.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The cleaners consider it their sworn duty to conceal evidence of the paranormal from the public, both for practical reasons and more esoteric beliefs (e.g. revealing magic reduces its potency). Most vampires already try to minimize exposure, so if you've crossed the cleaners then you've really screwed up. <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Depending on the setting, there may be a paranormal phenomenon that causes most muggles to forget, dismiss, rationalize, and/or misunderstand the paranormal. In this case, the phenomenon does not protect vampires from law enforcement and muggle authorities can cause massive disruptions for vampires without realizing their nature. Thus, the cleaners hunt down those who attract such attention if law enforcement cannot deal with them, as well as preventing muggles from accidentally disrupting their affairs.</li> </ul></li> </ul>If I had more time then I could try adding cultural baggage. Right now these are simple tropes, I guess.</blockquote>

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