Path of the Devil
A Path on the Road of Sin
Sobrequiet: Adversaries
The Beast rages. It hurls itself ceaslessly against the cage of a Cainite's will, rejecting the right of anything but itself to rule, control or command it. It is a creature of wrath and rebellion, driving its bearer to acts of destruction and rejection of all that is "virtuous" and "holy."
Followers of the Path of the Devel (originally the Path of teh Adversary) lend an ear to all the lessons that their Beasts try to teach them, but consider this one to be most important: In the end, your existence and your soul belong to you and you alone. Neither God nor man possesses the right to condemn you. No prince has the right to rule you, no clan nor cause is innately worthy of yoru unthinking obedience or loyalty. To feed and tame their Beasts of wrath and rebellion, devotees of this path lash out against institutions and individuals that enslave the soul and mind, that compel obedience with the threat of torment and damnation and that exalt mindless obedience to arbitrary authority over the exercise of one's most precious gift - free will.
Adherents of the Path of the Devil tend to be thoughtful monsters. Other Sinners may deride their more obviously pronounced inward-turning focus as pointless navel-gazing, but the Adversaries rarely care. They value both personal introspection and external scholarship, often amazing vast philosophical liberties and deliberately seeking out discourse with followers of other moral and ethical paths, the better to understand the strengths and weaknesses of their foes and to use those weaknesses against them. In action, the Adversaries are often the most relentless and patient of all Sinners, voluntarily devoting centuries to the task of undermining flawed or corrupt religious and social systems, of defiling a single human or Cainite soul, of converting others to the practice of the Road of Sin or any other goal they set their minds to. Once engaged in the struggle to open antoher being's eyes to the truth of their own nature, Adversaries are rarely content to surrender short of total victory.
Practices: The Adversaries are, in a way, the least intrinsicly selfish of all tthe Sinner types. Yes, tehy believe in pleasing themselves and seeing to their own comfort, but in many ways, they feel they owe something in return to others, as well. They balance the destructive urges of their beast against an ethic that requires them to build something to replace thsoe things that they must tear down. They feel it their respoinsibility to raise both men and Cainites above the muck of an enslaving faith and a society in which all creatures are trapped. Adversary-Promethians are among the most idealistic of the type, fighting a war against ignorance and fear from the bottom up. Adversary-Furores are often the most ferocious of their kind, taking the battle directly to the forces of stasis and slavery, intent on shaking botht the pillars of Heaven and Cainite society.
Virtues of the Devil: Conviction and Instinct.
Additional Ethics of Rebellion
- You belong solely to yourself; suffer no man, vampire or god to claim himself your ruler.
- Free will is your most valuable possession - allow none to defile it.
- Destroy that which enslaves the souls and wills of others, and teach them a better way.
