Clan Novel 3: Gangrel is a fiction novel for Vampire: The Masquerade. This book is the third of the Clan Novel Saga and focuses on clan Gangrel.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- as humanity fades...
- Hidden dangers lurk in every shadow. Ramona and her friends have learned this much: What they don't know can kill them--and will, if given a chance. Their watchword: beware!
- Beware other vampires—the Sabbat's conscienceless killers. Beware the unknown—a monstrous creature with an oozing, pulsating Eye. Beware supernatural terrors that stalk the wild places. Beware even themselves, for in the blink of an eye their own bloodlust can take control.
- Ramona has fought the hunger for two years, and now she can control her hunger for blood...sometimes. But she must tame her passions or Zhavon, her last link to humanity, will die. Yet with each struggle against the ravenous Beast, her memories of the old life, of mortality. grow fainter and fainter...and her will to resist goes with them.
- This series is a monumental, 13-novel exploration of the forbidden world of the Kindred. What began in Clan Novel: Toreador continues here, and its ending will determine the fate of every human—and inhuman—being in the world.
Plot[]
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Contents[]
Part One: Stone[]
Part Two: Bone[]
Part Three: Ash[]
About the Author[]
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Clan Novel excerpts for Setite and Ventrue[]
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Background Information[]
The novel was reprinted as part of an Omnibus edition, Clan Novel Saga Volume 1: The Fall of Atlanta, in 2003.
The 1999 Jan-Jun Catalog has a different text entry for the book:
Shedding Light...
It began with Clan Novel: Toreador; a 13-novel series concerning the Kindred. This series comprises the biggest event in the history of the World of Darkness - and this is only the third book!
This epic series of over one million words will reveal the secrets of the vampires' hidden world, from the smallest detail to the grandest marvel. The Nosferatu's apparent scheme to put the Eye of Hazimel into the hands of the Setite, Vegel, will decide the fates of Kindred legions. Can you say "Antediluvian"?
...on the World of Darkness
Each novel of this series features a member of one of the 13 vampire clans, and Clan Novel: Gangrel reveals the underbelly of the Camarilla through Ramona, a neonate member of Clan Gangrel who must face a terrible power - a force so great that the Gangrel elders believe it is an Antediluvian, one of the most ancient vampires. And when the Camarilla doesn't believe them...
Appearances[]
Characters[]
- Anwar, Assamite assassin
- Victoria Ash (briefly mentioned)
- Darnell, Gangrel and Ramona's coterie mate
- Johnston Foley, Tremere Regent Secundus of the Chantry of the Five Boroughs
- Jacqueline, Tremere Apprentice Tertius
- Jenny or Jen, Gangrel and Ramona's coterie mate
- Leopold, crazed "Toreador"
- Parmenides (briefly mentioned)
- Jan Pieterzoon (briefly mentioned)
- Ramona, protagonist and Clan Gangrel's signature character
- Rolph, Nosferatu spy
- Hesha Ruhadze (briefly mentioned)
- Aisling Sturbridge (briefly mentioned)
- Quintus Sturbridge (briefly mentioned)
- Tanner, Gangrel and Ramona's sire
- Sascha Vykos (briefly mentioned)
- Zhavon, mortal girl
Minor characters[]
- Aaron, Adrien, Alvina, Angelique, Eddie, Hadd, Irma, Kenny, Mama, Mr. Hernandez, Mrs. Hernandez, Reggie, Rex, Rover
- List of Gangrel vampires who died attacking Leopold: Ratface, Brant Edmonson, Elijah the Cruel, Stalker-in-the-Woods, Snodgrass, Mutabo, Renée Lightning, Joshua Bloodhound, Edward Blackfeather, Emil, Ronja, Peera Giftgiver, Louisa, Crenshaw, Bernard Fleetfoot, Lisa Strongback, Aileen Brock-childe, Jacob One-ear, and Maria Evernorth.
Locations[]
- Atlanta
- Hayesburg
- Los Angeles
- New York City
- Briefly mentioned: Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, Chicago, Columbia, Norfolk, Raleigh, Richmond, Roanoke, Savannah, Washington D.C., Wilmington
Terminology[]
Eye of Hazimel, Ramona's coterie, Sabbat, Toreador, Tremere (Regent, Apprentice)
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