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This is a listing of the major, and minor families found within Clan Giovanni. Information was pulled from both 1st and 2nd edition Clan Giovanni books and Mediums: Speakers with the Dead.

Giovanni: The main family. Formed by Augustus as a massive merchant family who made their mark on the world by being war profiteers from the Crusades. Being masters of necromancy certainly helped matters.

Pisanob: Descendants of Aztec and Mayan priests from Mesoamerica. Their power base lie in the badlands of Mexico and South America.

Hidalgo: Another branch of the family that originated within Mexico. Rumored to be wiped out by the Sabbat as contact with them has been broken

Rosselini: From a similiar Roman decent as the Giovanni. Also accomplished necromancers who typically exert force even when force isn't nessisary to control their wraithly servants. Considered near equal to the main family.

Milliners: A family of bankers bar none. The head of the Milliners has a hard on for destroying the JFKs. While not interested in necromancy, they excell at what they do best and thats finace. The Milliners are a big reason the Giovanni have Boston to this day.

della Passaglia: Another family of traders who were rumored to have been connected to the great Marco Polo himself. They now serve as the Giovanni connection to asian thanotolgy and their prime asian mercantile business men.

Ghiberti: A branch of the family from Africa and responsible for involving the Giovanni in the United States, West Africa, and West Indies trade triangle. Also responsible for inventing the Cenotaph path of necromancy.

Dunsirn: A scottish branch of the Giovanni. Savvy bankers with a nasty fetish for cannabalism.

Putanesca: Sicilian thugs with a temper that puts the Brujah to shame. Every clan has to have their guys to do the dirty work, and the Giovanni have the Putanesca

St John: Cabal of English Masons

Beryn: Flemish traders with inroads into Africa similiar to the Ghiberti

Rothstein: Jewish-American Kabbalists who seem to be centered in Las Vegas

Li Weng: Chinese geomancers based out of San Francisco's Chinatown

Koenig: German arms manufacturers/death cultists

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STATS 

• Background Spirit Slaves - max starting at 2. Typically a PC is a fairly young kindred who should not have a powerful assortment of wraith slaves.

• Players cannot start off with Path of Haunting or Nigrimancy at character creation. These are old paths and may only be taught by an elder of the clan to PCs

   

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NOTES

• ALL Giovanni vampires start on the Sepulchre path of Necromancy (per the books).

• Until a Giovanni learns the first 3 steps of the Sepulchre path of Necromancy, they can not learn any other Necromancy paths (per the books).

• Giovanni characters are expected to be active and INVOLVED in the rest of the Giovanni game - this clan is about cooperative work. If you are more interested in playing a "loner" try a gangrel.

• Members of the specific Giovanni family are held to the highest of standards above all other families. Of all the families for a Pc to come from, the Giovanni family is the most uptight, privileged, rewarding, and rigid. There are clearly defined behaviors expected of Giovanni members per the books - your Giovanni should follow those rules so that they might enjoy the most privilege. Failure is tolerated the LEAST from Giovanni family members.

• Blood bonds outside of the family are NOT tolerated - the Giovanni clan views blood bonds negatively. A blood bond outside the family is a direct threat to their well being.