"Nothing – nothing – burns as hot as the wound left by the knife of treachery, especially when it has been left to fester for eons."
The bloodline calling itself the Harbingers of Skulls claims a history of treachery, for which it seeks to extract a hellish vengeance. Members of the bloodline are quite powerful without exception, and they claim to have returned from their banishment to the realms of the dead. Long ago, they whisper, a rogue society of sorcerers hunted them for their blood, stealing immortality to futher their own arcane lust for power. Few Sabbat believe this fairy tale of ancient injustice in these modern nights, but the Harbingers are afforded a wide berth nonetheless, given the immense potency of their magics and their discomforting eccentricity.
Cursed by Caine´s blood with the countenances of corpses, the Harbingers often flay the tattered, grave-tainted flesh from their heads, leaving them with the grinning rictus of their namesake. Masks and ceremony play are an important part in the bloodline´s culture, and elders among these Cainites maintain vast collections of ritual masks and implements that they wear and use in their necromantic rites.
Rules and clarifications:
Rule change: Limited effects
Most bleed-increasing action modifier cards prevent other bleed-increasing action modifier cards from being played. This is now the default, and is reminded by a "(limited)" reminder.
Updated rulebook text:
Bleed Action Modifiers: A minion cannot use more than one action modifier card to increase a bleed during a bleed action. This is reminded by the "(limited)" reminder. Some bleed action modifiers explicitly state that they do not count against this limit. They can be played before or after limited modifiers.
Additional Strikes: [...] A minion cannot use more than one card or effect (a source) to gain additional strikes per round of combat. This is reminded by the "(limited)" reminder. Some additional strike sources explicitly state that they do not count against this limit. They can be played before or after limited additional strike sources."
Card previews:
Full texts for the Harbingers of Skulls crypt cards and related library cards in Lost Kindred:
Name: Angelique
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Harbinger of Skulls
Group: 6
Capacity: 9
Discipline: AUS FOR NEC SER THA
Sabbat: While Angelique is ready, cards requiring Necromancy [nec] cost Harbingers of Skulls you control 1 less blood.
Artist: Noora Hirvonen
Name: Erebus
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Harbinger of Skulls
Group: 3
Capacity: 7
Discipline: dem AUS FOR NEC
Independent: Wraiths (allies and retainers) cost Erebus 1 less blood or pool.
Artist: Ginés Quiñonero
Name: Erlik
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Harbinger of Skulls
Group: 3
Capacity: 10
Discipline: AUS CEL FOR NEC THN
Sabbat: As Erlik enters play, you can distribute up to 5 blood from him to any of your uncontrolled Harbingers of Skulls. +1 bleed. +1 hand size.
Artist: Ginés Quiñonero
Name: Hecate
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Harbinger of Skulls
Group: 5
Capacity: 6
Discipline: AUS FOR NEC
Sabbat: After Hecate bleeds successfully, you can burn the top card of the target Methuselah's library.
Artist: Carmen Cornet
Name: Khurshid
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Harbinger of Skulls
Group: 6
Capacity: 8
Discipline: AUS FOR NEC POT
Sabbat: +2 strength.
Artist: Carmen Cornet
Name: Acheron Vortex
Cardtype: Action Modifier
Clan: Harbinger of Skulls
Minions without Necromancy [nec] or Obtenebration [obt] get -1 intercept.
Artist: Ginés Quiñonero
Name: Disciple of Lazarus
Cardtype: Action
Clan: Harbinger of Skulls
+1 stealth action.
Add 2 blood to a younger Harbinger of Skulls in your uncontrolled region, or search your crypt for a Harbinger of Skulls, reveal them, and move them to your uncontrolled region (shuffle afterward).
Artist: Carmen Cornet
Name: Emerald Legionnaire
Cardtype: Ally
Clan: Harbinger of Skulls
Cost: 1 pool
Wraith with 2 life. 2 strength, 1 bleed.
During your unlock phase, you can remove 7 cards in your ash heap from the game to move an Emerald Legionnaire from your ash heap to the ready region with 2 life.
Artist: Javier Santos
Name: Inevitability of the Void
Cardtype: Action Modifier
Discipline: Auspex/Necromancy
Only usable during a bleed action.
[aus][nec] +1 bleed (limited).
[AUS][NEC] +1 bleed for every 10 cards in the ash heap of the target Methuselah (limited).
Artist: Mark Kelly
Name: Vengeful Spirit
Cardtype: Retainer
Clan: Harbinger of Skulls
Cost: 1 blood
Wraith with 2 life.
The employer gets +1 bleed. Vengeful Spirit inflicts 1 damage on the opposing minion each round of combat during normal strike resolution at close range.
Artist: Ginés Quiñonero
Black Chantry's first expansion for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle is Lost Kindred, which focuses on five of the Kindred bloodlines: Blood Brothers, Gargoyles, Harbingers of Skulls, Salubri antitribu, and Samedi.
LOST KINDRED IS AVAILABLE ON DRIVETHRUCARDS.COM:
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"These rotting mounds are dangerous enemies, but most valuable allies. They should all be recruited ... or destroyed." - Jefferson Foster, Sabbat bishop.
The Samedi are vampires of especially unwholesome ilk, and dreadful to look upon. Their bodies resemble corpses, and those who see them sometimes mistake them for zombies or other revenant horrors.
Thought to have originated in the Caribbean, the Samedi have strong ties to the region´s voodoo legacies. They practice a unique Discipline that allows them to manipulate the energies of death, albeit in a much more temporal manner than Giovanni Necromacy. Indeed, the Giovanni have very little good to say about the Samedi, and the enmity between these Kindred runs deep.
Samedi often involve themselves with occult or illegal activities in a city, becoming powerful houngans and mambos or trafficking with superstitious immigrant criminal elements. Given their apparent voodoo roots, the Samedi seem content to garner influence in immigrant ghettoes, practicing their dark magic and preying upon a populace used to the dead walking among them.
Card previews:
Full texts for the Samedi crypt cards and related library cards in Lost Kindred:
Name: Jean Lisle
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Samedi
Group: 6
Capacity: 8
Discipline: pot FOR OBF THN
Independent: Once each round of combat, Jean can burn 1 blood to make the damage from his hand strikes aggravated that round.
Artist: Noora Hirvonen
Name: Mambo Jeanne
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Samedi
Group: 6
Capacity: 9
Discipline: FOR NEC OBF THN
Independent: Minions opposing Jeanne take 2 environmental damage each round during normal strike resolution at close range. +1 bleed.
Artist: Riccardo Fabiani
Name: Marie-Pierre
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Samedi
Group: 6
Capacity: 4
Discipline: for nec THN
Independent: Marie-Pierre can lock after a combat involving another Samedi you control to enter combat with the opposing minion. She cannot block older vampires.
Artist: Jarkko Suvela
Name: Mister Schwartz
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Samedi
Group: 6
Capacity: 6
Discipline: for obf NEC THN
Camarilla.
Artist: Ginés Quiñonero
Name: Blessings of the Loa
Cardtype: Master
Clan: Samedi
Burn Option
Unique.
Put this card in play. Samedi you control with capacity 4 or more get +1 bleed against your prey for each vampire in torpor they control.
Artist: Ginés Quiñonero
Name: Necrosis
Cardtype: Combat
Discipline: Thanatosis/Potence
[pot] Strike: hand strike at +1 damage.
[thn] Strike: hand strike at +2 damage.
[THN] As [thn] above, and the opposing vampire takes 1 unpreventable environmental damage during the press step this round (only effective if this strike was made at close range).
Artist: Javier Santos
Name: Relentless Reaper
Cardtype: Combat
Discipline: Thanatosis/Fortitude
[for] Prevent 1 damage.
[thn] Press.
[THN] Only usable when both combatants are still ready and combat would end. Burn 1 blood to start a new round instead.
Artist: Alejandro F. Giraldo
Black Chantry's first expansion for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle is Lost Kindred, which focuses on five of the Kindred bloodlines: Blood Brothers, Gargoyles, Harbingers of Skulls, Salubri antitribu, and Samedi.
LOST KINDRED IS AVAILABLE ON DRIVETHRUCARDS.COM:
ALSO ON DRIVETHRUCARDS.COM:
Copyright © 2018 White Wolf Entertainment AB. www.white-wolf.com. All rights reserved. Vampire: The Eternal Struggle and Vampire: The Masquerade® are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of White Wolf Entertainment AB. All rights reserved.
We are very happy to announce that Black Chantry Productions now has made their first three Vampire: The Eternal Struggle products available for print on demand on Drivethrucards.com. It is one brand new expansion, designed by the VEKN Design team, illustrated by top notch artists and carefully tested by hundreds of playtesters for more than one year. The other two products are reprint bundles of Keepers of Tradition cards that are highly desired by players who could not get their hands on enough of them back when they were originally printed. Congratulations VTES players all over the world - our beloved game is back in print!
LOST KINDRED BUNDLE
120 brand new cards for five bloodlines, never printed before. For card previews and more details about this set, see the VEKN.net card list page
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120 cards focused on Brujah, Gangrel, Malkavian and Nosferatu. Contains 1 new crypt card, never printed before!
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120 cards focused on Toreador, Tremere, Ventrue and Caitiff. Contains 2 new crypt cards, never printed before!
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