[UA] The Outsider: miscellaneous observations

[Bailey Watts]

>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.)

I seem to remember the whole vamires are descended from Caine from a bunch 
of eighties vamire novels.

>PS. Is Grendel related to Caine?  I don't remember
>that bit.

In the translation of Beowulf I read he was something like Caine's 
great-grandkid.  Of course Caine is the first child of Adam.  And since Adam 
was just sort of created without any knowledge of good/evil or any of that 
crap and Caine was the first to be BORN that would make him Il Comte.  
Factor in the whole immortal walking the earth bit and there's a hook of 
some sort in there.
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