Bloodlines

Bloodlines are offshoots of the thirteen great clans — lineages that diverged through diablerie, unusual Embrace, supernatural contamination, or deliberate magical creation. They are smaller than true clans, often rare to the point of near-extinction, and frequently regarded with suspicion or curiosity by the Camarilla.

Core V20 Bloodlines

Bloodline	Sect	Disciplines	Weakness Summary
Baali	Independent	Daimoinon, Obfuscate, Presence	Faith objects cause burns; True Faith damage doubled
Blood Brothers	Sabbat	Fortitude, Potence, Sanguinus	Cannot Embrace; circle shares wound penalties
Daughters of Cacophony	Independent/Camarilla	Fortitude, Melpominee, Presence	Constant music in ears; Alertness capped at 3
Gargoyles	Camarilla	Flight, Fortitude, Potence, Visceratika	Appearance 0; easier to mind-control
Harbingers of Skulls	Sabbat	Auspex, Fortitude, Necromancy	Appear as rotting corpses; Appearance 0
Kiasyd	Sabbat/Independent	Dominate, Mytherceria, Obtenebration	Allergy to iron; cold iron = aggravated damage
Nagaraja	Independent	Auspex, Dominate, Necromancy	Must eat flesh; lose Physical dice without it
Salubri	Independent	Auspex, Fortitude, Obeah	Cannot feed on unwilling vessels without Willpower loss
Samedi	Independent	Fortitude, Obfuscate, Thanatosis	Appearance 0; look like rotting corpses
True Brujah	Independent	Potence, Presence, Temporis	Emotional incapacity; Conscience/Conviction at +2 difficulty

Bloodline vs. Clan

Bloodlines differ from clans in several important ways:

They are smaller and may number only dozens or hundreds of vampires worldwide
Their Disciplines are often unique and not shared by any other line
They rarely have the political infrastructure of a true clan
They may be hunted, persecuted, or protected by the major Sects depending on circumstance
Some (Salubri, True Brujah) represent pre-existing clans that were effectively destroyed or supplanted

Unique Disciplines

Several bloodline Disciplines appear nowhere else in Kindred society:

Discipline	Bloodline	Summary
Assamite Sorcery	Assamites (Sorcerer/Vizier castes)	Blood magic paralleling Thaumaturgy; includes Awakening of the Steel path
Bardo	Children of Osiris	Ascetic healer powers — Humanity restoration, sunlight tolerance, torpor ritual
Daimoinon	Baali	Infernal powers — detecting sin, spreading fear, summoning dark forces
Flight	Gargoyles	Physical flight, with capacity scaling by dot
Koldunic Sorcery	Tzimisce	Elemental earth magic (fire, water, wind, earth)
Melpominee	Daughters of Cacophony	Voice as weapon — emotional manipulation, deafness, soul-affecting song
Mytherceria	Kiasyd	Fae-touched powers — lie detection, memory theft, mind-binding riddles
Obeah	Salubri	Healing, pain relief, spiritual insight — the healer’s Discipline
Ogham	Lhiannan	Territorial blood magic — curse-runes, grove consecration, spirit-site tapping
Sanguinus	Blood Brothers	Hive-mind communication and shared physical capability
Spiritus	Ahrimanes	Spirit communion — summoning spirit beasts, animal aspect emulation
Temporis	True Brujah	Actual time manipulation — slowing, stopping, reversing time locally
Thanatosis	Samedi	Decay, disease, and death — rotting flesh, plague, and dissolution
Valeren	Salubri antitribu	Warrior variant of Obeah — pain infliction, phantom armor, auto-hit strike
Visceratika	Gargoyles	Stone-skin, sense through stone, and merger with rock surfaces

The Ten Bloodlines

Full entries for all ten V20 core bloodlines — history, culture, weakness, and play notes.

Bloodline Disciplines

Unique Disciplines exclusive to V20 bloodlines — Assamite Sorcery, Bardo, Daimoinon, Flight, Melpominee, Mytherceria, Obeah, Ogham, Sanguinus, Spiritus, Temporis, Thanatosis, Valeren, and Visceratika.

Thin-Blooded

14th–16th Generation mechanics, Caitiff rules, Dhampirs, and the Blood Rot disease — expanded rules from Beckett's Jyhad Diary.