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| − | =Introduction=
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| − | No vampire covenant is truly a monolithic entity, but Belial’s Brood is especially fractionary. Due to the nature of its beliefs and structure (or lack thereof), it can be said to be the only covenant that exists in microcosms of itself. While the Brood does have several major factions,
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| − | This, then, is the purest form and structure of Belial’s Brood — the coterie — and every major rite the Brood conducts worldwide revolves around its dynamic. Each major faction of Belial’s Brood knows its own share of nicknames and titles, but all Brood members, regardless of faction, refer to themselves as the Forsworn. The vast majority of Brood members spend time among one or more of the standard covenants (or among the Unbound) before finding their way onto the path. They know intimately what it’s like to ‘live’ a lie, to suffer the dogmatic edicts of the weak and unlearned, and then at last to hear the call of truth, and to make the choice to forswear all that they once knew. To forswear the lies of both mortal man and the others of their kind — this is what it means to be Forsworn. To these vampires, this
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| − | '''Welcome to the Brood.'''
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| − | Are the Forsworn ‘demon-worshippers’?’ Some of them, yes, but only because they ''believe''. Are the Forsworn monsters? All of them, yes; but then, how many vampires can claim to not be monsters? The Forsworn are shameless to be sure, but neither careless nor thoughtless. They are vampires, in form like any other, making their way through their own Requiems, suffering many of the same doubts and pitfalls as other souls. For them, however, both journey and destination make all the blood, pain and suffering worthwhile. If this existence is what’s meant for them, and they are damned to it for all eternity, then their hellish success lies in winning the race to shameless, immoral abandon — to turn their gazes towards the abyss, rather than away from it, and in so doing, to know truth.
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| − | =Belial's Brood Bloodlines=
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| − | =Known Belial's Brood=
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| − | <categorytree mode=pages>Belial's Brood Status 1</categorytree>
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| − | <categorytree mode=pages>Belial's Brood Status 2</categorytree>
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| − | <categorytree mode=pages>Belial's Brood Status 3</categorytree>
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| − | <categorytree mode=pages>Belial's Brood Status 4</categorytree>
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| − | [[Category:Lexicon]]
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