The most visibly cursed of all Kindred, the Embrace warps each Nosferatu into a hideously deformed creature.
The Nosferatu are the spymasters of the dead, collecting information and selling it for a dear price. They are also the masters of the underground, living in the sewers for protection.
Although most believe the Nosfteratu came into the city much later, they were the first kindred to settle. Using the Seattle Underground as a haven, they only let themselves be known to the Camarilla after already establishing their influence over the city.
The Unseen have been led by the Council of Three - or "The Speakers" to the Nosferatu. They helped their people survive among the homeless and loners of the city. While the rest of Seattle’s vampires took pains to ignore them, these Unseen began trading secrets… And grudges.
Today, the Council has left much of the Nosferatu’s operation to younger vampires more adept at gathering intel in modern nights. Where the Unseen used to be composed of thieves, frauds and homeless, they now also include journalists, engineers and hackers.
The Unseen have been here for a long time, and they see everything. They know what you did, why you’re trying to hide it - and who’ll pay to find out. The group would be a potent ally to the vampires of any other of Seattle’s factions - if they can be found.
No other vampires in Seattle looks out for their own like the Nosferatu. What else can you do, if nobody else will even look at you?
For as long as there has been a Seattle, there have been some that didn’t suit the Pioneers’ vision of a place made of art as much as brick, glass and iron. The misshapen members of clan Nosferatu never had a chance to fit in. They were encouraged to stay out of sight: In the outskirts, the shadows and - as the city grew - its Underground.
Bay't Mutasharid
The Nosferatu in Ashirra territories experienced a schism of sort after Islam became the dominant force. The Bay't Mutasharid were those Nosferatu that refused to convert to Islam or renounce their ancient roles as hunters and bogeymen. Focusing on survival, the Mutasharid used similar information-gathering strategies like their occidental cousins when living in cities, or retreating into the deserts and taking oases as their domain. In modern nights, the Mutarashid seem to have vanished from Arabia, but some believe that they are still around.
Those Nosferatu that converted to Islam, however, became quickly respected figures. Seeing in Islam a promise of redemption even for wretched creatures as themselves, these Nosferatu quickly became a pillar of the Ashirra sect. A key figure for their success was Tarique al-Hajj, a Nosferatu blood sorcerer who helped to ward off the most disastrous effects of the Keening. For this, he and his brood were renamed the Hajj, the guardians of Islam's holiest places. As proof for their mandate, more Mutasharidin managed to enter the holy sites of Islam, Mecca and Medina, than any other bay't; as the sites are the purest places in the Arabic world, it is nearly impossible for any Kindred to enter.
In Seattle
Seattle has been a city of drifters, transients and homeless for almost as long as it has existed. By and large, people just look the other way. The Unseen walk among these unfortunates, hidden in plain sight to vampire and human alike.
No other faction of vampires in Seattle looks out for their own like the Nosferatu. What else can you do, if nobody else will even look at you?
History
For as long as there has been a Seattle, there have been some that didn’t suit the Pioneers’ vision of a place made of art as much as brick, glass and iron. The misshapen members of clan Nosferatu never had a chance to fit in. They were encouraged to stay out of sight: In the outskirts, the shadows and - as the city grew - its Underground.
For more than a century, the Unseen have been led by the Council of Three - or "The Speakers" to the Nosferatu. They helped their people survive among the homeless and loners of the city. While the rest of Seattle’s vampires took pains to ignore them, these Unseen grew into a faction, began trading secrets… And grudges.
Today, the Council has left much of the Nosferatu’s operation to younger vampires more adept at gathering intel in modern nights. Where the Unseen used to be composed of thieves, frauds and homeless, they now also include journalists, engineers and hackers.
The Unseen have been here for a long time, and they see everything. They know what you did, why you’re trying to hide it - and who’ll pay to find out. The group would be a potent ally to the vampires of any other of Seattle’s factions - if they can be found.[1]
Walt Chanel might be a member of the primogen but he is far from the most powerful and respected of the Nosferatu. The clan is led by secretive elders deep within the underground of Seattle, never coming up to the light. The kingdom of the Nosferatu underneath the streets of Seattle are separate from the princely domain up above. Even Seattle's prints must pay deference to the Nosferatu elders when journeying into the dark below. The Nosferatu in Seattle might even be considered an entirely separate sect from the Camarillo. Their politics and traditions are entirely separate. There might even be entire errors of History where the Nosferatu and the Camarillo operate entirely separately.
While there may have been no sperato in Seattle previously, the true history of the Nosferatu begins with the great Seattle Fire of 1889.
1944 Second Anarch Revolt
Many of the Nosferatu in Seattle are from the bloodline of Baba Yaga.
The underground Kingdom of Seattle has a loose Hades underworld theme. The entrance is guarded by a monstrous Beast. There are underground blood pomegranates that can instantly create ghouls. Who is the Persephone?
There is also a river styx that flows beneath the streets of Seattle. Much like Hades there is another, lower level even further beneath. This is Tartarus. A secret series of Chambers and tunnels created by the Nosferatu and their minions. Very few know about the true Horrors that lie beneath
Relationships with
the technocracy, esp the New World Order
were rats
bone gnawers
A list of all Nosferatu in Seattle along with their role, age, rank, arrival in the city, brood, and sect
- Darius; elder, martyr, solitary, 1800s, ashirra
- Horatius Muir; ancilla, loremaster, anarch
- Malloc; neonate, cleopatra, 2000s, sabbat
- Martin Wicke; ancilla, leatherface, anarch
- Samuel; neonate, martyr, 1980s, camarilla
- Scratch; elder, 1800s, beastial, camarilla
- Vincent Gravenstein; ancilla, skin, 1940s, camarilla
- Walt Schnell; ancilla, loremaster, 1950s, camarilla
- Dahlia; elder, 1800s, cleopatra, camarilla
- Knox; neonate, beastial, anarch
What do the Nosferatu know about the demons and the baali?
