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Keith: /* Oprichnina Istoriya */

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	His name was Edvarda Kohut, he had followed me since I was twelve. He never told me how he was killed, but it looked like someone strangled him. After they burned him, after they did other things to him. Terrible things. As a child I didn't understand what it was all about. As I grew older and asked questions my family told me the history. My family, and those who served with them, the Oprichnina, did terrible things in service to Ivan.		His name was Edvarda Kohut, he had followed me since I was twelve. He never told me how he was killed, but it looked like someone strangled him. After they burned him, after they did other things to him. Terrible things. As a child I didn't understand what it was all about. As I grew older and asked questions my family told me the history. My family, and those who served with them, the Oprichnina, did terrible things in service to Ivan.

			* He's a soldier. He refused to give over someone, and was tortured to get him to reveal his co-conspirators. Really, they knew the answers, and tortured him for fun, and to make an example.

Keith: /* Oprichnina Istoriya */

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Oprichnina Istoriya

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	==Oprichnina Istoriya==		==Oprichnina Istoriya==
	''Da, we did it. All of it. And then some.''		''Da, we did it. All of it. And then some.''

			His name was Edvarda Kohut, he had followed me since I was twelve. He never told me how he was killed, but it looked like someone strangled him. After they burned him, after they did other things to him. Terrible things. As a child I didn't understand what it was all about. As I grew older and asked questions my family told me the history. My family, and those who served with them, the Oprichnina, did terrible things in service to Ivan.

Keith: /* Supernatural Characteristics */

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Supernatural Characteristics

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	Weakness: All Oprichiniki find themselves haunted by a Wraith, even if they never touched another human being and regardless of their ethnic background.		Weakness: All Oprichiniki find themselves haunted by a Wraith, even if they never touched another human being and regardless of their ethnic background.

			==Families of the Oprichniki==
			:* Skuratov
			:* Vyazmesky
			:* Tordai

	==Oprichnina Istoriya==		==Oprichnina Istoriya==
	''Da, we did it. All of it. And then some.''		''Da, we did it. All of it. And then some.''

Keith: /* Supernatural Characteristics */

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Supernatural Characteristics

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	Weakness: All Oprichiniki find themselves haunted by a Wraith, even if they never touched another human being and regardless of their ethnic background.		Weakness: All Oprichiniki find themselves haunted by a Wraith, even if they never touched another human being and regardless of their ethnic background.

			==Oprichnina Istoriya==
			''Da, we did it. All of it. And then some.''

Keith at 20:22, 11 April 2026

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	~~The Oprichniki are the youngest of the revenants, with a history dating back only to 1565, during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. They serve the Elders of the [[Oradea League]].~~

	==~~=History=~~==		=='''Oprinchniki, the Greedy Mercenaries'''==

	The Russian dictator Ivan the Terrible ruled over Oprichnina and used his secret police to ferret out dissidents, detractors and anyone he deemed a traitor. Called the Oprichniki, these mortal agents sowed fear and discord throughout the countryside in a campaign of legitimized murder.

	The Oprichniki ~~barely survived~~ the reign of ~~their master, for they suffered~~ his ~~ministrations~~ as ~~well~~. ~~He turned them~~ upon ~~each other in~~ his ~~final years~~, ~~and only~~ the ~~vilest of their lot survived~~. ~~The survivors were adopted by~~ the ~~Russian Tzimisce and bred into~~ a ~~revenant family~~, ~~despite never setting a foot on~~ the ~~blighted soil~~ of ~~Transylvania~~.		The Oprichniki, who became the Russian vassals of Clan Tzimisce, can trace their origins to the reign of Ivan the Terrible in the mid-sixteenth century. A group of cutthroats served the Czar of all the Russians as his secret police force to hunt dissidents and ensure his right to rule. The Oprichniki were given free reign to exact punishments as they saw fit, and committed torturous acts that ranged from flaying a villager who complained too loudly to boiling a foreign assassin alive. However, whenever the Czar wished to exact his vengeance upon his own people, it was the obedient Oprichniki who carried out his orders. History may describe the late Czar as a dictator, but it was the Oprichniki who attacked cities like Novgorod, which resulted in the murder and torture of thousands of innocent civilians.

	~~When~~ the ~~Shadow Curtain fell~~, the ~~Oprichiniki~~ were ~~severed from~~ the ~~Sabbat’s area~~ of ~~influence~~. ~~Since then~~, ~~they’ve stayed~~ in ~~Russia and Romania~~, ~~serving~~ the Elders within the Oradea League and ~~other powerful independent~~ Tzimisce with ~~domains~~ in ~~territories~~ of the ~~Soviet Union~~, ~~making~~ them one of the ~~next~~ revenant ~~families targeted for extinction by~~ the ~~main Clan~~.		Toward the end of his life, however, the Czar paraded the Oprichniki as the true monsters of his realm, and forced them to turn on each other in a bitter battle for survival. Only the vilest of their lot was left standing, and the remaining mercenaries were threatened with imprisonment and exile for both real and imagined crimes. Betrayed but defiant, an unlikely group of saviors rescued the Oprichniki before they were to be executed. A group of Russian Tzimisce vampires, called the Oradea League, Bound the survivors and commanded the former secret agents as their ghouls until the dawn of the seventeenth century. Eventually, the Oprichniki were bred to become a family of revenants, in part because the ghouls proved to be capable warriors, but also because the Elders within the Oradea League felt they would be more valuable if they could act more autonomously of their masters.

			Even before the rise and fall of the Iron Curtain, the Oprichniki family was a well-kept secret. The Russian Fiends primarily used the Oprichniki as their bodyguards, assassins, and couriers, and have slowly given their revenants more freedoms, even going so far as to promise them the Embrace in exchange for their loyalty. Though their numbers are few, the Oprichniki remain hidden from the majority of the Clan to this night, still serving the Oradea League as they always have. The Oprichniki’s loyalty to the defiant Fiends has not gone unnoticed by the rest of Clan Tzimisce, and some vampires believe this is a death sentence. After all, it has long been suspected that the Oradea League was isolated from the rest of the Clan as a punishment for their unwillingness to join the Sabbat.

			In the modern era, rumors circulate about how the Oprichniki have become heavily involved with the Russian Mafia or Organizatsiya. Precious few revenants, along with several blood relatives, act as the Organizatsiya’s bodyguards, enforcers, and scouts. While some vampires believe that the Oprichniki are slowly learning how to build a criminal organization of their own, few know the truth behind their actions. Their efforts to join the Organizatsiya were blessed by their patrons, because the Oprichniki have discovered they have a talent for hunting vampires.

			While the Oradea League invests themselves in Clan politics, their revenants travel alongside members of the Russian Mafia to wreak havoc and destroy their masters’ enemies in any way they can. Though the Oprichniki number less than a few hundred revenants, it is clear to their victims that this family refuses to face extinction. Thus, for all surviving members of the Oprichniki, the family’s purpose seems to either be related to hunting vampires or being groomed for the Embrace.

			Unfortunately for the Oprichniki, it is more than likely that the Oradea League’s Elders have guided them into this predicament, just as Ivan the Terrible did all those centuries ago. Only time will tell if this revenant family is savvy enough to survive and thrive.

			'''Appearance: '''The Oprichniki are well-muscled and lean, and their clothes do not hide this fact. Members tend to wear their hair short, in either a military-style haircut or closely-cropped, and favor combat boots, black T-shirts, and camouflage pants. In general, the Oprichniki are found traveling together in groups of two, three, or more, and are rarely seen in public alone.

			'''Character Creation: '''The Oprichniki tend to focus on vigorous, physical training to ensure that they are ready to fight at a moment’s notice. Typically speaking, characters share rules befitting a soldier of fortune. Physical Attributes and combat-focused Talents and Skills hold more use than social skills. Strategists do exist, however, and those revenants tend to take on a combination of Mental Attributes and Knowledges in military-and-urban related areas.

			'''Disciplines: '''Animalism, Obfuscate, Potence

			Weakness: Russian koldun believe the Oprichniki family is haunted by the ghosts of their victims, and all future generations have been cursed for their founders’ crimes. Revenants suffer at the hands of at least one ghost as per the Haunted Flaw, found on p. 495 of V20. This is a permanent Flaw that cannot be resolved through the use of blood magic, Disciplines, or other means. Should any Oprichniki revenant discover a way to get rid of a specific ghost, another always takes its place.

			Quote: “I am compelled to fight, like a moth is drawn to the flame.”

	===Supernatural Characteristics===		===Supernatural Characteristics===

Bruce at 23:44, 23 September 2018

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	The Oprichniki are the youngest of the revenants, with a history dating back only to 1565, during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. They serve the Elders of the [[Oradea League]].		The Oprichniki are the youngest of the revenants, with a history dating back only to 1565, during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. They serve the Elders of the [[Oradea League]].

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	===History===		===History===

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The Oprichniki are the youngest of the revenants, with a history dating back only to 1565, during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. They serve the Elders of the Oradea League.

===History===

The Russian dictator Ivan the Terrible ruled over Oprichnina and used his secret police to ferret out dissidents, detractors and anyone he deemed a traitor. Called the Oprichniki, these mortal agents sowed fear and discord throughout the countryside in a campaign of legitimized murder.

The Oprichniki barely survived the reign of their master, for they suffered his ministrations as well. He turned them upon each other in his final years, and only the vilest of their lot survived. The survivors were adopted by the Russian Tzimisce and bred into a revenant family, despite never setting a foot on the blighted soil of Transylvania.

When the Shadow Curtain fell, the Oprichiniki were severed from the Sabbat’s area of influence. Since then, they’ve stayed in Russia and Romania, serving the Elders within the Oradea League and other powerful independent Tzimisce with domains in territories of the Soviet Union, making them one of the next revenant families targeted for extinction by the main Clan.

===Supernatural Characteristics===

Family Disciplines: [[Vicissitude]], [[Obfuscate]], [[Animalism]]

Weakness: All Oprichiniki find themselves haunted by a Wraith, even if they never touched another human being and regardless of their ethnic background.