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Just to touch back on the whole Roma/Gypsy thing, the Ravnos clan (who were supposedly descended from the Roma and were the Vampire stand-ins for them) have the clan weakness of compulsory committing crimes. Normally this is theft, but much like the Ventrue have hard-coded feeding preferences each have their own preference for whatever their compelled crime is. Frankly, it's amazing that Paradox has been able to salvage the lineup. The coda of the Demon world origin story is that all the fallen angels get stuck in Hell (which is in the shadowlands--wraith territory) except Lucifer, who gets to walk the earth. Several big bad fallen get summoned by people and root into inanimate objects like trees or similar to become minor deities, since angelic powers literally rewrite the stuff of creation to do effects. But any demon who doesn't have an anchor gets sucked back to hell eventually. Due to the world ending events in the modern era, Hell's walls crack and allow lesser demons to escape, which is where the game line picks up. The metaplot was one thing they ditched when they tried to modernize the setting and rulebooks in the early 2000s (to call the mechanics of 2nd and Revised a bit janky is an understatement). This was not a popular choice, and CCP and Paradox gradually returned to the original setting and tried to smooth out the rough edges, to varying degrees of success. Romanian nazis notwithstanding.
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MonsieurChoc posted:The writers got better at doing research as time went on, and the nWoD has a lot less of that stuff as a result, but the oWoD is full of that. A bunch of white guys from the south trying to be multi-cultural without doing research so their ideas are all based on stereotypes and movies. See also: Kindred of the East
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