Disciplines: icondisfortitude icondisnecromancy icondisobfuscate icondisthanatosis
Sect: Independent
Nickname: Stiffs
  Background  
The Samedi may be an offshoot of the Nosferatu or a branch of the Giovanni. Neither clan will take the credit (or the blame?) for these Kindred. The Samedi are easily identified by the shreds of rotting flesh constantly falling from their bodies.
Nosferatu are ugly, but Samedi are corpselike, revealing a bit too much about the true nature of vampirism for other Kindred to be comfortable around them. For their own part, the Samedi enjoy keeping everyone else off-balance, as it makes their usual job of bodyguard that much easier.

icondisthanatosis The practitioners of Thanatosis are obsessed with the appearance of death. This Discipline is used to impart the appearance or the actual debilitating effects of death and decomposition.

-- Vampire Players Guide, Second Edition
-- Guide to the Camarilla
  V:TES Notes  
The Samedi cards mix well with the Giovanni and Harbingers of Skulls, and to a lesser extent, with the Ventrue. The Samedi can be played in a single-clan deck but, like most bloodlines, don't have the numbers to be as strong alone as when mixed with other clans.
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The Baron
Samedi. 9 capacity. dom FOR NEC OBF THN
Independent: The Baron has two votes. During your untap phase, if The Baron is ready, you may look at the hand of each Methuselah who controls a ready Giovanni. +1 bleed.
The Baron is widely viewed as the patriarch of the clan. He is the oldest Samedi in the set and has the Disciplines and special abilities to match.
This card will also be featured in several magazines as a promotional card to mark the release of the Bloodlines set.

   
Disciplines: icondispotence icondispresence icondistemporis
Sect: Independent
Nickname: Elois
  Background  
The Kindred calling themselves the True Brujah claim that the founder of the clan met his death at the hand of his childe, and that all of those who call themselves "Brujah" are, in truth, descendants of this diablerist.
Unlike the "false" Brujah, the True Brujah are emotionally detached. A bloodline of scholars, chroniclers and knowledge-seekers, the True Brujah view the world dispassionately.

icondistemporis Temporis, the Discipline of time-flow manipulation, is a taxing Discipline to use, as it channels the very mystic forces that suspend the vampire in eternal unlife to apply similar suspensions of linear time to the immediate environment.

-- Vampire Storytellers Handbook
  V:TES Notes  
The True Brujah cards mix well with the Brujah, Brujah antitribu, and the Followers of Set. Each of the True Brujah vampires is marked "scarce" (See Nagaraja Preview), so they aren't suited for single-clan play.
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Rewind Time
Reaction. Temporis/Presence. 2 blood.
Presence: Reduce a bleed against you by 1.
Temporis: Burn an action card as it is played. That card has no effect (the acting minion is not tapped).
Superior Temporis: Burn a non-out-of-turn master card as it is played (usable by a ready, untapped vampire even though there is no action). That card has no effect. The Methuselah who played it retrieves the pool cost of that card from the blood bank and gains another master phase action.
The archetypical Temporis effect, Rewind Time gives the ability to perform an effect similar to, but weaker than, Direct Intervention at normal and similar to, but weaker than, Sudden Reversal at superior. Despite the weaker effect, the ability to use this card without spending a master phase action (or pool) yourself can be invaluable.

     
Disciplines: icondisdominate icondismytherceria icondisobtenebration
Sect: Sabbat
Nickname: Weirdlings
  Background  
The origins of the Kiasyd bloodline have been lost to the passage of centuries. The most pervasive theory attributes their creation to unholy experimentation by the Lasombra with the blood of the Wild Ones and forbidden deals made with demons.
The Kiasyd are scholars and keepers of secrets. Their inquisitive natures hide devious, twisted personalities, warped by massive amounts of forbidden lore and propbably the fae blood that contributed to their initial creation.

icondismytherceria A collection of powers attributed to the faeries and inclined toward the exposure of new knowledge, Mytherceria has driven many of its victims to babbling madness, or at least frustration.

-- Guide to the Sabbat
  V:TES Notes  
The Kiasyd cards mix well with the Lasombra and, to a lesser extent, with the Tremere and Malkavians. Given their capacities, they could be played on their own (doubling up on copies in the crypt), but are strongest when mixed with other clans.
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New Term:
Cold Iron Vulnerability

 Damage a minion or retainer with cold iron vulnerability receives from a cold iron weapon is aggravated.

"Cold Iron" is a designation printed on an equipment card, like "Gun" or "Vehicle" is. Any weapon without that designation is not considered to be a cold iron weapon.
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Béatrice L'Angou
Kiasyd. 5 capacity. aus dom nec MYT
Sabbat: Cold iron vulnerability.
Like all Kiasyd cards in the Bloodlines expansion, Béatrice has cold iron vulnerability (see new rule above). She's the youngest Kiasyd from the expansion, and so would likely be a top choice of many decks that wanted to include the clan.
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