CCRB RECORD No. 0050
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
Determination: Explicit — Corruption 3
A surviving branch of the real Inquisition hunts you, and its members pray before they do it.
Bloodlines places the player as a newly embraced vampire in Los Angeles and makes the Church's historical instrument one of the forces hunting her. The Society of Leopold is presented not as an invented order but as a continuation of the real Inquisition, traced to a named Dominican friar, still operating and still sanctioned in its own understanding. Its members are devout: their recorded prayers ask for strength against a mighty host of demons, and they regard the player as one. The player kills them. Because the protagonist is a vampire, the game inverts the usual alignment — the people acting in God's name are the obstacle, and the undead is the character the player is asked to care about.