CCRB RECORD No. 0051
Vampyr
Determination: Explicit — Corruption 3
A vampire-hunting order split off from a Christian brotherhood, and a priest running a shelter is killing the people in it.
Vampyr is set in London during the 1918 influenza pandemic and makes religion one of the city's live forces. The Guard of Priwen, the militia hunting the player, splintered from the older Brotherhood of Saint Paul, and its members wield power they understand as God-given against the undead. The game's most direct religious material is Father Sean Hampton, a priest who runs a night shelter for the destitute in Whitechapel and is genuinely loved for it — and who is feeding on the people he shelters, understanding his own predation through the vocabulary of ministry. The player, a doctor and a vampire, must decide what to do about him.