The Bloodlines

Bloodlines

There’s the Bound and then there’s the Unbound. Shortly before The Fall – which the Unbound refer to as ‘The Bronze Age Collapse’ – Lady Death blessed the Bloodlines of the Bound with access to magic and immortality. However, all blessings come with a cost, and as The Bound became closer to Lady Death, they became less able to create new life. For this reason, while The Bound were able to survive The Fall and the turmoil that came after, they are much more rare than the Unbound that many of them must feed upon. All magical sentient humanoids – regardless of bloodline – call themselves The Bound.

Not all bloodlines are good at the same things. Bloodlines that tend to have higher Vitality and Strength tend to have lower Mind and Willpower. If you were to put the bloodlines in order along the Strength vs Willpower and Vitality vs. Mind axis, you’d probably come up with something about like this: the Undead, the Shapeshifters, the Drainers, the Half-born, the Elementalists, the Fae, and the Wrights.