Vampires are one of the three principal supernatural races. They are split into two main subspecies, the Kindred (also called Cainites) and the Kuei-jin, though generally the Kuei-jin scoff at being compared to their Western counterparts.
In the modern nights The Masquerade has succeeded in convincing most mortals that vampires are nothing more than myth and their knowledge about vampires is limited to what is portrayed in movies and books. Only a handful of human cults and sects, such as the Society of Leopold, are aware of the existence of vampires and their society, though their information is incomplete.
Werewolves regard vampires as servants of something that might be described, in their mythology, as the Spirit of Destruction and Corruption, which makes discussion between the two races rare and neither side understands anything about the other, except for a mutual hostility. As vampires prefer civilization and werewolves the wilds, encounters are rare, but usually violent.
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