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He always hosts the grandest parties. The novus homo shares matters not. Their power and influence cannot be denied,
his good fortune so generously, it’s no wonder he is so popular regardless of the means by which they acquired it.
with the nobilis. But somehow, you had always pictured him See the senatore. The forum falls silent as she opens her
being gentler, more jovial. Sure enough, he wears a wide grin mouth to speak. By her word, arenas are built, armies are
across his plump face, but his eyes are joyless, vacant, and stained mobilized, and cities are brought to their knees. She need not
yellow from over-indulgence in wine. “Come,” he invites you, speak louder than a whisper, as the whole crowd holds their
“let me show you where we keep the finer vintage.” breath in anticipation of her verdict. The corners of her mouth
Something dead approaches. It wears the robes of a Patrician, twitch almost imperceptibly upward as she relishes the power she
but its skin is pallid, its movements stiff and forced. As it comes holds over the plebian masses.
towards you, you catch a brief flash of torchlight reflected out of See the praetor. The legions he commands are as loyal as
its pupils, like the eyes of a wild animal. That’s when its taught, trained hounds. See the tricks he has taught them. With a click of
colorless lips part and it hisses a command. Its voice sounds his fingers he can have them salivating for blood. With a whistle
muffled, as though you’re hearing it from across a great distance, he can call them to heel from a hundred leagues. With a single
but even without hearing you understand. Your body moves on word, he can command them to sit, stay, speak, or play living.
its own to comply with its instructions. You barely register the See the bastard child. His sire may deny his claim to her
needlelike pain on the side of your neck as it stands close and blood, but his bearing belies his true heritage. Who else but a
your vision begins to fade. Founder could have such a mind for politics, such a tongue for
The Julii are a monument to the glory of Rome. Hand- debate? Who else but a descendant of Mars could endure the
chosen from among the empire’s finest citizens, they are slings and arrows of life as a peregrini with such composure?
preserved like immaculate statues for all eternity. Their flesh is as Who else but a Julii could inspire such obedience in man and
cold and unyielding as marble, their likenesses captured in detail beast alike? Surely, the Camarilla is weaker for denying him the
no sculptor can match. But their will, their will remains alive, title his sire won’t admit is his right.
and strong enough to supplant that of any lesser being with the Let the other Clans live within walls built by our ancestors, by
audacity to meet the eyes of their betters. laws we enforce. The Founders have done what no other Clan
The story of the Founders is inextricably linked to the story before had dared to dream of, let alone actually accomplish – the
of the Camarilla. Without one, the other could not exist. To establishment of a society of the dead, spanning the whole of the
hear them tell it, there were no Kindred before the Julii; all civilized world; an empire every bit as immortal as its citizens.
vampires were not but risen corpses that fed on the blood of the Glory to Rome! Glory to the Camarilla!
living. The Traditions laid down by Aulus Julius Senex are all
that separate modern Kindred from mindless, slavering beasts. Why you want to be us
But just as Kindred civilization depends on the laws made by the
Julii, so too do they rely on a civilized society in which to carry You were born, bred, and embraced to rule. The blood of
out their Masquerade; and thus the Camarilla was founded, out Mars flows through your veins, and by that right you lay claim to
of a mutual need. But at what price was this security purchased? the throne of the greatest empire the world has ever seen. It is
Some legends say that Remus, the first of their line, made a pact your place to give orders, and the place of lesser men to follow.
with birds of smoke and shadow, so that he may rule over the Who wouldn’t want that?
dead just as his brother ruled over the living. Others suggest that
Remus is just a myth; that it was Julius Caesar, from whom the Why you should fear us
Clan derives its name, who sought out these dread Stirges to free The Julii have power. Not just wealth, or status, or strength
him from the tyranny of conscience, so that he could do what of arms… Oh, they have those things too, but that’s just for
needed to be done to forge his empire. A few rumors tell that the show. No, the real power the Julii command is the
alleged Founders have no true claim to their title, though the unquestioning obedience of every man, woman, and child in
Julii would call them heretical. They whisper of some strange Rome. Authority so absolute, even wild beasts take heed. The
variant of Clan Gangrel in Greece that share the Founders’ Julii fiddle while Rome burns, and still they walk away un-singed.
ability to bend others’ minds to their will. Perhaps it was the
birds of Chaos that granted them their power. In the end, it