Dark Prince (The World of Darkness: Vampire) is a fiction novel for Vampire: The Masquerade. It was originally published by HarperCollins in 1994 and republished by Crossroad Press in 2024.
Summary[]
- From the Back Cover:
- Vampire Cannibalism - The Ultimate Crime
- Sullivan was a working stiff, a before-the-mast sailor, when he was taken in by the Family almost 150 years ago. They gave him immortality - and an undying hunger for human blood.
- Since then, Sullivan has been on the prowl. And what better place for a night creature than modern San Francisco, its streets crowded with runaways, drifters, tourists, violent gangs, and nameless punks? Food is plentiful. Even food for the darkest hungers of the inhuman heart.
- But San Francisco is more than just a hunting ground. Known as the Casablanca of the World of Darkness because it is home to so many competing vampire clans that have heretofore existed in relative peace, it is on the verge of becoming the locus for many schemes of immortals both within the city and beyond. And when Sullivan falls victim to their plots and is accused of diablerie, vampire cannibalism, he discovers how easily the hunter can become...the hunted.
Background Information[]
A second book by the author was released, Prince of the City, which serves as both a prequel and sequel to the events in this book.
The story, "Dancing with the Devil" by Keith Herber, from The Beast Within anthology is also related to both this novel and Prince of the City.
Contents[]
Prelude: The Embrace[]
Part I: Blood Puppets[]
Chapter One - Chapter Nine
Part II: Kin-Slayer[]
Chapter Ten - Chapter Twenty
Part III: Wayward Son[]
Chapter Twenty-One - Chapter Twenty-Nine
Memorable Quotes[]
"You're drunk, Sullivan," the prince said evenly. "Go home." - Vannevar Thomas (Pg. 199)
Characters[]
- Sullivan "Kin-slayer" (Vampire, Childe to the Grandfather)
- Grandfather (Elder Chinese Vampire)
- Chi (Ghoul to the Grandfather)
- Delfonso (Elder Vampire)
- Loo (Chinese Vampire, Childe to the Grandfather)
- Kwon (Female Chinese Vampire)
- Vannevar Thomas (Prince of San Francisco, Elder Vampire)
- Domingo (Delfonso's Childe, Vampire)
- Honerius (Tremere Primogen Vampire)
- Don Benedict (Tremere Vampire)
- Dowager (Female Nosferatu Vampire)
- Hortator (Aztec Vampire)
- Alicia McGreb (Female Gangrel Vampire)
- Jacob (Gangrel Vampire, ran with werewolf packs as a wolf)
- Dirk (Anarch Leader of the Gutters, Caitiff Vampire)
- Donna Cambridge (Female Vampire, Vannevar Thomas' Childe)
- Smash (The Gutters, Anarch Vampire)
- Joe (The Gutters, Anarch Vampire)
- Little Mac (The Gutters, Anarch Vampire)
- Veronica (The Gutters, Female Anarch Vampire)
- Gregori (Sabbat Vampire)
- Selena (Sabbat Female Vampire)
- Nickoli (Primogen Vampire, Finance minister to Prince Vannevar)
- Tomaine (Brujah Primogen Vampire)
- Allanyan Serata (Toreador Elder Vampire)
- Bloody Mary (Female Malkavian Primogen Vampire)
- The Blood Clowns (Malkavian Vampire Gang)
- Kyle (Malkavian Vampire, Member of the Blood Clowns)
- Eddie "The Angel" Conlan (Toreador Vampire, Sebastian's Childe)
- Sebastian Melmoth (Toreador Vampire)
- Tex R. Cainen (Vampire)
- Virgil (Toreador Vampire)
- Antonine Aristotle (Malkavian Vampire)
- Carlotta (Female Ravnos Vampire)
- Loonar (Female Sabbat Vampire)
- Anastasia (Female Tremere Vampire)
- Selena (Female Sabbat Tremere Vampire)
- Serata (Toreador Vampire Primogen)
- Zarastus (Worshipped by the Sabbat: Loonar)
- Joseph Cambridge (Nosferatu Vampire)
Non-Vampires:
- Reverend Hayes (Garou from Oakland, Homid Ronin, hates and hunts Vampires)
- Phillips (Vampire Hunter, Human, Tremere Pawn)
- George F. Thomasson (Head of the S.A.D., Human)
References[]
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