Kith & Kindred

[YEAH? WHAT ABOUT 'EM?]

What Are Kindred?¶

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Lore Summary¶

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The Beast¶

The Beast is the predator you became when you died. It's not rational, it's not kind, and it doesn't care about your Convictions or Touchstones. At 5 Hunger, it stops being something you control and becomes something that controls you. This is called Frenzy.

How vampires relate to the Beast varies. Some spend every night fighting it, treating unlife as a constant war against themselves. Others accept it as part of the package and feed it regularly to keep it manageable. The oldest vampires stopped resisting long ago. They've made peace with what they are, or at least stopped pretending otherwise.

When the Beast takes over, what happens depends on your age, your overall power, and your Humanity. A Fledgling's rampage is messy and brutal: broken doors, screaming victims, bodies left where they fell. An Elder's rampage is something different entirely. Whole neighborhoods go silent. People disappear. The morning news runs stories about mass hysteria and unexplained deaths. The difference isn't just scale, it's control. Young vampires thrash. Old ones slaughter.

In Coterie, you (the player) are still in charge of your character and what happens when the Beast comes out; it's up to you to play the Frenzy convincingly. When you finally surface and your Hunger is sated, the Beast is gone, and you remember very little. The Storyteller describes what you left behind. Sometimes it's containable. Sometimes it's a disaster that'll haunt you for decades. Either way, the Beast got what it wanted. You just have to survive the aftermath.

Unliving with Yourself (& Others)¶

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