List of Lineages (RoR)

## Europe

* **Cousombre-** As shadowy rulers and intruigants, the Cousombre have infiltrated the noble families across europe. They have mastered Illusions and the controll over the human mind, acting as hidden rulers and pupeteers.
* **Custodes-** As greatest warriors and guards among the Striogoi, the Custodes are fast as lighting and strike faster than the eye can follow. They believe themselves the descandants of angels, tasked with protecting gods chosen rulers as divine paladins while ridding their flock of sin.
* **Dracul-** Ruling over most of eastern europe, these individualistic Strigoi have devoted themselves to the research of their blood. From mutated Essence the breed bat-like monstrosities that act as servants and beasts of war.
* **The Grimvitch Sisterhood-** This ancient cult resides in the carpatian mountains, acting as lorekeepers for all Strigoi. Their coven of witches was the first to be turned into Strigoi and since the ancient times they have held up and protected their ancient legacy.
* **Vuldonen-** This paganist Bloodlines resides in scandinavia and northern europe, using their powers to controll the elements and the wrath of winter. Unlike the other Bloodlines the Vuldonen are opposed to Strigoi rules and have allied themselves with the Vargr to protect their heritage.

* **Aedifex-** This cabalistic Strain of Ghouls has devoted themselves to the arts of fleshsinging and undead creation. Their creations and humunculai are sold to powerful Afflicted Courts across all of europe. In secret they seek to create a god out of unliving flesh, seeking the remains of ancient Afflicted and liches all across the world.
* **Vargr-** These shapeshifters are spread across all of northern europe. They are deeply connected to nature and wildlife, controlling herds of animals and animating rotting trees to new life. Their greatest strength is as bestial warriors however, assuming terrifying shapes to hunt down and kill Strigoi and their allies.

## Asia

* **Tsari Drakonov-** As descendants of the Dracul, the Tsari Drakonov are the unliving rulers of russia. They focus less on their research of Bloodmagic and more on the domination of mortals through the force of their iron will.
* Zalim
* **Koldun-** The Koldun are an undefined mix of russian Afflicted and entail Strigoi, Revenants, Ghouls and more esoteric Afflictions. They are focussed on naturalistic sorcery and the summoning of spirits, entirely engrossed in slavic mythology and koldunism.

* **Orcus-** These unliving scholars, hailing form the first Undead, are spread across the entire world. They are devoted to the study of the macabre and necromantic lore. They are all to often in league with the eldritch and occult.
* **Krasue-** This all female House of Revenant assassins hails from southern asia. They use their controll over the spirits to conceil their identity, allowing them to appear as the very souls they have consumed. Through trickery and their mistform they locate and encroach upon their targets before delivering the killing blow.
* **Yunsong-** These ancient chinese Revenants are masters of spirits, having learned how to bind them to near anything. The most ancient Yunsong practice binding spirits to the very land to take controll of the elements; whereas more modern ones use them to animate statues and graveguardians. They are divided by countless ancient families and dynasties, still worshipping their Lich ancestors that founded their unliving empire.
* **Senshi-** Divided across countless clans these japanese Revenants are devoted entirely to the path of the blade. Through binding spirits into steel they can attune themselves to their weapons and bestow it with powers no ordinary warrior could muster. They often summon their ancestors to lend their wisdom and expertise.

* **Vetala-** These indian Ghouls are the remnants of a once proud empire. After their war with the Covenant their ancient order has been destroyed and they are forced into a life in the shadows. They still follow the ancient paths of divination and soothsaying, they are worshippers of Akasha and the natural order; considered some of the wisest and most attuned to the supernatural.
* **Naga-** These serpentine Ghouls stalk the swamps and jungles of india, using plagues, necrotic poisons and fleshmagic to enthrall or kill their victims. They are in leage with the eldritch, worshipping Liches or even the Deava themselves- which makes them feared and despised by most other Afflicted.
* **Borovoi-** A Vargr strain spread across eastern russia, these shapeshifters have attuned themselves entirely to the ancient forests they inhabit, often accompanied by fleshbound animals and strange human cults worshipping the ancient spirits of the forest. In war they take monstrous shapes, closer to that of eagles and bears than wolves.
* **Aswang-** These oceanic shapeshifters have taken several Lamien attributes due to their uprising and comsumption of their ancient masters. Since then they have grown a lust for blood and human flesh, taking gaunt and haunting appereances as they hunt and feed under the guise of night.

## Africa

* **Zemedi-** These ethiopian Revenants are among the most ancient and undisturbed of the undying lineages. Against all odds they have persisted across the centuries, crafting powerful artefacts and lore. Their greatest creations are the magical steles spread all across the land, which allow them to connect and anchor themselves to their Lich Ancestors.
* **Aloka-** The mysterious Aloka inhabit western africa and parts of the carribean. They are masters of fate magic, curses and the summoning of ancient spirits. Many of them are devoted to the worship of ancestral spirits or the practice of vodun.

* **Sphingians-** These egyptian Ghouls are the oldest strain and the first of gain their indepandance from the Edimmu, Across the centuries they have sunk into slumber beneath their ancient temples and cities; but now they have reawoken, guided by their powerful Lich masters, reawaking their ancient constructs and spectral monstrosities.
* **Kinyonga-** These shapeshifters are spread across all of the african jungles, mostly conceiling themselves in the shadows of the great woods and swamps. They have mastered the controll over their own flesh, allowing them to melt with the enviroment and become invisible. They have also mastered poison magic and the controll of the land.

## North America

* **Blackthrone-** Once an irrelevant european bloodline, the Blackthorne are the only cousombre descandants that survived the american revolutionairy war. Today they have become the most wealthy and influencial Strigoi on the continent. They still share many traits with their european relatives, but are highly individualistic and well adapted to the various great american cities they claim.
* **The Iovia Family-** With the arrivial of their great Patriarch *Constantin* in Boston, the Iovia began to form their own lineage at the american east coast. As Strigoi they had already mastered the controll of the mortal mind and seeked to apply these skills to Spirits. The Iovia are masters of manipulating and enslaving Spirits aswell as umbral architects that establish holds under the major cities. The Iovia are heavily pariarchical and follow a strict family hierarchy, with their ancient founder residing in the Umbra below Boston.

* **Oracles**
* **Harridan-** Descending from euro-pagan covens and naitive american priests the Harridan are devoted clerics and witches. They have studied curses, plagues and the weather and can invoce them for harm or healing. Due to their opposition to the christian faith and the Strigoi rule the Harridan where heavily persecuted across the east cost, and have retreated in secluded covens.

* **Wendigo-**

## South America

* **Xu´ulul**- Mayan Undead
* **Inkari**- Inca

* **Nahul-** These warrior shapeshifters hail from middle america and its ancient cultures, having embraced the path of their mysterious panther warrior god.