Hello Grandmother,

Vampires come from all walks of life. They come from all corners of the globe. Which means that there are vampire of pretty much every major faith there has ever been. Which means that old religious wars pretty much just continuate in perpetuity under a vampire regime.

The biggest conflict seem to be coming from a rift between polytheistic and monotheistic vamps. The massacres of Operation Cthulhu are a sign of the monotheists taking out a weaker link in the polytheistic puzzle. Navigating the field of vampire religious movements is like walking a labyrinth blind, and then having your feet cut off. But to the best of my understanding, the major forces at work are: 1) the Satanists and the penitent Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Zoroastrian populations. Surprisingly these sides have an easier time working together against the polytheists than fighting each other, though a lot of the firings do that too. And 2) The varying league of Hindu, Norse, Greco-Roman, Sumerian/Babylonian, Egyptian, Bantu, Navajo, and certain sects of the Chinese religion. Followers of the Old Ones had generally been excluded from this group, and it’s made them an easy target for their monotheistic opponents. Curiously, followers of Mayan faith and certain Chinese devotees form their own splinter group that is also not recognized by the major Polytheistic league.

Now you have to understand, almost all of this is happening on a cultural level, and not one of direct violence, except in cases like Operation Cthulhu. But this conflict I believe is as important if not more important than any other in the vampire world today, and how the coming confrontation with the growing robot powers plays out will have a lot to do with which side is dominant in the vampire religious arguments.

-1159

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