Status

Introduction

The Status Background goes from 1 10 and

cannot be purchased at character creation but is
instead determined by your Social Status (Neonate,
Ancilla, Elder). This Background can fluctuate and as
such the staff has decided to remove the cost. Each
level of Status reflects a Title (adjective to describe
why you have that dot).

4+ Successes - Reason the Title was given

(Joe Brujah is Dedicated for being the last line of
defense during a Lupine attack)

Common Status Titles

Acknowledged, Admired, Adored, BattleScarred, Blessed, Cherished, Devoted, Esteemed ,
Exalted, Famous, Faultless, Feared, Honorable,
Influential, Just, Loyal, Praised, Proven, Respected,
Revered, Trustworthy, Undefeated, Well-Known

Gaining and Losing Status

Example: Ambroise de Lor has 3 Status,

Ambroise de Lor is Feared as the Sheriff of Prague,
Acknowledged by Prince Josef and Loyal for his
support to Yosef during the Praxis revolt against
Randolph.

The Prince may grant the Status Title of

Acknowledged to Kindred within their Domain. This
acceptance costs the Prince nothing. This is the first
step a Cainite takes on the journey of Status in a
Domain.

Politics
(The Ability)

Status may be gained by

A Cainite Status is not always publically

known; you may use the Politics to determine their
Status.
In terms of in-character mechanic, using the
Politics Ability represents remembering something
you heard of years before, it isnt a magic
encyclopedia in your brain. It represents the
knowledge that some characters have by working to
stay in the know in terms of keeping up with the
social whirl.
1 Success - Number of Status Dots (Joe
Brujah has 4 Status)
2 Successes - Names of Status Titles (Joe
Brujah is Acknowledged, Respected, Feared, Loyal)
3 Successes Name of the Kindred who gave
the Titles (Joe Brujah was Acknowledged by John
Ventrue, etc)

Gaining a Station

Being granted a Status Title by Cainite of

Station with the ability to do so

Being granted a Status Title by the Elder of

your Clan

Limits on Status Gain

A character may not gain more than one positive
permanent Status Title per 3 months except for the
following circumstances:

Status Titles gained from gaining a Station

are received immediately upon gaining
Station, and do not count towards the
quarterly Status gain limit.

Should a Cainite hold more than one Station,

only one Station may be considered for
Status Titles gained whichever provides the
most Status gain.

Ancilla

Status may be lost by

Losing a Station

Being punished by an Officer of the Court

Having Status Titles stripped by an Elder of

your Clan

Being ridiculed by the Chief Harpy.

Backing out of a Boon or being involved in a

Scandal

Being declared Outcast by the Prince

A clan may remove one Status Title from an

Elder of the clan only if the members
attempting to do so have double the Elder's
Status supporting them.

Choose one additional Status Title, please

provide description of how you earned it and by
who.
Elder
Gain the new additional Status Titles of
Revered, Established, and Venerated

Court Level Play

A citys Court is the center of its political life.
It is the hub of all action, where Elders vie with each
other for favor, the Prince works to exert her will,
and the Harpy sits in the center pointing the
spotlight at the latest spectacle. A Court is generally
the collection of Cainites in any given metropolitan
area.
Prince

Limits on Status Loss

Cainites may lose multiple Status Titles in a
month. While, in theory, other Officers of the Court
can remove the Status Title of Acknowledged, this
act is usually considered to be infringing upon the
prerogatives of the Prince.

Social Class Status

These are the Titles provided per your Social Class:
Fledgling
Fledglings are newly embraced Cainites who
remain under the Tradition of Accounting of
another Cainite, usually their Sire. They cannot hold
city positions, and may not possess any Patronage
Status. They remain so until a Prince grants them the
status Title Acknowledged.
Neonate
Granted the Acknowledged Status Title.

Gains the permanent Status Titles of Exalted,

Well-Known & Famous and cannot lose these Titles
while remaining Prince.
According to tradition, the Prince holds
Praxis of the Domain and thus everything in it is his
or hers to do with as they see fit.
Every Cainite residing in the Domain does so
at the discretion of the Prince and all claims of
Domain or hunting grounds are made only at the
whim of the Prince. The importance of this point is
often lost on a great many Cainites, as it means that
there is no law and no justice except as the Prince
allows it. Long standing arrangements of territory or
fiefdom within a Domain could all disappear when a
new Prince takes control, and there is little recourse
except to engage in the long running jihad.
All local positions of authority exist at the
discretion of the Prince.

Only the Prince can award a Cainite the first

Status Title when she is first presented. The
Title:
Acknowledged
is
conferred

automatically as long as the Prince chooses

to recognize the Cainite.

If the Cainite is already Acknowledged, the

Prince may grant Hospitality for residency in
the domain. Hospitality can be revoked at
the whim of the Prince.

Can remove Status from individuals based on

actions, deeds or favors

Can grant Status Titles to any Cainite. The

Prince, and only the Prince, may thus break
the rule of only gaining one Status Title per
quarter, allowing a character to gain more
than one Title.

Praxis
Whilst only one Prince can hold the Praxis of
a domain, more than one Cainite may lay claim to
the throne during an insurrection or coup. There are
scant few societal rules around owning Praxis, with
the general consensus being that Praxis belongs to
he that can hold it.
So how does one become Prince without being
killed? A Prince stops being a Prince when they:

are killed.

deposed by another Cainite.

Abdicate and resigns.

In the cases of more than one claimant to Praxis,

this is known as a contested Praxis. A Prince does
not even have to be present for such an event to
occur, and Praxis in absentia is a hard Praxis to
defend, indeed.
The few rules that do exist around a contested
Praxis consist of the following:

Claims to Praxis must be done at a Court

gathering (or similar).

Once a Praxis is contested, the positions of

Prince and Chamberlain are ineligible to be held,
meaning that those who formerly occupied those
positions no longer do, nor do they possess the
Status Titles associated with such positions.
Generally, in such instances of a contested
Praxis all bets are off. They are resolved in any
number of ways from the politically savvy (such as
acquiring boons to have one claimant drop their
contestation) to outright destruction of the rival
claimant/s.
Ultimately, Stability is the goal of owning Praxis.
Unstable cities risk the Masquerade and tempt
enemies. New Princes, or Princes who have
successfully defeated an attempted coup, are not
encouraged to freely and unconditionally extend
mercy or hospitality to defeated rival claimants.
Doing so risks stability.

Chamberlain
Gains the following two additional Status
Titles: Cherished and Esteemed, the character can
never lose these Titles while remaining
Chamberlain.
The Chamberlain is the Princes right hand, second
only to him in terms of authority. The position
originally was made to handle some of the nightly
administrative details of a Praxis, and it still serves
that function, though the Seneschal often has
almost as much power in a Domain as the Prince
has. Such power entails a great deal of trust and
many a Prince has run afoul of a coup only to find
that the Chamberlain is now the Praxis holder of the
Domain.

Claims to Praxis must be announced in

person by the claimant/s;

The Prince decides which of his own duties

and privileges belong to the Chamberlain.

Claims to Praxis must be announced in

Public; and

If a Prince is unable to make a declaration of

the Chamberlain's powers, the Chamberlain

may claim any Princely privilege until the

Prince refutes it.

The Harpies
(Lesser Harpies)

The Chamberlain can act in the Prince's

stead when the Prince is not present at
Court. He is therefore entitled to all of the
powers of the Prince, although the Prince
may reverse or revoke them at any time.

Lesser Harpies do not gain any status from

their position but do gain social power as they are
the eyes and ears of the Harpy.

Scandals
Scandals must be public; a private matter is
not a Scandal as long as it stays private.

Harpies
The Harpies are the true social power, equal
in weight to the Princes' political power.

Chief Harpy
(The Harpy)
The Chief Harpy receives the additional
Status Titles: Influential, Well-Connected on
attaining the position. As long as the character
remains the leader, he cannot lose this Title
permanently.
The Chief Harpy of a Domain is generally the
individual tasked with tracking everyones status
and boons. They are the social accountants of a
Domain and thus, part of the power they hold is in
knowing exactly who owes whom. If Boons are the
currency of society, the Harpies are the Banker and
Bank all in one. Given that no one in a Domain is
beyond the reach of a Harpys sharp tongue, anyone
who holds her standing dear pays attention to the
Harpy.
The Chief Harpy may remove one permanent
Status Title from a Cainite who has backed out of a
boon or is part of a major scandal, now remember
there must be a grain of truth to the scandal. The
Chief Harpy must produce some sort of evidence at
a gathering of Cainite, at which time the Status Title
is removed.
The Chief Harpy may restore Status he/she
has removed should new evidence come to light.

Examples of Scandal:

Airing dirty Laundry (Unless you are a Harpy

or your Station requires it as part of the
duties of your office)

Behavior Unbecoming Ones Station

Ignoring Status

Faking one's reputation

Falsely claiming a Boon

Reneging on a Boon

Supporting a Scandalous Cainite (If a Kindred

under Scandal has a word of Status from
another Cainite the Harpies may well include
the supporting Cainite in the Scandal)

Violence

Disrespecting and Violating a Cainites

Domain

Frenzy

Bloodlines held to higher standards

Adopt a Caitiff

Failure to carry out duties

Infiltrating a Clan, or being infiltrated as a

Clan

Faking your death

Publically challenging a Praxis, and failing to

seize it

Keeper of the Masquerade

Scourge

Gains the additional Status Title: Honorable

on attaining the office. As long as the character
remains the keeper, he cannot lose this Title.

Gains the additional Status Title: Feared

when he attains the position. While he remains
Scourge, he cannot lose this Title.

Their job seems simple: to keep and

maintain the Masquerade throughout the city.

The Scourge can harass, detain or destroy

without penalty any Cainite that have been created
without permission from the prince, or have not
been presented formally to the Prince.

The Keeper may immediately remove one

Status Title from any Cainite he catches breaking the
Masquerade. If he does not witness it himself,
sufficient evidence must be brought forth.

Sheriff
Gains the additional Status Title: Feared
when he attains the position. While he remains
sheriff, he cannot lose this trait.
Ultimately the Sheriffs were charged with
looking after the interests of the elders or the
Prince, respectively, and striking a balance to keep
peace is their thankless duty. The Sheriff may
demand that any Cainite within the city accompany
him for questioning or judgement. Failure to do so
causes the offender to lose one Status Title.
The Sheriff may sponsor deputies, known as
Hounds. These Hounds have the same powers as the
Sheriff, but the Sheriff may revoke their authority at
any time.
In almost any Domain, the Sheriff is most
likely to have his own territory and private hunting
grounds, even over the Chamberlain.

Hounds
These deputies to the Sheriff have the same powers
as the Sheriff, but the Sheriff may revoke their
authority at any time.

If the Scourge discovers another character

harboring or abetting vampires created without the
Prince's permission or have not been presented
formally, he may remove a Status Title from that
character immediately although He must present
sufficient evidence of the crime to the Prince.
Should the Prince find the evidence insufficient or
be unconvinced of the crime, he may return the
stripped Status to the character.