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CHRIS JONES
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- I NTRODUCTI ON - DHAMPI RS
- WHAT I S I N THI S BOOK? - PLAYI NG AS A DHAMPI R
- BLOOD I S THI CKER THAN WATER. - BLOOD OF THE DHAMPI R
BARELY. - DHAMPI R POWERS
- THE WAY OUT I S THROUGH - LORESHEETS
- THI N BLOOD ALCHEMY AND - THE MOTLEY CREW
FACTI ONS - THE LEVELLERS

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- REAVERS
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- COETUS PASCENS
- THE LEVELLERS

FOR THOSE WI THOUT A CLAN

- ONE OF MY TRI BE
- DESCENDANT OF THE
STONEMAN
- HARBI NGER OF THE END
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- TABLE SCRAPS TI MES
- SO YOU THI NK YOU' RE A - REVENANT FAMI LY:
CAI TI FF? BRATOVI CH
- PANDERS - REVENANT FAMI LY:
- THE TRUE CHI LDREN OF GRI MALDI
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CAI NE - REVENANT FAMI LY: OBERTUS

- THE STONEMAN - REVENANT FAMI LY:
- THE SELF PRESERVATI ON OPRI CHNI KI
SOCI ETY - REVENANT FAMI LY: ZANTOSA
- NEW AMALGAMS - REVENANT FAMI LY:
- PREDATOR TYPES ROSSELLI NI
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- MERI TS AND FLAWS

- A QUESTI ON OF MORTALI TY
- THE REVENANT FAMI LI ES
- BRATOVI CH
- GRI MALDI
- OBERTUS
- OPRI CHNI KI
- ZANTOSA
- ROSSELLI NI
 the accolades and make the most noise, but they
A Wa s t e of stand on the bodies of many others to get there.

Good Blood... Just because you?re unsung, doesn?t make you any
less a hero. Just because you?re at the bottom of
the barrel, it doesn?t mean you need to keep
digging. Just because they think they're better
Introduction than you, doesn?t mean they actually are or that

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you can?t bring them down to your level. T here is
T he mighty T hirteen clans are responsible for
power in assumed insignificance and even the
some of the most amazing stories in the World of
mightiest must fall in the fullness of time.

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Darkness, their members having committed both
wondrous and horrendous deeds, been responsible
for the creation of the two great sects and set in I n this book I intend to explore some of the groups
motion countless plots; the ramifications of which that often slip through the cracks of Kindred
impact almost every corner of life on the planet. society, or that are considered contemptible and
T heir structure gives them strength, and their beneath everyone else. W hether they?re a full

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founders may one day shake the foundations of the
world. Each and every member of the clans carries
the seed of these gods within them and may yet
blooded vampire that can?t quite manifest a bane or
muster the same powers as their sire, or a vampire
that just so happens to be unlucky enough to have
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achieve godhood. more than 13 generations between them and the
mythical Caine, or perhaps even the servants and
still living hangers-on.
T his book is not about them.

T his book is for them.

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T his book is not about the Elders and Ancilla. I t?s

not about Princes and Primogen, I t?s not about
the coteries whose names live on through the ages
or who achieve untold levels of infamy.
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T his book is about those that can?t always live up

to these lofty claims, about those that the books
often miss out on and put to the side, the ones that
history has missed and that are stigmatised and
ignored.

T his book is about what is possible when you slip

below the radar and give yourself over to a
different kind of unlife. T he thirteen may get all
 What is in this book? Blood Is Thicker Than
- New gr oups, factions and types of T hin Water. Barely...
Bloods, including a range of new for mulae
and Alchemy techniques as well as a new T hin Bloods have been a problem for far longer than
breed - the Reaver s. they have even existed. Centuries ago, cainites would
- An exploration of Caitiff and Pander s, as gather to talk prophesy in hushed whispers lest they

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disturb sleeping ancients. Groups would obsess about
well as some new factions that have sprung fragments of ancient texts that described the past
up among the clanless and bring order to and future of Caine's chosen ones - and that future
chaos always ended one way - destruction.

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- New Pr edator T ypes, Mer its and Flaws T here would be signs of course - wild ones, princes
- A closer look at the rules and history of the falling and cities being lost, but one that always drew
major r evenant families. a lot of attention was the prophecy about the
- An investigation into the new world of the thinning of the blood and the final generations.
dhampir s, systems to play them and an
exploration of their place in the World of
?I f only we could stop this coming to pass! I f only
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L or esheets made specifically for the T hin
Bloods and Caitiff as well as for adding
we could ensure this final generation is never sired
and eradicated before the prophecy is fulfilled??
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revenants to your retinue.
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 Regardless of the truth of the matter, the T hin
T his line of thinking became so commonplace that it Bloods of today?s age are more than just the sum of

seeped out from those obsessed with Noddist lore their sires generations. 14th, 15th, 16th? Does it

and into the unlives of the entire kindred race. Even matter to these ones? T heir generation has no impact
on what they can do compared to any other T hin
the nominally secular Camarilla took this line of
Blood - indeed many would not know where they
thinking to their cold, dead hearts and initiated
exactly sit on a family tree anyway, and any attempt
pogroms against those who failed to properly muster

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to quantify their potency reveals the same result -
the curse. T he persecution of the duskborn is all but
generic, thin blood. W hat is even more confusing for
enshrined into law in the modern age.
those that have tried to study this and apply some

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semblance of order to the blood have found a
T he definition of being thin blooded has changed confusing mess of contradictions - there are those
over the centuries - with each generation of Kindred closer to Caine who are able to walk in the sunlight,
looking to ensure that those beneath them are the and who simultaneously have blood incapable of
bearers of the persecution, fear, loathing and creating more of their kind or binding the will of
distrust of the entire vampire race. I n the dark ages, others. T hen there are those as far away from Caine
the 13th generation were believed to be so thin as has been recorded who still bare the curses of the

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blooded as to be incapable of passing on the curse,
and before them, the same distinction was accredited
to the 12th generation. Was it the case that in those
clan founders. Nothing about the T hin Bloods makes
sense or is predictable - whatever they are defies
conventions and classification. I t?s almost as if
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times the blood was thinner in the young overall? they?re a different species altogether!
Has the blood of the ?final generation?been linked to
the times, or was it just superstition driving these
From the perspective of the duskborn themselves,
beliefs?
those that care enough to consider their condition see
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it as the next step in the evolution of the species. Far

Moreover, how is it that after millennia of from seeing themselves as weakened copies of the
embracing, that the race of vampires has only just older vampires, they see in their condition a chance
got past 13 generations? Have the thin blooded to move beyond some of the limitations that have
always been possible and just too weak to survive plagued their kind for so long. T he banes of the
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among their more potent kin? How would a founders are finally being forgotten and kicked to the
duskborn have fared when their contemporaries curb where they belong. T he limitations of the
were methuselahs and life was tougher? Was the disciplines are being replaced by something flexible
blood incapable of creating them in ages past? Or is and personal, and yet still capable of reproducing
it that the blood of the vampires has thickened to the those long practiced techniques. Critical to the
point that previously weak kindred are now capable viewpoint that the T hin Bloods are something more
of siring? Will we see the 14th and 15th generations is the clearly observable fact that they are sometimes
ascend to being considered normal in a hundred able to ignore some of the classic weaknesses of the
years or so? vampire - to defy the will of god. W hile the kindred
look down on their closeness to the mortals, the
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The Way Out is Thr ough
worlds - the ability to maintain some sort of life,
mortal feelings and urges, access to the daylight T he lives and times of a T hin Blood are often short
world, immortality and a greatly inhibited beast. and brutal, and while it?s still early days - the
T his last part is often the most important to the thin forecast for the survival on an individual level doesn?t
blooded vampire - while the hunger is still there, it look good. T his isn?t to say that there aren?t those
won?t control their unlives in such a spectacular and that don?t appreciate their lot in unlife or that are
prospering, but that those above them don?t make it

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often bloody fashion. With no chance of mindlessly
frenzying, they?re free to pursue whatever path they easy for them. Many of them can see the writing in
want - including the hallowed state of Golconda. A the wall and in between fighting for survival, have
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thin blood has a choice - they can attempt to return
to a real life, or seek to pursue their damnation and escape, sometimes it?s a step up - or even sideways.
become a full blooded kindred. T he future is theirs to W hatever they do, it involves a drastic change - one
decide. which might free them? or damn them.

Going Up - Diabler ie
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approaches with their interactions - either
the carrot or the stick. T he right to
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diablerie and take on the mantle of a full
blooded vampire is a phenomenal carrot
to dangle in front of them, but even this
comes with its own set of risks - beyond
the obvious ones of degeneration and
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possession of course. Firstly there is the

issue of legality - or the perception of it at
least. Assuming the T hin Blood has been
granted permission in the first place, will
the rest of the city still treat them as
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deserving of it? W hat happens when the

victim is an otherwise well connected
member of the city? I t?s one thing for a
known kindred to claim victory in a blood
hunt, and another for a T hin Blood to
muscle in on it. T he next consideration is
clan status - the T hin Blood always takes
on the clan of their victim - which is fine
for the lucky duskborn, but how will their
new clan mates react? Sure, a Gangrel or