Ventrue Clan Titles
7 dot - Director/Euphor: The Directorate (Euphorate) consists of somewhere between ten and fifteen self-selected Ventrue from around the world. No one knows exactly who all of them are except each other, and you only become a Director (or Ephor) when the others agree to send the Elder a bid for the group.
6 dot - Stratagoi: Below the Directors are the strategoi (singular: strategos), the hands of the Directorate, powerful Ventrue who are the conspiracy’s eyes and ears on the ground. A good number of Ventrue Primogen around the world are also strategoi.
5 dot - Lichtor - Below the strategoi are the lictors, the field agents and troubleshooters. It’s a good stepping-stone to better things if the lictor plays it right. There have been many occasions where a strategos has sent a lictor into a city that’s going to pot in order to whip the local Ventrue into shape, and once all the bodies have hit the floor, the lictor somehow ends up as the new Prince. In short, lictor is a dangerous but potentially profitable niche for ancillae Ventrue who want to increase their profiles and who don’t mind courting death or dismemberment to do so.
4 dot - In-City Clan Head - Praetor: The head of the city's Board of Gerusia is the called the praetor (or sometimes simply “manager,”. The praetor is the highest-ranking Ventrue in the city, unless a Ventrue who is also the Prince or the Primogen plays that role and she delegates the praetor responsibility to a subordinate. The praetor chairs all Board meetings and is responsible for finding a place big enough and secure enough to host those meetings.
3 dot - Tribune: Tribunes are the spies, errand boys, and toadies for the Directorate. In other words, every Ventrue who will reliably ask how high when told to jump by a lictor or a strategos.
2 dot - Aedile: The praetor is assisted in her duties by Ventrue informally called “supervisors” and formally called aediles. Typically, aediles are competent and well-regarded ancillae who are happy to suck up, well, because they’re Camarilla Ventrue ancillae and that’s just how they are. In some domains, the praetor presides over Board meetings but an aedile actually runs things, usually because the praetor wants to nap through the meeting or otherwise can’t be buggered to pay attention to what’s going on.
2 dot - Peerage: Only slightly below the tribunes are the peers (collectively the peerage), which is basically a list of every reasonably competent Ventrue who has any standing or influence of any kind. Curiously, being a part of the peerage doesn’t really give you any benefits. Rather, it simply means you don’t carry the stigma of not being a peer.
2 dot - Quasitor: The questors or foremen are young Ventrue who have obtained some degree of status from the Board in exchange for loyalty and obedience.
1 dot - Eiren: The eiren or associate members, sadly for them, are so young and inexperienced that they have no real status at all beyond that which all Ventrue accord to one another as peers. To compare it to the Mafia, think of questors as “made men” and eiren as rank-and-file gang members. Or, to compare it to a fraternity, the eiren are the freshman plebes and the questors are all arrogant sophomores who have been appointed to the membership committee and think that entitles them to haze the newbies.
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