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

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One “covenant” among the world of the undead has no name. Although this faction comprises
vampires, those beings seem to hate all Kindred who are not part of their mysterious
order, and literally attempt to destroy them on sight. The notion of this group as a covenant
might even be mistaken, as it is unknown whether the group is a true covenant, its own insular
clan or just a particularly zealous cult. “Seven,” the name by which other Kindred recognize
the sect, comes from occasional iconography that its vampires leave behind after particularly
heinous or noteworthy attacks — the Roman numeral seven.
By all accounts, members of Seven are few, and not every city harbors their genocidal population.
What they lack in numbers, however, they make up in fervor and burning hatred of the
Kindred. A few of their organization have been captured by other vampires, and from their
testimonials (most gleaned under pain of torture or through supernatural means), more than
a few shuddersome details arise. Members of Seven reportedly do not suffer the same pangs
of possible frenzy upon seeing other undead for the fi rst time. They can, however, identify
other vampires on sight, as they claim to be able to see “the mark of the Betrayer” upon the
Kindred. Even the artifi cial understanding of the group’s “name” is a murky translation at
best. When asked under supernatural compulsion to speak the truth, these creatures cannot
defi ne what they are, and probes into their minds yield only mental images of the Roman
numeral “VII” or a character from what seems to be an unknown alphabet that the vampire
so questioned cannot properly explain.
Despite the mysteries of their origins and purposes, one thing is certain: Members of Seven
are fanatical in their drive to destroy other vampires. Seven believes it is the lost legacy of a
king who was wronged centuries or even millennia ago, and that its purpose is to destroy the
Damned. Only by removing the taint of the Kindred from the world can they achieve their
“Sabbath,” which they understand as the ability to reclaim that lost kingdom. Details differ.
Some members believe that the kingdom shall emerge from a mystic curse, while others believe
the kingdom is metaphorical, and they are the chosen workers of God’s will to remove
the scourge of the Kindred from the world. Without a doubt, Seven consists of vampires.
Its members consume blood just as other undead do, and the true nature of their fanatical
mission remains unknown.
Whatever the cause of its caustic hate for the Kindred is, Seven isn’t stupid. It knows
that the world at large sees no difference between it and its hated foes, so it practices what
amounts to a Masquerade. It doesn’t blindly leap into confl ict if it feels it would be doomed
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