Overview:
The Sisterhood is a secretive Bloodline of women who had been Gangrel, but through a ritual entwinement with spiritual energy became something . . . else. Their progenitor, “Nana” or Kahenta, was a powerful healing woman among her people when the vikings arrived in North America. She was embraced by a Valkyrie from Europe before setting out on her own, away from everything she had ever known with only the spirits as her guide. Kahenta would go on to found her brood through the centuries, finding Gangrel who seemed drawn to a new way of unlife. Her “Sisters” traveled far and wide throughout North America, though were welcomed back at the half moon for a gathering in a cave in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Not every Sister made the journey to the cave for every gathering, though all were always welcome and went when they could. That is, until the cave was overrun by Black Spiral Dancers and servitors of a power the Sisterhood opposes.
The Sisterhood is primarily concerned with guarding the interests of the spirits of the earth and shepherding them in these trying times. The Sisterhood is also aware of an unraveling of the world, of which the Gehenna myths are a part. They therefore strive to find small corners of the earth to save when the time comes. They spread far to follow signs and listen to the stirrings of the spirits.
The Sisterhood is skilled in the arts of Spiritus, a signature Discipline of immense power and adaptability. Sisters are often associated with mountain lions, both as traveling companions and as Protean shapes to which they are most often attuned.
The Sisterhood number is small and selective. Few know of their existence and they wield no political power whatsoever, though that is not their aim.
Nana Kahenta was killed by a demon in Prince William County while she guarded the Mekhetim Temple. Instead of meeting Final Death, Kahenta was the first of the Sisterhood to “pass into Spirit.” Rose and Vousette witnessed this and word of it spread to the rest of the Sisterhood.
Abigail
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Abigail arrives in Prince William County, Virginia on January 8, 1995. is among the Sisters who enters the Temple to travel into the Astral (Spirit) Plane.
Ameline
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Ameline is a French creole woman who makes her range in Upstate New York to Vermont and New Hampshire. Ameline attends the Sisterhood Gather at a cave in the Blue Ridge Mountains on December 26, 1994. She shares her stories around the fire: primarily that she had witnessed the region empty out of Sabbat packs, coming to the war in the Potomac. The Sabbat flank is largely unguarded and its cities are emptied of Cainites . . . for the time being. Ameline is among the sisters who witnessed the Gateways manipulate the node in the cave. Ameline arrives a night early for the Gather on the Temple grounds on January 7, 1995 near Manassas, Virginia. She is among the surviving Sisters who enters the Temple to travel into the Astral (Spirit) Plane on January 8, 1995.
Blue, Luna
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Luna Blue has long, dark hair. She is lithe and muscular yet curvy with piercing eyes. Luna attends the Sisterhood Gather at a cave in the Blue Ridge Mountains on December 26, 1994. Luna meets up with Rose and the others of her coterie when they come to the cave. She has some discussions with Rose in private about the Path of the Whispering Spirits. Luna leaves Rose with an item of power when she goes on her sojourn back to her range before Rose arises the next night. Luna returns to her sisters for the Sisterhood Gather near Manassas on January 8, 1995. She and Rose speak about a few things when she arrives and Rose gives Luna a gift. Luna is among the surviving Sisters who enter the Temple to travel into the Astral (Spirit) Plane.
Freyjasdottir, Helga
Valkyrie (Ahrimane). Helga has never been met as yet by the Player Characters, but Rose heard tale of Nana/Kahenta’s sire who braved the icy waters of the North Atlantic in a viking longboat to make her way to Vinland (modern day Newfoundland, Canada). She was either sent into torpor or final death by the Beast who attacked her and her childe some time before the English and French colonization of North America. Whether she has passed on or remains on or in the earth is unknown.
Frieda
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Before joining the Sisterhood, Frieda was an outlander Gangrel who Rose had befriended. As a Gangrel, she didn’t travel much into the cities unless she had to. Rose sought her advice and training on a number of occasions, as they were introduced at a Gangrel Gather in the 80s. Rose flew as a bird of prey to meet Frieda on December 8, 1994 at one of her farms out in the boonies of Virginia following the Fall of Georgetown. Frieda gives Rose shelter for the day and some advice and intel. The next night, Frieda takes Rose to meet Nana, the matriarch of the Sisterhood. Frieda hunts with Rose and the other cats of the Sisterhood and reveals to Rose that Frieda had already made the transformation and fused with a spirit. Once Rose was ready, Frieda is a part of the ritual spiritual embrace of Rose into the Sisterhood. Rose returns to Frieda’s farm outside of Lovettesville, Va. with her new coterie on December 25, 1994. Frieda agrees to provide hospitality to the group if they will provide blood for three ghouls who have been starved of viable vampiric vitae for too long. Asa is able to feed the ghouls, at the cost of his own moral code. Frieda leads the coterie into the mountains, first by truck and then on foot. They go with her to the Sisterhood’s ritual cave. Frieda participates in the Gather over the next night. After besting Black Spiral Dancers, the coterie elects to return to Frieda’s farm from the compromised cave. Frieda packs the few belongings of the Sisterhood, and the troupe leaves with the coterie, Vousette, Nana Kahenta and those traveling with the coterie. Frieda helps the caravan to make it to the Temple outside Manassas. She then leaves on December 27, 1994 to help other Sisters find their way to the new Gather location near Manassas. Frieda returns to the farmhouse in the nights leading up to the January 8, 1995 Gather. Frieda is among the sisters who travel in the Temple into the Astral (Spirit) Plane / penumbra, yet Rose can sense some trepidation coming from Frieda (likely due to her fretting over the fate of the ghouls she cares for).
Gabriela
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Gabriela appears as a middle-aged hispanic woman. Gabriela met Rose at the Sisterhood’s mountain lion-filled cave in the mountains near the West Virginia border on December 9, 1994. Gabriela went hunting with Rose as a great cat. She recounts that in life she had been a union organizer, but her daughter was killed by hired goons of the bosses. On December 10, Gabriela was in her monstrous (yet beautiful) werecat form to perform the rites upon Rose, transforming her into a Sister. Gabriela is among the Sisters at the Gather on December 26, 1994 at the Sisterhood cave in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Around the fire, she tells of her escape from a fight with Black Spiral Dancers, yet confirming the death of their Sister, Maria. She had been wounded in the battle. Gabriela was among the Sisters who witnessed the Gateways manipulate the node in the cave. The following night, Gabriela left shortly after sundown. Gabriela rejoins her sisters on January 8, 1995 at the Gather in Prince William County at a burned out farmstead housing the Mekhetim Temple, the Irad. Gabriela is among the sisters who travel in the Temple into the Spirit (Astral) Plane.
Hitomi
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Hitomi is among the Sisters who arrived at the Mekhetim Temple near Manassas, Virginia on January 8, 1995 for the Gather. Hitomi’s range is in the Anarch Free States. Rose can sense some trepidation in Hitomi in going into the Spirit Plane, nonetheless, she is among the sisters who travel in the Temple to the Spirit (Astral) Plane on January 8, 1995.
Kahenta, “Nana”
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Matriarch of the Sisterhood. Rose met Kahenta in a cave in the mountains near the West Virginia border on December 9, 1994. Kahenta was surrounded by mountain lions and her Sisterhood. After listening to Rose’s unlife story, “Nana” told Rose of hers. According to Kahenta, she was a shaman or spiritual woman of a people in what is now known as Newfoundland, Canada, but to her, was a sacred place. Vikings landed nearby shortly after 1020 (though, Kahenta was not aware of “dates” for such things until the 1960s or 1970s) and brought with them at least one Kindred stowaway: Helga Frejasdottir. Helga was running from a creature and sought the aid of Kahenta who has never turned away a woman in need: even from this Cainite the likes of which Kahenta had never seen. A “beast” known only as a Jormundander attacked Kahenta and Helga. Kahenta’s spirits fought off the creature, but not before it had mortally wounded Kahenta. According to Kahenta, Helga embraced her in gratitude. Kahenta left her people for fear that she might hurt them. She travelled, but was put into torpor after a battle and rested for centuries until her spirits woke her.
She tells Rose that she has since travelled about, gathering her spirits and mountain lions and those Kindred women who would join her in working to preserve a slice of the world from the depredations of an upcoming apocalyptic event. Kahenta asked Rose to join the Sisterhood, but informed her of the costs. The following night, on December 10, 1994, Nana began the ritual on Rose to transform her into one of the Sisters. She exsanguinated Rose, spitting her blood into the fire, and then gifted Rose her own blood while the other Sisters forced the spirits into Rose’s body. The spirits tore into Rose, renewing her and transforming her powers into the equivalent of an Ahrimane, though the Sisters are unaware of that lineage. Nana was in the cave with only Vousette when Rose awoke on December 14. She answered Rose’s questions and told her that she would be back at the Sisterhood cave in the half moon. Rose next saw Nana Kahenta at the Sisterhood Gather on December 25, 1994. Nana guided the Gateways in their abilities to manipulate ley lines and nodes, confirming her belief. The following evening, the Sisterhood dispersed. Nana, Vousette, Frieda and the Player Characters fled the cave after a messy confrontation with two Black Spiral Dancers. After gathering forces at Frieda’s farm, Nana accompanied Rose and her party. Frieda left their number after they arrived at the Temple near Manassas. Nana and Vousette went on a tour about the anomaly site and then set about creating a spiritual flame to keep the area obfuscated. Nana would tend to the flame and speak with her conjoined spirit, Ya-hewei, throughout the next few nights, rousing to aid from time to time, such as on December 28, 1994, when Rose roused her after the door to the Temple was opened. She advised discretion and patience. Nana fought the demon, Xaxil, as it tried to overtake the Temple on January 1, 1995. Nana was killed, but instead of falling to Final Death, she “passed into Spirit:” a new state of being as yet unknown to the Children of Caine. Rose was able to commune with her spirit, a great spectral owl, as the consciousness flew over the Temple following the attack. [Note: to see Nana’s actions after becoming an Astral spirit, see her entry in the Spirit Characters Page.]
Kara
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Kara is a woman with bushy, curly red hair. Rose met her on December 9, 1994 at the Sisterhood’s mountain cave. Kara goes hunting with Rose in her cat form. The following night, Kara has a tunic she made for Rose to wear. Kara transforms into her werecat form and startles Rose. After Nana calms down Rose, Kara joins with her Sisters in the rites to transform Rose into one of them. Rose comes to know that Kara had been a social worker in life and was brutally taken by the Sabbat. Kara was freed of the Vaudlerie by the ritual making her a Sister. Kara is present at the Sisterhood Gather on December 26, 1994. She is a witness to the Gateways using their power to manipulate a node. Kara relates her stories by the fire during the Gather. She leaves to return to her range in Tennessee following the Gather, though she pledges to return if possible at the half moon to the Sisterhood’s new location. Kara is among the sisters who attend the Gather in rural Prince William County next to the Mekhetim Temple on January 8, 1995. Kara is among the sisters who travel in the Temple into the Spirit (Astral) Plane on January 8, 1995.
Lottie
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Lottie is among the Sisters who arrived at the Mekhetim Temple near Manassas, Virginia on January 8, 1995 for the Gather. She is among the Sisters who travel in the Temple to the Spirit (Astral) Plane.
Maria
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Maria was among the Sisters in the mountain lion cave high in the mountains of the West Virginia border that Rose met on December 9, 1994. She is a heavy-set white woman. She told Rose that in life, she was a homemaker with an abusive husband. She made a run for it, but while out on her own, she was embraced by a Gangrel. As is often the case with Gangrel childer, she was left to wander. Maria stumbled about at unlife until Nana found her and took her in, one day re-embracing her. On December 10, Maria was in her monstrous (yet beautiful) werecat form to perform the rites upon Rose, transforming her into a Sister. Maria was to return to her range in the Pacific Northwest, and was killed in an attack by a pack of Black Spiral Dancers. Gabriela had been attacked with her, but (barely) survived. Her lost spirit, fractured from the spirit of the land, found its way back to the Sisterhood cave in rural Virginia where she thrashed about unable to communicate with her sisters. Gwenevieve noticed her and used her wiles to make Maria one of her bound spirits. [Note: to see Maria’s actions after becoming a wraith, see her entry in the Spirit Characters Page.]
Mia
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Mia is among the Sisters who arrived at the Mekhetim Temple near Manassas, Virginia on January 8, 1995 for the Gather. She is among the Sisters who travel in the Temple to the Spirit (Astral) Plane.
Olivia
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Olivia was at the Sisterhood Gather at their cave in the Blue Ridge Mountains on December 26, 1994. Olivia was among the Sisters who witnessed the Gateways manipulate the ley lines and node in the cave. She had a quiet word in the cave with Asa about a Salubri named Helena and Olivia’s own failed attempt at a Suspire. Olivia told Asa that she would go to Montana to try to find Helena and bring her back to meet Asa (assuming Helena would come). Olivia left for Montana the next night.
Paulette
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Paulette is a Tlingit Haida woman whose range is in faraway Alaska. She traveled all the way back to the Sisterhood Gather in Virginia on December 26, 1994 to give her news. The Sisters of the North heard tale of a great war among the supernatural creatures in Russia. Garou refugees fled across the strait into Bold Eyes territory in Alaska, and the Bold Eyes took them in. She heard stories of an old witch or something who had overtaken Russia, locking everyone else out in a psychic dome: not unlike what now surrounds the Southern Potomac Empire, though broader in the types of creatures the “curtain” would target. She left the other three Sisters of the North to remain on watch in Alaska while she came to report their findings at the Gather in Virginia. Paulette returned to the Sisterhood on January 8, 1995 for the Gather. She brought two refugees from Russia with her. Paulette was among the sisters who travelled in the Temple into the Sprit (Astral) Plane on January 8, 1995.
Tiaan
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Tiaan is among the Sisters who arrived at the Mekhetim Temple near Manassas, Virginia on January 8, 1995 for the Gather. Tiaan is a the oldest surviving convert to the Sisterhood after Nana’s passing into Spirit. Tiaan’s range is in Alaska. Paulette told Tiaan of the dire situation, and she braved the long journey to Virginia. Tiaan is among the Sisters who travel in the Temple to the Spirit (Astral) Plane on January 8, 1995.
Thaia
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Thaia was a member of The Sisterhood. She was killed by corrupted “agents” of the Pentex Corporation while on a mission some time in early December, 1994. She was then split from her conjoined spirit (as a Sister) then returned to the cave of The Sisterhood in the Blue Ridge Mountains as a confused and angry wisp. She was mourned by the other Sisters in a Gather ceremony on December 26, 1994. In the ceremony, the Sisters chanted her True Name . . . which was very helpful for an attending Giovanni. Thaia’s fetters were found and used and she became bound to the necromancer, Gwenevieve Rossellini. [Note: to see Thaia’s actions as a wraith, see her entry in the Spirit Characters Page]
Vousette
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Vousette is a tall Black woman with strikingly beautiful features. Rose meets Vousette in the Sisterhood’s mountain cave on December 9, 1994. Vousette seems to be one of the primary spirit-workers to help Nana prepare the rituals. On December 10, 1994, Vousette aids in the rites to transform Rose into a Sister. Vousette stays with Nana for the night Rose awakes in her new body in the Sisterhood cave (December 14). She says little, but intimates that she will be back at the half moon for the gathering of the Sisterhood. Vousette is among the sisters at the Gather at the Sisterhood cave on December 26, 1994. Vousette witnesses the Gateways’ abilities to manipulate nodes and is around during the Black Spiral Dancers attack. Vousette travels with Nana and the Gateways (and their growing retinue) to the Temple site near Manassas, Virginia. Vousette helps Nana in maintaining the spiritual fire which Obfuscates the area and makes it impossible to scry. Vousette helps to fend off an attack from a demon and cultist Malkavians on January 1, 1995, and is wounded. Vousette maintains the obfuscating flame with Rose’s help. Vousette teaches Rose some of the ways of the Spirit. Vousette is among the surviving Sisters who travel to the spirit (Astral) plane on January 8, 1995.
Wildtree, Ora
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Ora Wildtree attended the Sisterhood Gather at their cave in the Blue Ridge Mountains on December 26, 1994. She witnessed the Gateways as they manipulated a node. She related her stories at the fire of what she witnessed in her travels. Ora returns to her range in the American Southwest following the Gather, but promises to meet her Sisters again in their new location on a half moon when time permits her. Ora is among the Sisters who meet at the Temple site in Prince William County, Virginia, for the Gather on January 8, 1995. Ora is among the sisters who travel in the Temple into the Spirit (Astral) Plane.