
- •Credits
- •Table of Contents
- •Introduction
- •Lexicon
- •Classical Beginnings
- •The Heroic Age
- •The Emperor Myth: A Cautionary Tale
- •New Worlds
- •Recent Nights
- •Etiquette and Protocol
- •Titles and Offices
- •Invictus Etiquette
- •Invictus Philosophy
- •A Covenant of Clients and Patrons
- •Cyclical Dynasties
- •Domain Politics
- •The Inner Circle
- •A Courtier’s Unlife
- •Joining the Invictus
- •Guilds
- •Relations with Others
- •The Acquisition of Power
- •Factions
- •The Cherubim
- •Most Noble Fellowship of Artemis
- •The Octopus
- •The Most Honorable Order of the Thorned Wreath
- •Die Nachteulen
- •Ghoul Families
- •Hostewicks
- •Bulls
- •Bloodlines
- •Annunaku
- •Kallisti
- •Lynx
- •Malocusians
- •Sotoha
- •Spina
- •Blood Oaths
- •Oaths of Avoidance
- •Oaths of Performance
- •Mutual Oaths
- •Dynastic Merits
- •Disciplines
- •Courtoisie
- •Domus
- •Perfidy
- •Kamen
- •Tenure
- •Devotions










By Kraig Blackwelder, David Chart, Ray Fawkes and Dean Shomshak Vampire® created by Mark Rein•Hagen

Credits
Written by: Kraig Blackwelder, David Chart, Ray Fawkes and Dean Shomshak with Will Hindmarch Vampire and the World of Darkness created by Mark Rein•Hagen
Developer: Will Hindmarch Editor: Scribendi.com
Art Director: Pauline Benney
Book Design: Pauline Benney
Interior Art: Carron Antoine, Samuel Araya, Jason Chan, Marko Djurdjevic, Andrew Hepworth, Tomasz Jedruszek, Mark Nelson, Torstein Nordstrand, RK Post and Cyril Van Der Haegen
Front Cover Art: Jean-Sebastien Rossbach
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Table of Contents
PRELUDE |
1 |
INTRODUCTION |
9 |
CHAPTER ONE: |
22 |
A HISTORY OF THE INVICTUS |
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CHAPTER TWO: |
34 |
UNLIFE IN THE INVICTUS |
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CHAPTER THREE: |
88 |
INVICTUS AND THE DANSE MACABRE |
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CHAPTER FOUR: |
128 |
FACTIONS AND BLOODLINES |
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CHAPTER FIVE: |
176 |
BLOOD OATHS AND DISCIPLINES |
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APPENDIX: |
214 |
ALLIES AND ANTAGONISTS |
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