[TTRPG] So I've been making a whole lore and history for Vampires on Scadrial Ala VTM. I feel like im onto something here
Okay, so a lot has happened before this post, a few months of backend, a dozen documents, and a game of Vampire the Masquerade among friends that is still developing. Basically, when we wanted to start a game, i said I'd be our storyteller for the VTM game, but I didn't want to play in a modern history, i wanted alt history or a separate setting. My friends pushed me for what setting i wanted, and we ended up with the subject of the post.
So, my game has been taking place in the Year 400 PC so far. I have tried to push the game past some of the events in the story, so there is some light history, but most of my work has centered around spaces Brandon Sanderson has barely even hinted at.
Altogether, i can justify the long kept secret of vampirism under the final empire by allying them with rashek directly and tying them into the imperial structure. I created a vamipirc purge history where rashek was attempting to kill them as the well came closer, and thus vin inadvertently saved vampires. Beyond that, vampirism is a ruinous invested art produced by ati in their fight against preservation, and the history of vampirism in the classical age was lost too rasheks rule.
With all that, i can introduce the setting defining part; why are they even here? Ati made them, if harmony obliterated them, they could risk returning that ruin to themselves and so the 'Masquerade' of Vampire the Masquerade is also Harmony's mask over them so he can fight off discord.
I have developed a genealogy and descent chart for over 3,500 relevant vampires, with a much richer history than here in my personal notes. Im kind of just putting this out to see if anyone else hears this and perks up because it has been crazy fun to develop, and it was years since i read these books.