#i talks

Now I don’t wanna say I manifested it, but I did draw him today and when I came back there was a new vid…

Yooo! Thank you for the questions!

The Moonrise Nation is my pet project of fan-made content for the VtM setting. It's a collective of Kindred with native heritage that have banded together to pursue similar ideals, such as:

the rematriation of land to the rightful indigenous tribes

preservation of culture, customs, and traditions (the oldest members of the Nation are pre-colonial and just remember the old way)

the exploration of what roles Kindred are capable of playing in the wider indigenous community over time. (You could say their ultimate end goal is very Carthaginian in form.)

The whole thing is meant to be an exploration of how native Kindred might interact with their mortal lineage and history if they were given the opportunity to join a whole sect of similar minded monsters. In this case, the Moonrise Nation attracts those Kindred who still feel those powerful familial ties to their people, even if their condition might force them to be separate.

The Nation was officially founded and monikered by Casey Marc-Cassidy, a Tyendinaga Brujah, Beadmaker, an Ojibwe Malkavian Elder, and John Wahiake:ron Knight, an Akwesasne Nosferatu. But the sect is headed by the mythic figure of the Great Lynx, Mishipeshu - a Kindred that crawled up from torpor at the bottom of Lake Superior and into a whole brand new modern world of mess.

The Lynx is super unfriendly to outsiders, but for the most part never has to deal with them directly on account of the Nation is pretty intent on keeping the mythic being™ safe and far away from visitors. The same goes for all the additional "ancients" who were Embraced before colonialization officially kicked off.

On the whole, though, the Moonrise isn't using overt aggression against peaceful outsiders, and most of the Kindred are under the age of 100 so they're pretty familiar with the general social conventions. The Nation keeps its own territory secure and will defend itself as necessary, but we're not at the stage where we can open war on the Camarilla... yet.

When I say my aesthetic is dark academia I don’t mean “I glorify the stars because they’re so bright yet so out of reach like my love is”