Children of Osiris
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| Name: | Children of Osiris |
| Singular: | Child of Osiris |
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| Founder: | Osiris or Khetamon |
| Disciplines: | As per each member's parent clan; may also learn Bardo, but it is not an in-clan Discipline |
| Parent clan: | None (see below) |
The Children of Osiris were an extremely rare Egyptian "bloodline" (actually a sect) of vampires. They opposed the Followers of Set at the behest of their creator Osiris, whose eternal enmity for Set led him to create the Children in the first place.
Osiris granted his Children knowledge of Bardo, a difficult to master Discipline whose secrets are never shared with outsiders. Bardo allows its practitioners to retain a degree of humanity, redeem other vampires and ward off evil; it even has the power to resurrect a vampire from Final Death.
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[edit] History
The Children were founded thousands of years ago in India by Khetamon, the last surviving childe of Osiris; the Children thus believe that Osiris spent some of his existence as a vampire.
When Osiris returned to Earth after the Sixth Great Maelstrom he transformed all his faithful Children into humans and granted them knowledge of his new Spell of Life, allowing them to join the ranks of the Undying. The few unfaithful among the Children were utterly destroyed, and none remain.
[edit] Culture
Like the Followers of Set, the Children believed in Egyptian folklore, and saw their role as a holy one, combating the darkness of the Setites with the light of Osiris.
[edit] Organisation
The Children lived in small groups, sharing a haven which was also a temple to Osiris. They had to maintain the temple and follow Osiris' teaching devoutly to enjoy the benefits of being a Child of Osiris.
[edit] Embraces
The Children are not a true bloodline, and are generally forbidden from granting the Embrace. In truth, they are a sect comprised of vampires recruited from other clans and bloodlines. Those who join are tested rigorously to prove their purity and desire for redemption.
Some sources say that they were originally true Childer of Osiris, who may have been a Lasombra, but that Osiris and his progeny lost the ability to sire after he was dismembered by Set (a reference to Egyptian myth, where Isis was unable to locate his member when she reassembled his body).
[edit] Version Differences
The Children of Osiris are one of the clearest examples of the first edition's rather forgiving attitude towards vampires, and are even more a sect of "good guy" vampires than the early Camarilla or Inconnu. They were rarely mentioned in Second Edition material, though Mummy mentions Kehtamon and the alliance between the Undying and the Children.
By the time of the Revised Edition, the Children clearly no longer fit in with the themes and mood of Vampire. They were officially removed as part of the metaplot of Mummy: The Resurrection.
- VTM: The Hunters Hunted
- VTM: Mummy, pp. 64-65
- MTR: Mummy: The Resurrection Rulebook
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