Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2015 1:46:50 GMT
Nutshell:
Clan Giovanni - an insular family of vampires who practice the art of commanding the dead while commanding global finances, as they have since the Renaissance.
General:
Basically the vampire mob, the Giovanni are obsessed with money and necromancy, because with necromancy they’d basically just be the regular mob, and that’d be super-boring. They only make vampires out of their own very large family, which — and this is ridiculous — who don’t know their family is full of evil blood-sucking magic vampires until they get chosen to become vampires themselves. Although the Giovanni don’t support the Masquerade or the Sabbat, they tend to be evil assholes, what with all the mafia and death magic and whatnot. But being a vampire and choosing to spend all your time trying to make money is like having a giant robot and using it for doing nothing but carry groceries.
In Depth:
The Giovanni are the usurpers of clan Cappadocian and the youngest clan of Caine. Clan Giovanni is both a clan and a family. They Embrace exclusively within their family and are heavily focused on the goals of money and necromantic power.
The clan weakness of Giovanni dictate that when a Giovanni bites a living being, they deal more damage than normal making it difficult to keep people alive after feeding from them.
The Giovanni started as merchants under the name Jovians in the Roman Empire. During this time, the family first attempted to call back the dead in what they called nigrimancy, as business with the dead was not yet stigmatized and ancestor worship was quite common among the Roman population. When Rome fell, the Jovians maintained the independence of their home Venice and furthered their own researches of what would eventually develop into newer paths of Necromancy, primarily the Sepulchre Path.
The Giovanni used the age of discovery and colonialism to gain footholds within new states like the United States through their mortal merchant relatives. As trade got more and more important for the wealth and influence of a nation, many Giovanni were able to accumulate large financial reserves for themselves. It was during this time, that the Giovanni, despite being reviled as incestous graverobbers, proved themselves to be one of the most influential kindred clans within mortal society and often this gave them the upper edge in kindred politics.
The Giovanni managed to control nearly every Camarilla and Sabbat city in Italy with their vast financial resources and their wraiths servants (except for the Vatican and Malta, as both are claimed by other powerful forces). Many especially young Giovanni traveled in other states during this time in order to further the influence and finding new financial sources and some families who can expand the clans necromantic knowledge, like the Pisanob that were recruited during the seventeenth century.
During the two World Wars, the plans of Augustus Giovanni were set back, because the two Maelstroms damaged the infrastructure of the Shadowlands and cost them many of their Wraith servants.
Giovanni In Birmingham: (Badger)
Clan Giovanni - an insular family of vampires who practice the art of commanding the dead while commanding global finances, as they have since the Renaissance.
General:
Basically the vampire mob, the Giovanni are obsessed with money and necromancy, because with necromancy they’d basically just be the regular mob, and that’d be super-boring. They only make vampires out of their own very large family, which — and this is ridiculous — who don’t know their family is full of evil blood-sucking magic vampires until they get chosen to become vampires themselves. Although the Giovanni don’t support the Masquerade or the Sabbat, they tend to be evil assholes, what with all the mafia and death magic and whatnot. But being a vampire and choosing to spend all your time trying to make money is like having a giant robot and using it for doing nothing but carry groceries.
In Depth:
The Giovanni are the usurpers of clan Cappadocian and the youngest clan of Caine. Clan Giovanni is both a clan and a family. They Embrace exclusively within their family and are heavily focused on the goals of money and necromantic power.
The clan weakness of Giovanni dictate that when a Giovanni bites a living being, they deal more damage than normal making it difficult to keep people alive after feeding from them.
The Giovanni started as merchants under the name Jovians in the Roman Empire. During this time, the family first attempted to call back the dead in what they called nigrimancy, as business with the dead was not yet stigmatized and ancestor worship was quite common among the Roman population. When Rome fell, the Jovians maintained the independence of their home Venice and furthered their own researches of what would eventually develop into newer paths of Necromancy, primarily the Sepulchre Path.
The Giovanni used the age of discovery and colonialism to gain footholds within new states like the United States through their mortal merchant relatives. As trade got more and more important for the wealth and influence of a nation, many Giovanni were able to accumulate large financial reserves for themselves. It was during this time, that the Giovanni, despite being reviled as incestous graverobbers, proved themselves to be one of the most influential kindred clans within mortal society and often this gave them the upper edge in kindred politics.
The Giovanni managed to control nearly every Camarilla and Sabbat city in Italy with their vast financial resources and their wraiths servants (except for the Vatican and Malta, as both are claimed by other powerful forces). Many especially young Giovanni traveled in other states during this time in order to further the influence and finding new financial sources and some families who can expand the clans necromantic knowledge, like the Pisanob that were recruited during the seventeenth century.
During the two World Wars, the plans of Augustus Giovanni were set back, because the two Maelstroms damaged the infrastructure of the Shadowlands and cost them many of their Wraith servants.
Giovanni In Birmingham: (Badger)