Guns for Hire Bloodline Directory
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Descriptions of the various supernatural clans in Guns for Hire.
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Template
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| [Two to three word description which gives a sense of the clan's real focus in life- not merely their powers, but what they do with them] [Bloodline Family, Were Clan, Vampire Dynasty, or some other description of what category of group this is] - [Unless you are Bob, write "Approval Pending" here] |
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Manipulation: Internal, External, or Internal/External with the balance noted The thing manipulated by the clan's supernatural powers, like fire, borders, shadow, etc.
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History: Insert absurdly detailed historical description here
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Clan Profiles
Feel free to add new clans to the below. When a clan has been reviewed and confirmed as existing, Bob will change the "Approval Pending" part of its template to "Approved". If you modify it again afterward, change that back for him to review and rubber-stamp at some later convenience.
Finland
Riihivuori
| Near-Extinct Bloodline Family - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: External Water Manipulation
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History: The Riihivuori clan doubtless has a long and storied history (they verged on making a real name for themselves two generations back), but these days they're all dead except for two traumatized kids.
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Valkonen
| Decayed Warrior Bloodline Family - Approved |
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Manipulation: Balanced Internal/External Ice Manipulation
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History: Lost to the ages/trapped within the minds of the Valkonens that became Einher. No living Valkonen has access to records dating back farther than ten generations.
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France
Loup Garou
| Berserker Bloodline Family - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: Internal Rage Manipulation
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History: Insert absurdly detailed historical description here
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Hawai'i
Kamehameha
| Royal Autumn Bloodline Family - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: Restricted Internal Blood-based Soul Manipulation
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India
Burabor
| Combat Bloodline Family - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: Internal Flesh Manipulation
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History: A new family which shot from poorly thought of and largely unknown to one of the most prominent combat practitioner bloodlines on their continent after the addition of The Most Powerful Mortal to their ranks some three decades ago.
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Italy
Contadino
| Agricultural Bloodline Family - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: External Plant
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History: The Contadino family are an old and respected one. For most of their history they have been fairly quiet farmers, bending their arts first to making their fields prosperous, then exceptional, then to raising magical and ever more exotic plants. The quality of their products and a keen commercial sense won them a nevernever demense for their own private fields, which they have spent generations upon generations continually expanding and populating with assistants, servants, and guardians of various supernatural stripes. As it grew their operation grew with it, bringing them ever more wealth and opportunities thanks to the ideal- and carefully alterable- growing conditions within their home. Today it forms a massive region that exceeds the size of Italy itself, estimated at almost four hundred thousand square kilometers, a fact which the Contadino family made the heavy gamble to exploit during the second world war when they evacuated huge numbers of people (and creatures) into their realm. That paid off in spades, as a large fraction of them stayed on as subjects to the Contadinos. The current population of their realm is nearing a hundred thousand in humans alone- leaving their realm with vast swathes of wilderness considering its size, but precious few bloodlines on the planet can honestly claim to unquestioned and utterly uncontested rule over even a fraction that many people.
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de Cisena
| Elder Sorcerer Bloodline Family - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: Internal or External Elder
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History: The de Cisena family can trace their line back to the 1400's, when they shifted from mere farmers to merchants. In the next couple centuries they gained quite a bit of wealth and prominence, but from their current perspective their founding occurred on March 18, 1622, when the young Arsenio de Cisena, bold merchant and student of the profoundly dangerous, accepted an Elder Contract on behalf of his family after three full days of speaking with the Italian Ruling Dragon. Its effects reverberated up and down the family line, and in subsequent generations a large fraction of the family began displaying Elder powers. In spite of Arsenio's efforts most of those who did went mad, but enough of the family carried on and benefited from the ones who survived that they continued to endure, if not prosper, and as more generations passed the surviving scions gathered the knowledge and numbers they needed to handle frequent eruptions of Elder-based catastrophe amongst their lineage. Eventually accumulated knowledge began to tell and their line gained respect not as merchants but as users of this most eldritch branch of magic. Today they are known almost exclusively for that reason- the "de Cisena Codex" constantly maintained and updated by the family is known as one of the most reliable, accurate works on Elder magics short of draconic materials, certainly the best in Europe without question. Of course, finding an unabridged edition is virtually impossible without the personal favor of the Italian ruling dragon, who still keeps a very close eye on the family even today.
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Savoy
| Assassin Royal Bloodline Family - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: Internal Space Manipulation
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History: Insert absurdly detailed historical description here
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Romania
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
| Specialized Divination Royal Bloodline Family - "Approval Pending" |
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Manipulation: External Locating Desired Objects/Persons/Places
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History: Insert absurdly detailed historical description here
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Russia
Aldokushin
| Combat Bloodline Family - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: Unknown Unknown
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History: Insert absurdly detailed historical description here
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Romanov
| Near-Extinct Imperial Bloodline Family - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: Internal Soul
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History: One of several dozen ancient Russian noble houses. Ruled Russia from 1613-1917. By 1918 supposedly every last one of them had been executed.
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Turkey
Aksoy
| Combat Bloodline Family - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: External Corrosion/Decay Manipulation
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History: Insert absurdly detailed historical description here
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Ghanem
| Bloodline Family - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: External Earth and Wind Manipulation
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History: At some point, the family migrated from Arabia to Turkey.
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Hapsburg
| Vampire Dynasty - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: Unknown Unknown
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History: Insert absurdly detailed historical description here
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Muburak
| Were Clan - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: Unknown Unknown
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History: Insert absurdly detailed historical description here
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Laine
| Mercenary Start-up, Bloodline Founder and Associates - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: Internal/External Soul, Flesh (with individual examples of Shadow/Ice, Wind/Luck, and Blood/Soul/Shadow)
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History: See the Timeline
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Zosimus
| Information Broker Vampire Dynasty - Approval Pending |
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Manipulation: External Shadow Manipulation
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History: Started by Cornelius 300 years before the Roman empire was founded. It is publicaly claimed that Cornelius became a vampire due to being bitten by one of the fabled 'H' Clan members. No proof positive has ever been offered.
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