Covenants

Common Covenants

Covenant	Nickname	Description	Advantage	Book
Carthian Movement	Firebrands	The Revolution applies mortal solutions to immortal problems with modern and experimental government.	Carthian Law	VTR 2e 32
Circle of the Crone	Acolytes	The Mother’s Army venerates female divinity, painful change, and the old ways remixed for the modern world.	Crúac	VTR 2e 35
Invictus	Establishment	The Conspiracy of Silence safeguards the Masquerade with hierarchy and tradition.	Invictus Oaths	VTR 2e 38
Lancea et Sanctum	Sanctified	The Church Eternal preaches a dark faith; they are both wolves and shepherds.	Theban Sorcery	VTR 2e 41
Ordo Dracul	Defiant	The Order of the Dragon struggles to transcend the Curses through eldritch alchemies and rites.	Mysteries of the Dragon	VTR 2e 44
Belial’s Brood	Claimed	Spontaneous clutches of ur-predators run riot, embracing monstrocity.	Triadic Evolution	NH-SB 56
VII	Them	The bogeymen of the All Night Society. Unknown yet feared by all the other covenants.	Unknown	VTR 2e 47

Contemporary Covenants

Covenant	Description	Advantage	Book
Esoteric Order of the Golden Star	An opportunistic cult of personality disguised as a tradition of blood sorcery.	None	NH-SB 65
Athens, Greece
17N	Liberals trying to rebuild Greece, even if that means burning it all down and starting anew.	Unspecified	VTR 2e 241
Alecto	Traditionalists who look inward to classical Greece and yearn for benevolent tyranny.	Unspecified	VTR 2e 241
Kataraménon	Apollonian cultists who have blended their pagan traditions with Greek Orthodox Christianity.	Unspecified	VTR 2e 241
Ypochréosi	Iron-fisted pragmatic modernists who keep the domain stable through festivals, bribes, and skulduggery.	Unspecified	VTR 2e 241
Beijing, China
Bureau of Childer	A bureaucracy empowered to keep track of childer and police the Embrace.	Unspecified	VTR 2e 244
Bureau of Silence	An anonymous council which takes responsibility for the Masquerade and embeds itself into mortal politics.	Unspecified	VTR 2e 244
Dragon’s Path	Students of the Mysteries who take power from the Beast by denying its hunger.	Unspecified	VTR 2e 244
Way of the Dragon	Students of the Mysteries who align their will with the Beast.	Unspecified	VTR 2e 244
Berlin, Germany
Revolutionary Council	Effectively Carthians by another name, inheriting the legacy of East Berlin’s only Kindred state covenant.	Unspecified	VTR 2e 248
Watchful Eyes	A fanatical network of cells tasked by the markgraf to eliminate an unseen threat to Berlin’s Kindred.	Unspecified	VTR 2e 248
Tokyo, Japan
Hototogisu	Mortal intruders to the politics of the zaibatsu covenants, who exert influence over Kindred politics while honing occult means to defeat vampiric power.	Mystery Cult Initiation	VTR 2e 266
Maeda Group	The muscle of the zaibatsu, legbreakers and assassins forced by changing times to shift investments from agriculture and retail into organized crime.	Mind of Infinite Immutability	VTR 2e 267
Takahashi Family	A technocratic zaibatsu organized in a pyramid structure, entangled with industry and the Hototogisu.	Free Retainers, Herd, and Haven	VTR 2e 268
Ume House	A spiritualist zaibatsu covenant that makes practical inroads into other concerns by selling the use of its ancient Kigan sorcery.	Kigan	VTR 2e 268

Historical Covenants

Covenant	Description	Advantage	Book
Camarilla	The earliest Kindred state to rule over vast territories, with jurisdiction over the dead of the Roman republic and later empire.	Unspecified	VTR 2e 74
Children’s Crusade	Kindred tradition from the 12th to the 18th Century organized vampires Embraced as children into this covenant, until its secrets were discovered and it was destroyed.	Unspecified	VTR 2e 50
Gallows Post	Part messenger service, part gang of highwayman, they maintained safe passage between cities for the dead of late medieval Europe.	Hangman’s Code	VTR 2e 50
DE 266
DEC 92
Legion of the Dead	Between the fall of the Camarilla and the High Medieval, the Kindred’s professional armies devolved into this rowdy legion for hire, rich with cursed relics and spoils of war.	Unspecified	VTR 2e 50
Tenth Choir	Blasphemers who drink the blood of angels and flaunt the Blood as the power to murder God.	Therion	VTR 2e 51
DE2 352
Abbasid Caliphate	832 CE
Ahl al-Mumit	Wrathful and righteous soldiers that hunt those who revel in their monstrocity.	Theban Sorcery	DE2 139
al-Amin	Record keepers and traditionalists who teach the Kindred’s place under the law.	Shahrayad’s Tale	DE2 139
Fir’awn	Apostates and pagans who seek wisdom in old and strange ways.	Crúac	DE2 140
Jaliniyya	Students of occult sciences who pursue practical applications of blood alchemy.	Kimiya	DE2 140
Britannia	400-500 CE
Circles of Mor	Cells of vicious eldritch predators practicing rites of power and cruelty.	Crúac	DE2 110
Legion of the Green	Feudal knights errant who fought against and alongside fae courts.	Invictus Oaths	DE2 108
Weihan Cynn	An ancient and archaic British covenant of Woods-Witches who forged deals with other creatures of the night.	Contracts with the Uncanny	DE 270