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C ONTENTS

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B Y M ICHAEL B UTLER , D EAN S HOMSHAK , D AVID T URNER & G UY -F RANCIS V ELLA

V AMPIRE CREATED BY M ARK R EIN •H AGEN

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S UNSET E MPIRES

C REDITS

Authors: Michael Butler, Dean Shomshak, David Turner

and Guy-Francis Vella. Vampire and the World of Darkness

created by Mark Rein•Hagen.

Additional Material: Lucien Soulban

Storyteller Game System Design: Mark Rein•Hagen.

Developer: Lucien Soulban

Editor: Michelle Lyons

Art Director: Brian Glass

Layout and Typesetting: Brian Glass

Interior Art: Dorothy Zamjee

Front Cover Art: Durwin Talon

Front Cover Design: Becky Jollensten

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C ONTENTS

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C ONTENTS

I NTRODUCTION

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C HAPTER O NE : C HINA

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C HAPTER T WO : I NDIA

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C HAPTER T HREE : J APAN

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C HAPTER F OUR : S OUTHEAST A SIA

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C HAPTER F IVE : C HARACTER C REATION

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C HAPTER S IX : S TORYTELLING S UNSET E MPIRES

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S UNSET E MPIRES

Introduction

To starve to death is a very small matter.

To lose one’s integrity, however, is a very

serious matter.

—Ch’eng I, Reflections of Things on Hand

T AKE A S TEP B ACK

The Chinese meant for the phrase, “May you live in

interesting times,” to serve as a curse. The people of

19th-century Asia must have keenly felt the cruel irony

of this as centuries of advanced thought so clearly spelled

their doom, especially in light of the events that gripped

their world. In the span of mere decades, cultures that

once marked their existence by millennia underwent so

many watershed events that some are still recovering

from the experience. That Asia emerged from this period

of forced participation in Western empire-building with

any cultural identity left whatsoever is a testament to its

singular will, a will tempered by colonial dominance and

brutality. What the British, Germans, Spanish,

Portuguese, French and Americans did to the region is

unacceptable by modern standards, but any claim Asia

was entirely innocent in matters regarding its own fate is

too shortsighted — at least for the purposes of this book.

Sunset Empires is part of the history of the World of

Darkness; therefore nobody gets to play the part of the

wholly innocent victim. Everyone takes a role in setting

the course of the Victorian Age; everyone must eventually

pay the piper. This book serves as a historical setting,

covering the 19th century almost in its entirety, but it

also serves as a vehicle to involve characters in one of

Asia’s most trying times. Why discuss the Opium Wars

when characters can take part in them? Why mention

Japan’s rapid modernization if characters can’t join the

internecine fighting dividing the Japanese uji ?

C AVEAT : I T ’ S O NLY H ISTORY

If fortune indeed favors the bold… then Asia was

doomed to fall.

Sunset Empires is driven by historical — and

entirely mortal — events. The Kuei-jin are not the

movers and shakers of this period… neither are the Kin-

jin, the hengeyokai, or any other shen for that matter.

The truth hurts, but by the time of the Victorian Era,

the Kuei-jin are no longer dominant: they simply haven’t

realized it yet. This is a pivotal moment in the history

of the Kuei-jin, when they realize they are little more

than flotsam in a storm of conflicting mortal interests.

The world around them is changing with every 19th-

century minute, and there is little the Quincunx or

other various undead courts can do about it. It is their

first lesson in humility since the fall from Wan Xian,

and it is a bitter pill to swallow.

This is a time of mortals; of mortal history, mortal

agendas and mortal machinations. The shen are only

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