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THE FIRST GENERATION
Caine
Cain/Kanu/Kane/Kaen/Caen/Khayyin/H'kneuw/Kanw etc.
Current Generation: 1st
Embraced Generation: N/A
Date of Birth: Unknown
Date of Embrace: Unknown
Current Status: Unknown
Progeny of: Adam and Eve (He-he-he)
Sex: Male
Sect: N/A
Title: Grand Sire Caine, All Father Caine, ... the Wanderer, ...the Damned etc.
Location: Unknown
History: Biblically the son of Adam and Eve, slayer of Able, brother to Seth. According to The Book
of Nod, he slew his brother in sacrifice to YAVH-Yahweh-Jehovah-Allah-God-etc. And in this act of
sacrifice damned himself and reality. In WoD terms this absolute sacrifice causes The Shattering;
whence reality was split and the planes (Umbra) were separated. When one considers the ancients
such as Caine one must think in Mage terms as according to most of the writings everyone and yes I
mean everyone was Awakened (aka. a Mage) to a degree. So when a Willworker, wills something to
cease existing it does. As no restrictions such as Paradox existed it does soin an absolute fashion.
As if it had never existed. Such was the case with Able.
Additional tales surround the likes of Caine. The genuine Cainite religion believes Caine lays
sleeping deep in the earth for the coming times. And they all claim to be descended from him (yes,
this is true and there is a Cainite religion, it has nothing to do with vampires). In WoD terms this is
not unlikely as Caine himself never died the True Death he could very much be a Living Vampire (or
perhaps Kuei-Jin). His powers were supposedly awakened unto him by Lillith first wife of Adam.
Who depending on how you look at it could be all things as well. In any event the concept of Caine
and Lillith is as Demigods. However in my mind the idea of eternal damnation Caine is supposed to
suffer excludes the concept that Caine could sleep the Long Sleep of the Kindred with any kind of
peace. Therefore he in all likelihood walks among us to this very day.
The Children of Caine... though blasphemous as it may sound Caine is said to hold regency
of two lines that of Kindred and that of Kine. It is also rumored that Caine had a twin sister known as
Calomena. There is also the theory set forth known as the Conspiracy of Caine which states Caine
was not the evil of the two brother but the good and Able was slain as a heroic act. The Undeath is
but a symptom of the blessing of God upon Caine for this act.
When reading theological or game texts in WoD terms keep in mind much is pseudometaphorical
in nature so his children may be both or neither, his child or childe. As is the case with
many whom are sighted as of the Children of Seth only to be embraced into Caine's get. And further
still many are labeled as his childer when they are not, such as the case of Saulot. Who is said to
have been the most favored of Caine's childer. But "All are of Caine" thus they all are of him. The joy
of rhetoric. It is also interesting to note in the line of Seth many of the children have the same or
similar names to those of Caine. In a fashion White Wolf/The World Of Darkness would have you
beleive these children are one in the same. Thus Enoch scion of Seth is also the Sion of Caine.
Caine is said to be master of all the Disciplines and hold the ability to create new powers at
will. Caine is Caine he may do as he wishes. Though in none of the texts does it say Caine knows
any of the clan specific disciplines such as Obtenebration or Necromancy... he holds mastery over
the primary powers alone. Caine is said to have had only three Childer this is wrong, and of course
excludes the supposed mortal children of his. His get include; Enoch who is both in the text his
mortal and his vampiric childe, Zilliah his bride and mother to Enoch depending on what you read,
Irad his other son and biblically son of Enoch, but even this is conflicted.
Those are the ones known. But there are and were others... As books like Kindred of the East
can attest. The Crone is one of his childer. A Mage in life she Blood Bound Caine to become