Guild: Children of Darkness

The Children of Darkness (CoD) is vampire guild that was created on the first day of release of the Catskills shard in Ultima Online and made officially a guild on October 17th, 1997. The Guildmasters are Pandora and Marius that role played as ancient vampires. We later decided to create an Evil RP theme that players could sign up to join and be part of. We needed a well recognized start, so we chose to base it on Vampire the Masquerade. So we looked at all the content that was available out there on VTM, and we chose to write our own story. So if you are well versed in the land of VTM lore, you will notice quite a few changes and differences that we deemed necessary in order to adapt it to Ultima Online. During 1998 - 2001, CoD actively ran and organized an Evil RP theme known as the Darkness Within based on VTM lore. Over 90 guilds were participants in plots, storylines, or theme wars with the DW theme, officially making CoD one of the largest, most successful vampire-themed guilds in the history of the shard.

CoD dubbed themselves a Ventrue coven. Following the characteristics of Ventrue clans, they were highly aristocratic, very wealthy, and politically inclined. Sabbat sect guilds were governed by a Lasombra coven known as VAMPIRE (*V*). The two sects were rival, mortal enemies and warred each other often taking over their player-ran cities to do so. CoD's major city was found just outside of East Britain, called Vamp's Lair.