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 |