
The reasons for Embracing are different as Kindred themselves: Embracing is cheap, and mass Embraces are used by the Sabbat and occasionally by other clans for strategic and tactical reasons. Ventrue preferences take several weeks to define, and the Nosferatu change can take up to a month as the body re-forms to accept the curse.Ī new Embrace is one Generation higher than his sire and is of either the same clan or Caitiff. It may take the fledgling several days before the full impact of the curse becomes apparent. For most vampires the Embrace is thus followed immediately by a moment of humiliation. With less than a blood point available and no experience dealing with a fully raging Beast, the childe is likely to enter a hunger Frenzy at the first sight of blood.

Once the candidate is drained of blood, the sire gives the candidate a small amount of his or her own blood, which instantly transforms the candidate into a new childe.Īfter an Embrace the first reaction of most childer will be raw hunger.

When a vampire wants to create a childe, the first step is to find a suitable, mortal human and drain this candidate dry, any means that results in a bloodless corpse will do, but feeding is most commonly used.
