Schaduwen van Amsterdam

Custom Bloodlines of Amsterdam

Attori

Nickname: Showmen
Parent Clan: Daeva
The Attori, a bloodline descended from the wandering troupes of the Commedia dell'Arte of the 16th century, are perhaps the example of Daeva showiness and stubborness taken to the absolute extreme. Although there are several schools of Showmen throughout the world, they all share a single unquenchable desire: the creation of the absolute perfect show. Unfortunately for those who might be interested in the arts that these Showmen consider themselves masters of, they are also stubbornly arrogant, stuck up and, without a doubt, completely unreasonable in their attention to detail. Like an undead version of a Hollywood superstar, everyone must succumb to their will because they are obviously superior.

But, beyond that, many Kindred are willing to work with the stuckup Showmen, even outside the Invictus, primarily for the marvelous displays of showmanship they display the bloodline's innate gift of bending and controlling light in spectacular illusions. While put on primarily for their Kindred brethern, the Showmen often open these shows to mortals in the modern day and age where their illusions can be written off as elaborate special effects. And, perhaps, to a careful selected few Kindred, the Attori might be willing to share their secrets...

Complicen

Nickname: Buckriders
Parent Clan: Gangrel
The Complicen are the sad deluded members of a bloodline that so far has remained largely unique to the South-Eastern part of the Netherlands, and the lands immediately across the Belgian and German borders. Only a few have moved out of these territories to cities in the rest of the Netherlands. Madly in love with the dark and twisted images that weave themselves into their dreams, they seek out any and all means to turn them into reality. They perform occult rites in dark forest glades and abandoned mansions, seeking to call forth demonic entities and bring about the end of the world. Tirelessly, they seek out any and all rituals they can find, for any potential avenue to their goal is a valid one in their eyes; it may come from a medieval kabbalistic treatise, or a modern text taken from a Lavey fansite.

For more than two centuries they have been plagued by the mad vision of their progenitor, who desperately tried to emulate a mortal band of brigands who were said to have made a pact with the Devil. Stories abound of these Bokkenrijders in old and modern mortal folklore alike. Persecuted by those who know of their practices, and ridiculed by those who don't, the Complicen etch out a living in the modern nights. In a society which has deemed their great purpose the stuff of children's tales, they lash out in anger at those who would remind them of such; they are not without talent in the arts of Nightmare afterall, if others will not take them seriously on the merit of their purpose, then they must be taken seriously through the fear they inspire.