Genre Proposal: Giovanni Genre Packet

In accordance with Coordinator bylaw 3.c.iii -iii) Genre Coordinators must pass before Council any plot, enforced policy,
or binding edict they wish to use which they can reasonably expect to affect
multiple chronicles and these proposals need not be seconded, but go
immediately into discussion.

OWBN GIOVANNI GENRE REVISED

Written by: Daniel L. Gill, Jr.

Revised in December, 2006 by: Amanda Valandingham, Joshua Wasta

Editors: Christina C. Peterson and Michael Yesenofski

Backgrounds by : John Mann, Thicker than Blood, and World of Darkness:

Mafia

Wraith by : Adam "Laz" Lazaroff

Etiquette by : David Hutton

Contributors: Jerome Lamberth

Special thanks to: Greg Stolze and John Chambers, Thicker than Blood, Chris Sauter, Ed Nabors, and Rojir McCrady. The authors of the (OWbN) ST Guide to Giovanni.

1. INTRODUCTION

"Embraced by a fallen Clan during nights long past, the Giovanni has always had ambition. Now they bring that ambition to bear on a world they would claim for themselves. With vast wealth, the ability to command the spirits of the dead, and a strict familial hierarchy, the greatest enemy to stand against Clan Giovanni is itself." - Unknown

The history of the Clan Giovanni is rather simple: A death cult of deranged Kindred embraced the scion of the Giovanni family. This scion wasted no time in burring a knife in their backs. He then embraced childer of his own, who became very rich and powerful and all the other Kindred resented them for it.

The only Clan to have truly stood outside Kindred politics since its inception, Clan Giovanni has a reputation that causes most fellow kindred to avoid them at all costs The Clan's taste for the macabre is something that even the stuffy Ventrue and the wild Brujah can agree is not natural. They are the only clan that knows the joy of life, the dark twilight of unlife and the bitter ashes of true death. Founded during the Dark Ages and coming to ascendance in the Renaissance, the Family of Giovanni has since grown to include several other families. They are now stronger than they have ever been, while all around them disintegrate into dust Still, suspicion of this Clan has continued to the present day. By staying neutral in quaint battles, the Giovanni have had free rein to build its merchant empire. Now the Clan's wealth is undeniable, but no one knows the exact purpose for which it employs this wealth. Few outsiders have ever taken part in the Clan's necromantic rituals, so the purpose of these is likewise a mystery. Instead, suspicions and innuendoes have taken the places of facts and truths. Clan Giovanni is one of the more rigidly controlled Clans and contact is constantly maintained between members of the Clan.

As has been foretold, if the Final Nights are upon all Kindred then be glad that you are a member of the one Clan truly prepared to see these times and survive; This genre packet is a good start, for it contains information that every young Don-to-be needs (all Giovanni for that matter) to know and to take to his/her no-longer beating heart. The Clan is more widely spread and in more positions of power than all the other Clans know. The Clan will complete their objectives Sport mediaAir Jordan 1 GS