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vampires fear to tread. Glide through the elegant salons of
Europe's elders and trek through the depths of the Dark
Continent. Lose yourself in Peking's Forbidden City and find
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it was not meant that we shouldjourney far.
- H.P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”
Authors: MarkCenczyk (Asia), BenChessell (Caribbean),Richard
Dansky (North America), Graeme Davis (British Isles),James Estes
(Egypt), Alex Hammond (Caribbean), Angel McCoy (Africa),
Deena McKinney (Europe), James Moore (Central and South
America), Lucien Soulban (Arabia), Richard Watts (Australia)
Additional Material by: Robert Hatch and Richard Dansky
Developer: Robert Hatch
Editor: Ronni Radner
Vice President in Charge of Production: Richard Thomas
Art Directors: Aileen E. Miles and Lawrence Snellv
Layout and Typesetting: Matt Milberger
Interior Art: Jason Brubaker, Pia Guerra, Eric Lacombe, Ron
Spencer, Michael Gaydos, E. Allen Smith, Dennis Calero, Larry
MacDougal, Anthony Hightower, Heather McKinney
Front Cover: John Matson
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Because of the mature themes involved, reader discretion
is advised. Printed in Canada
Andrew “Renaissance Man” Bates. He sells, he draws, he writes, he
interviews, he sings - and those are only the talents I can print.
Emory “Double Duty” Hester, for sharing my pain (if not my
Guinness).
Laura “Deathbird Row” Perkinson, for following Buckelew’s foot-
steps to hell.
Michelle “Flecktone” Prahler, for our, um, eh, bonding over, eh, er,
(hack! wheeze! ), Ball-Gag Phlegm-Man and, uh, um, Kool Menthol
Woman (bleehk!).
Greg “Delta Delta Delta” Fountain, for bringing out the trailer park
in all of us. (Now put it back where you found it, Greg!)
WORDFROM THE
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This month‘s word: DOH!
When I first began work on Clanbook: Lasombra, I was
pleased by how flavorful and atmospheric it was. Much of this,
of course, stems from the intrinsic epistolaryflair of Mr. Richard
Dansky, but credit must also be given to the discernment and
insight of the tremendously talented Jennifer Hartshorn.
Unfortunately, credit was not given - not where it was
supposed to be, anyway. Not knowing that Jen had already done
some development o n the book prior to my receiving it, I
inadvertently left her off the credits, and for this egregious
mistake I grovelingly extend the humblest of apologies. I am
humility personified! I am scum! I am a base, verminous,
loathsome, pathetic, cretinous wretch little higher on the evo-
lutionary tree than a slime mold!
Future printings of the book will have this error rectified.
(Okay, Jen, I’m through typing! Let go of my trachea now -
please - gakk -can’t breat09u*[a%jd’fs+
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CHAPTER ONE: HOME OF THE BRAVE: NORTHAMERICA

BY NIGHT(RICHARD
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CHAPTER TWO:THECARIBBEAN IN DARKNESS

(BEN CHESSELL ANDALEXHAMMOND) 19
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CHAPTERTHREE:EL6AlLE DE SANGRE: AND SOUTH

CENTRAL (JAMES MOORE)
AMERICA 27
CHAPTERFOUR:THEBRITISHISLES(GRAEMEDAVIS) 43
CHAPTER FIVE: TALESOF THE OLDCOUNTRY: EUROPEBY NIGHT(DEENAMCKINNEY) 67
CHAPTER SIX: DESERT WINDS: ARABIA 61 NIGHT (LUClEN SOUl6AN) 89
KINGDOM:
THEFORGOTTEN
CHAPTERSEVEN: EGYIT (JAMES ESTES) 103
CHMTEREIGHT:AFRICA:THEDARKCONTINENT M c C o y1
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THEKINDRED 133
CHAPTER TEN:AUSTRALIA
BY NIGHT~R~CHARD
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thousands of them. My planes, my guns, my money, my soldiers -it’s my

blood on my hands.It’s all my fault. I must not think bad thoughts.
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- X, ‘‘I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts”

No other continent is as much a battleground between Sabbat

and Camarilla as North America. Then again, no other prize is as rich.
GEOGRA~HY
New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. are all worth fighting Europe’s Kindred population often exists along clearlydelineated
over; the markets, the media and the missiles are all desirable. There clanandsect lines.Spain?LasombraandBrujah.Austria?Tremere.. .and
are rich veins of silicon to be mined in the computer firmsofCalifomia, so on. This is not so inNorth America. Repeated waves of immigration
Washington state and Massachusetts; there are also vast untapped to and migration across the continent, not to mention a decided lack
natural resources in the Canadian north and in the wilds of Alaska. of wars to decide internal boundaries,have thoroughlymixed vampires
The Great Plains are still the breadbasket of the world, and starvingan of all clans and affiliations across the United States and Canada.
enemy’s herds is as good as starving him directly. There are prizes well
worth going to war for here, and the master strategists of both sides -
as well as those who stand behind them -know it.
In Europe the battles have grown a bit stale and a bit predict-
able. Here they are still fresh and savage, as even the denizens of
longest standing have been here for a mere handful of centuries.
Things have not ossified the way they have in the Old Country, nor
are there still-potent indigenous creatures strong enough to chal-
lenge the Kindred for rule of the night. On a stage mostly cleared of
those pesky werewolves, and with the Antediluvian puppeteers not
betraying their hands to their puppets, a bloody play is acted out
every night by the vampires of North America. Even the bit players
find the action intense and deadly.

HOME OF THE BRAVE: NORTH AMERICA BY NIGHT