The Purity of Blood

It was rather unforunate that I was interrupted in my studies of Lady Numa's library and documents that I procured in supposed service to Lord Marcus during my recent visit to L'Universite in Paris.  Recent events have evolved into a somewhat chaotic matter, and I fear that the Camarilla has been shaken to its core by them.  Nevertheless, as a servant of Lady Numa, I am certain that my position in the world is assured come what may.  Now, let's see where was I, oh, yes, the revelation of the power that lies within the very nature of the Ventrue preferences for blood that are called a weakness by lesser clans.  Should you be reading this information without having previously read my introduction, you may be confused, and thus I recommend perusing Part I of The Purity of Blood before continuing.

The Ventrue are possessed of an extremely refined taste that prevents them from consuming any vitae, blood, that does not bear properties specific to the individual Ventrue.  The Ventrue do not view this as a weakness. They see it as a significant sign of their higher standards, and you will quickly understand why they are correct. In many ways, this "weakness" serves as a powerful form of defense in a culture of predators and slavers. No other clan of kindred possesses such universal protection against the blood bond. As a Ventrue cannot ingest any other blood, they are extremely difficult to trick or force into drinking the blood of any vampire once, much less three times.

Indeed to bond a Ventrue, one must first discover what his tastes are.  Then one must, in the likely event that one's own blood does not match such discriminating criteria, seek out another who is suitable.  If such an individual is indeed not a vampire, you must embrace her.  Of course, Ventrue cannot ensure that their new child will be able to drink their blood either, so the process can begin all over again.

This very powerful resistance to the bond, created by the inability to ingest any unsuitable blood, has had some interesting effects upon Ventrue as a whole.  It has provided us with the individual freedom to pursue goals that benefit the clan as a whole without fearing the machinations of our fellow Ventrue to the same degree as other clans do that have led to our clan running the Camarilla.  My clan has never had to fear the common and petty trickery of blood bonding so prevalent in other clans.

What I am trying to explain is that it is still possible to bond the Ventrue childe, merely very difficult.  Marcus, for example, could be bonded to any British girl I could find and embrace.  Of course, making sure that she was bonded to me would be another matter.  It is often much easier for our kind simply to rely upon the mystical disciplines we have derived from our founder to dominate and impress our childer.

The experiments conducted by the scientists at L'Universite apparently corroborate milady's experiences.  Even in extreme cases, such as injection, blood of unsuitable nature is expelled.  As I am unable to bond anyone anyway, being merely a ghoul, this does not concern me, but I find it very interesting nonetheless.  I wonder how Ventrue fare in the Sabbat, where they supposedly are forced to drink from mass communal vessels.  My own experiment in mixing suitable blood with unsuitable blood has suggested that Ventrue cannot consume it.  Thus I must supposition that there are very few Ventrue within the Sabbat, a fact that I find very likely anyway given their temperament, and/or that those that do participate in that sect are from Ventrue bloodlines with tastes that are very expansive and undiscriminating or simply happen to fit the parameters of the radical sect.  One might imagine, for example, that there could be a Ventrue who could only feed upon blood that was the mixed product of three or more individuals, or something of that nature.  I find this an unlikely prospect, however, though one that I would enjoy investigating further.  Well, off to serve Lord Marcus again, lest he grow suspicious of the presence of milady.