Overview:
The Sisterhood it a secretive Bloodline of women who had been Gangrel, but through a ritual entwinement with spiritual energy became something . . . else. Their progenitor, “Nana” or Kahenta, was a powerful healing woman among her people when the vikings arrived in North America. She was embraced by a Valkyrie from Europe before setting out on her own, away from everything she had ever known with only the spirits as her guide. Kahenta would go on to found her brood through the centuries. Her “Sisters” travel far and wide throughout North America, though are welcomed back at the half moon for a gathering in a cave in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Not every Sister makes the journey to the cave for every gathering, though all are always welcome and come when they can.
The Sisterhood is primarily concerned with guarding the interests of the spirits of the earth and shepherding them in these trying times. The Sisterhood is also aware of an unraveling of the world, of which the Gehenna myths are a part. They therefore strive to find small corners of the earth to save when the time comes. They spread far to follow signs and listen to the stirrings of the spirits.
The Sisterhood is skilled in the arts of Spiritus, a signature Discipline of immense power and adaptability. Sisters are often associated with mountain lions, both as traveling companions and as Protean shapes to which they are most often attuned.
The Sisterhood number is small and selective. Few know of their existence and they wield no political power whatsoever, though that is not their aim.
Cara
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Kara is a woman with bushy, curly red hair. Rose met her on December 9, 1994 at the Sisterhood’s mountain cave. Kara went hunting with Rose in her cat form. The following night, Kara had a tunic she had made for Rose to wear. Kara transformed into her werecat form and startled Rose. After Nana calmed down Rose, Kara joined with her Sisters in the rites to transform Rose into one of them.
Freyjasdottir, Helga
Valkyrie (Ahrimane). Helga has never been met as yet by the Player Characters, but Rose heard tale of Nana/Kahenta’s sire who braved the icy waters of the North Atlantic in a viking longboat to make her way to Vinland (modern day Newfoundland, Canada). She was either sent into torpor or final death by the Beast who attacked her and her childe some time before the English and French colonization of North America. Whether she has passed on or remains on or in the earth is unknown.
Frieda, Big
Gangrel-turned-Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Frieda is a an outlander Gangrel who Rose has befriended. She doesn’t travel much into the cities unless she has to. Rose sought her advice and training on a number of occasions, as they were introduced at a Gangrel Gather in the 80s. Rose flew as a bird of prey to meet Frieda on December 8, 1994 at one of her farms out in the boonies of Virginia following the Fall of Georgetown. She gave Rose shelter for the day and some advice and intel. The next night, she took Rose to meet with someone who had “changed her life forever,” Nana. She hunted with Rose and the other cats of the Sisterhood and revealed to Rose that she had already made the transformation. Once Rose was ready, Frieda was a part of the ritual spiritual embrace of Rose into the Sisterhood.
Gabriela
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Gabriela appears as a middle-aged hispanic woman. Gabriela met Rose at the Sisterhood’s mountain lion-filled cave in the mountains near the West Virginia border on December 9, 1994. Gabriela went hunting with Rose as a great cat. On December 10, Gabriela was in her monstrous (yet beautiful) werecat form to perform the rites upon Rose, transforming her into a Sister.
Kahenta, “Nana”
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Matriarch of the Sisterhood. Rose met Kahenta in a cave in the mountains near the West Virginia border on December 9, 1994. Kahenta was surrounded by mountain lions and her Sisterhood. After listening to Rose’s unlife story, “Nana” told Rose of hers. According to Kahenta, she was a shaman or spiritual woman of a people in what is now known as Newfoundland, Canada, but to her, was a sacred place. Vikings landed nearby shortly after 1020 (though, Kahenta was not aware of “dates” for such things until the 1960s or 1970s) and brought with them at least one Kindred stowaway: Helga Frejasdottir. Helga was running from a creature and sought the aid of Kahenta who has never turned away a woman in need: even from this Cainite the likes of which Kahenta had never seen. A “beast” known only as a Jormundander attacked Kahenta and Helga. Kahenta’s spirits fought off the creature, but not before it had mortally wounded Kahenta. According to Kahenta, Helga embraced her in gratitude. Kahenta left her people for fear that she might hurt them. She travelled, but was put into torpor after a battle and rested for centuries until her spirits woke her.
She tells Rose that she has since travelled about, gathering her spirits and mountain lions and those Kindred women who would join her in working to preserve a slice of the world from the depredations of an upcoming apocalyptic event. Kahenta asked Rose to join the Sisterhood, but informed her of the costs. The following night, on December 10, 1994, Nana began the ritual on Rose to transform her into one of the Sisters. She exsanguinated Rose, spitting her blood into the fire, and then gifted Rose her own blood while the other Sisters forced the spirits into Rose’s body. The spirits tore into Rose, renewing her and transforming her powers into the equivalent of an Ahrimane, though the Sisters are unaware of that lineage. Nana was in the cave with only Vousette when Rose awoke on December 14. She answered Rose’s questions and told her that she would be back at the Sisterhood cave in the half moon.
Maria
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Maria was among the Sisters in the mountain lion cave high in the mountains of the West Virginia border that Rose met on December 9, 1994. She is a heavy-set white woman. She told Rose that in life, she was a battered housewife, but embraced by the Gangrel and left to wonder, until Nana found her. On December 10, Maria was in her monstrous (yet beautiful) werecat form to perform the rites upon Rose, transforming her into a Sister.
Vousette
Sisterhood (Ahrimane). Vousette is a tall Black woman with strikingly beautiful features. Rose met Vousette in the Sisterhood’s mountain cave on December 9, 1994. Vousette seemed to be one of the primary spirit-workers to help Nana prepare the rituals. On December 10, 1994, Vousette aided in the rites to transform Rose into a Sister. Vousette stayed with Nana for the night Rose awoke in her new body in the Sisterhood cave (December 14). She said little, but intimated that she would be back at the half moon for the gathering of the Sisterhood.