26V: THEORY
Having discussed out of character theories in my main post, in-character theories. I discussed the origins of vampires in Flood, but there are plenty of other unanswered questions out there.
Masquerade has more of these with its ongoing metaplot, while Requiem still has deep mysteries but they don’t rear up anew. (See the deep dive into the Requiem Clanbooks for an example.)
Can vampires be cured?
In Masquerade this came up in the first edition fiction and was a big topic in the original Storytellers Handbook, along with Golconda and other options to fight the curse. It fell by the wayside but never quite went away, and as of V5 Thin-Bloods in particular can cure themselves taking the old method of killing the sire. The adventure for GURPS Vampire: The Masquerade had an NPC trying this with her sire, failing, and moving on to her grandsire, and so on. One of the Time Of Judgment series for the end of Revised, The Red Sign, introduced a complicated magical method. The Gehenna sourcebook is no longer canon, but are the other Time Of Judgment books? Maybe...
In Requiem, the Ordo Dracul are looking into it. The Chronicler’s Guide has a short section on Transcendence chronicles as well, with advice on adjusting the rules to focus on it. The quest to become human is a focus of Promethean: The Created and you could draw ideas from there.
Is the end really upon us?
Every generation thinks the end is upon them. With an ongoing game line Gehenna is off the table again... but it might also be going on right now.
Are Thin-Bloods a sign of the End Times?
If the End Times are here, I suppose they could be.
The ability to go out in daylight, to produce new powers that can in some cases affect other vampires, and to have children, are all pretty scary to older vampires who are used to the weaker generations being less powerful.
I ran with the latter as a plot hook for my first V5 chronicle, with a vampire scientist hunting Thin-Bloods in an attempt to study, steal and gain their power, a reverse of the practice of Diablerie where vampires of weaker generations drain the stronger. I’m not sure it could have worked, but the Thin-Blood player character didn’t want to find out.
There are many more questions out there to answer. Some games don’t really address these matters at all, but even in a night-to-night game of Anarch politics and worrying about finding blood a character might still wonder what it all means and if there’s a way out.
2:14: Children
A vampire from the Church of Caine approaches Alice during an Anarch meeting, seeking her advice. One of his flock is a Thin-Blood, and it seems she might be pregnant.
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