Mind's Eye Theatre - Vampire The Requiem.pdf - RoseRed

Not every covenant is as fully structured as the rest. Indeed, some covenants are local
phenomena or simply too small to merit the elaborate systems that the larger ones have in
place. With Belial’s Brood, however, covenant law is unnecessary because, “Do as thou wilt
shall be the whole of the law.”
A loose confederation of Satanists, demon-worshippers and overt miscreants, Belial’s Brood
claims that the origin of the Damned is literally from Hell itself. Vampires are not their own
unique species, they are “demons” given mortal form or devils who have found passage from
the Pit’s sulfurous depths to the surface of the world. The purpose of the Damned, in the
opinion of this covenant, is to indulge the dark urges that the Beast imparts.
The Brood is truly a hellish faction of Kindred. Members exult in their wickedness, infl icting
pain and misery with no remorse and even less discretion. While Belial’s Brood is about,
buildings burn, mortals die under overturned cars, and shocked victims covered in blood
stagger down streets before collapsing. The Damned should be the Beast incarnate, they
preach. Vampires serve none but the Devil himself!
Belial’s Brood rarely survives long in any given domain. Its behavior is antithetical to the
continued existence of the Kindred, both under literal and interpretative understandings of
the Masquerade, so few Princes suffer its ilk to establish havens or stay in their demesnes.
Even if Princes didn’t rally entire domains against them, members of the Brood would probably
bring their own Final Death about sooner rather than later. Their overt acts and blatant
wickedness tend to earn them the attention of witch-hunters, mortal authorities and other
groups who don’t want the demoniacal murderers threatening them.
The truly remarkable aspect of Belial’s Brood is that, even with all right-thinking Kindred
efforts to stamp them out, the same Satanic ideology survives to take root elsewhere. Belial’s
Brood is seldom sophisticated enough to remain secret or hidden for long, and Princes who
have destroyed cells to their last member are often surprised to see the phenomenon return a
score of years later. The group’s chaotic philosophy is too manic for the covenant to truly have
a center anywhere, but if that’s the case, how does the same sectarian philosophy keep resurfacing
if the covenant’s many enemies are so vigilant in rooting it out and destroying it?
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chapter one: society of the damned
Belial’s Brood