>>5883977> Coerce the natives of the new region into serving as guides for our new settlements.The Black Wind of Doom sweeps into the new territory taking hostages and striking down any resistance the locals dare to offer. Then the ultimatum is declared, the last act of their people will be to serve as guides for our settlers, telling us all the secrets of this new land. If they fail in this duty their people will pay the price. If they serve well they be permitted to fade away in peace.
> Code of Bloody Ascension: A legal/holy code defining the rites and requirements for rising through the ranks and society of the Crimson Lords, as well as the limited ways it can be entered by talented and ruthless mortals.When news reaches the Crimson Council that a minor noble on the outskirts has vanished, and a local boar has been sighted in the woods displaying the power and might of a vampire, they do not take the news lightly. The village in question is burnt to cinders, the boar hunted down, spitted and roasted. It isn't until the feast afterwards that one vampire voices the truth.
Any vampire that dies to mortal hands doesn't deserve the title of Crimson Lord at all. Crimson Lord is the title of a berserker warrior blessed by a nameless god of war! Any pudgy upstart aristocrat that let himself be torn down by mortals deserves his fate!
And so the Code of Bloody Ascension was born! A set of provisions, laws and sacred rites that define how one Lord might usurp another’s status and power, and more importantly how even the cattle might earn the right to challenge their betters for a chance to devour and replace a Crimson Lord!
The results are sudden and savage! Nearly every vampire finds himself either beset by challengers, or plotting his own challenge. By the time the blood stops flowing a number of cattle have ascended to divinity, replacing weaklings who never deserved their title. And more importantly the strongest, most ambitious cattle, the ones most likely to cause trouble, are part of the system they once might have tried to overthrow.
