Time of Thin Blood
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In the role-playing game
Vampire: The Masquerade
by White Wolf, Inc.
, The Time of Thin Blood is the time immediately preceding Gehenna
, the vampires' prophesied armageddon
.
Named in reference to a line of the Book of Nod, referring to one of the signs of the end times being The Time of Thin Blood - when the curse of Caine would no longer carry the strength to create new vampires, when the clanless would come to rule and Vitae would be as rare diamonds.
Most Cainite authorities agree that the current age is the Time of Thin Blood, and that judgement of the Cainites has come due.
In game terms, those are 14th and 15th Generation vampires with generally reduced capabilities and an uncertain placement in either vampiric or mortal society. The supplement also describes a couple of specific capabilities exclusive to those vampires and Dhampirs biologically descended from 15th Generation vampires. Surprisingly, one of those capabilities is the creation of new Disciplines.
deals with the issue, featuring Thin Bloods and an investigation into their population, but the issue is inconclusive.
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Vampire: The Masquerade
Vampire: The Masquerade
Vampire: The Masquerade is a role-playing game. Created by Mark Rein·Hagen, it was the first of White Wolf Game Studio's World of Darkness role-playing games, based on the Storyteller System and centered around vampires in a modern gothic-punk world....
by White Wolf, Inc.
White Wolf, Inc.
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, The Time of Thin Blood is the time immediately preceding Gehenna
Gehenna (World of Darkness)
In the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade by White Wolf, Inc., Gehenna is the vampires' prophesied armageddon.Gehenna is the time when the Antediluvians will rise to consume the blood of all the younger vampires and construct a city in which they will rule for one thousand years...
, the vampires' prophesied armageddon
Armageddon
Armageddon is, according to the Bible, the site of a battle during the end times, variously interpreted as either a literal or symbolic location...
.
Named in reference to a line of the Book of Nod, referring to one of the signs of the end times being The Time of Thin Blood - when the curse of Caine would no longer carry the strength to create new vampires, when the clanless would come to rule and Vitae would be as rare diamonds.
Most Cainite authorities agree that the current age is the Time of Thin Blood, and that judgement of the Cainites has come due.
The RPG Supplement
Time of Thin Blood is also the name of the 1999 book (see References) that describes both the changes in vampiric society due to the coming of vampires of thin blood and the rules for playing with those vampires.In game terms, those are 14th and 15th Generation vampires with generally reduced capabilities and an uncertain placement in either vampiric or mortal society. The supplement also describes a couple of specific capabilities exclusive to those vampires and Dhampirs biologically descended from 15th Generation vampires. Surprisingly, one of those capabilities is the creation of new Disciplines.
Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines
The computer game Vampire: The Masquerade - BloodlinesVampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, abbreviated as Bloodlines or VTMB, is a computer role-playing game for Windows developed by Troika Games in 2004...
deals with the issue, featuring Thin Bloods and an investigation into their population, but the issue is inconclusive.