Clan name: Lasombra Nickname: Keepers Alignment: Sabbat Disciplines: Dominate, Obtenebration, Potence Weakness: Due to a side effect of their Obtenebration Discipline, the members of this clan can no longer be seen in mirrors, nor can they appear in photographs or on film. This allows them to bypass security, but makes it relatively easy to detect them as vampires.
Discription: The members of this clan tend to be the most loyal and aggressive vampires in the Sabbat sect. Some of them are members of the Camarilla, but most serve their own interests. The Lasombra are natural leaders. They are loyal to the Sabbat, but they also believe it is their right and responsibility to be the strongest leaders of the sect. Lasombra often fight over who should lead among them, but they prefer other Lasombra to the members of other clans. There is less intrigue in the Sabbat than the Camarilla, but what does exist is found among the Lasombra. They emphasize the control of mortal political, religious and financial institutions as a way of defending the Sabbat from threats. The Lasombra maintain the largest number of retainers of any clan in the Sabbat. These agents are loyal to the Sabbat, but they answer directly to the Lasombra. After all, the Lasombra consider what is good for their clan to be good for the sect. Even more than the Ventrue and Tremere, the Lasombra are masters of intrigue. The Lasombra are openly competitive and warlike. Lasombra maintain their often tenuous control over their Sabbat brethren through a mixture of force, espionage and manipulation, often guiding the other clans without said clans' realization. Stealth and cunning are second nature to them, to the point that they have developed an affinity with and control of the forces of night and shadows. Before the Anarch Revolt, most of the Lasombra made their homes around the Mediterranean. The clan established extensive control over the mortal politics and religion of the region. They established a spy network reaching all the way through Western Europe, Russia and Europe's colonial properties in the New World. After destroying their elders, the Lasombra anarchs were forced to flee north into the Scandinavian countries. It was here that the Sabbat developed into a real sect. Because the Camarilla tried to put an end to the fledgling sect, the Lasombra prompted the massive migration of Sabbat to the New World.
Clan name: Lasombra