VtM - WhiteWolf: Genealogy

VtM - WhiteWolf: Lineage -- Ravnos
Ravnos Lineage
This information has been collected by Daniel Guilkey, from the Revised CB and cross referenced it with LS 4, JbN, ...
The Ravnos Ante (who is referred to as Zapathasura) is said to have sired 5 times in the first century or
two of his unlife. The speaker said that there may be more, but that they doubted it because all of the
lineages that they were able to recover traced their roots back to those five.
1. The first was Black Mother. She was often mistaken for Kali, the Hindu goddess of death
destruction and the end of the world. She was a renowned Prophetess and was famous for her
ability to percieve all layers of reality. She later abandoned Zapathasura and his war so he in turn
had her name stricken from all recordings. The Brahman, Phuri Dae, Phaedymite, Sybarite, and
Yoyari jatis are all decended from her.
(this next part - about Black Mother's new identity - was not actually told, I had to piece it
together by cross referencing 2-3 sources. Don't worry about it being wrong, there is no way. If
you want my evidence behind this - including sources - just let me know and I'll mail them too
you)
After Black Mother abandoned Zapathasura, she took the name Marizhavashti Kali "The Ghost"
and waited for the arrival of Alexander the Great in India. Upon Alexander's arrival with his
armies, Marizhavashti (a.k.a. Black Mother) embraced one of his soldiers and told the childe to
"Go West", in which the soilder did and Marizhavashti followed him to Europe and eventually
settled in Gaul.
It turned out that the soilder was actually not a man at all, it was a woman masquerading as a
soldier. The woman's name was Phaedyme (later the founder of the Phaedymites) and she
eventually (after creating her line and all) settled in Gaul with her sire and began looking out for
her.
Marizhavashti developed her power base in Gaul and after the Romans conquered Gaul needed a
way to ensure the continued existance of her control over the mortal affairs in her city. She
embraced a man (who has been said to be everyone from Julius Ceaser - which according to CB
Ventrue revised was NEVER a vampire - to Romulus himself) who was a high member of
Caligula's rome and may have been a confidant of the Emperor.
This man created Progeny and the line became the Sybarites (this took a few decades). It was then
that Chandraputo (another childe of Zapathasura whose explanation I will give below)
deliberately let his teachings filter into Gaul through the Kshatriyas jati (his decendants) in an
attempt to bring some of the "rogue lineages" back into the fold.
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