Episode 33: Clan Baali 

Baali are so much fun. Completely and by accident derailed a Transylvania Chronicles game once as a Baali .

The more I learn about the Baali the more I like the Salubri

I'm a believer that my ancestor, Saluot, was the creator of the Balli. He saw them playing at evil, and throwing away the gift of holiness to have truck with the First Ones. His anger was great at them for their actions. "They threw away their Grace to be evil, and don't even understand what TRUE EVIL is. I will show them..." With that, he summoned his Beast and, well, the rest is history as the young ones say.

The name Nurgle just always bring images of filth, detritus, and disease to my mind for some reason. I feel about it the same as others feel about the word "moist" lol.

Ahhh the Baali they are fun at parties. As a Black Spiral Dancer, I meet a elder Baali who mistakenly thought I was going to eat her. Spilling most of her blood she called a "greater demon", actually an incarna of Abhorra my urgewyrm. The look on her face when instead of smiting it greeted me was priceless.

Ahh the Baali, my favorite clan/bloodline that's helped me create some really quite fun characters such as ancient scorned childer of Nergal with an undying vendetta against the La Sombra, or Ventrue turned infernalist due to disillusionment with their sect of origin 😈 I've been burning through the backlog of this show as I've been getting back into the WoD lately, so thank you dear narrator for sharing your knowledge with us!

I enjoyed the extra storytelling in this one Lorey :) Nice to have more character development!

This is a great channel wish I'd found it sooner

The Angelus Ater remain my absolute favorite of the darker Bloodlines, and the Baali are always an enjoyment at my table. Wonderful video, the enthusiasm is always contagious.

The mixture of Lasombra and Baali sounds like my kinda character! 😈

I've been reading Demon: The Fallen books recently due to my interest in the World of Darkness and Demon-related media (thanks Go Nagai) and I can only imagine a conversation between two Fallen about the Baali: "So these were the bastards who tried to bind Sarisel to their service..." "And they then proceeded to find their own little corner of the 'Fuck Around and Find Out' curve. Look at that, I think there's pieces of this lady in every corner of this room. Sarisel was always this soft nerdy type when I knew him. The things Torment does to a man..." "That name... Baali... does that ring a bell to you?" "Their name sounds like this guy I used to go out drinking with in Genhinnom, Baal. Funny guy, I hate to say it but he's likely still in the abyss. Probably just a coincidence, Baal would've found me if he was back on Earth." "Well, let's grab what we need and get out of here. I'm sure Nuriel will want to know about this." "Sounds good. Wanna go out for tacos after this?" "How can you think about food in this place?" "I mean, it's not like there was any in the abyss. At least, none worth mentioning."

Well, there is at least one Clan who has never stopped taking any rumor of Baali seriously, even rewarding anyone who proves they have killed a Baali a sword that promises they will not be hunted for aiding in their eternal holy war against infernalists. The Banu Haqim. The laws of Haqim and the Path of Blood absolutely would see every Baali as unworthy of the blood and a monster fit to be put down. Unfortunately, it is rumored that the Children's eternal lust for blood is a lasting curse from the Baali during the Baali Wars. And not only that, but possibly the current head of their holy fortress of Alamut, Ur-Shulgi, possibly the strongest kindred existing in these final nights; is in fact either a member of the First Tribe or possibly Shaitan and a founder of the Baali. Ur-Shulgi was embraced around the Second Baali War and was possibly the strangest of all of Haqim's childr. Some even speculate that Haqim made him to slaughter the rest of the Baali that congregated around the 10 year old turned Sheppard of the Baali with the inherent wickedness of a Widderslainte, a reincarnation of the Avatar of a Nephandi - a fallen mage. Haqim according to this rumor threw the child into the pit himself, saw him rise up and then "found" Ur-Shulgi as one of the only survivors after the battle, fit to embrace him as one of the most powerful blood sorcerers to ever unlive even at the moment he became 4th generation. It would explain why he alone could break the curse the entirety of Clan Tremere put upon the Banu; to wield power even his child, Al-Ashrad of the Camarilla Schismatics, trembles to. Why both of them look so alien and different than any other member of the clan. But you should be very careful who you say this to or else you could find a judge out to slay you tonight.

the Baali could be a legit clan though. An maybe the rulers of em all..."baali" doesnt translate to "the lords" without reason muahahaha. They know immunity to fire and creatures beyond Kainite capabilities, dark secrets the Tremere would love to have and they are the only ones able to convert another Kindred to one of their own...willing or not

Unholy clusterfuck known as Carthage. Love ir.

Another good one, Lore-man. Can't wait for the next addition for this story.

I heard Nurgle, and Moloch! Where the hell is Nyarlathotep?!! The ultimate eldritch lord!

Best clan next to the Tzimisce

Great Video! Looking forward to the next one!

would love to have a lore by night video on Wights

Just found your channel, absolutely enthralled (as a Giovanni would put it) by your narration... I am always very surprised by the bits of lore i find in here ; great work !

Ah, Saulot's fun little Gambit.

I want to begin with saying this technically doesn't have to do with the Baali directly but rather their signature discipline, Daimoinon. Forgive me, but after watching this video I decided to go check them out in the V20 corebook and I started to look a little closer at the discipline. I also realize this is going to be somewhat long winded but it has to be get my thoughts across. For V20 i have to say, Daimoinon is a helluva discipline to have on a caitiff or a normal vampire the additional discipline merit. At 1 dot you can gain insight in the weakness of someone. At 2 dots you can exploit this weakness through conversation, possibly driving the person into unconsciousness or frenzy. At 3 dots, YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO HURL MOTHERFUCKING BLACK HELLFIRE. Did I mention the target stll has to roll for Rotschreck in addition the aggrevated damage? At 4 dots, you can cause a person to hallucinate a physical manifestation the most dangerous, shameful from their own subconscious. Finally at 5 dots you can curse someone. Now how it works is by dividing your succeses by severity and duration of the curse but man can it get devastating. If you put five successes in duration it is PERMANENT. Even if its a minor curse, it being permanent is going to really suck. Now there is a decent argument to be made that the baali in V20 were not meant to be played by a PC, and instead were meant to be something a storyteller could use in a plot line based on what I'm about to mention next. There is little to no restrictions on the level 5 ability. Maybe I should rephrase that. There is little to no *explicit* restrictions. The only things it mentions is that the difficulty is determined by the target's willpower, split the successes by duration and severity, and the baali can willing choose to end the curse at any time. It mentions nothing on range, how many curses you can inflict on a person at any given time, knowing the face of the target, or how to remove it outside of the outlasting the duration or the baali choosing to end it. So that means you could, in theory, continuously lay endless curses on an individual you've never met, who is currently the other side of the planet, with no way of getting rid of them. Now of course, no reasonable storyteller will allow you to do that and would probably nerf it. Personally speaking, I would restrict it to the following: you have to know the true name of an individual, you have to have met them before, you can only have one curse placed on an a particular individual at a time (meaning you can't have more than one curse on a person at a time but you can have multiple curses on multiple people. One per person), and it can be ended by some thaumaturgical ritual. Sidenote: Daimoinon actually works quite nicely for a holy inquisition type vampire if you were to change when and how you used it as well a reflavoring it a little. The black hellfire? Recolor it to white hot holy fire (I would require the vampire to have true faith in order to do this). Make a sinful vampire face a physical manifestation of his beast. You could curse a vampire to never lie, be as ugly on the the outside as he is on the inside, be unable to sire or blood bond.

Well done video, very captivating

By the Gods! Enraptured, enamored, enthralled. End of story.

Baali are my favorite

Heeeeeell yeah!

I've been waiting for this

Well... My character might be up against a Balli in the Camirilla.

The Banu Haqim do not approve.

Just rewatching this and just a thought wasn't there a 3rd baali progenitor though they are unnamed

If they were in v5? Would it be obfuscate, Presence and blood sorc? With a new lot of hellish rituals

I have a theory that the Baali may actually be a bloodline of the Salubri.

My second favorite after Tzimisce easily

Is it not true that among the titles of Set is Ba’al even in accepted works of history and public accounts of the Left Hand Path, does this not make Set Ba’al and thus the father of the Baali or Lords?

To please the algorithm

Like most Nos the Malcolm's story is a tragedy

dark mother baali i invoke go wake her up and make sure my golden girls change

Ba-ah-lee is how it's pronounced.

Is this fifth or V20?

willow go wake up betty white

im bored now im upset my golden girls where like my grandmother i lost my grandmother they became my grandmother not happening to me today

change her

I'd point out that not all your lore is complete. Supposedly three Kindred crawled out of that well.... The third was never spoken of by Nergel or Moloch, but supposedly it was a woman and she was feared. The Heralds of the Swarm and followers of Path of the Hive supposedly have their origins from her...

Let's be frank, the Baali do everything the Setites do, but better at it. So I outlawed the latter for the former in my game.

go wake up betty white

Hello , help my LARP fight Aleksandr Dugin and the Order of thr Nine Angles