Editing Vampire: The Requiem (section)

===Enemy Covenants===
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====Belial's Brood====
The Infernalists of VtM without the organization, Belial's Brood is little more than a pack of devil-worshipping madmen that have voluntarily given themselves up to the Beast. Although they are divided into numerous factions with their own competing ideologies, they are all crudely united in their disregard for everyone besides themselves and their single-minded thirst for destruction. Imagine Sabbat with a Baali streak.

In 2e, their nature is expanded on somewhat; to become a member of the Brood, a potential member must be Claimed. This is an extremely dangerous process in which the member becomes a draugr but has a Beast strong enough to control their conscious minds without the typical side effects of causing them to degenerate into mindless predators. This process also prevents the new Brood member from performing the Embrace successfully- any attempts to do so will either fail or create draugr. 

The organization of Belial's Brood can generously be described as loose, with the 
strongest member of a given clutch taking the role of the clutch's leader (or Apex). Unlike the other covenants, they have no place for politicking, eschewing it in favor of the simpler principles of [[Ork|"whatever the strongest vampire says goes" and "anyone can be the Apex if they can kill the current Apex unaided in a challenge"]]. In addition to Disciplines, they can call on the Beast's power directly in manifestations collectively dubbed Triadic Evolution.

====VII====
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Next to nothing is known about them; even their name is a presumed one based only on the image of the Roman numeral they leave behind after their attacks on other Kindred, which have no discernible pattern or motive that anybody can identify. Bizarrely, their members never run the risk of Frenzy when meeting other Kindred, and even when forced to speak the truth through supernatural compulsion its members can't explain what VII really is. Even mind-reading attempts reveal nothing but an image of the Roman numeral "VII." 

Some say they are sleeper agents, acting as normal vampires until compelled to kill by an unknown signal, returning to their old lives with no memory of their actions afterwards. Others link them to the Akhud, and others still believe they have somehow been subverted by the God-Machine and are deployed to eliminate vampires that interfere with Its inscrutable plans.  They may have some kind of connection to the Strix since they always attack within three days of a Strix's appearance, but nobody knows if they're allies or enemies to the Owls.