Mythologies (Vampire The Requiem - World Of Darkness - WOD) [Hardcover]

Khaldoun Khelil (Author), Ken Hite (Author), Robin D. Laws (Author), Kylee Hartman (Author), Travis Stout (Author), Matthew McFarland (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 14, 2006

I don't know if I believe.
But I know I'm scared.
That makes it real enough.
- Dutch, A Herald of Portland

The Legends of the Damned

Where do vampires come from? What creatures of myth do they fear? What legends do they tell about the Blood? Find out. Hear tales of the monsters that hunt the Kindred. Read the legends of the Roman vampires who founded the clans. Learn about the disease that's destroying the Damned. Some of it may even be true.

A mythic history book for Vampire: The Requiem

A compendium of legends and rumors for Vampire players and Storytellers alike - find out what your character has heard about the Requiem from others of his kind.

Offers multiple possible origin myths for the Kindred, passed down over millennia or discovered in ancient vampire sites throughout the globe.

A wicked selection of chilling new monsters, allies, artifacts and mystic rituals ripe for use in any World of Darkness story.

US Page Count: 144 (hardcover). Authors: Ken Hite, Khaldoun Khelil, Robin D. Laws, Matthew McFarland, Dean Shomshak, Travis Stout. Developer: Will Hindmarch. Cover Artist: John VanFleet

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: White Wolf Publishing; First edition (June 14, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158846265X
• ISBN-13: 978-1588462657
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #793,217 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, April 3, 2007

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J. Burgos "I <3 Books & Comics" (West Hollywood, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mythologies (Vampire The Requiem - World Of Darkness - WOD) (Hardcover)

I just got this in the mail from amazon and Im impressed. This book has guidelines on how to tailor the origin myths of vampires in your setting. YOu can be as detailed or as vague as you want. There are rules for bloodgods, roman cults, and vampires as curses. The best part is the chapter on breath stealing, a great mechanic and very thematic of old vampire legends from the East. Basically its rules and guidelines for vampires who reach certain blood potency to steal the breath (or life force) of their victims. I certainly like it!

This is a great supplement for settings where exploring the origins of vampires is a key elelment of the game. It certainly adds depth and mood to any game but the best part is that it lets YOU the storyteller decide where vampires come from.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fantastic Idea Book, May 25, 2007

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Rhandhali (Lexington, KY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mythologies (Vampire The Requiem - World Of Darkness - WOD) (Hardcover)

One of the best things about Mythologies is the fact that it's purely a background book. It provides a number of origin stories for vampires in the Vampire: The Requiem setting. None of the origins are exclusive of one another, ambitious storytellers can easily make all of the origin myths part of their chronicle. Each of the origin stories includes sample organizations surrounding that story.

Mythologies also includes modern myths or urban legends about vampires such as dream drinking, breath stealing, and drugs that make the damned feel human, if only for a brief time. Stats and rules are kept to a minimum, players and storytellers looking for new vampiric disciplines or rituals would be better served by many of the other books in the Requiem line.

The third and final chapter of Mythologies focuses on threats to Vampires both mundane and supernatural. Whispered legends of ghouls bent on destroying vampires, frenzy-inducing plagues allow storytellers to inject an even healthier dose of paranoia into their chronicle.

Mythologies is exactly as my title describes it - a fantastic idea mine for storytellers or enterprising players who wish to start their own rumours into their chronicle. This book is simply to help storytellers and players alike expand the scope of their chronicles by taking advantage of the mysteries of the vampiric condition and the open origin story in the Requiem setting.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very fine book about Kindred origins, September 17, 2006

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Ward Hoelscher (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mythologies (Vampire The Requiem - World Of Darkness - WOD) (Hardcover)

The core book of Vampire the Requiem kept the origin of the Kindred totally open, not even giving one story of their beginnings. This book fills in the past of the Kindred with various optional stories- that the Kindred are the descendants of traitorous blood gods, that they come from people who were too afraid to die, that they were meant to be the faithful servants of gods of light and fire but betrayed them and earned their curse..... All in all, very fascinating reading.

My only real problem with this book was the Antagonists section. Because I skipped the above section and went straight to the Antagonists section, I initially considered this supplement a waste of money. Honestly, the only thing I liked in that section was the Frenzy Plague, and I had a downright hatred of Smiling Jack or whatever his name is. It's this section that brings the whole book down for me, and that which caused the Four Star rating.

So, in short- Most of the sections, 5 out of 5.
The Antagonists section, 2 out of 5.