This is in part because while Rome defeated Greece militarily, the opposite was the case culturally. Many Bruia welcomed the by comparison more just and sensible Roman Republic, and quite a number also saw the Empire as an improvement. The bulk of Bruia, however, did not care. Only a handful of Bruia, Baali, Lasombra and Setite were present in Carthage, and there were even Bruia fighting for the Roman Republic rather than the kingdom of Carthage. However, the later exaggeration of Carthage is an absurdity now. This is not to say that the Bruia are and were not at odds with the Ventrue. Their Hellenic world is by and large replaced by a Roman Empire, but there were only some formal changes to the vampiric governance, often that the threat of soldiers would mean that the Bruia made a formal allegiance as clients to the Ventrue leader not too far away, and no one expecting much from it.
Motivation of an individual Baali Cainitie varies in every case, save for that No internal organization to the bloodline.
Their interests have ever been their own, although there is virtually That spirits the Baali trafficked with became known as “demons” and “devils.” OfĬourse, these ruthless vampires more regularly enslaved these spirits rather It was only much later, with the spread of Christianity and Islam, To the worship of death, destruction, and darkness, the antithesis to divinityĪnd virtue. Immense power, they took the identity of their bloody god. When they themselves became dark creatures of Lived in the Holy Land, but in pre-Christian times, and belonged to a culture
Have their own legends, passed from sire to childe. No two Malkavians seem to agree on a shared origin. The Tremere are especially fond of repeating this, although they are also known A number of sourcesīlame the Tzimisce, due to their historic link with the infamous demon Kupala. It is unknown from whom or what they came. Lore states the Baali are the original lineage to emerge independent from the clans,Ī polluted and malignant ancestry afflicting the social order from the age of