Editing Lamia (section)

==Vampire: The Masquerade==
[[File:Lamia.png|thumb|right|225px|Symbol of the Lamia bloodline.]]
In [[Vampire: The Masquerade]], the Lamiae are a supposedly extinct bloodline of [[vampire]]s named after their founder, Lamia. Lamia was the high priestess of a cult of [[Lilith]], and claimed to be her daughter,  when the [[Cappadocian]] vampire Lazarus found her performing rites to Lilith and proceeded to embrace her. As she changed to a vampire, she had a vision of Lilith who told her about her and her new clans future, and upon awakening, and Lazarus explaining her condition to her, she whispered a couple lines to her sires ear who then promptly ran the fuck away and begun actively avoiding her.

From there she made her way to her clan, and there created her bloodline named after her. They served as the bodyguards and warriors of the Cappadocians and continued the worship and rites of Lilith as their sire had. They mainly consisted of women, as they were seen to be closer to Lilith, who had greater power when compared to their male counterparts, and had a variant of the necromancy discipline based on the [[Element|four humors]]. Their weakness was that they carried the ''Seed of Lilith'', a viral disease similar to the black plague that infected those they fed from, with women having a greater resistance to it than men, that would kill those fed from after a few days. If another vampire drank from the same person a lamia had drank, they would become carriers of the disease.

When Augustus [[Giovanni]] [[Diablerie|diablerized]] [[Cappadocius]], he also supposedly diablerized Lamia, which caused the painful kiss of the Giovanni. The bloodline then became a target for persecution and the other clans worked with the Giovanni to destroy them, with the last Lamia having been killed in 1718... However, at the time of the Final Nights, a group of female vampires calling themselves the ''Lilin'' who have the same practices as the Lamia and claims of heritage sprung up in Cairo, leading some to speculate that the bloodline survived. 

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