Greetings all,

Rogue is an outdated term that should have been disregarded decades ago,
when the definition was fractured. It no longer has any relevance to the
Consanguine world beyond the connotations of its history. Without
wishing to insult anyone, rogue is a term that dates back long before
the forty some years of the Imperium, let me enlighten some of you out
there as to where the term began.

Originally the term was used to define those vampires who existed
outside of Bloodloch, away from their Emperor and therefore outside of
the Legacies. At one time these legacies were very important, they
signified that the Consanguine were orderly and above the mere mindless
and animalistic vampire of their ancestry. Of course after the Bloodloch
civil war, this definition no longer seemed appropriate and the term
shifted. Now, the Bloodloch civil war for those who may not know was a
time of great unrest for all the Consanguine of sapience. It occurred
when Abhorash Nehekhara was ousted from the throne of Bloodloch by
Kauller Bouchard, thus fracturing Consanguine society, as those loyal to
the city stayed in Bloodloch, and those loyal to the old emperor left.
There was much confusion, as those who followed the ousted Emperor
called those of Bloodloch rogues, and those of Bloodloch called those
who left the city the rogues. The emperor and the city you see had never
been mutually exclusive and were never meant to be, they were always one
in the same.

Now Bloodloch discarded the emperor and his old decrees, including the
legacies, because they reasoned that an emperor without an empire, can
not by definition be called an emperor at all, which Im sure youll agree
is true. Of course those loyal to the emperor said his was an empire of
Blood, and I suppose in a way, both were right.

At any rate, I would say you would be hard pressed today, to find a
vampire who did not at least break one of these stipulations, these are
the true rogues, but since you could class Abhorash Nehekhara as a
rogue, then I doubt the word really has any relevance in todays society.
The rogues no longer exist, the whole concept of rogue was shattered
after the civil war. No doubt some one, either by message, post or tell,
will now try to enlighten me as to what a rogue actually is, and that is
precisely why the term should be abandoned.

E. C

Penned by my hand on the 4th of Lleian, in the year 131 MA.