Editing Vampire: The Masquerade (section)

===[[Harbingers of Skulls]]===
*'''Antediluvian - Cappadocius'''
*'''Signature Discipline - Necromancy''' (of a different variety from the Giovanni)
*'''Sect - Sabbat'''
*'''Clan Weakness:''' Looking like walking corpses, outnumbered, plus the Giovanni will eagerly plot their destruction.
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Remember the Cappadocians the Giovanni killed off? The experts on Death and everything that it had to do with? Turns out it takes more than a few fires, genocide campaigns and their Antediluvian locking them below ground to finish them off completely. Back in the Ottoman Turks' time, there was an event called "Feast of Folly", where Cappadocius locked up the Cappadocian vampires that:
* were illiterate
* were not charitable
* did not help humans with public works (It does wonders to build churches and mosques and hospitals when you can lift entire trees)
* were irresponsible dickheads

Cappadocius [[Vlad von Carstein|threw these into the catacombs of his clan and locked it while crying blood,]] leaving them to prey on each other and die off from thirst. Then he went to the mortal population, and told them to pack up and leave and he cursed the place. Then again when you read above, it takes more than a bit of a lockup to destroy thousands of Kindred, even if they are irresponsible dicks. Those that didn't go crazy or die did some crash course research down there and left their imprisonment with a spell that opened a passage to the Underworld, where they promptly stuck for centuries. Somewhere in 20th Century they managed to dial some Scythian shaman of the dead from their old clan who outslept in torpor all the clusterfucks of the previous millenium and only recently awakened, and she reversed the spell, releasing them into material world.

Once they got back to the real world and realized just how fucked they've gotten with no one lifting a finger to help them they were, understandably, pissed off and decided to join the Sabbat for a bit of back-up while they began discretely picking off the Giovanni one by one; which is making said cousin-fuckers shit themselves. They also have a grudge against the Camarilla for signing a contract with the Giovanni of the "you leave me alone, I leave you alone" variety thus selling out the few remaining [[Cappadocian]]s out as the Giovanni got free reign to scratch them off their to-do list. 

Supposedly not a single one of them have embraced since they reappeared in the world, which is relatively stupid given their goal of counter-wiping out a relatively powerful Clan (though sometimes it's implied they lost their original bodies and possessed corpses upon return, thus being incapable of embracing), and their allegiance with the Sabbat is mostly on paper only. They care very little of the Sabbat's goals and the Sabbat have very little to do with their vengeance-crusade against the guidos; both are completely fine with this so long as they see eye-to-eye on what they do and leave each other to their own hobbies. Lore of the Bloodlines implies some (or all?) of them were hijacked by wraiths in the process, and are secretly working with the Hierarchy as well.

Their big weakness is that they look like dessicated, preserved corpses and they can't do shit to hide it, unless they learn Obfuscate. Good thing for them the Sabbat doesn't care about the Masquerade... That is, if you believe their boasts: the Sabbat has an extensive cleanup crew and the Elders know not to stir up a world full of superpowers. If the mages won't fuck their shit up, humanity itself would.