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It looks really cool and I'd love to get into the lore but I'm not sure which bits to look into see a different experience from V5 narratively ^^

Thanks for the ask! In VTR, there are only five core Clans: Ventrue, Gangrel, Nosferatu, (much like the originals but with some changes), Daeva, and Mekhet (amalgamations of some of the archetypes present in Toreador, Brujah, Ministry, Lasombra, Hecata). Each clan has a myriad of potential 'bloodlines' to explore, like sub-clans with a unique discipline.

There are also five Covenants, which are like the Sects in VTM except they're all different facets of the same society and have to interact and coexist more often than, say, the Camarilla and Sabbat. Some are just as diametrically opposed, but on different axes, like the Invictus vs Carthians (status quo/traditional vs change/experimentation), and the Lancea Sanctum vs Circle of the Crone (Abrahamic religions/service to a higher power vs pagan religions/indulgence of the beast), while one, the Ordo Dracul, focuses inwards on honing and improving the vampiric condition through science and discipline.

No more Caine: there are many stories about the potential progenitors of vampires, and only a handful are biblical. Generation is gone and replaced with Blood Potency. No Thinbloods, no Gehenna, no Kuei-jin.

The Mask/Dirge system in VTR 2e: The archetype your kindred present themselves as, vs the archetype they truly embody. Both give you options for recovering willpower and add concrete motivations to fall back on. 1e has its shining moments, but I much prefer this to the Virtue/Vice system it replaced.

The Strix: malicious beings that take the form of owls made of smoke with yellow eyes. A uniting, primordial enemy of all Kindred, bent on their ruin and capable of possession, only hurt by fire and sunlight. More heavily emphasised in 2e.

Blood sorcery: the Tremere are gone, but their spirit lives on in the Lancea Sanctum and Circle of the Crone, who each have their own school of secret rites with which to work wonders beyond what innate disciplines can achieve. Unfortunately their combat viability is somewhat nerfed in 2e.

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Dark Brotherhood Robes

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Three Sisters Sue-Anne Wilson, Nimkii Doyle, Kicks Nation Resources Zagaakwaandagowininiwag Ojibwe, Bear Clan Embraced in 2000, 1960, 1981

Tommy Blackbird, Advisor to the Great Lynx Apache Embraced in 1992

John "Wahiake:ron" Knight, Operative Kanien;keha, Turtle Clan Embraced in 1900

Merrill Longriver, Medicine Man Tábąąhá Diné Embraced in 1980

Atena:ti, Advisor to the Great Lynx, Honored Elder Kanien;keha, Wolf Clan Pre-colonial Embrace, Year Unknown

"All bloods come, the Moonrise Nation will have you."

- Mishibijiw, The Great Lynx

Not enough ndn rep in the WoD or VtM settings so here!!!

Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley

Radovan Karadžić, former president and convicted war criminal, January 1992

"The Muslims have to be expelled so that we can map out our borders and then clear out our house."

Vojislav Šešelj, former deputy prime minister and convicted war criminal, taken from a speech in Mali Zvornik, May 1992

"You don't understand. This is a holy war. We 'Christians' must kill all the Muslims. We cannot live together. They must die. All of them. Even the babies."

Serb soldier to a UN peacekeeper in Srebrenica, July 1995

"It was genetically deformed material that embraced Islam. And now, of course, with each successive generation this gene simply becomes concentrated. It gets worse and worse. It simply expresses itself and dictates their style of thinking and behaving, which is rooted in their genes."