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| The Giovanni are respectful, genteel and well-mannered. Affluent beyond imagination Clan Giovanni traces it roots back to before the Renaissance, to a family of merchant princes. The clan still maintains its original home in Venice, in a thousand-year-old loggia just outside the heart of the city. No other clan makes such a spectacle of humility and propriety as done the Giovanni. And no other clan hides its blasphemous secrets as well. According to take whispered in Camarilla salons and Sabbat esbats, the Giovanni�s money spoiled the family, and the Venetians turned to nigrimancy out of perverseboredom. Surprisingly enough, the family demonstrated a great aptitude for trafficking with the dead, and their newfound abilities caught the eye of a forgotten Antediluvian. The vampire embraced the head of the family, Augustus Giovanni, and brought him into the world of the Damned. This particular Antediluvian, the legends say, had a profound interest in death, and the Embrace of Giovanni and his family was intended to further the vampire�s knowledge of what lay beyond the wall of mortality. The Ancient�s plan worked better, albeit, differently, than he�d intended. Augustus, a cutthroat and mercenary merchant, saw the opportunity to seize his doddering sire�s power and did so,hunting and killing all the Antediluvian�s descendants as well. After drinking the Ancient�s blood, Augustus became a member of the Third Generation and founded his own clan, The Giovanni. Other vampires reacted in horror, and, for a century, the �Devil Kindred� Giovanni were rooted out and destroyed wherever they went. Finally, the Giovanni sat down with the newly formed Camarilla and formed a mutual truce. This truce guaranteed the Giovanni would not participate in the Jyhad and would leave other vampires to their affairs. The Giovanni agreed, thus averting the genocide they surely would have otherwise met. Taking advantage of other vampires� lack of involvement with them, the Giovanniquietly continued to amass wealth and power, practicing their Discipline of Necromancy all the while. Few believe the clan is engaging in either practice for altruistic purposes, and recent global movements by the Giovanni have many Kindred worried. With all that money and all those harvested souls, something is on the horizon; it is an ill wind that blows out of Venice. Members of the Giovanni clan are also members of the Giovanni family, and those not Embraced often serve their Kindred relations as ghouls. This familial tie � members of the clan are related by blood twice � ensures complete loyalty on the part of the Giovanni. While concentrated primarily in Europe, the Giovanni have recently been expanding into the world market, and the clan seems to be more prolific in recent nights.
Disciplines: Dominate, Necromancy, Potence Character Creation: Giovanni typically have professional concepts, the better to fund the clan�s endeavors. Their Natures and Demeanors tend toward the crafty and selfish, though perversity festers in the incestuous family, and many are Deviants. Mental Attributes and Knowledge are primary, and Backgrounds are greatly prized. Almost all Giovanni possess a comfortable level of Resources, and many claim Retainers, Contacts and Influence. |
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