Every Goddamn Vampire in this Goddamn Medieval Europe of Mine

 Four years ago today, I made a generator for Vampire the Masquerade to represent the vampiric population of the United states. It was a neat toy and fun to make, and it was some help in the campaign I was running at the time. After some time running other things, I'm currently DMing a duet game in which the player takes on the role of different vampires in a single bloodline throughout history, and I got the itch to represent vampiric society of deep past.

Set in 1000 CE, this generator will list the vampires from the Caliphate of Cordoba in the west all the way to the lands that will retroactively be called the Byzantine Empire and Kievan Rus. Like with my previous generator, I use the rule of thumb that 100,000 humans = 1 Cainite. However, the low population density of the region at this time suggests that more kindred wandered longer distances, and that domains were broader and kindred populations also more dispersed. So I'm drawing from the population estimates of entire regions rather than metropolitan areas.  You'll notice that some clans, like the Ravnos and the Giovanni, are absent in this time and place, while others, like the Salubri and Cappadocians, are still found in numbers.

If you want to adapt this generator to later times, increase the number of Cainites across the board, but especially in the Eastern Roman Empire and in Spain. Many cities are built in the 11th and 12th century, and population shoots up until the Black Death arrives. Kindred population plummets around Constantinople in around 1205 as infighting brings down the idealistic Dream of the prince there, and plummets in Spain around 1480 as the Spanish Inquisition covers for a widespread effort to destroy the Cainites once and for all. Between those two dates, the "War of Princes", a tyrannous battle of all against all, drives vampires to acts of blood-slavery, sadism, and control. After the Inquisition comes the Anarch Revolt and the formation of the Camarilla, and my generator starts to get really outdated.

Thanks as ever to Spwack for the list-to-html tool, and to fantasynamegenerators for having a ready supply of olde timey names.

Every Goddamn Vampire in this Goddamn Country of Mine

 Sometimes, you make it to see if you can do it. 

I wanted to make a generator that would show you the vampire society of a given city with a single click. But in order to do that, I needed to know how many vampires to put in it. The VtM revised rulebook provides a rule of thumb (that it almost always ignores) saying a densely population area should have one vampire for every 100,000 people in a community. But vampires aren't lone wanderers. They're organized in coteries of a size that the book is cagey about telling. A few levels of investigation in, I found myself searching out the metro population of the United States in 1990 to facilitate this growing project. I was no longer trying to generate a city. I was trying to generate every city in the US. I ran the generator once and came up with a vampire census 100 pages long. 

After all this research and heartache, I've decided there's no easy answer to how many coteries there should be in a city, but there's a fair answer. The answer is, if the average coterie has a little more than five members, "about seven." That's on par with Dallas and Miami, and it should be plenty of characters. It means there's bigger and smaller kindred communities, and it's about as many groups as an engaged player can be expected to remember at once. Go with seven.

Therefore, that's the number I've tuned my city generator to. Use it five times to get a metro area roughly equal to New York City, twice to get one roughly equal to Chicago. Each press of the button will show seven coteries, identifying each vampire by their (bolded) nature and some interesting facts about them. If they're part of a clan coterie, that's the clan they belong to. If they're part of another kind of coterie, it will be specified.

To damn the world, I've also included the America generator, but I warn you it will make a long result. If you want an example, I've put it in a (hunded page) google doc.