Surpised to see "familiar faces"

[Devair]

In a way, at least. 

For the past 4 years or so, I've been running a Dark Ages Chronicle (text based on IRC) with my best friend.  She's also my first victim... I mean ... player ... for Redemption.  The other one is also a PnP player friend, although we had to convince her husband this wasn't some "girly game."  We're all females, so I had to assure him you got to chop up people and spread the blood along with the love - he's in, now.

For PnP we're doing that series of 4 books called the Transylvania Chronicles.  More or less.  A few years back I started fleshing out the collection of Dark Ages books via auctions since they were going out of print,  WOD was changing, White Wolf was going to WotC, and so on.  One of the books I thought necessary was Transylvania by Night.  I was peeved when it had about two pages actually about Transylvania considering the title.  I used it briefly when we started the game and hadn't cracked it much, since.

I knew a version of Christof popped up in the Brujah Clan novel as a minor character, but I didn't realize the setting and other characters were basically already established figures in the WOD.   

We're finally getting to book 2: Dragon Ascendant, so dusted T:BN off again.  It was a pleasant surprise to see Ectatrina the Wise, Libussa, Garinol, Rudolph Brandl,  and even the Rabbi with his Golem in there.  The basic setting from Redemption was easy to see from the WOD take of Prague at the time, complete with Vysehrad Castle.  The Cathedral of Flesh I remembered, although it was something in Transylvania (we're about to have to deal with it, in fact) but it's run by Yorak.   I'd forgotten about the Prauge Cainites and when I played Redemption they didn't ring any bells.  Their histories were interesting and meshed really well with Redemption.  I doubt any of our PnP characters are going to run across them, but I still enjoyed reading their histories.   

[wesclash]

Trivial note; Ecaterina is also in White Wolf's New York by Night book--still 'alive' and kickin' in the modern nights, though kind of in hiding from her former Sabbat buddies.  I thought it was interesting that she is descibed as having been 16 when she was embraced; not the impression I got from VtM:R.

[Javokis]

Redeption used a lot of Vampire - The Dark Ages in the disciplines and general setting as well, which tend to have mixed in with modern day Vampire - The Masquerade setting.