Road of Bones

Via Ossium (Road of Bones)

Nickname: Scholars. Followers of this morbid road are fascinated with the nature of death and the soul, and how the unlife of the Damned relates to both. They study death in all its forms with a cold detachment, seeking to learn more about its true nature. The road has few adherents, mostly Cappadocians and a few morbid Tzimisce. Cainites, according to followers of this Road, are suspended between life and death. Though they are not alive, like mortals, neither are they dead, as they may still act and think. Those who walk this path are by turns morbid and existential. The only knowledge denied to them is the secret of death, and therefore they have become obsessed with it. Adherents to this Road do not revere life on an individual basis, but rather as a collective. As such, many vampires on this Road conduct sacrifices or experiments in which subjects die, so that they may study the journey of the back to its origin.

Hierarchy of Sins to the Road

(1 is the most fundamental and 10 is the most minor)

10 Showing fear of death

9 Failing to study an occurrence of death

8 Refusing to kill when the opportunity presents itself

7 Refusing to feed when hungry

6 Succumbing to frenzy

5 Refusing to share insight with another follower of the Road

4 Letting compassion sway a decision

3 Acting in a sacrificial manner

2 Needlessly preventing a death

1 Showing aversion to death