Caine (World of Darkness)

From The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project

Caine is a fictional character, the father of all vampires in White Wolf Game Studio's role-playing games set in the World of Darkness. His story is based on the biblical story of Cain, and is recounted in the Book of Nod.

Caine and Abel were asked by God to present a sacrifice of that which they most cared for. Caine chose to kill Abel, his beloved brother, as the offering requested by God. For this he was exiled to the Land of Nod. He was taken in by Lilith, Adam's first wife, and taught to be self-sufficient.

He then became arrogant and three times refused salvation and forgiveness, offered by archangels speaking on behalf of God, saying that by his own grace, and not God's, he would receive salvation. The archangels cursed him three separate times for his pride, giving him the powers and weaknesses of a vampire. Specifically, he received fear of flame from the archangel Michael, vulnerability to sunlight from the archangel Raphael, and immortality, along with the inability for him or his children to sustain themselves on anything but vitae (blood), from the archangel Uriel.

Caine had three childer, which in turn produced thirteen of their own (the Antediluvians, founders of the major vampiric clans).

In Vampire: The Dark Ages, the followers of the Cainite Heresy believed that Caine would return as a vampiric messiah.

In Vampire: The Masquerade, the rules for fighting Caine are simple. All the book states is: "You lose".

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