The Daeva are the ‘sexy’ clan of vampires in Vampire: The Requiem, based on the stereotype of the vampire as a seducer. Their theme is ‘passion’.

I’ll note that they are my personal favorite clan, just as the Toreador are as well. That said, I think that a lot of what I noticed is self-evident to anyone who thinks about it for longer than a minute.

As is also the case with the Toreador, they may be the unambiguous good guys. In the sense that, being closest to humanity, they are the ones who theoretically possess the means to actually be nice. There’s even some evidence in their clanbook to suggest there are a lot of them hopping around who don’t actually do much morally dubious (besides suck).

Their origin is tied to a character called ‘Lilith’ as explained in their clanbook. Although the details are dubious, it’s certain that Lilith was the first Daeva and currently(?) lies in torpor in the Middle-East, possibly in Qatar. Though if we are to believe the stories…she might be walking among us in the modern nights. Or she was blown up by the US navy.

This bloodline suffers from the curse of aging. While they’re still immortal, they do gradually get older. The only way to undo this is by going into torpor, which means that their bloodline is a bit more prone to forgetfulness.

I’ll get to these eventually. From what I’ve heard, they’re exactly the same as the Toreador from Masquerade.

• Daeva
• The article originally had a large section on their clanbook, but I spun it off (or, more accurately, spun this off of it) because it got very large.