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Augustus Giovanni entered the Embrace over 900 years ago in the decaying Cappadocian temple at Erciyes, under the watchful eyes of the Anitdeluvian, his lackey Japheth and some bitch called Constancia. Augustus took the blood against the wishes of these petty yes-men, who tried to shoot down the whole thing from the start. In fact, some suspect that it was a curse whispered by Japheth that gave our Kiss its deadly effect, and not the blood of that whore Lamia.
To make a long story short, Augustus diablerized Cappadocius and upset the Founders (go figure). In taking up a crusade against the Lamia, a bloodline of Cappadocian watchdogs, Augustus aquired their ability to bestow a blood-based, agonizing Kiss of Death, which has been passed on to almost all Giovanni brought into the Embrace.
During the Renaissance, Augustus dug up some old Cappadocian literature related to the defunct Death Clan's ascension into Heaven and immersed himself in it. After studying for a few years, he decided that the Cappadocians had been entirely wrong -- you couldn't bring Earth to Heaven, but you could certainly drag it into Hell.
The way Augustus interpreted the writings, the ancient writings could teach him to peel back the Shroud, the layer of disbelief that separates our world from the land of the dead. Once this is accomplished, those who hold dominion over the ghosts who wander the dead world (guess who?) will be masters of it.
Augustus, unlike Cappadocius, never forced any of the Clan to undertake in this quest. The way it is viewed in the Giovanni is tht the more success the Clan and Family garner, the closer we are to achieving any objective we wish.
The problem with Augustus' plan is this: rending the Shroud will require a great deal of spiritual energy. One hundred million souls, in fact, will be required to perform the ritual successfully.
Naturally, the majority of non-Family Kindred didn't take too kindly to Augustus' plans, so we merely withdrew and took care of our own business. In 1528, Claudius Giovanni signed a formal agreement which guaranteed Giovanni nonintervention in all Kindred affairs. Luckily, this document contained a clause (pushed through by Rafael de Corazon) that stated that Venice would be visited by council of elders every 13 years from each of the other Clans signing the pact. If you can't figure out the ramifications of high-level Camarilla doing executive decision-making on our turf, you must be one of them...
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