Editing Vampire: The Masquerade (section)

===[[Giovanni]]===
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*'''Antediluvian:''' <s>Cappadocius (HIS BLOOD FELL OFF THE BACK OF A TRUCK, OKAY, FUGGEDABOUDIT)</s> Augustus Giovanni
*'''Signature Discipline:''' [[Necromancy]] (spooky magic) or Oblivion (Necromancy + [[Obtenebration]])
*'''Sect:''' Independent (They don't need the others. Except when they do.)
*'''Clan Weakness:''' Their Kiss hurts like a motherfucker, looks bad and heals slowly.
Spagetti and Corpses, boss. The Italian Vampire Mafia. No, we're not kidding. Probably the second wealthiest clan, bar the Ventrue, with Lasombra and Toreador following behind. And that's just the ''tip'' of this delectable iceberg. Dealing in vice, corruption, and trafficking with souls. Literally a family as well as a bloodline, it's the only Clan that exclusively Embraces within the same mortal family. Puts up a prim and proper appearance to the public, and to other Vampires. They take a lot of mortal traditions from the ages very seriously still (being originally a merchant family from Venice). They are even serious about their Catholicism and going to church on Sunday - so on top of everything else being gay, an atheist or worst of all ''Protestant'' are all good ways to get on their shitlist.

Of course, there is a reason they're notorious among the Kindred: at that church, there's real blood (Preferably vampiric) in the cup, and an orgy among the pews in between litanies about and prayers to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Yup, they're ''all'' incestuous bitches. Incestous, necrophiliac, and ''still'' fanatically Catholic bitches. And it only goes downhill from there. Necrophilia and bestiality are a perfectly accepted pastime within the family. Kissing cousins is the rule. And no, the entire family is not Embraced, just in case you thought there was an out. They're so messed up that by the time one may actually get selected for the Embrace, the horrors of vampire life are no real biggie. It's like your most perverted hentai come to unlife. As you can imagine, this doesn't at all help their dealings with the outside world, and they have to be careful not to give anyone the impression otherwise. Nobody likes them for being shit-for-brains bullies: they pretty much are fucked in social interactions where they don't have the equivalent to a gun at someone's head, and being founded by a notoriously-depraved Diablerist doesn't do them any favors. Now, to their credit, they DID broaden the gene pool a bit, by incorporating certain families into their own. But of course, they're anything but normal. Would you like your sister-aunt-granddaughter-wife to be from the German death cultist/necrophiliac/arms dealer family? Or would you prefer her to come from the Scottish cannibal banker family? 

As for their TRUE resource, it's not money, but souls. The dead. They take both tracks - they deal with the spirit world ''"I got youse, you fucking ghost, and now youse gonna to tell me everything!"'' kind of necromancy, and the literal ''"[[FATAL|Beloved brother, just because you're dead now doesn't mean you won't still be eating me out...]]"'' zombie raising kind of necromancy. Also not a Founding Clan, they [[Diablerie|stole]] their vampirism from a cooler clan (the [[Cappadocian]]s, a Clan of [[Awesome|humane and charitable vampire necromancer monks]]) back in the medieval ages and then proceeded to wipe it out. And to suggest they missed a few is [[heresy]]. That's not to say you would be wrong... ''Also'' trying to end the world by collapsing the human world into the spirit world so that they can lord over the endless darkness of the Long Night forever [[Derp|and promptly blew up the whole clan when a gate to the Underworld formed]]. In summary, the words of the Nosferatu and the Ventrue describe them the best: ''"Down in the sewers we see a lot of shit, but never so much as when a Giovanni heads our way."'' and ''"Our stillborn siblings, who never developed a sense of right and wrong or what not to stick your cock into."''

In ''V:tM'' v5, Augustus was [[Diablerie|diablerized]] by a [[Cappadocian]] [[methuselah]] and all of the necromantic bloodlines were sloppily combined with the Giovanni to form a single "clan" called '''[[Hecata|Clan Hecata]]'''.