Your blood has the stain of vampire-kin. Be it that you trace your lineage back to some unholy union, or found yourself waking with an odd bite mark on your neck, you find yourself undergoing some kind of metamorphosis. Perhaps each day the sun's light makes you that much more uncomfortable, or a shade-like entity beckons you to embrace your nature in your dreams. This fledgeling identity has followed you for quite some time, defining key parts of your life. If it is a gift to embrace or a curse to purge, only you can decide.

Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth

Tool Proficiencies: Disguise Kit

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: A Vampire Clan insignia, a poisoner’s kit, a pet bat with a disabled wing (It cannot fly on its own), a set of common clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp worth of mixed coins

Spell List

For you, the spells on the Vampire Clan Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these spells are added to all of them.)

Vampiric magic is often accompanied by a deep red glow and give off blood's iron-like scent. Plant based spells left over from the Golgari background can be flavored as imbibing nature with the lifeforce of blood, appearing as dried up bramble that clings to life like its caster.

Spell Level	Spells
Cantrip	dancing lights, spare the dying
1st	entangle, ray of sickness
2nd	protection from poison, ray of enfeeblement, spider climb
3rd	animate dead, plant growth
4th	giant insect, grasping vine
5th	cloudkill, insect plague

Spell Level	Spells
Cantrip	dancing lights, spare the dying
1st	entangle, ray of sickness
2nd	protection from poison, ray of enfeeblement, spider climb
3rd	animate dead, plant growth
4th	giant insect, grasping vine
5th	cloudkill, insect plague

Suggested Characteristics

D8	Personality
1	Remember, I could kill you in your sleep. Or leave you with a bite mark on your neck.
2	I often wonder about the existential dread of death.
3	I hold my values true, unchanged by my condition.
4	I do my best to hide my condition and seem like an average citizen.
5	I have accepted my eventual transformation.
6	I find strength in my awakening form.
7	I use my instinctual knowledge of arteries and blood centers to my advantage in combat.
8	Like a wild animal, I lash out viciously when I’m provoked — and I’m easily provoked.

D6	Ideal
1	Clan. Finding my Clan is all that really matters. (Any)
2	Stoicism. I accept the experiences I will gain. (Neutral)
3	The living. The living world is everything and I will protect it no matter what happens to me. (Good)
4	Interdependence. Without clans, our kind would be bloodthirsty animals (Lawful)
5	Hunger. I plan to feed every desire and embrace its instinct. (Evil)
6	Live and Let Live. I am in no position to judge. (Neutral).

D6	Bond
1	I cherish my Clan insignia and wonder about its significance.
2	A blood witch told me I have a special destiny to fulfill, and I’m trying to figure out what it is.
3	I am determined that one day I will lead my clan — or a new one.
4	I know the indentity of another vampire, and it can never come to light.
5	I vow to never feed, no matter how strong the desire.
6	My nature saved me from a near death experience, and I am forever grateful.

D6	Flaw
1	I see scorn in the eyes of the living, even if its not there.
2	I grow distant around exposed necks — be it desire or insecurity.
3	I've grown to hate the warmth of touch.
4	The people who knew me when I was young know my shameful secret, so I can never go home again.
5	I go a bit mad when I see blood.
6	Fear is a powerful motivator. I will do whatever it takes to prevent those who know what I am from seeing me fail, and from those I care about from knowing what I am.

Contacts

D8	Contact
1	One of my parents is secretly or not so secretly a vampire.
2	I learned combat from a Vampire-kin.
3	I know a vampire in my city of birth.
4	A witch gave me a vial which I drank, not telling me it was vampire blood.
5	I am watched by an undead god.
6	An elf vampire is determined to see me become a vampire someday, too.
7	I was a subject in an experiment of blood magic and awoke some primordial connection.
8	I awoke in a partially dug grave in the middle of the night. The gravestone was not mine.