What Dark Ages books have you read, because I've played a Cappadocian, and they do go pretty far back, it's not a fait accompli, we own Clanbook: Cappadocian because of that.
Oh my God, the Giovanni. I love them. Though. Okay. Please note, I have Strong Opinions on this clan, which I am sorry to say, you are now about to have them expressed at you? I've played a Cappadocian and a Giovanni, and I love both clans and have also put lots of thought into them both, but, but, I am also an Italian-American who grew up Catholic (and is no longer), and I have a huge damn chip on my shoulder for anyone who plays the Giovanni as goddamn mafioso mooks or thugs or sexpot necromancers running a bunch of hookers and whorehouses (true LARP story!) with no actual thought to Catholicism and how a bunch of goddamn medieval Italian Catholics would fuse necromancy, ancestor worship, relics, (because I feel that you do kind of need to look at the Catholic saints alongside the medieval concept of incorruptibility, because I am a true nerd, let's face it), and how that would work with fetters and wraiths, the medieval spiritual world, Augustus' deep need for blending the living world and the dead one that seems to be a bit of an inheritor of Cappadocius' need to become a god, and why the clan would fuse together into this incredibly horrific familial love/hate abusive family tree that pretends respectability when everyone knows they're a bunch of creepy fuckers.
But mostly in LARP you get either a bunch of ~spooky necromancers~ or mooks with really bad New Jersey Italian accents threatening to break everyone's kneecaps, and either one makes me roll my eyes a lot. Less so the spooky necromancers, because at least they're not leaning hard on the Italian wiseguy stereotypes, but if I were running a LARP and someone wanted to play another thuggish Giovanni mook, I think I might break my eyeballs from rolling my eyes.
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Date: 2018-12-16 04:24 pm (UTC)From:Oh my God, the Giovanni. I love them. Though. Okay. Please note, I have Strong Opinions on this clan, which I am sorry to say, you are now about to have them expressed at you? I've played a Cappadocian and a Giovanni, and I love both clans and have also put lots of thought into them both, but, but, I am also an Italian-American who grew up Catholic (and is no longer), and I have a huge damn chip on my shoulder for anyone who plays the Giovanni as goddamn mafioso mooks or thugs or sexpot necromancers running a bunch of hookers and whorehouses (true LARP story!) with no actual thought to Catholicism and how a bunch of goddamn medieval Italian Catholics would fuse necromancy, ancestor worship, relics, (because I feel that you do kind of need to look at the Catholic saints alongside the medieval concept of incorruptibility, because I am a true nerd, let's face it), and how that would work with fetters and wraiths, the medieval spiritual world, Augustus' deep need for blending the living world and the dead one that seems to be a bit of an inheritor of Cappadocius' need to become a god, and why the clan would fuse together into this incredibly horrific familial love/hate abusive family tree that pretends respectability when everyone knows they're a bunch of creepy fuckers.
But mostly in LARP you get either a bunch of ~spooky necromancers~ or mooks with really bad New Jersey Italian accents threatening to break everyone's kneecaps, and either one makes me roll my eyes a lot. Less so the spooky necromancers, because at least they're not leaning hard on the Italian wiseguy stereotypes, but if I were running a LARP and someone wanted to play another thuggish Giovanni mook, I think I might break my eyeballs from rolling my eyes.