Possibly because all Banu Haqim now know Blood Sorcery, there is no reference in the Camarilla book to the third caste, the sorcerers. They share the traditional Assamite Discipline spread, with Blood Sorcery replacing the signature discipline of Quietus (this was expected, since some of the Quietus abilities were distributed to Obfuscate and Blood Sorcery).
But there is no longer any mechanical distinction between the two lineages. The spin on the Banu Haqim still leans towards the combat side, even though it was the vizier caste that more heavily went to the Camarilla. They get the equivalent of the material presented in the core book plus the equivalent of the material presented here for the other Clans (including the Clan Compulsion). You will understand the basic framework, but when it comes to the details you will have to work yourself.Ī longer presentation is, of course, reserved for the Banu Haqim, who are given a lawgiver/peacekeeper spin. How can a fledgling storyteller build the world when he perceives it as a subjective, sketchy image Make no mistake: the practicalities and day-to-day (or is it night-to-night) trivialities of a contemporary vampire are not explained. I felt like trying to understand a rich, complex tapestry by looking at shards of a broken mirror ten meters away, some of which do not even reflect the tapestry. Yet, a book will grossly miss its target if it is addressed to people who know of its contents already, due to their exposure to the game's previous editions. All this noise surrounding the snippets of useful information is overbearing for an initiate to the setting it definitely was for me. It is not the only text which failed the pertinence test. We are talking about five pages wasted, with content that, unless you incorporate it in one of your chronicles, is useless even as fluff. Easy example: the Reformed Congregation of the Veneration of the Methuselah, a blaspheme iteration of a catholic litany, and all which precedes it.
The content might not always be pertinent to the game, catering instead to the veterans who might smirk at an Easter egg or how that thing or the other changed in relation to the previous edition. How deep it wants to go on each subject is mostly a matter of fancy. Therein however lays the book's biggest failure: it does not examine anything holistically, and opts for taking shots at different subjects instead. In fact, jumping around here and there might be better, in order to a V:tM initiate to better understand what is going on. I am not convinced that it is supposed to be read from cover to cover.
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