Norvegi

==Background==
Sometime in the Middle Ages, the idea arose among the Kindred of Europe that the vampiresof the North, members of the alleged Clan Grettir, were in-bred. Tales circulated of a web of Vinculi, and thata tradition of cross-generational diablerie and a dependence on ghouls had weakened them. Although they drankthe vibrant blood of the Norse peoples of the age, and brought their own living family members into the fold afterdeath, their deficient blood had taken away their fangs.
Among the bloodlines of the North, they were outcast. They carved out a niche as criminals among the dead. They were killers and thieves. The Renaissance came, and the Age of Reason followed, and the Norvegi gradually spread south, receiving the same prejudice and taking the same jobs, and so it is tonight. Many domains across Britain, Germany, the Baltic states, the former USSR and the northern parts of North America have small families of Norvegi. The members of the bloodline manipulate their living families, and at least one ghoul family depends upon Norvegi blood. Many Norvegi make their havens with their living (ghoul) families, and more than half of the Norvegi active in Europe and North America tonight were their sires’ ghouls before they were Embraced, enslaved by the bonds of Vinculi long before they died.
And yet, the relationship between sire and childe is not so simple; the tradition of the Norvegi has it that the Elder of the Norvegi allow themselves to be diablerized – painfully, messily by their childer before old age forces them into torpor, presumably so that their memories remain, rather than be washed away by the Fog of Ages.
Category:Bloodline
Category:Norvegi