Clan Qatal

Assassins, mercenaries and sell swords, the Qatali are lethal killers who will serve those that provide adequate pay. Skilled in the arts of stealth and murder, we warriors of the East are often never even seen by our victims before they meet their Final Death. Although our ancestral stronghold is destroyed and our Elders diablerised by vile Salazar usurpers, the Qatali stand against the odds in these modern nights and visit retribution upon our enemies from the shadows. In times past, the Qatali would devour the heart’s blood and souls of our victims, claiming the diablerised vampire’s strength as our own, but after our destruction at the hands of clan Salazar, who practised the same ritual consumption, we forsook this tradition and now wish to destroy all vampires guilty of such a dark violation of another’s essence. However, due to our pervasive history of vampiric cannibalism every last vampire of our blood possesses a soul stained with the black veins that mark all diablerists.

Why you want to be us
You stalk your prey undetected. From the shadows, in a crowd, it matters not. You can stand shoulder to shoulder with your victim and they will never notice you are there. And even if they do it will be too late. You move with the quickness of a sand viper and your toxin is lethal even to the dead. You don’t even have to get up close, a touch is enough to get the job done. But the true rush is in the silent pursuit and the decisive strike.

Why you should fear us
If you make an enemy of us your death is inevitable and it will come unannounced. You will not hear us draw near. We can poison you with a touch. We can appear from nowhere and drive a knife into your back. Try to run and we will catch you. We are not mere assassins. We are death itself.

Why we should fear ourselves
The consumption of our prey has marked our very souls and a similar practice almost led to our extinction at the hands of the Usurpers. We must never again give in to the temptation to taste of the sacred vitae, lest we descend into oblivion, as many others hold our history against us. We must cut our ties with the past and forge a new legacy.