Waynes Sketchbook

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Old Snakey

drustan

on March 24, 2008

One of the Clans in the Vampire RPG was based on snake/serpent imagery (The Followers of Set, or Setites, if memory serves). This was all the pretty standard snakes=evil kind of the thing (the snake in the Garden of Eden, etc.). This made the Setites a particularly evil Clan. I thought, there's a whole raftload of positive snake imagery in mythology. The snake on the egyptian crown was a symbol of wisdom. It shows up as the double spiral in Kundalini and the chakras. The same double helix appears as a symbol of healing on Hermes staff, the caduceus (which is still used by the medical profession today). It's a symbol of rebirth in many pagan religions.

Anyway, I gave this way too much thought and developed a subset of the Setite Clan, with different disciplines and whatnot. Never got around to actually playing one.