My face looks like it's been smashed with a clothes-iron and a lot of my friends wear too much eye-shadow and smoke clove cigarettes and our town is just lovely.
The fun thing about the Lasombra is they are the clan in my mind that shows how disciplines actively dehumanize you. Obtenebration aside, potence and dominate alone is just encouraging you to be a bully, not treat anyone as a peer or equal. After all why treat anyone or anything as a peer if it’s mind and body is so easily broken.
Lasombra induces such nostalgia in me. I think they were my favorite clan, along the Assamites, when I started with VtM just because of their look and feel. I was such an edgy teenager that it is hilarious to think about it now, although my Lasombra love persists. By the way, as a note on the video, the introduction skipped here the hilarious split of the Lasombra during the Modern Nights when basically half of them went back to the Camarilla as a next level power move.
I relate very hard as someone who also was an edgy teen. I love the Raven Guard for a reason... Also yeah lmao I did leave out the small Sabbat schism. I'm pretty sure it was literally because one dude killed all of the Sabbat in his domain and declared himself Camarilla? Just because he wanted to do fun politics vs managing Vampire terrorism. Based of him. But idk if I'm conflaiting a single act to the cause vs one of many Lasombra doing that kinda power move at the same time.
@@glueboy It's weird. Like it was a single dude who did that, the Cardinal of Milan, but when I checked the lore entries, there it is presented as essentially he took half of the Lasombra with him. It is by the way fun, and somewhat tragic, to realize that even with all that ambiguity in the Vampires setting, it is still somehow more coherent than WH40K.
@toniviskari417 Incredibly coherent until you start combining the other games together lol. I'm a WoD purist at heart, liking to consider everything as true and connected. But shit falls apart if you do that. It's why they recommend not doing that in the source books lmao.
I'm a firm believer that if you like Warhammer you will like Vampire the Masquerade! They have a incredibly similar appeal and vibe, just different settings.
I got videos on it and sometime soon I'll be sharing a good primer for the lore! If you like the lore too I recommend watching BurgerKrieg's videos on it and the other games in the same setting. They're real fun long videos to listen too.
The Lasombra connection with the seas never made sense to me until somebody compared being enveloped in their shadow to being sunk into the deepest part of the ocean and then it clicked.
![[Vampire: The Masquerade] The Guide to Clan Lasombra](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/miE5B4hCmOY/mqdefault.jpg)
If the Nosferatu and Lasombra in your city are friendly with each other, find a new city.
My face looks like it's been smashed with a clothes-iron and a lot of my friends wear too much eye-shadow and smoke clove cigarettes and our town is just lovely.
The fun thing about the Lasombra is they are the clan in my mind that shows how disciplines actively dehumanize you. Obtenebration aside, potence and dominate alone is just encouraging you to be a bully, not treat anyone as a peer or equal. After all why treat anyone or anything as a peer if it’s mind and body is so easily broken.
Their compulsion having them need to be dominant over all things + a kit that lets them do that physically or mentally? Recipe for an evil clan lmao
Lasombra induces such nostalgia in me. I think they were my favorite clan, along the Assamites, when I started with VtM just because of their look and feel. I was such an edgy teenager that it is hilarious to think about it now, although my Lasombra love persists.
By the way, as a note on the video, the introduction skipped here the hilarious split of the Lasombra during the Modern Nights when basically half of them went back to the Camarilla as a next level power move.
I relate very hard as someone who also was an edgy teen. I love the Raven Guard for a reason... Also yeah lmao I did leave out the small Sabbat schism. I'm pretty sure it was literally because one dude killed all of the Sabbat in his domain and declared himself Camarilla? Just because he wanted to do fun politics vs managing Vampire terrorism. Based of him. But idk if I'm conflaiting a single act to the cause vs one of many Lasombra doing that kinda power move at the same time.
@@glueboy It's weird. Like it was a single dude who did that, the Cardinal of Milan, but when I checked the lore entries, there it is presented as essentially he took half of the Lasombra with him.
It is by the way fun, and somewhat tragic, to realize that even with all that ambiguity in the Vampires setting, it is still somehow more coherent than WH40K.
@toniviskari417 Incredibly coherent until you start combining the other games together lol. I'm a WoD purist at heart, liking to consider everything as true and connected. But shit falls apart if you do that. It's why they recommend not doing that in the source books lmao.
@@glueboy I do not know how one could even suggest that Vampire and Werewolf mythologies are incompatible.
@toniviskari417 More so the Mage lore that causes most problems lmao.
let's goooooo! Clan Ventrue is they were fucking cool is here!
I know nothing about vampire the masquerade but if EpoxyLad talks about it ill watch it.
I'm a firm believer that if you like Warhammer you will like Vampire the Masquerade! They have a incredibly similar appeal and vibe, just different settings.
Interesting, I'll have to look into it.
I got videos on it and sometime soon I'll be sharing a good primer for the lore! If you like the lore too I recommend watching BurgerKrieg's videos on it and the other games in the same setting. They're real fun long videos to listen too.
The Lasombra connection with the seas never made sense to me until somebody compared being enveloped in their shadow to being sunk into the deepest part of the ocean and then it clicked.