I think I’ve been conditioned to think of vampire society in the WoD way with princes, etc. I don’t know about anyone else. Perhaps it is really just semantic.
Still, in thinking about this, I also tried to think up alternate ways that a vampire society has been presented. One set of books that has done that is the Joe Pitt series by Charlie Huston. The books have a map of New York that shows how the vamps have their territories broken down. Some work like hippie communes, some like mafia, and some like monks.
It’s a pretty good series for another look at vampires and vampire culture.
That’s awesome. I tend to run vampires like a decentralized drug network. Vamps have territory and owe fealty to the vampire above them. Sometimes they have competing interests and fight with each other, but they are more concerned with werewolves and wizards than each other…
Interview with a Vampire works similar to the WoD, correct?
I saw the movie, but never read any of the other Anne Rice books.
Fevre Dream (by GRRM) is also a nice example of vampire society even though it combines many existing vamp tropes (still a great read). The setting really makes it work for the MS Southern river culture. I also find it a nice mirror of humanity in that, although exaggerated, the vampires have contrast between their noble and animalistic sides. Their organization and display of dominance is also interesting and would likely make for good play.
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Neal Dalton: How does the relationship between sire and progeny work in the books you mentioned?
The Tanya Huff “Blood” series has them as solitary apex predators instinctively unwilling to share their territories with another vampire.