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chapter two: character
Mekhet
Vampires have always been creatures of the night by design, but none more so than the
dwellers in darkness who compose Clan Mekhet. Darkness is the hallmark of this lineage,
and its members surround themselves with it like a corpse wears a shroud. The hallmarks of
the clan are stealth and wisdom, so it is entirely fi tting that they are associated with darkness
— the better to hide them and the source of the knowledge they exhume.
Clan Mekhet comprises one of the most cosmopolitan memberships among the great families
of the Kindred. Although they compose a clan born of darkness, these Shadows, as they
are known, interpret that darkness in many ways. Some of the clan’s members are masters of
the night, using their gifts and undead powers to make a place for
themselves within the aristocracy of the Damned. Others
are literal skulkers in the shadows, ready to plant a stake
in a rival’s heart or steal the wealth from a rival’s haven.
Still others are poets or painters, heirs to darkness of a
more personal nature. Yet more Mekhet are diviners of
secrets, questing after information itself forgotten and
thus relegated to the darkness of memory. Clan Mekhet
runs the gamut from fi lth-streaked murderers to enlightened
philosopher-Princes and everything in between.
While the clan certainly has coarse members, the Mekhet
are, by and large, marked by a certain degree of fi nesse
with whatever aspect of tenebrous unlife they choose to
pursue. A Mekhet bodyguard, for example, is unlikely
to be a brawling brute, but more likely to know an ornate
fi ghting style. A Mekhet infi ltrator is gracious or
invisible, not a sloppy vandal. A sage or scholar might
have such supernatural acumen that his abilities are
downright oracular instead of merely archival. Mekhet
Kindred very much consider themselves paragons of
the vampiric state, so whatever they do, they devote
themselves to it and refi ne their capacity almost to
the point of second nature.
Nickname: Shadows
Covenant: A great many Mekhet fall in with the
Carthians or the Lancea Sanctum, both of which
have strong traditions of politics and secrecy to
which the Shadows can lend their talents. The
same can be said of the Circle of the Crone,
which typically draws Mekhet by virtue of its
underlying message of redemption and meaning
in the unlives of the Damned. Less philosophical
and more viscerally impassioned Shadows are often
drawn to the ranks of the unaligned, whose ideology
of freedom (or anonymity…) is an easy fi t for the wild