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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8324573" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Constrast Immortal with the World of Darkness.  Immortal prides/tribes all get their abilities from fundamentally the same source, even though the individual groups can approach it very differently and can have a very different look and feel--but ones that disagree about those fundamentals are rare and are generally considered eccentric.  They may have different things they focus on, but most of those differences are, from lack of a better term, political.On the other hand, even in the old World of Darkness, the groups not only don't appear to have the same origin, they don't even agree about the cosmology involved; and they often have significantly different explanations where the others come from (some of which are obviously wrong, some of which could have a kernal of truth).  Even subgroups that share some common elements (Gangrel vampires and a couple of the werewolf groups, say, or Ventrue and Sidhe) never consider the other to be just a variation on the same thing; they're interests overlap some and they aren't the same because their understanding of the world is not the same (there are more differences among the core types in what is important to them, than there are within the splats of a type (even those can sometimes range wildly) because that understanding of the world is so radically different.)</blockquote>