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What are those Revenant things?
Many Kindred used to keep ghouls; some Kindred ghouled whole families of nobles. Then something happened, the Ghoul Families appeared. Exactly how these families came about is unrevealed, but almost all of them belonged to the Tzimisce or can be linked to a group who had dealings with Tzimisce.
The childern within these Ghoul Families are born pre-ghouled. They have a set of "Family" Disciplines already in their blood, and can generate a near equivalent of Vampire blood. The individuals of the Ghoul Families are called Revenants. Revenants have a blood pool of 10 points, and regenerate the special blood at a rate of one point a day. For every 100 years they live, their bloodpool max increases by one bloodpoint. Vampire vitae can be added to their bloodpool in place of their own blood. However, the combination of Vitae and Revenant blood can not exceed the Revenant's normal bloodpool size (same as the ghoul's 10 + Stamina rule.)
The Revenants are known to age very slowly, and can live hundreds of years. However, this causes problems when dealing with mortal society as childhood can last 50 years. (It takes 3 years just for the female to carry the fetus to full term.) Like normal Ghouls, drinking real vampire vitae will stop their aging completely. Like vampires, Revenants have Humanity problems, and many have problems passing for normal. Think of the Addams Family without the cuteness, or the cannibal family from Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
