New Blood Order Member

You are a member of the social undead — one small part of a sprawling organism of blood and death. Just as you are part of the swarm of bats, the bats are part of a larger ecosystem, a never-ending cycle of life, death, and blood. You have spent your life in the slow churn of that ecosystem, of predator and prey, in the dark places of the world where the messy parts of vampire culture are on display. There is little squeamishness among the New Blood Order of Vampires, no fear of death or taboo about the dead, just a fierce affirmation of the cycle of blood and death.

Skill Proficiencies: Nature, Intimidation

Tool Proficiencies: Poisoner’s kit

Languages: Choose one of Elvish, Giant, or Undercommon

Equipment: A New Blood Order insignia, a poisoner’s kit, a pet beetle or spider or bat, a set of common clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp worth of mixed coins

Spell List

For you, the spells on the New Blood Order 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.)

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

New Blood Order magic is often accompanied by a sickly green glow and a stench of fresh blood spilt.

Suggested Characteristics

Members of the New Blood Order are unmistakably products of the underdark vampire clans, ill at ease amid the comforts of civilization. They bring about the same discomfort in others by reminding them of death’s inevitable approach & are all some type of major or minor vampire or future vampire spawn to be when they die.

d8	Personality Trait
1	Remember, I could kill you in your sleep. Or put centipedes in your bedroll.
2	I like to remind people of their inevitable demise.
3	Sometimes I give voice to the whispers of the rot, which I hear but no one else does.
4	I do my best to discourage anyone from approaching or talking to me.
5	I have accepted my death. Hence, I don’t fear it.
6	Like roots growing through stone, I am relentless and determined in my action.
7	I put my knowledge of anatomy to use by narrating the injuries my enemies suffer in grisly detail.
8	Like a wild animal, I lash out viciously when I’m provoked — and I’m easily provoked.

d6	Ideal
1	Guild. My guild is all that really matters. (Any)
2	Stoicism. All of us are part of the cyclical march of nature, which will continue with or without us. (Neutral)
3	Nature. The natural world is more important than the edifices of the city and civilization. (Neutral)
4	Interdependence. We are all part of nature’s web. (Lawful)
5	Ambition. The time of Vampire ascendance is at hand, and I intend to have a prominent place in the new world order. (Evil)
6	Live and Let Live. Meddling in the affairs of other guilds is a great way to get squashed like a bug. (Neutral)

d6	Bond
1	I cherish the finger of a family member who was petrified by a medusa.
2	I have an identical twin who is as different from me as any person could be.
3	I want to lead one faction of the guild to a new position of dominance.
4	I love spending time in the moss-covered building where I took part in my first reclamation mission.
5	I found something in the sewer that must never come to light.
6	I am forever grateful to the reclaimer who found me floating facedown in the sewer, moments from death.

d6	Flaw
1	Death comes for us all, so you can’t expect me to take care of someone who can’t fight it off.
2	I assume that anyone outside the New Blood Order looks down on me.
3	I feel a need for revenge against those who enjoy the privilege of living above ground.
4	I don’t bother to couch my opinions in flattering words.
5	I can’t help but pocket any trinket or coin I come across, no matter how worthless.
6	I’m convinced that I’m better and stronger than members of other guilds, isolated as they are from the realities of life and death.

Contacts

To the extent that the New Blood Order acts like a single organism made of many breeds and clans of vampires all worldwide, you are connected to every other member in some way or another thanks to blood magick you are tied to vampirehood. Convinced that the rest of the world is out to get you, or a walking blood bank for you to drain, you find it easy to form close bonds with your guild mates, and harder to make meaningful connections with others.

Roll twice on the New Blood Order Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and once on the Non-Vampire Contacts table.

d8	Contact
1	One of my parents is an elite assassin, a member of the Ochran.
2	I learned combat from a kraul.
3	I know a medusa who is stationed in the guildhall.
4	I had a torrid romance with a spore druid responsible for a large rot farm.
5	There’s a troll in a remote area of the undercity who seems to find me interesting — and who knows more than you’d think.
6	An elf lich is determined to see me become a lich someday, too.
7	A medusa decided it would be more fun to recruit me into the guild than to kill me.
8	I know a findbroker who can locate just about anything, for the right price.

d10	Non-contact
1	An Azorius arrester I literally pulled out of the gutter will do anything for me.
2	Someone joined the Gruul in a battle against the Boros once, and the sergeant of that Boros squad would love to prove that it was me.
3	I had a romance with a Dimir agent whom I still feed secrets to.
4	Roll an additional Golgari contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.
5	I joined the Gruul in a battle against the Boros once, and the chief of that small clan thanks me for turning the tide.
6	An Izzet scientist resents that I sold a scrapped invention I found in the sewer.
7	My undercity explorations led me into an Orzhov vault, and a spirit thinks I stole something valuable.
8	I found a baby beast and sold it to a Rakdos wrangler who remains grateful to me.
9	A Selesnya druid and I share an interest in the same garden, and we have enjoyable arguments there.
10	I regularly pick up refuse from beneath a Simic laboratory, and sometimes I talk to the researcher who dumps it there.