Neonate

A Neonate is a relatively-recently Embraced Cainite, within the last fifty years at least. They are still fairly low in the Kindred hierarchy, but have accumulated enough experience in their Unlives that they can be counted on to do minor missions for their Elders.

Any Neonate who survives past their first five decades has a chance to go up the next rung of the Kindred ladder, the Ancillae.

Meta

Campaigns set in the "present" day will almost always feature Cainites of this social rank, as there are few ways barring Diablerie to raise one's actual power levels.

Rank in the Old World of Darkness
Vampires:	Neonate - Ancillae - Elders - Methuselah - Antediluvian
Werewolves:	Cliath - Fostern - Adren - Elder - Legend
Mages:	Initiate - Apprentice - Disciple - Adept - Master
Mages (Technocracy):	Citizen - Minor Agent/Employee - Enlightened/Agent/Operative - Expert/Supervisor - Master
Changelings:
Kuei-Jin:	Disciple - Jina - Mandarin - Ancestor - Bodhisattva - Arhat
Wraiths:	Legionnaires - Centurions - Marshal - Regent - Overlord - Anacreon
Mummies:
Promethians:
Demons: