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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Catulle" data-source="post: 850975" data-attributes="member: 9942">Well, how long is a piece of string?More seriously, and like  an awful lot of questions in the World of Darkness milieu, there aren't any definite answers.I think that's a way of saying old blood is like the McDonalds of vampire cuisine. It keeps them going, but they could be having so much better. It's a subsistence diet, and potentially the hallmark of an inept hunter (one reason the Sabbat tend to people, rather than blood).On the other hand, it's the sign of a genteel host to provide something for ones' guests... and there can be a connoisseur angle to it all (just ask a Ventrue).That said, look to the way the Camarilla treats those clans that tend not to feed after the 'traditional', or 'done' fashion (all broad generalisations, of course); the biggest blood-bankers are likely the Giovanni (partly out of the necessity of their clan weakness) who are most definitely persona non grata in higher Kindred circles. The notoriously untrustworthy Tremere rank in a little way after, with a bewildering array of magical means to store, read and affect blood. The ostracised Nosferatu and Gangrel often don't feed on humans at all (yuck!).The 'higher' clans all tend to emphasise maintainance of a herd rather than blood-banking, and for a variety of reasons, not simply the human contact, pride in the tradition of the masquerade or the more pleasing flavour but also for considerations such as it being less suspicious to have a full address book than a 'fridge full of human blood. As Ashrem points out, necessity often calls for desperate measures, and that's when the dirty, dirty blood bankers clean up (so to speak)...Of course, the 'harvesting' you mention is almost exactly what the Tzimisce did about the 11th-12th centuries, rearing entire populations to serve them after a certain fashion (or fashions). All before the inquisition, though.All that to one side, defining 'old' is whole other question, though I tend to read a silent 'c' in front of it.Regards,Barry</blockquote>

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