Bloody Hearts: Diablerie Britain is a supplement for Vampire: The Masquerade about the dangers that await those who wish to commit the forbidden art of diablerie in Great Britain, as well as the secrets of an ancient demon that sleeps.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- Absolute Power Can Corrupt
- The thirst for the most powerful blood can drive any vampire mad with desire. Its taste, bouquet, smell, and texture are like nothing else the Kindred can experience. The feeling of it as it flows past undead lips is exquisite beyond belief. And the power it provides...
- Even Those Already Corrupted
- But its consumption destroys the predator as surely as the prey. The very soul of the victim is taken in the act and, as the victim dies, so does the Diablerist. None can take so completely without paying the price. None can first feel absolute power without first knowing absolute horror.
- Diablerie Britain includes:
- information on Justicars and the horrific punishments they inflict upon vampires who would dare commit diablerie upon their Kindred;
- a look at Gehenna and the role Diabolists play in its coming; and
- a deadly journey for power through a horrific barrow designed by one of the most evil vampires in history.
Contents[]
Chapter One: Introduction[]
This chapter introduces the position of the Justicar. It gives an overview of their punishments, methods, and whether they hold court or not. This chapter also introduces Madame Guil, the Toreador Justicar and her Archons in the early 1990s. Finally this chapter gives insight into running a Justicar chronicle.
- Cloak of Blood - Ritual, Level One
- True Sight - Ritual
Chapter Two: The Story of Tiamat[]
This is the story of the Ventrue now known as Tiamat. A monster who holds to her blossomed a worst monster.
Chapter Three: The Evil Beckons[]
The story of Sword of Nul and how it ends up in the player's hands with those who wish to take it from the players.
Chapter Four: The Barrow[]
This chapter describes Tiamat's sleeping place and the traps within to discourage would-be diablerists.
- The Wolf - Animated Lupine Skeleton, Stats
- The Zombies - Stats
- Fleshy Creatures - Stats
- Gargoyles - Stats
Appendix: Notes on the Jyhad[]
This is a brief chapter on Das Buch von der Grabkrieg which concerns Gehenna as translated by Tremere scholar Dr. Mortius.
Background Information[]
- Ads at the back of the book include: Wraith (Summer 1994) and White Wolf Magazine (Join the Pack!).
- Word from the White Wolf Studio mentions the introduction of the White Wolf Connect BBS. It would have product information, announcements, discussion areas, conferences and more than 72,000 files for downloading. It would also be the hub BBS for Blood Pit.
- A note at the front of the page mentions this, "Would the anonymous Virginia driver from Real Stories of the Highway Patrol please contact Andrew Greenberg at White Wolf."
Memorable Quotes[]
Gigantic Daughter of the West
We drink to thee across the flood...
For art thou not of British blood?
— Lord Alfred Tennyson, "Hands All Round"
Dreams of war, dreams of liars
Dreams of dragon's fire
And of things that will bite.
— Metallica, "Enter Sandman"
At last! The clear trail of the man. After it, silent but it tracks his guilt to light. He's wounded – go for the faun, my hounds, the splash of the blood, hunt him, rake him down.
— Aeschylus, The Eumenides
I'm the evil in the Bible,
go to church but never pray
I'm a sister with a habit,
a preacher never saved.
- Lynch Mob , "No Good"
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton , Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton
Nor to slumber, nor to die,
Shall be in thy destiny;
Though thy death shall still seem near
To thy wish, but as a fear.
- Lord Byron, Manfred
When the lamb opened the seventh seal, silence covered the sky.
- Enigma, "A.D. MCMXC"
Characters[]
- Malkavian
- Antoine - thief of the Sword of Nul
- Morel - Antonie's Sire
- Kalila, the Firebug - a member of Antoine's coterie
- Antoine - thief of the Sword of Nul
- Toreador
- Madame Guil - Justicar
- Baron Volgirre - Guil's Sire
- Gunther - Justicar prior to Madame Guil, mysteriously disappeared
- Masdela, the Spy - Archon
- Elonzo - Masdela's Sire
- Ransam, the Old One - a member of Antoine's coterie
- Juliette Dulai - Ransam's Sire
- Michael Unther, the Perfectionist - Archon
- Madame Guil - Justicar
- Tremere
- Mortius - Tremere Scholar
- Frank Weisshadel, would-be sorcerer
- O'Meara - Frank Weisshadel's Sire
- Ventrue
- Gotsdam, childe of Tiamat
- Randel, The Cowardly Leader - a member of Antoine's coterie (Ventrue antitribu)
- Salondra - Randel's Sire
- Tiamat - an undead mad creature of nightmares
- Arakur of Ur - Tiamat's Sire
- Other
- Drakonskyr - the demon that sleeps within Tiamat
- Pierre Gedou, the Killer - Madame Guil's hatchetman and ghoul
- Francois Villon
- Urlon of Uruk
- Lady Anne
Terminology[]
Archon, Austria, Baghdad, Barrow, Book of the Grave-War (Das Buch von der Grabkrieg), Book of Nod, Britain, Carthage, Diablerie, Drakonskyr's Domain, Edinburgh, England, Gehenna (event), Jerusalem, Justicar, London, Lupine, Rome, Scotland, Sword of Nul, Torpor, Vienna, Ziggurat,
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