Quiet! Hear the Raven's cry!
The stillness of the wind
rising hot on the street
the towers hide
the darkness of the day.

When Lasombra's dreams come true
on the day when the moon runs as blood
and the sun rises black in the sky
that is the day of the Damned
When Caine's children will rise again.

And the world will turn cold
and unclean things will boil up from the ground
and great storms will roll, lightning will light
fires, animals will fester and their bodies,
twisted will fall.

So, too, our Grandsires will rise from the ground
They will break their fast on the first part of us
They will consume us whole.

On the second day, Caine will return
And call his Children to the meeting place
on the site of the First City he will beckon
them, sitting on his basalt throne.

And Caine will call aloud the names of those to be destroyed,
for their crimes are too great
and all those who have consumed the heart's blood of their sire
will be brought to the Black Throne
and made to drink of Caine's blood
And Caine's blood will eat their blood
And the Dark Mother herself will be brought forth
and there, in the valley of Enoch, will there be battle
a duel of Dark Father and Dark Mother
The Demon Queen will bite deep
The Damned King will bite deeper
We will not know the thing which will happen,
but the sky will tear apart, and the earth below
And the forces of Hell will pour out of the ground.

On the Third Day, there will be silence
the crows will feed on the carrion
plague will dance amongst the ruins
the last of the Wild Ones will leave this place
the last of the Moon-Beasts will fight and fall
And the Antediluvians will make for themselves
an Empire of Blood
They will rule with iron talons
They will wrench the hearts of all still alive
And the full sum of the earth's living will come
and live in the Last City, called Gehenna
And there will be a reign of one thousand years.
and there will be no love, or life, or pity,
the mighty will be as slaves
the virtuous will be made foul
every good gift, and every perfect gift will be tainted
by the Father of Darkness, whose power will come from
the nether realms.

When the snows consume the earth
and the sun gutters like a candle in the wind
then, and only then, will there be born a woman,
the last Daughter of Eve,
and in her will be decided the fate of all.

And you will not know this woman, except by the
mark of the moon on her,
and she will face treachery, hatred, and pain
but in her is the last hope.

And you will know these last
times by the Time of Thin
Blood, which will mark vampires that
cannot Beget, you will know them by
the Clanless who will come to rule
you will know them by the Wild Ones,
who will hunt us even in the strongest city,
you will know them by the awakening
of some of the eldest,
the Crone will awaken and consume all
you will know these times, for a black
hand will rise up and choke all those
who oppose it and those who eat heart's
blood will flourish and the Kindred will
crowd each to his own, and vitae will be
as rare as diamonds.

Mark these signs, they are coming!
Gehenna will be on earth.
Mark the shadow which flies
mark the dragon which rises
mark the darkness which moves
mark the shadow of the  moon
mark the angel that dies
mark the maiden who weeps
mark the children Embraced
mark the Clanless who run

And there will be a time,
when Sire will drive out Childer
when Sire will abandon Childer
to the sun's mercy and there will be no
mercy for the Clanless there will be no mercy
for the Clanless, mongrel though they be
upon their forgotten Sires shall be the curse of Uriel
upon their hateful Sires shall be the curse
that comes of crossing Caine upon their lazy Sires
shall be the curse of the hunters hunted.

Those among the Clanless have no path to follow
no family to name
no generation to hold
no traditions to keep
no customs to give
no hospitality to give
Why do you make these orphans?
Why do you leave them to the street?
They are the dark seed of our undoing
they will band together with those who hate us
they will follow Brujah's Childer
they will make the blood run red
they are going to kill the dead
they are going to eat our kin
they will scram and bash our doors
they will cry aloud for justice
Clanless, all, they will wash over our walls
Clanless, all, they will know secret ways
Clanless, all they are Lilith's foul get
Clanless, all they are newly Awake
Clanless, all! No family, no sign, no
loyalty, no elder.

Beware those who walk without a clan,
for they will be our undoing,
Pity them! Adopt the orphans where you can.
But watch them. In them is the bad seed
of their Sire.

And they asked Caine the old Father
"Why do you command us not to Embrace
those we love?"
And Caine said to them, "Love is the sweet rain
which falls down from the One Above.
Love is the gift of life.
Remember ye not Uriel's Curse?
That we are to eat only ashes. drink only blood?
Blood is not sweet rain. Our drink takes Life."
And then Caine's eyes got the look of Visions.
and he quieted, then he spoke:
"But if ever one of us
is gifted
with the love of a mortal
without Command
or Awe
without compulsion
a Love given freely
then that Love will be as
the gentle rain
to even the lowliest of us.
And thought we will not Embrace it,
it will feed us as if we supped at our Father's table
it will satisfy our deepest thirst.
But harken ye, my children!
The Children of Seth will always hate us again and again,
for we are their predators
we are their Masters
and they know this, deep in their soul.
Look not for Love among them! They will not give it. Be not a fool."

What of the
Moon-Beasts who
hunt us Father?
"there will come a time, in
the last days,
when the Moon-Beasts will grow uneasy
and they will be dying out
like a sick wolf who must leave the pack
they will
fight rather than die sick
and so they will find us
and they will kill us.

Mark ye well, the Clan of the Beast
For they will hold the key
they will make the way of protection
they will make the way of trickery
they will make the way of peace.

There will come a time, when the
Curse of the One Above
will not be tolerated further
when the Lineage of Caine will end
When the Blood of Caine will be weak
and there will be o Embracing for
these Childer
for their blood will run like water,
and the potence in it will wither.
Then you will know in this time that
Gehenna will be upon you.

There will come a time,
when the heads of three Princes
will watch the burning of the dawn
on a pillar of white.
There will come a time
when an ancient hunger will awaken
deep in the northern woods
and consume all her childer

There will come a time
when an Elder Darkness will stir
deep below a city which has forgotten
and will surprise the Elder, it's children.

Of these signs you will know,
the Dark Father, the bastard of Caine
will awaken, and drink deep of blood
sacrificed to it

Of these signs you will know
that the time has come to lay claim
to your Clan's safety
to fight the Dark Father.

On these signs, you must know,
that Gehenna waits, even at the door,
as an actor waits in the wings.
It is coming! It is near!

Shine black the sun!
Shine blood the moon!
Gehenna is coming soon.

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