Chaka
Cuddle-fiend
It is the year 64 A.D., the tenth year of Nero's reign as Emperor of Rome. And the city is close to boiling.
A new cult spreads slowly but surely; followers of the Nazarene. To the Romans, they appear atheists, incestuous, cannibals, and lunatics. These 'Christians' -as they call themselves- live mostly in hiding, and go to their deaths with a willingness that disturbs the good people of Rome. The man Peter still preaches to any who will listen, though the authorities are closing in on him.
Nero himself is a complex and dangerous figure; his excesses make Rome a dangerous place to be. The plebians adore him. The patricians fear him. Only the influence of the philosopher Seneca holds his wildest desires in check. Even so, the people are grateful; he is no Caligula. The Golden Age ushered in by Augustus is over, but Rome's decline is not yet begun. The city lives, pulses with energy and danger and beauty, groaning with the largest civic population on earth. Over a million call the city of Rome home, peoples from all parts of the world, as far away as India.
It's the best place on earth to be a Vampire.
Within the Camarilla, a power struggle is growing in the Senex, the ruling body. Julius Senex himself is in torpor, and the Propinqui of Rome wait to see who comes to fill this power vacuum. In addition, new expansions have brought new kinds of Vampire to Rome. the Julii, the descendents of Remus and Mars, walk their streets as they have always done, serving as Lares and Penates to their mortal families when their wills are obeyed - and as vengeful spirits when they are not. The Worms, the Nosferatu, have always been below the city, and the dead's own city of Necropolis spreads under their skilled work. But now they are joined by the sultry and deviant Daeva from Greece and further afield, the bestial Gangrel from the borderlands of Empire, and the mysterious and esoteric Mekhet, rising tenebrous from their ancestral Egyptian sands to come and partake of the bounty of Rome. The Camarilla holds undisputed sway over the vampires of the Empire; no vampiric organisation will ever again be so successful or widespread.
It is a tense time in Rome. As above, so below. Rome is the Eternal City, and its dead have an eternity of nights to feast upon her. Assuming she doesn't feast on them first...
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I have a plot in mind for a Requiem for Rome campaign, set during the reign of Nero Caesar. There'd be a fair amount of political backstabbing, but also some quite literal backstabbing. Important things to note:
-There are no Lancea et Sanctum in this period, and Christian vampires are very rare.
-The Morbus bloodline will not be founded for another 200 years.
Anyway, just wanted to see if anyone would be interested?
A new cult spreads slowly but surely; followers of the Nazarene. To the Romans, they appear atheists, incestuous, cannibals, and lunatics. These 'Christians' -as they call themselves- live mostly in hiding, and go to their deaths with a willingness that disturbs the good people of Rome. The man Peter still preaches to any who will listen, though the authorities are closing in on him.
Nero himself is a complex and dangerous figure; his excesses make Rome a dangerous place to be. The plebians adore him. The patricians fear him. Only the influence of the philosopher Seneca holds his wildest desires in check. Even so, the people are grateful; he is no Caligula. The Golden Age ushered in by Augustus is over, but Rome's decline is not yet begun. The city lives, pulses with energy and danger and beauty, groaning with the largest civic population on earth. Over a million call the city of Rome home, peoples from all parts of the world, as far away as India.
It's the best place on earth to be a Vampire.
Within the Camarilla, a power struggle is growing in the Senex, the ruling body. Julius Senex himself is in torpor, and the Propinqui of Rome wait to see who comes to fill this power vacuum. In addition, new expansions have brought new kinds of Vampire to Rome. the Julii, the descendents of Remus and Mars, walk their streets as they have always done, serving as Lares and Penates to their mortal families when their wills are obeyed - and as vengeful spirits when they are not. The Worms, the Nosferatu, have always been below the city, and the dead's own city of Necropolis spreads under their skilled work. But now they are joined by the sultry and deviant Daeva from Greece and further afield, the bestial Gangrel from the borderlands of Empire, and the mysterious and esoteric Mekhet, rising tenebrous from their ancestral Egyptian sands to come and partake of the bounty of Rome. The Camarilla holds undisputed sway over the vampires of the Empire; no vampiric organisation will ever again be so successful or widespread.
It is a tense time in Rome. As above, so below. Rome is the Eternal City, and its dead have an eternity of nights to feast upon her. Assuming she doesn't feast on them first...
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I have a plot in mind for a Requiem for Rome campaign, set during the reign of Nero Caesar. There'd be a fair amount of political backstabbing, but also some quite literal backstabbing. Important things to note:
-There are no Lancea et Sanctum in this period, and Christian vampires are very rare.
-The Morbus bloodline will not be founded for another 200 years.
Anyway, just wanted to see if anyone would be interested?
