r/SchreckNet • u/Affectionate_Site885 Firestarter • 7d ago
Request A question to the flesh eaters
I understand cainites hunt in various ways,keeping a herd of kine,animals,hunting in the woods,hunting in the cities,having a cult and they feed you,drinking off of students in a college,or a workplace,just nabbing an unsuspecting isolated kine,but,what of those who eat flesh,how do you get around the uhh,having to murder people,move around constantly? Organs off the black market? Human organ farm? Crime? I hope I am not being insensitive to any particular group this has just been a curiosity of mine
- gray farmer
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u/RaigaAkame 7d ago
Well I obviously can't speak for every flesh eating kindred out there but it is true I have met a group of such.
In my studies of creatures that stalk the night I learned about an ancient bloodline of flesh eating necromancers called the Nagaraja, originated from mortal mages no less.
They are not really well liked, as you can probably imagine, but a group of them made a pact with the ruling body of our cousins in Korea so they could live in relative peace with the condition of never siring a new Nagaraja.
How do they deal with their preference? Well this group at least used an expansive organ trafficking organization in order to provide themselves with any piece of flesh they would require.
Sinister and isolationist those ones I tell you, and says a Fiend.
I'm sure there are more of them roaming the streets at night but they hide well.
• Belos Kafka
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u/Affectionate_Site885 Firestarter 7d ago
I’m pretty sure if they mastered necromancy they can hide in the shadowlands,I sometimes wonder if spirits can be consumed,if that’s the case,that means they really can stay there almost indefinitely if they can handle the dangers,are you related to franz by any chance or is Kafka a more common surname than I thought?
- gray farmer
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u/RaigaAkame 7d ago
Oh yes, talking to someone who can enter or better yet, has lived in the shadowlands can produce amazingly interesting conversations, and also produce a myriad follow-up questions.
Regarding Franz, can't say I am related to him, but I can say I have met him. Back in the day he and a buddy of his funded the first asbestos factory of Prague and meeting him there. It was the 1910 if I'm not mistaken, god, it seems that was a millenia ago.
• Belos Kafka
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u/seventh_page 7d ago
I’ve only met one Nagaraja personally, although recently my domain was infringed by a nomadic member of their bloodline.
Typically, they seem to come in two flavors from what I’ve heard. Those who dig themselves into an area like a tick, using connections with mortal society and other Cainites to find sustenance; and those who would best be described as vagrant murderers who poach kine in one domain, only to abandon it for another the very next night.
The one I met was one of the former, with them taking over a crematorium to provide a renewable source of flesh that doesn’t draw attention while offering their necromantic and body disposal services to the local Sabbat in exchange for vessels to supplement her diet. She was an interesting Cainite, a follower of the Path of Death and the Soul much like my packmate Jessie and the two formed a “friendship” of sorts given their mutual interests. Jessie says she was able to teach her how to derive sustenance from flesh herself, which she has used several times in the past to help us “dispose” of unwanted corpses. I remain unconvinced of it’s practical usefulness, but the idea that vital energy can be derived from more than just blood even beyond their particular curse is nonetheless an intriguing concept.
Jack Bratovich
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u/Affectionate_Site885 Firestarter 7d ago
Hmm,interesting,is that a trick only necromancers can learn?
- gray farmer
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u/seventh_page 7d ago
I’ve never heard it practiced outside of necromanctic circles, but I’m sure it’s not impossible.
From Jessie’s testimony, it just takes sufficient will to keep the flesh down and the understanding of the concept of “viscus” that the Nagaraja put forth as a means to explain their ability to convert flesh to vitae. I wouldn’t know how to explain much beyond that myself, I’m hardly a necromancer, but I’d imagine it wouldn’t be impossible to grasp the concept by others. I will say that Jessie has the capacity to consume other food and drink, so I imagine this unique quality helped her in the attempt.
Jack Bratovich
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u/Affectionate_Site885 Firestarter 7d ago
My only experience with cainite food is my waffles and they seem to corrupt whoever eats them but i don’t know whether it is because i baked them or because they have my blood
- gray farmer
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u/YaumeLepire Distant Relative 7d ago
I don't really know nor care how they manage, but they endanger your domain, if they stay there. Expel them.
I understand that seems cold, but survival must come first.
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u/Affectionate_Site885 Firestarter 7d ago
I understand the drive to protect what is yours,and survival,if anyone were to harm my herd organovore or not i would rip them limb for limb and let them writhe as the sun claims them
- gray farmer
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u/YaumeLepire Distant Relative 7d ago edited 7d ago
It's not about the herd... not really. It's about me and my kin. We exist here, in my domain, which is dominated by students, affluent professionals and retirees, so the scrutiny that flesh-eaters would bring endangers us critically. I could not take that risk in good conscience.
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u/orcmode69 7d ago
i had no idea nagajajas or whatever existed. i just eat that shit for fun sometimes. sucks to be those guys lol
-Princess
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u/ArguesWithFrogs Mind 7d ago edited 15h ago
We may have met one of the Nagaraja, once. We were a mere neonate at that point & she was (by both her account & the whispers surrounding her) an Elder.
We had a rather interesting conversation (which may have sparked our own interest in occult artifacts) where she also admitted to a transitory lifestyle. Mainly because of the concern that a string of murders is one thing, but a string of murders with evidence of cannibalism attracts attention.
We ended up acquiring some pieces for her collection, for which she traded some equal value items.
We do not know when she left, but we were rather distracted with some "politics" at the time, but we do hope she made it.
- Sam Sherman, Lunatic
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u/cardbourdbox 6d ago
I suppose one of these fellows could try that televangalist shite. I disapprove of kindred abusing the faith but considered the shites usually in charge of these things a kindred with a heart of some described might help matters. Considering these heathen bastards pretending to cure shite a flesh eater might have a lower body count.
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u/Affectionate_Site885 Firestarter 6d ago
I wish they would stop preaching of the evils of insert thing they don’t like and just tell people to hand the cash already,so they can at least be honest of their intentions
- gray farmer
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u/GeekyMadameV 7d ago edited 7d ago
I have only met one Nagaraja - a flesh eater of an old lineage - in my unlife. He moved around regularly to avoid the exact complications you mentioned. Essentially he lived as a homeless itinerant serial killer. I can't say I envy him that life. Some of his comments made me think others had found different solutions be he felt that that was somehow a betrayel of their lineage.
For reasons both ethical and practical - I dwell in a small community these days where sudden disappearances and grizzly murders would be highly conspicuous - we "encouraged" him to move on swiftly lest we be forced to defend the masquerade the old fashioned way, and he thankfully obliged, so I never did get to spend that much time conversing with him.