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This is a list of characters who appear throughout the game Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines.
[edit] Player character
In Kindred language "a newly created vampire" but here, the main protagonist of the game, who can either be female or male depending on the choice of the player. Never referred to directly by name, the Fledgling becomes a vampire after going to bed with an unidentified Camarilla member of the opposite gender. The Camarilla member is executed for the indiscretion, but the Fledgling is given the opportunity to work for LaCroix instead. Throughout the game, tidbits of the fledgling's past are revealed and at one point he/she may also encounter someone from that past (depending on the clan played).
The player character can be one of seven clans: Brujah, Gangrel, Malkavian, Nosferatu, Toreador, Tremere, or Ventrue. [edit] Major characters
LaCroix is a French Ventrue of at least 220 years of age, though appearing to be in his early 20s. LaCroix is the Prince of the L.A. Camarilla. He resides in the Venture Tower in the game’s 'Downtown' area, commanding the city from his penthouse office. Aside from providing several of the storyline's main quests, he offers several sidequests through e-mail, and can grant the player access to a dwelling in the Skyline apartment building (all clans except for Tremere and Nosferatu). LaCroix is killed at the end of the game regardless to the player's in-game choices. When siding with LaCroix, the Anarchs, or if the player chooses to take no side, LaCroix dies in the explosion of opening the rigged sarcophagus. If the player sides with the Kuei-jin, one of Ming Xiao's henchmen will behead him. If the player sides with the Camarilla, Strauss will appear and LaCroix will be deposed. His fate is not shown but execution is implied. He is voiced by Andy Milder.
The Sheriff is LaCroix's personal bodyguard, killer, and enforcer. At seven feet in height, he towers over everyone else. He is the final boss the player must fight at the end, except when siding with LaCroix. The Sheriff can transform into a bat-like creature called the "Chiropteran Marauder". His clan is rumored to be Nagloper, a hybrid clan from Africa made of Tzimisce and Gangrel.
A Brujah that lived through the Great Depression, Nines is the virtual leader of the Anarchs in downtown L.A. and elsewhere. He develops a big-brother relationship with the Fledgling and offers him/her advice at several points during the game. Although he does not consider himself the leader of the Anarchs, the Anarchs do view him as their leader. He can be found initially at The Last Round bar in Downtown and, if the player is open minded when they talk to him, he might help them to improve their brawling and melee skills.
A Brujah brawler and a notable Anarch from the nights of the Anarch Free States, Smiling Jack is the one who teaches the basics during the game's tutorial sequence and provides background assistance later. He is implied to have been a pirate in former years. He seems to have taken a liking to the player character and is also the only one siding with the player later on in the game when he/she is in peril, and is also the one to formally introduce the player-character to the cab driver. He is voiced by John DiMaggio.
Tremere regent who oversees the Tremere Chantry. He is one of the heads of the local Camarilla and the Primogen of the Tremere clan. Strauss provides several quests himself and important information on several more, but the player's choices ultimately dictate whether he remains an ally. Strauss can provide the player with important missions, including the mission where the player must investigate a disease spreading through the vampire ranks. If the player plays a Tremere themselves, Strauss will provide them a new haven if the player chooses to serve him. If the player chooses to side with the Camarilla at the end of the game, Strauss will order the death of Ming Xiao and LaCroix in the name of the Camarilla and appear when facing LaCroix in the end. He also orders the sarcophagus to be stored in a warehouse, perceiving it too dangerous to be opened.
Belonging to the clan Gangrel, Beckett is considered a 'lone wolf' who appears a few times throughout the game, he provides the fledgling with information about several topics. His main goal is to find the reason of why kindred (vampires) exist and seeks to learn all he can about their nature no matter how long it takes him. Implied by Rosa to be one of two people (the other being Mercurio) that the Player character can completely trust throughout the game.
Jeanette, a Malkavian, is the game's signature character whose likeness is displayed on the game’s box. She can be found in Santa Monica at the Asylum club, which she runs with her twin sister Therese, the Baron of Santa Monica, a Malkavian who fancies herself a Ventrue, as evidenced by her lofty attitude and hatred for the Nosferatu. They share an interesting love-hate relationship and, as the player eventually discovers, the same body. Though it is never discovered which is the real personality, it was lightly suggested that this was Therese. The player is given the opportunity to either help destroy ("kill") one of these personalities or to help the two sisters reconcile and coexist peacefully. The resulting merged personality is referred to as Tourette in the game documentation. It is possible for characters of either gender to sleep with Jeanette, depending upon the choices made by the player in dealing with her, the most important of which is to ensure Jeanette survives intact. It's also possible for Therese, alone, to be saved. "They" are voiced by Grey DeLisle.
Nosferatu leader and primogen to his clan, Gary lurks in the Warrens, a network of havens under the Hollywood Graveyard. "Gorgeous" Gary Golden is believed to have been a handsome movie star in life, but arrogance and good looks are a dangerous combination to have when there are Nosferatu around. Now hideous and stealthy like the rest of the clan, but also sarcastic and possessed of a fine feeling for the grotesque, Gary is a character who also knows many secrets in the City of Angels—and may share them with anyone, for the right price. Gary has a lascivious interest in some of the major female vampires in the game, and will deliver risqué posters of these characters to the player's apartment if the player completes several minor tasks for him.
Toreador vampiric owner and star performer of the Vesuvius strip club in Hollywood. Regardless of the gender of the player character, Velvet falls in love with them, if he/she accomplishes the subquests she assigns.
Isaac is the Anarch Baron of the Hollywood district of L.A. and maintains an uneasy alliance with LaCroix. His front in the mortal world is ownership of a jewelry store, but he alludes to having influence over the movie industry.
An anarch based out of the Last Round pub in downtown Los Angeles. Onetime helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War. Like other Anarchs, Skelter distrusts the player, and becomes less trusting as the game progresses, though he ultimately remains a source of information.
A female Anarch based out of the Last Round. Initially distrustful of the player, she can be won over by completing a quest and, if the player so chooses, he or she can act as Damsel's spy within LaCroix's organization. If a male player joins the Anarchs, it is implied before the conversation with Nines in Hollywood, that she may be attracted to him.
Smart-mouthed Nosferatu who hides out in an abandoned gasoline storage facility in Santa Monica to avoid an ongoing conflict with fellow kindred Therese Voerman. He is the center of several subquests, including one involving the Voerman "sisters".
A flesh-eating vampire of the Nagaraja clan, Pisha can be found in the basement of the abandoned hospital in downtown Los Angeles, where she traps unwitting humans and eats them. She assigns the player several subquests in return for powerful magical items.
The sinister Tzimisce who leads the area Sabbat. Andrei is initially encountered by the player at the basement of 609 King's way. He is responsible for the creation of the hideous creatures which lurk in the old sewers of Hollywood, creatures which he uses to keep the Nosferatu underground in order to prevent the Camarilla from gaining information on the Sabbat. The player has to fight him a couple of times.
The leader and the "High Priestess" of the Kuei-jin, first encountered by the player at her Temple in Chinatown. Ming-Xiao controls the Kuei-jin's activity and has an alliance with the Camarilla, although this is initially denied by LaCroix. Being a shape-shifter, Ming-Xiao is able to alter her appearance at ease. Disguised as Nines Rodriguez, Ming-Xiao allows herself to be sighted at the Malkavian Primogen's mansion, thus giving LaCroix an excuse to call a blood hunt on him and get rid of the Anarchs. [edit] Minor vampiresThese are vampiric characters who trigger optional side-quests.
Ash is the owner of Asp Hole in Hollywood. He gives a quest to help him escape the club from vampire hunters. If the player helps him escape, he'll be later encountered again in the Society of Leopold base where they have to free him again.
A former sexy fashion model who turned into an insanely jealous Nosferatu.
A computer hacker in life, Mitnick is a Nosferatu who provides the player with an extensive (but optional) computer-related sidequest. His name is an obvious reference to real-life hacker Kevin Mitnick. [edit] GhoulsGhouls, in the context of the game, are humans who are fed vampire blood to enhance their strength, reflexes, healing abilities, and lifespan. Ghouls are usually beholden to a vampire and do his/her bidding.
Mercurio is a ghoul that works on the behalf of LaCroix, based in Santa Monica. If the player completes an initial sidequest (obtaining painkillers), and also agrees to keep secret certain activities from LaCroix, Mercurio becomes a source of information and also a source of high-grade military weaponry. However, if the player threatens to reveal Mercurio's failure to LaCroix, he will end up attacking when the player returns to his apartment. Implied by Rosa to be one of two people (the other being Beckett) that the Player character can completely trust throughout the game.
Early in the game, the player has the option of providing blood to a seriously wounded young woman. If this option is taken, the woman becomes a ghoul and later in the game offers herself to be the player's personal "slave", in exchange for more vampire blood. The player is given bonus "Humanity" points for not keeping her as a slave, but if kept, Heather later provides money, offers herself to the player as a "blood doll" (see below), and near the end of the game is the only source for the game's best armor. Heather falls intensely in love with the player (regardless of gender), at one point even kidnapping a human for the player to feed upon. She will also change her appearance if the player asks her to, switching between her street clothes, a goth costume, and a skimpy bra and panties. If the player does not release her before receiving the Hallowbrook Hotel misson, she will be captured and killed by the Sabbat during one of the endgame missions.
Ghoul belonging to Therese who runs the "Blood Bank" in the basement of the hospital. Depending on gameplay choices, the player discovers that he is keeping a thin-blood named Lily captive, using her as the source of blood.
Ghoul belonging to Isaac who guards the Hollywood Cemetery, preventing zombies from escaping. Depending on gameplay choices (and player character gender), the player can choose to fight zombies on Romero's behalf (in order to allow the Ghoul to take a break and find some female companionship elsewhere), bring a prostitute to the cemetery for him (requires high Seduction and Persuasion stats), or if the character is female (not Nosferatu) with a high Seduction feat, she can choose to sleep with Romero herself, avoiding the sub-mission. Romero's name is taken from George Romero, director of the famous film Night of the Living Dead and the common concept of the 'zombie'.
Santa Monica ghoul belonging to Bertram Tung who gives the player an early assignment, and who can also unlock the ability to buy weapons at the Santa Monica pawn shop.
A ghoul who resides in Confessions in Downtown. Skelter wishes the player to go and kill her in which the player does in order to complete the quest. [edit] Thin-BloodsOutcasts of vampire society, Thin Bloods are the "runts" or "mistakes" of vampire society. They are generation 15-onwards in their clan, meaning that the vampire blood used to create them was too weak to completely transform them into vampires. They are seen by many kindred as a sign of Gehenna, and thus are shunned by all sects of vampire society.
Rosa is a Hispanic thin-blood living on the beach at Santa Monica who, for a price, can read the player's future, giving cryptic clues about events yet to come. If one pays attention during gameplay, all the events of the game can be tied to her future-reading dialogue. In the tabletop supplement, Time of Thin Blood, an ability was granted to thin bloods to receive random predictions of the future through visions and dreams; if they chose to take the ability in question. This is the most likely explanation for Rosa's portents, since Thin Bloods belong to no clan.
E is seemingly the unofficial leader of the Thin Bloods in Santa Monica. He offers the player clues about their mission for Mercurio, as well as a sidequest to gather any information about his lost lover, Lily. His accent is Australian. Lily is a Thin Blood as well and E's kindred lover. After enough clues are gathered, the player may be led to find her held captive by Vandal in the blood bank - a source of vampire blood for Vandal. The player may leave her, or release her. If she is released, the player may send her out of Santa Monica, or reunite her with E.
A thin-blood possessing a severe stuttering problem, Julius resides with the other thin-bloods on the Santa Monica beach, but is the only one to remain after the others seemingly move on. Largely ignorant of vampire society, Julius unwittingly violates the masquerade by relating his observations of the vampire world to an aspiring Hollywood screenwriter, prompting the player's investigation. Assuming the quest is followed through, Julius is either assassinated by the player or allowed to flee town, never to return. [edit] HumansThese are major human characters encountered during the game.
Grünfeld Bach is a Catholic Christian fundamentalist warrior monk and the leader of the Society of Leopold. Bach is one of the most powerful mortals alive, capable of summoning so much faith that he possesses two supernatural powers: the ability to temporarily blind anyone within close to medium proximity, and the ability to render himself invulnerable for short periods of time.
David Hatter is an aspiring Screenwriter living in Hollywood and also the manager of the Luckee Star Motel. He befriended a thin-blood vampire and is writing a screenplay containing many Masquerade secrets. VV assigns the Fledgling to deal with David and the vampire informant.
Fat Larry is an entrepreneur who sells weapons and other items out of the back of a van in Downtown L.A. and who also provides a side-quest which, when completed, may trigger an increase in the player's Finance skill. Several other shopkeepers are encountered in other areas, providing various items and weaponry.
A bail bondsman in Santa Monica who runs an all-night business. The player fills in for one of Arthur's bounty hunters as part of the game's main storyline.
Seductive owner of Confession, a downtown nightclub based in an old church. If the player wins her confidence by dealing with several gangsters, he/she becomes a "silent partner" in the business, receiving occasional money. An early demo of the game shown to the press (and later to the fans through captured video) introduced Venus as a character aware of the World of Darkness, as she was probably a ghoul to a powerful master. In the final game however, this plot line was terminated.
Middle aged, shy security guard the player encounters several times in the game. If the player character is female, Chunk develops a crush on her. It's possible to kill Chunk early in the game, in which case his twin brother appears later on. While Chunk is a typical 'fat and jolly' type (and many in-game jokes are made about this), his brother barely speaks.
Owner of Gimble's Prosthetics at the end of Main Street in Santa Monica. The player will speak to Gimble while tracking down a suspect for Arthur Kilpatrick. Gimble will instruct the player to come to his shop, where it is revealed that Gimble is an insane killer who severs the limbs off of people he traps in the shop. Gimble attacks the player with a severed human arm and must be killed.
Depending upon the vampire clan chosen by the player, the Fledgling may encounter a young woman from his/her past life, creating a scenario that must be resolved in order to prevent a masquerade violation. Nosferatu characters, due to their limited movements above ground, do not encounter her. The player may attempt to persuade her that everything is normal or kill her. If the player does nothing, a masquerade violation is incurred. (If playing from clan Malkavian, the player may use the Dementation discipline to make her think that the player is actually her childhood pet turtle, Shelly, to avoid the violation.)
A young, Japanese demon hunter in Chinatown, who has limited knowledge of the vampire world and is on a quest to destroy the creature who killed her teacher. The player character can, optionally, choose to help her. If they do help her, she may appear near the end of the game to aid the player depending on the final path chosen. [edit] OthersAssorted characters who are either not directly encountered, or whose real nature is left ambiguous in the game.
Alistar Grout, the Malkavian Primogen, is never directly encountered in the game (apart from when the player eventually finds his staked ashes), but a great deal about him learned from various personal monologues on dictation machines strewn about his mansion. The monologues reveal his experience with the vampire society and his steady descent into paranoia and madness, which leads to his isolation.
Deb is a sassy late-night broadcast hostess on K.T.R.K. and can be heard on the radio in the player's haven and at various other locations throughout the city. She talks over the air with unscreened callers who usually happen to be horny, perverted men or random insomniac oddballs. On one occasion the caller happens to be Andrei with his unmistakable voice and accent. Between calls Deb takes a commercial break, in which humorous advertisements play. One of Deb's frequent callers is a nerdy conspiracy theorist named Gomez who believes people deserve to know "the truth." Though Deb pokes fun at his long-winded theories, on one occasion his theory breaks the fourth wall and actually reveals the entire plot of the game.
A television newscaster is seen on television screens throughout the game, giving news reports related to the player's actions (which vary depending upon what they are). If the player character is of the insane Malkavian clan, they will hear special dialog directed at them. At one point, the Malkavian player will enter their haven to find the newscaster telling them a joke about a chess game played between a chef and a tuna. If the player turns the noclip cheat on, they can see the newscaster above any room with a television.
As more areas in Los Angeles are unlocked, the player gains access to a taxi to reach these locations (unless playing as a Nosferatu, in which case the player must travel via sewer tunnels). In the endgame, the very same taxi driver appears and acts as a hub to the various ending options (though his voice has noticeably changed). It is strongly implied that the taxi driver may be Caine, the first vampire.
A vicious serial killer who is running rampant throughout the surrounding area. He has already claimed several victims when the game begins, and he kills several more throughout. In one of the game's longest missions the player must hunt down the killer, then make a moral choice about how to deal with him.
Due to their insanity, Malkavian player-characters often encounter unusual situations (see newscaster, above). In Los Angeles, those playing this clan may find themselves engaged in an argument with one of these everyday objects. [edit] 'Blood dolls'The term "blood doll" is used to refer to several female human NPCs that the player encounters at various locations in L.A. These women willingly allow themselves to be fed upon for blood, though the player must be careful not to kill the blood dolls by draining too much. Several blood dolls have to be "seduced" first before they become available (making them unavailable to Nosferatu players). Heather becomes a blood doll if the player chooses to keep her as a ghoul. [edit] See also |
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