Category:Caitiff

Seduced and abandoned by their sires, the Caitiff are everywhere on the fringes of Camarilla society. Clanless and unwanted, the Caitiff are the results of one-night stands, infatuations, frenzied Embraces and outright mistakes. Most have hazy recollections, at best, of sire and Embrace; some have none whatsoever. Stumbling along in the haze of a new existence, each eventually discovered the keys to survival usually in the form of other Caitiff looking out for the newcomer or died trying.

A Caitiff's only identifying mark is a lack of identifying marks. Some Kindred theorists posit that some sort of "imprinting" between sire and childe takes place over time, allowing the younger vampire to acquire the physical characteristics of her sire as mandated by the blood. Caitiff, however, have no such Caitiff descended from Nosferatu, for example, may be ugly, but distinguishing marks rarely do they show the full-blown monstrosity of their vampiric ancestors.

Caitiff fill in the positions in Camarilla society that no one else really wants. While the Camarilla may take the clanless in on occasion out of a vague sense of paternalism, the clans take care of their own first and leave the scraps for the Caitiff.

Nickname: Trash

Caitiff are primarily a development of the last century, especially the years since World War II. Alarmist Kindred point to the explosion in the numbers of clanless as a harbinger of Gehenna, but more level-headed vampires see the problem as symptomatic of a breakdown in the traditional social orders.

 Weaknesses: Caitiff can purchase any Discipline at character creation (with Storyteller permission), but thereafter have to pay six times their rating for any and all powers purchase with experience points. On a more basic level, Caitiff suffer a social stigma from not being part of an accepted clan. As a result, more established Kindred feel free to snub or denigrate Caitiff freely. Until a Caitiff established herself in a city of social circle, she's at a +2 difficulty on all social rolls with all non-Caitiff vampires.

Clan Disciplines: Any (default to Fortitude, Potence and Presence).