House Conquering Claw

House Conquering Claw is a lost Silver Fang house from ancient Rome.

History

The Conquering Claw was an honorable but warlike house, and was the only Silver Fang family to thrive in imperial Rome. While other Garou fled the city, the Conquering Claw embraced the Pax Romana. The Garou reasoned that if the Concord was truly right, then a well-positioned power could use the mighty empire to guide and, when necessary, pacify the human race.

Many consider their efforts to have been a noble failure. Roman vampires overwhelmed them. They regained some of their prestige in Italy by forming banking families, but could never escape the Harano that descended after defeat in Rome. In the end the Claw's martial tendencies turned inward, undoing the house during the Renaissance. A few claimants to this line surface periodically, but none have protectorates.

Others also believe that they fell due to their hubris in trying to break the wills of human barbarian nations - Kin of the Get of Fenris and Fianna. As Rome was tore apart by the very barbarians they had subjected, they succumbed to Harano. Their Kin families never regained their prominence, and the remining members slowly died of misery. What few of them survived into the Renaissance killed themselves off in sword duels and poisonings, each convinced the others served vampiric interests.

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