Editing Vampire: The Masquerade (section)

===[[Caitiff]]===
*'''Antediluvian - Varies'''
*'''Signature Discipline - Varies'''
*'''Sect - Whoever'll take them; as such they're the most common with the Anarchs, and a few Sabbat under Joseph Panders.'''
*'''Clan Weakness:''' None, but often being a Caitiff is enough trouble as-is.
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Caitiff aren't a clan so much as a lack of clan. If a Kindred abandons and disowns his childe before teaching them about their new condition, the neonate is considered ''caitiff'', bereft of the clan's support structure and reliant on what little goodwill he can scrape from the shadows. Another type of Caitiff is becoming more common in the modern nights: new vampires are sired who don't express clan traits. With nothing to better inform them, they develop psychosomatic weaknesses based on what they think "should" harm them: garlic, running water, crosses, and the other pop-cultural vampire vulnerabilities. 

Their existence has always been feared as the harbinger of the Final Nights; the Camarilla treats them as second-class at best and the Sabbat used to (and still does in some places) treat them as cannon fodder until a cool guy named Joseph Panders tore shit up in a Sabbat civil war and [[AWESOME|intimidated the Sabbat itself]] into accepting them. These Kindred, especially of the 14th and 15th generations, are interchangeably called "Thinbloods" for their weak Vitae and difficulty in passing on the Curse. 

Caitiff don't have clan Disciplines, so they don't get a discount or mark-up for acquiring or improving them. This can make fighting a Caitiff dangerous since they can [[Not As Planned|spring all sorts of Disciplines on you that you cannot plan for, unlike with the more predictable other Clans]]. This is mitigated by the fact that Caitiff are almost always of a very high generation, making them unable to use the more potent abilities of a Discipline.

Caitiff are frequently hunted down because they are seen as the heralds of Gehenna. This turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy; see, whenever a Kindred dies for good, it gives a vampire higher up the clan's bloodline a psychic poke of varying strength. This is how the [[Ravnos]] got royally boned: large numbers of Caitiff/Thinblood vampires were killed in battle against the [[Kindred of the East|Kuei-Jin]], resulting in several Methuselah waking up due to numerous little psychic pokes. When they died, the pokes were ''way'' stronger and went back up to the Ravnos Antediluvian itself, waking ''him'' up and causing the [[Week of Nightmares]]. 

Thing is, Caitiff lack a specific Antediluvian to poke, since they lack the usual clan traits and connection to an Antediluvian that comes with them. The result is that their death defaults to poking '''all''' of them. [[Anal Circumference|Yeah.]]