[UA] The Outsider: miscellaneous observations

[Nick Wedig]

>The deluge destroyed all of Caine's progeny, both in
>Genesis 6,7 and 8 and in the Septateuch (sp?).  Lilith
>survived in some Jewish lore and some extra-cannonical
>stuff to create nightmares and, sometimes, monsters. 
>But the Caine being the father of all vampires stuff
>is a bit of license on Rein-dot-Hagen's part.  It was
>a clever way of reworking a myth (most of Vampire was
>pretty clever, except the rules, which were basically
>Shadowrun with d10s.  I kind of liked the
>"Disciplines" part until people started saying I
>couldn't mix and match unless I was one of them
>clanless types.) 
>
>PS. Is Grendel related to Caine?  I don't remember
>that bit.

Yes, he's quite specifically described as descended from Cain.  See:

...Grendel the demon, possessor of the moors,began his crimes.  He was of a race of monsters exiled from mankind by God-- He was of the race of Cain, that man punished for  murdering his brother.

I lost the line breaks (and line numbers, sorry) when copying, but that's a quote from one translation I found online.

Grendel makes for another Outsider, (he's described as the 'wanderer of the wastelands' and is denied a place in their society) of a variety quite similar to the vampire minus its seductive aspects (perhaps more like the nosferatu than like Bela Lugosi).

Mr. Teapot
english scholar

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