Sad to see that this glorious channel has not uploaded anything in half a year. Worse, I seem to have finished the entire video catalog. I do hope you are well, Lazar, and will one day grace us with your tales yet again. I wish you mirthful winter holidays, from Transylvania. More on topic: This is why good parenting is important, especially if you happen to be Garou, doubly so if for some ungaialy reason, you've kept the family name 'Hate' instead of doing the smart thing and changing it to something that isn't going to inevitably jinx your lineage.
I found out yesterday that in 1988 George RR Martin wrote a story about someone who gained werewolf status by skinning a werewolf and dawning its pelt. The antagonist was even called the Skinner! I haven’t read it yet, but I bet it was a source of inspiration for our guys and gals at White Wolf
In ancient lore, the werewolf often had a wolf pelt they donned to transform. So that's not the novel an idea - although of course it doesn't work that way in WTA.
@@Giles29That’s true! In a GURPS game, I played a hedge wizard with a magic bear skin that I could use to transform into a bear. That’s something I love about the World of Darkness and George Martin: they are well read individuals who can bring amazing ideas from the past back to life again!
@@Giles29 Older tales have the wolf return to normal once they put on their human clothes. Even older ones don't feature any sort of switch, just one permanent transformation.
Your vids are easily the best on WoD as a whole and are so great for learning about the setting, I wish I could do something to support you because you def deserve it
Amazing video, as always. The story of Samuel Haight starts as a pitiable one, he worked so hard but never got a break. But he could never let his grudge against his Garou kin go and let it poison his life. He's a perfect example of a villian who sees himself as the hero of his own story. Perhaps the wyrm had its eye on him from a young age and hoped to create a being that could become its true vessel. I played in a game where we unknowingly crossed paths with the man himself. When our storyteller told us who it had been we were shocked. It was a hunter game and we had been celebrating a vampire hunt gone well. The vamps had been chased out of their usual territory by an unknown element and we managed to take a majority of them down with only a few escaping. Then a mysterious stranger (aka Sam), walked in and sat down at our table. He quickly insinuated that he was in the know and thanked us for taking care of some of the vampires he'd missed. After a few rounds on him and a good time had by all we parted ways. When we figured out who it was we realized he'd been hunting the vampires to keep uo his vitae supply. Ever since he's been one of my favorite meta plot characters in WOD history.
In character, we asked around, and a contact if ours who we didn't know was a kinfolk went pale as a sheet and told us to stay the hell away from him. The next week we saw a news report that a cabin outside the city had been blown up with military grade explosives. No doubt he got accosted by some Garou, and he fought them off.
Samuel Haight was really an interesting character in the early releases, I hated to see what they did to him with later publications, until I was finally thankful that he got made into an ashtray. Always nice to see a new video here.
@@roberthaynes9924 He was a joke later on, but in the beginning he just started out as a kinfolk who learned a ritual to become Garou and who did it because of all the abuse he suffered.
Sam Haight had a different ending in the campaign I was in. It was a mixed campaign of Garou, Kindred, and a Mage. Haight heard about our groups activities, our Mage was in a conflict with the Technocracy and had enlisted several "favors" from different powerful entities to deal with some jobs. Haight had the bad luck of tracking down the "abomination" in our group first, which was my character. Haight ended up in pieces, because I had been intentionally not using full powers to keep the jobs as quiet as possible. Weapons and body armor, instead of claws and brute strength. I was playing an Abomination created by Odin, as his Fenris. A 6th Gen Gangrel whose embrace happened the same night as his Garou nature expressed itself. He used Protean to maintain a Kindred form and stuck with weapons as his tools. Haight ambushed a 5'6" Gangrel in a dark alley, and chased the retreating Vamp into an abandoned building after wounding him with several guns shots. Haight then ended up in a fist fight, inside a dark building with a 7' tall, 600lb monster, with Celerity 5, Fortitude 5, and Potence 8...with very large claws and...Obfuscate 3. Oops, his high skills weren't enough to handle the Fenris of Odin. Can't "dodge" getting limbs ripped off by an invisible monster that can deadlift a cement mixer.
Nice one. In my campaign, it was our werewolf pack who finally did him in. It was my first time ever playing TTRPG and my character (that crazy bastard) a Huge Albino Metis from the Get of Fenris with 9 Rage (yes I was an idiot and I had to fix that later) got into such a fucking rage he started to Coyote and Roadrunner the other members of the pack. They just aimed my character to Haight and my character ripped his head off like it was nothing. Had it not been that the Sept REALLY wanted that head my character would have kept it forever as a memento. (I didnt even knew IRL how much of a pain this guy was but it was really funny when I found out about his whole story).
Meh don't care about AI art personally especially if it helps get the uploads or results quicker when you can't do it yourself. Just glad there's more longform WoD/CoD content made here. Enjoyed the video, could we get one on the Paths for Vampire? Humanity, evil revelations etc.
So admittedly there's a module for WoD that is a buch of Skindancers trying to resurrect Sam, and genuinely a fun little tidbit. But as someone who has both played and ST'd, Sam is much better as a character that lives "in the background." The PCs never run into him, they never deal with him, etc and he just adds flavor to the world. The second he shows up, he's a problem
I ran a similar story for Halloween one time; a son of Sam Haight kidnapped a Giovanni to create a new body for Sam and to get his soul back. It ended with them fighting a pack of Skindancers and Frankenstein’s Monster Sam Haight…. …and then it turned out the whole thing was the back playing Lycanthrope: the Rapture.
Honestly I expected a twist. Like Sam actually being spiritually guided without knowing it by Mahsstrac, the Urge of Power. And in the end becoming its avatar enslaved by his own immense hubris. No longer Sam.. But still a considerable threat who now has all his knowledge plus its own.
This might me a bit off topic, but once again - a stellar choice for the background music. Never thought I'd hear the original RE3 soundtrack in a WoD lore video. Took me a while to even figure out what exactly I was hearing, since it's been ages when I last played the game. Cheers 🥂.
I've been watching your stuff for 3 or 4 years now your Mage video is my favorite but I've got to say when you focus on modules like the carnival or you know Sam hate or even the first cabal you really really shine
Just wanna say thanks. You have been a great source of lore for my own world of darkness games, especially since I’m trying to make one cohesive setting with all of the books.
Everyone's favorite ashtray. Listening to his background properly detailed tho makes me mad he didn't get a better treatment by the writers though. What the hell made him go to petra
You should do Agent Courage if you haven't already, I'd live to hear you talk about him. His existence is so funny to me, especially the fact that he keeps defecting from the technocrats and they seem to love him for it
Ah, the skinner His clear power gamer archetype aside, I find this character to be a vary compelling one as a disgruntled kinfolk. Ever since, i found out about the Skin Dancers ive felt they really needed to have a larger part of the games story where all the Garou needed to be on the lookout for them. The Black Spirals ending up producing a large quantity of skin dancers for the reasons, as you mentioned in how they treat their Kinfolk
Ultimately, I believe if they just stuck with the werewolf stuff and not the other game lines. Beyond maybe interacting with some other supernaturals for information. He’d be fun antagonist character
Yes. When Haight used it, he used skins from three Garou in Lupus form. Presumably, it doesn't matter what form the Garou is in when its skin is taken, homid, Lupus, or crinos.
@@lazarofstygia2241 ye, you just need the pelt and it has to be performed on the auspice moon of the garou you slew. Imagine having to skin 5 ahrouns who all *start* with 5 rage points.
Your character analysis at the end was insightful I would say. It’s a shame when a character is reduced to a plot device. Especially when the plot makes no sense.
The Idea o the Skin Dancers is cool, I hope it didn't die with Sam, maybe he left some documents on how to do the ritual in the care of his right hand "man"!
Wasn't there a Mage book set during the apocalypse, where a character is stood in front of a portal to the underworld that's spewing out random stuff, and get smacked in the face with an ash tray?
Have you ever thought of running a Vampire game over discord or something, Lazar? With your deep lore knowledge, I bet you'd be fantastic at it! I'd kill to play in a game ran by you!
Holy shit the mad lad did it! I remember you talking about fucking Samuel in a video and actually wondered if you were going to talk about him. Keep up the great work, well done.
When i first read Chaos Factor i was like who the hell is this Samuel guy. I love how his whole thing is being an absurd power fantasy edgelord. Dude has spurned Vamps, Garou, somehow easily kills Mages etc.
I could really use your encyclopedua like knowledge. I have a question about some lore from the VtM universe and cannot find the answer anywhere. Obi Wan, you are my only hope. Can you or would you try to help me? Please?
It's weird, some parts of Sam's story (like rescuing his ex's son) are really cool imo, and fit pretty well in greater WoD, but others (like the El Dorado plot) are really silly to me. Sam could be such a cool antagonist if they leaned more into his more serious aspects! I've never really been able to get into WtA as much as VtM (or even Mummy since I've been reading up on it after see the lore video), maybe it's just me, but the very blunt themes and how downright stupid garou can be (along with some gross implication about their "behaviour"), really puts me off of it, which is a shame since when it's handled more like other games, it can be pretty cool!
I've been pretty critical of old WoD writing, and Haight is a perfect example. Guy starts out as a joke on the type of player that's fixated on power over character. They literally bend the established lore of several settings to accommodate his rise to power. Throughout the history of WoD they've written multiple characters that aren't as compelling as they think they are. Somehow the joke is interesting and compelling. Lots of named Werewolf characters aren't interesting. Lots of Vampire big bads, boring with delusions of their Machiavellian capabilities. Mages, don't get me started. Haight, a laugh about agro power players that barely are able to validate their gains ... unwarranted levels of nifty. It boggles the mind. Also, he was a sick Rage card.
Storyteller: Ok, do you have the backstory for your level one character yet?
Player: Sure do! Ok, so his name is Sam....
Keep that levelled crap in the D&D pen.
Remember you mentioning that this guy deserved his own video way back, great stuff.
I was literally listening to that video a few hours ago at work and I get home and this is what I see
Well worth the wait
Yeah almost 4 years ago in the Bali video
Sad to see that this glorious channel has not uploaded anything in half a year. Worse, I seem to have finished the entire video catalog. I do hope you are well, Lazar, and will one day grace us with your tales yet again.
I wish you mirthful winter holidays, from Transylvania.
More on topic: This is why good parenting is important, especially if you happen to be Garou, doubly so if for some ungaialy reason, you've kept the family name 'Hate' instead of doing the smart thing and changing it to something that isn't going to inevitably jinx your lineage.
God I love this channel. No nonsense no excessive fluff, just the raw stories.
(Could you make a video on the Cult of Ecstasy?)
Lazar, you are a Godsend. Stuck in an airport overnight, now I've got some entertainment at least. God Bless you and your impeccable timing.
I legit thought you quit the channel it's so good to see you post
I hope the holidays have treated you well, Lazar! Truly the Sleep of Ages is a phenomenon to be feared.
Sam Haight was basically Garth Ennis' Punisher and I ****ing LOVED it.
Bro I waited 3 years I'm so happy this came out.
And well worthy the wait!!
I'm SO hype! I've purposefully avoided reading up on Samuel Haight, figuring you'd make a video on him.
The video, the pictures, the lore, the voice, etc. Everything is perfect. Best WoD content creator. Period.
Oh heck yeah! Missed the uploads! Gonna listen right now!
Ughgghhhh ive been dying for your videos. Thank you for all the hard work
you are the best WOD channel for real
I found out yesterday that in 1988 George RR Martin wrote a story about someone who gained werewolf status by skinning a werewolf and dawning its pelt. The antagonist was even called the Skinner! I haven’t read it yet, but I bet it was a source of inspiration for our guys and gals at White Wolf
In ancient lore, the werewolf often had a wolf pelt they donned to transform. So that's not the novel an idea - although of course it doesn't work that way in WTA.
@@Giles29That’s true! In a GURPS game, I played a hedge wizard with a magic bear skin that I could use to transform into a bear. That’s something I love about the World of Darkness and George Martin: they are well read individuals who can bring amazing ideas from the past back to life again!
@@Giles29 Older tales have the wolf return to normal once they put on their human clothes. Even older ones don't feature any sort of switch, just one permanent transformation.
Your vids are easily the best on WoD as a whole and are so great for learning about the setting, I wish I could do something to support you because you def deserve it
Miss this channel, nnnnguy was the Ken Burns of World of Darkness lore.
i was not expecting that matt cardona joke, great stuff as always!
Amazing video, as always. The story of Samuel Haight starts as a pitiable one, he worked so hard but never got a break. But he could never let his grudge against his Garou kin go and let it poison his life. He's a perfect example of a villian who sees himself as the hero of his own story. Perhaps the wyrm had its eye on him from a young age and hoped to create a being that could become its true vessel. I played in a game where we unknowingly crossed paths with the man himself. When our storyteller told us who it had been we were shocked. It was a hunter game and we had been celebrating a vampire hunt gone well. The vamps had been chased out of their usual territory by an unknown element and we managed to take a majority of them down with only a few escaping.
Then a mysterious stranger (aka Sam), walked in and sat down at our table. He quickly insinuated that he was in the know and thanked us for taking care of some of the vampires he'd missed. After a few rounds on him and a good time had by all we parted ways.
When we figured out who it was we realized he'd been hunting the vampires to keep uo his vitae supply. Ever since he's been one of my favorite meta plot characters in WOD history.
Love that just a unknown brush with death. If someone said the wrong thing oopies.
In character, we asked around, and a contact if ours who we didn't know was a kinfolk went pale as a sheet and told us to stay the hell away from him. The next week we saw a news report that a cabin outside the city had been blown up with military grade explosives. No doubt he got accosted by some Garou, and he fought them off.
Quickest I’ve ever found one of your videos. Thanks for this, I don’t think anyone has posted this much lore of this guy on TH-cam.
Samuel Haight was really an interesting character in the early releases, I hated to see what they did to him with later publications, until I was finally thankful that he got made into an ashtray.
Always nice to see a new video here.
Always thought he was too over the top. Reminded me of a Dungeons and dragons character.
@@roberthaynes9924 He was a joke later on, but in the beginning he just started out as a kinfolk who learned a ritual to become Garou and who did it because of all the abuse he suffered.
Welcome back Lazar!
Good to be back.
I'm glad you still do videos bro. Always a pleasure
Sam Haight had a different ending in the campaign I was in. It was a mixed campaign of Garou, Kindred, and a Mage.
Haight heard about our groups activities, our Mage was in a conflict with the Technocracy and had enlisted several "favors" from different powerful entities to deal with some jobs.
Haight had the bad luck of tracking down the "abomination" in our group first, which was my character.
Haight ended up in pieces, because I had been intentionally not using full powers to keep the jobs as quiet as possible. Weapons and body armor, instead of claws and brute strength.
I was playing an Abomination created by Odin, as his Fenris. A 6th Gen Gangrel whose embrace happened the same night as his Garou nature expressed itself. He used Protean to maintain a Kindred form and stuck with weapons as his tools.
Haight ambushed a 5'6" Gangrel in a dark alley, and chased the retreating Vamp into an abandoned building after wounding him with several guns shots.
Haight then ended up in a fist fight, inside a dark building with a 7' tall, 600lb monster, with Celerity 5, Fortitude 5, and Potence 8...with very large claws and...Obfuscate 3.
Oops, his high skills weren't enough to handle the Fenris of Odin. Can't "dodge" getting limbs ripped off by an invisible monster that can deadlift a cement mixer.
Nice one. In my campaign, it was our werewolf pack who finally did him in. It was my first time ever playing TTRPG and my character (that crazy bastard) a Huge Albino Metis from the Get of Fenris with 9 Rage (yes I was an idiot and I had to fix that later) got into such a fucking rage he started to Coyote and Roadrunner the other members of the pack.
They just aimed my character to Haight and my character ripped his head off like it was nothing. Had it not been that the Sept REALLY wanted that head my character would have kept it forever as a memento. (I didnt even knew IRL how much of a pain this guy was but it was really funny when I found out about his whole story).
I was waiting for this one! And I commented on a lot of videos asking about him, I really pestered you
You're a legend bro, keep em coming and I will keep listening!
Hey man, good to hear from you.
Thanks.
Good to see you're still around and making content.
Meh don't care about AI art personally especially if it helps get the uploads or results quicker when you can't do it yourself. Just glad there's more longform WoD/CoD content made here. Enjoyed the video, could we get one on the Paths for Vampire? Humanity, evil revelations etc.
no, fuck AI images.
@RaionOwO surprised you have the time and stamina, there's a lot out there
So admittedly there's a module for WoD that is a buch of Skindancers trying to resurrect Sam, and genuinely a fun little tidbit. But as someone who has both played and ST'd, Sam is much better as a character that lives "in the background." The PCs never run into him, they never deal with him, etc and he just adds flavor to the world. The second he shows up, he's a problem
I ran a similar story for Halloween one time; a son of Sam Haight kidnapped a Giovanni to create a new body for Sam and to get his soul back. It ended with them fighting a pack of Skindancers and Frankenstein’s Monster Sam Haight….
…and then it turned out the whole thing was the back playing Lycanthrope: the Rapture.
he's returned! the promised one
Lazar the Legend posts again! Welcome back, we missed you!
So glad you are back!
Thank you for continuing to document the beautiful amazing Lore of WoD.
Honestly I expected a twist.
Like Sam actually being spiritually guided without knowing it by Mahsstrac, the Urge of Power.
And in the end becoming its avatar enslaved by his own immense hubris.
No longer Sam.. But still a considerable threat who now has all his knowledge plus its own.
This might me a bit off topic, but once again - a stellar choice for the background music. Never thought I'd hear the original RE3 soundtrack in a WoD lore video. Took me a while to even figure out what exactly I was hearing, since it's been ages when I last played the game. Cheers 🥂.
Final!!!!!!!
Thank you!! I waiting for age for it! And well deserved waiting! Thank you!
Love these vids. Your enjoyment is contagious
Glad to hear it!
These videos are so much fun to listen to. Keep up the good work dude
Absolutely love your videos, and this character deep dive is something I'd love to see more of.
I was waiting for this one.
I've been watching your stuff for 3 or 4 years now your Mage video is my favorite but I've got to say when you focus on modules like the carnival or you know Sam hate or even the first cabal you really really shine
It's always great to see more from the best WoD channel.
Just wanna say thanks. You have been a great source of lore for my own world of darkness games, especially since I’m trying to make one cohesive setting with all of the books.
yaaaay you're back!!
Everyone's favorite ashtray.
Listening to his background properly detailed tho makes me mad he didn't get a better treatment by the writers though.
What the hell made him go to petra
Failure to correctly read the ancient scrolls in the vampire temple.
Many such cases.
Very sad.
You should do Agent Courage if you haven't already, I'd live to hear you talk about him. His existence is so funny to me, especially the fact that he keeps defecting from the technocrats and they seem to love him for it
Good to hear Lazar again
Love your videos. Your work helps a lot with learning the lore. Appreciate what you do and look forward to more.
You back, please make more Chronicle or Darkness video.
i waited so long to see it happen. FINALLY
Nice work on Samuel Haight, my friend! And welcome back, btw. Also, can you make a video lore on the White Howlers, please?
Ah, the skinner
His clear power gamer archetype aside, I find this character to be a vary compelling one as a disgruntled kinfolk.
Ever since, i found out about the Skin Dancers ive felt they really needed to have a larger part of the games story where all the Garou needed to be on the lookout for them. The Black Spirals ending up producing a large quantity of skin dancers for the reasons, as you mentioned in how they treat their Kinfolk
He can't keep getting away with it!
love the vtm content man, please do them more often
5:30 What, he's a murderer all of a sudden for no reason? Well that escalated quickly :)
Welcome back!
Ultimately, I believe if they just stuck with the werewolf stuff and not the other game lines. Beyond maybe interacting with some other supernaturals for information. He’d be fun antagonist character
If you want to do cross-over games, I recommend Chronicles of Darkness 2e my group has had really good zoo games out of that.
Please do chaos factor someday
Ah yes, the forbidden path of the Power Gamer.
I crave this long form stuff
Great work. More videos please!
The "skinning werewolves" thing always confuses me, because they turn back into either their human or standard wolf forms when they die don't they?
Yes. When Haight used it, he used skins from three Garou in Lupus form. Presumably, it doesn't matter what form the Garou is in when its skin is taken, homid, Lupus, or crinos.
@@lazarofstygia2241 ye, you just need the pelt and it has to be performed on the auspice moon of the garou you slew.
Imagine having to skin 5 ahrouns who all *start* with 5 rage points.
Great video!
Your character analysis at the end was insightful I would say. It’s a shame when a character is reduced to a plot device. Especially when the plot makes no sense.
„He can’t keep getting away with it!“
The Idea o the Skin Dancers is cool, I hope it didn't die with Sam, maybe he left some documents on how to do the ritual in the care of his right hand "man"!
It didn't there are a small tribe of them
Ya gotta admire that in a world of God level monsters and otherworldly magics what one man can accomplish with cunning charisma and knowledge
And copious amounts of plot armor.
@@roberthaynes9924 it never hurts to have heavy plot armor just to cover one's ass
So does Gabriel Whieght ever come up again
Yes, he is one of the main characters of the Werewolf novel Hell-Storm.
@@lazarofstygia2241 oh glad to hear it
Wasn't there a Mage book set during the apocalypse, where a character is stood in front of a portal to the underworld that's spewing out random stuff, and get smacked in the face with an ash tray?
There was some cut content in one of the Time of Judgement books where someone saw, or get smacked by, the Skinner-tray.
Will you do more character lore videos?
White Wolf: "all of our game systems can be played together."
Power gamers: "Bet!"
Have you ever thought of running a Vampire game over discord or something, Lazar? With your deep lore knowledge, I bet you'd be fantastic at it! I'd kill to play in a game ran by you!
Holy shit the mad lad did it! I remember you talking about fucking Samuel in a video and actually wondered if you were going to talk about him.
Keep up the great work, well done.
It was about the Baali Methuselah. Aka the one with character sheet that like an anti-diluvian in power!
@@skeletonking4119 Shout out to my boy Huitzilopochtli
Finally!! Been waiting to hear about this weirdo Gary Sue lol. Good to see you back Lazar.
"How far are you willing to go?" "Too far"
When i first read Chaos Factor i was like who the hell is this Samuel guy. I love how his whole thing is being an absurd power fantasy edgelord. Dude has spurned Vamps, Garou, somehow easily kills Mages etc.
Aye nice!
I missed your content
and now he is a very, VERY angry ashtray.
Did he ever laugh while twirling his mustache?
Yes, but not when anyone was watching.
Wait, was he a 7th son of a 7th son also? This is why you’re only allowed to taken7 points of flaws.
Dude, are you using text prompting for background images :/
Some of them, yes.
The greatest story ever told
I could really use your encyclopedua like knowledge. I have a question about some lore from the VtM universe and cannot find the answer anywhere.
Obi Wan, you are my only hope. Can you or would you try to help me? Please?
Sam Haight. What is he?
Whitewolf:What do you want him to be?
44:30 HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAH !! DMD I LOVE IT IN DMC3!
It would have been even more 90s if they named him Max Haight 😄
was wondering when the video on sam hyde would come out
Pffft...
Ahh yes, the ultimate WoD munchkin! His lore entertained me so much when I first read it.
It's weird, some parts of Sam's story (like rescuing his ex's son) are really cool imo, and fit pretty well in greater WoD, but others (like the El Dorado plot) are really silly to me. Sam could be such a cool antagonist if they leaned more into his more serious aspects!
I've never really been able to get into WtA as much as VtM (or even Mummy since I've been reading up on it after see the lore video), maybe it's just me, but the very blunt themes and how downright stupid garou can be (along with some gross implication about their "behaviour"), really puts me off of it, which is a shame since when it's handled more like other games, it can be pretty cool!
when we needed him the most, he returned :)
Amazing
Well, I just know some guy, who seriously treat this story like inspiration for his own characters. It always ends in some batcrap crazy stuff.😢
Samuel Haight is basically the Hoss Delgado of the World of Darkness.
Time for the super clone to wake up when reunited with the ash tray. Muhahaha
I've been pretty critical of old WoD writing, and Haight is a perfect example. Guy starts out as a joke on the type of player that's fixated on power over character. They literally bend the established lore of several settings to accommodate his rise to power.
Throughout the history of WoD they've written multiple characters that aren't as compelling as they think they are. Somehow the joke is interesting and compelling.
Lots of named Werewolf characters aren't interesting. Lots of Vampire big bads, boring with delusions of their Machiavellian capabilities. Mages, don't get me started. Haight, a laugh about agro power players that barely are able to validate their gains ... unwarranted levels of nifty.
It boggles the mind. Also, he was a sick Rage card.
Has this channel died?
Isn't it pronounced "Hi It"?
No.
Similar pronunciation as the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco, CA.