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===[[Followers of Set]]===
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*'''Antediluvian - Set/Typhon'''
*'''Signature Discipline - Serpentis''' (Powers based on Egyptian gods, such as Set, Ra, Apep, and so on)
*'''Sect - Anarch (formerly Independent)'''
*'''Clan Weakness:''' Extreme sensitivity to sunlight: even a brightening sky will burn them. Also, abuse of Serpentis will cause Serpentine mutations.
This clan's mainstream belief is that Set was the progenitor of all Kindred, which is fucking stupid, but then again considering the other theories some have postulated for why vampirism exists, it's not THAT bad a theory (and hey, there are actual, honest to Ra mummies kicking around the WoD, so it has some legs).

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''In the ancient times when the gods lived on Earth and ruled Egypt directly, the sun-god Ra grew old and decided to retire. Ra chose his great-grandson Osiris as his heir and successor. This did not sit well with Osiris’ brother, Set. Our progenitor was the mightiest warrior among the gods. Every night he guarded the sun-barque as it passed under the Earth from the gates of sunset to the gates of dawn. Every night he battled Apep, the Great Serpent of Darkness, so that the sun might rise again. Did his valor count for nothing?''

''Set’s jealousy and wounded pride drove him to murder his brother. He fashioned a beautiful coffin proportioned exactly to Osiris’ body, and said he would give this princely gift to whoever would fit in it. All the gods tried the coffin in vain. Then Osiris took his turn. Immediately, Set and his 72 accomplices slammed the coffin’s lid, nailed it shut and threw it in the Nile. Osiris drowned. When the goddess Isis, Osiris’ wife and sister, used her magic to retrieve her husband’s body, Set took more permanent measures: He hacked his brother’s body to bits and scattered them about Egypt. Patiently, Isis gathered the fragments, reassembled the body of Osiris and used her magic to conceive a child by her dead husband.''

''When their child Horus grew to manhood, he challenged Set for the kingship of the gods. Some legends speak of mighty battles between gods and armies. Other tales describe their strife as a farcical court case, full of low tricks and silly contests. One way or another, Horus prevailed. Horus lost an eye in their strife; in revenge, he castrated Set. Osiris, meanwhile, became King of the Dead just as his son became King of the Living; and the Pharaonic dynasties henceforth claimed to rule by descent from Horus the Avenger. As compensation, Ra gave Set two foreign goddesses as concubines and made him god of storms: “He will thunder in the sky and make men afraid.”''

''When the other gods acclaimed Horus as their new king, Ra turned on his faithful defender and cursed Set to live in darkness forever. Then the gods thrust Set into Duat, the dark Underworld of the dead, and the river of death whose waters come from the Primeval Ocean itself. Here Set fought the great serpent Apep once more. He slew the Worm of Darkness and ate its heart. With Apep’s death he took on Apep’s dark wisdom and learned secrets hidden from the beginning of the world.''

''When Ra created the world, he gave it life through his own semen, creating gods and the souls of human beings alike. Souls differed in size but not in kind. Jealous Ra lied to all his children. He told them that he was mightiest of all things, creator of the universe, when he merely shaped a tiny portion of the Primeval Waters.''

''Now, however, Set knew the truth: All souls could grow as mighty as their tyrant father and become creators themselves. Set returned to the world by stealth. The Primeval Waters carry life as well as death. Every year, the gates of the world open to let the Primeval Waters bring new life through the yearly inundation of the Nile. Set disguised himself as a water-serpent and slipped through the gates with the rushing waters. He swore to overthrow Ra — not for revenge but for compassion, to liberate the souls Ra held in bondage. Despite the power gained from Apep, Set still had to hide from the sun; he could not break the curse of Ra. Nor did he truly live, for he had tasted the waters of death.''

''As he walked the night, however, Set found twelve human disciples to hear his message of rebellion against the tyranny of the gods. The disciples swore to follow Set. To seal their oath, they used a warrior’s rite: They mingled their blood with Set’s in a bowl and drank from it, swearing thus to become brothers and sisters in the coming struggle. Set even granted them equal shares in his own divine power. They too would become gods. As the last disciple drank, however, the company of the great gods appeared.''

''The treacherous Moon, whom Set trusted to keep silent, told the other gods about Set’s return. Ra the tyrant decreed that all who joined Set’s cause would share his banishment from the Sun and his castration, and that having sealed their pact in blood the thirteen would feed on blood alone. Now Set learned what flawed vessels humans were. His twelve disciples wailed at the curse and begged for mercy, saying that Set misled them. Their betrayal outraged Set. (He always did have a short temper.) He swore that if they would not help him fight the gods, after all he had given them, he would destroy them as well, though it take him a million years!''

''And so, from the curses of Ra and the power of Apep, Set and his twelve disciples became the first vampires. In time they learned to pass their curse and their power to other mortals, becoming the founders of the thirteen clans. Set remained the greatest of the thirteen, for he had been a true god and the source of the power wielded by his treacherous disciples. The others never forgave their benefactor for witnessing their treachery and their cowardice. Set’s childer remained faithful to him: He learned from his mistakes and chose more carefully. The childer of the other First Vampires schemed against their sires. We, the Mesu Bedshet, Children of Rebellion, remain loyal — and this is as gall in the mouths of Set’s rivals. They taught their childer to hate and fear Set and his clan; they invented fables to hide how they themselves became vampires.''
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This is but one of the many, many legends that Setites use to explain their origins.

Very very insidious, they spread corruption throughout decaying slums of the poor, and decadent halls of the rich. Their tongues exist merely to spread lies, to ensnare and entrap their victims... almost like a ''serpent''. This is all part of their grand design, and worship to their gods (that's right, while some cults only worship Setite Antediluvian in whatever form it takes, some also worship other gods alongside him, e.g. Cult of Typhon Trimegistus, but their patron is always their founder), for when all is miserable, their Antediluvian will come back, and according to their belief, will grant them freedom. Planning to reawaken their Antediluvian, which is also a big no no, one doubly so for the Sabbat, because superstition is that when the Fathers awaken, they will slake their thirst with the blood of all their Childer. Basically, nobody likes them for being strange snake-fapping weirdo cultists trying to bring about the apocalypse. Since they are by habit and blood people involved in vice and corruption, they tend to get in trouble at some point with the law, mortal and immortal. They exist in the form of cults, worshipping various gods who they believe as the masks of the Antediluvian that once called himself Set to the Egyptians, such as Typhon, Mars, Bacchus, Pluton, Apep, Shiva, Jormungandr, Loki, Tezcalipoca, Echidna and much, much more. Some of his childer has names like Wepwawet and Tawaret, which some would recognise as other Egyptian gods. Sadly, this clan was handled very poorly during Gehenna, which is a shame, because there is so much that you can do with those guys. They are criminally underrated vampire versions of [[Word Bearers]].

In the [[skub|fifth edition]], the Settites have realized the snake thing is a bit stupid looking, and went for the thing scummy slick people tend to do, and start acting like they found 'God.' They now started calling themselves the Ministry, and claimed to always be this way. Also, they tried to join a group they could leach off of, in the Camarilla, but all their egyptian Elders were blown up in a fire bomb. [All according to plan]
As such, they got rejected by their prom date, and started hooking up with the Camarilla's emo little brother, the Anarchs to get back at them.