The Daeva, also known as Succubi, are a vampire bloodline known for their beauty, ability to seduce mortals, and skill at manipulating both mortal and vampire societies. As seducers and sensualists, Daeva feed primarily by charming and draining willing mortal partners. However, over time most Daeva lose the ability to feel true emotional attachment. Without this, they resort to increasingly depraved acts to try and feel something. Daeva operate in all levels of mortal society but often frequent places like theaters, clubs, and brothels to find willing prey. Their social and seductive abilities allow them to thrive in numbers, but also lead to infighting among
The Daeva, also known as Succubi, are a vampire bloodline known for their beauty, ability to seduce mortals, and skill at manipulating both mortal and vampire societies. As seducers and sensualists, Daeva feed primarily by charming and draining willing mortal partners. However, over time most Daeva lose the ability to feel true emotional attachment. Without this, they resort to increasingly depraved acts to try and feel something. Daeva operate in all levels of mortal society but often frequent places like theaters, clubs, and brothels to find willing prey. Their social and seductive abilities allow them to thrive in numbers, but also lead to infighting among
The Daeva, also known as Succubi, are a vampire bloodline known for their beauty, ability to seduce mortals, and skill at manipulating both mortal and vampire societies. As seducers and sensualists, Daeva feed primarily by charming and draining willing mortal partners. However, over time most Daeva lose the ability to feel true emotional attachment. Without this, they resort to increasingly depraved acts to try and feel something. Daeva operate in all levels of mortal society but often frequent places like theaters, clubs, and brothels to find willing prey. Their social and seductive abilities allow them to thrive in numbers, but also lead to infighting among
The Daeva, also known as Succubi, are a vampire bloodline known for their beauty, ability to seduce mortals, and skill at manipulating both mortal and vampire societies. As seducers and sensualists, Daeva feed primarily by charming and draining willing mortal partners. However, over time most Daeva lose the ability to feel true emotional attachment. Without this, they resort to increasingly depraved acts to try and feel something. Daeva operate in all levels of mortal society but often frequent places like theaters, clubs, and brothels to find willing prey. Their social and seductive abilities allow them to thrive in numbers, but also lead to infighting among
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DAEVA
to become arguably one of the most numerous
Bloodlines. No single social class has room for them all, so newcomers and losers of political and social games often find themselves dwelling Other Kindred envy their beauty and grace, their among the poor and unwashed —or at least the ability to incite passion in mortals, the ease with middle classes, which, since their blood is as red as which they glide through the masses — and that any other, means basically the same thing to most envy is almost as potent a drought to the Daeva as Succubi. Few Kindred are as desperate as a Daeva blood itself. These Kindred are consummate trying to claw his way into his own niche. Wise predators, and they would seem to be the perfect Kindred know better than to take advantage of a vampires. Alas, most are too dead inside to enjoy Daeva in such a position, for fear he’ll one night it. Called Succubi by other Bloodlines, the Daeva achieve the position and privilege he seeks. The are experts at making their prey come to them, Succubi never forget a slight. practically offering themselves not merely as food Nickname but as play-things. No self-respecting Daeva Succubi resorts to attacking transients in alleyways. Rather, Symbol these are the Kindred who accompany a smitten Blood Red Rose young mortal back to her place, leaving her Appearance languid and sexually spent by morning(if she’s Daeva often Embrace out of infatuation — or at fortunate) or an exsanguinated husk (if she’s not). least going through the motions of passion — and Seducers and sensualists, the Daeva could they rarely choose to involve themselves with practically charm the unease off a Nosferatu. When unattractive mortals. Thus, most Daeva are the fancy strikes them, they play politics like a surpassingly beautiful. The Bloodline is also finely tuned instrument. Even allies and co- highly in tune with trends and fashion, the better to conspirators who know they cannot trust a prowl among and attract prey. Succubus find themselves lulled into doing just Havens: Daeva havens vary, but they’re almost that, caught up in the Daeva’s personal magnetism. universally comforting… in a subtly alarming way Daeva become Harpies more than Kindred of any that suggests an artificial appeal to whatever other Bloodline, and they wield that power vessels a Kindred favors. Most are convenient to mercilessly. A stinging rebuke from a Daeva Harpy social or political centers. The specific aesthetics can shred a vampire’s reputation faster than a vary, but most are intended to impress any denunciation by the Prince himself. Most Succubi compatriots, allies or victims who might be invited are overtly sensual beings, drawn by beauty and in. Penthouses and condominiums are particularly blood in equal measure, but it’s an artificial popular. Many Daeva don’t bother to keep up passion. Their ability to feel true attachment to appearances if they don’t think they’ll bring prey other people atrophies over years of manipulating home, meaning that some havens are sloppy or the love of mortals and the respect of their fellow cluttered with unsettling reminders of previous Kindred, until the Daeva can no longer understand vessels presence. those emotions as anything other than tools to be Background exploited and motions to imitate. For all their With a growing number of exceptions, Daeva are apparent fervor, most Succubi are as dead Embraced from the ranks of society’s elite. spiritually as they are physically. They claim to Succubus sires look for some combination of understand desire, but all they truly know is need, charm, culture, seductiveness, desire to achieve, and it is this deadening of emotions that causes so passion and physical beauty. Many Daeva many jaded Daeva to become depraved in their Embrace mortals to whom they have become efforts to feel again. Daeva move through the attached, but this attachment almost invariably circles of society in which their lustful natures best proves false, a mixture of lust and simple hunger. serve them, whether among high society or low Few relationships are as euphoric as those between culture. Drawn to beauty and congregations of a Daeva and a newly Embraced childe, and few mortals, they often frequent theaters, galleries, grow cold as swiftly. trendy clubs, whiskey dives, drug dens, brothels Character Creation and everything in between. Personal preferences Social Attributes and Skills are of primary aside, the Succubi are found through all strata of concern, particularly those that aid in making good society. Their seductive natures allow these first impressions, in persuading and in seducing. vampires to find willing vessels no matter where Social Merits are equally common, representing they go, and this ability has enabled them to thrive, the character’s connections to both mortal and Kindred society. Given that most Daeva feed into sparagmos. Who better to lead by example in almost exclusively through manipulation and the ecstatic emulation of the perfect vampire? betrayal, a high starting Humanity score is a good The Invictus idea, since it’s likely to fall precipitously. The Daeva function well in the middle of a web. Favored Attributes They know just how to pluck the strands. They Dexterity or Manipulation know all the right vibrations. Their grandeur adds Bloodline Disciplines an air of legitimacy to the polite rituals and courtly Celerity, Majesty, Vigor behavior of the First Estate, making it all a better Bloodline Bane misdirection for the blackmail and backstabbing Daeva immerse themselves in the mortal world; it behind the velvet curtains. Who are the masters not only feeds them, it compels them. When Daeva of the tyrannous emotions that control us all? Who choose vessels, they become obsessed. When they looks more fetching in a crown? drink from a mortal once, they’re fine. On their The Lancea Sanctum second and further drinks from the same source, The immortal passions of the Daeva can bend into roll Humanity. Failure causes the vampire to be in religious ecstasy of a frightful intensity. Their a second stage blood bond with the mortal. The sermons wash over the laity like a tidal wave. They Condition only goes away with the mortal’s death. have perched for so long on both the right and the For this reason, Daeva tend toward either left shoulders of humanity. Who, in motion, are remarkable promiscuity, or they cultivate massive more like angels or succubi? Who knows the exact harems and herds. point where divinity and perversion bisect? Who Organization knows the sinners so intimately? Who better to Status among the Daeva is entirely a social issue, tempt the mortals than the Serpents? and many young ones resemble squabbling cliques The Ordo Dracul more so than undying creatures of the night. Not The Order is an ill fit for many Daeva. Yet even elder Daeva are strangers to petty vendettas those who get a taste for it become hooked, like and long-nursed grudges. While a Succubus is mortals addicted to cosmetic surgery. The pain and likely to join with one of her own in the face of an danger and transcendence. More! Always more. outside threat, they compete with one another as These Serpents want to shed their skins and see much as they do with other Kindred, if not more what holy blasphemies may come. They are the so. The Daeva therefore have no true formal charismatic gurus who underground fighting rings structure. Those who are dominant in the Danse materialize around. They are the cult leaders who Macabre’s social and political scene are dominant can convince their followers to do unspeakable among the Bloodline as well things for knowledge. Who so envies the humans,yet clutches her own immorality? Who In the Covenants would do anything to have it both ways? The Carthian Movement The Daeva are the mouths of the Revolution. Their tongues turn ethos into contagion, stoke mobs into wildfire. The Serpents are the recruiters of the Revolution. The Firebrands of other Bloodlines know that you need at least one Daeva around. The feeding is good for the Serpents among the Carthians, as they swallow blood and fervor in equal measure. And the feeding for everyone else is better when they’re around. And when violence must carry the politics of change, who else is so terrifyingly fast and bone-crunchingly strong? The Circle of the Crone Some of the most important voices in the Crone’s choir belong to the Succubi. It is the wise hierophant who keeps them close. The Daeva’s presence makes rituals grander, the spirituality more real, the air of a wild hunt more tangible. It’s easier to believe. They are the maenads who inspire orgiastic revel. They put the romance back