Simple answer: a man who you can trust Long answer:the few Gangrel who seems to have his beast in check and if you're ever around him when he cuts loose, you may not be around after
@@ThePrimogen ye,beckett may have his share of blood on his hands but the dude is surprisingly not a half bad bloke,and tbh it could be argued ironicly, becketts tendency to be a magnet for trouble may relate to inadvertently being a unknowing herald of gehenna,his very presence causing chaos
Beckett is so awesome- I like that he is kind of above the typical Gangrel stereotype of being a wildling. An excellent example that shows that clans are much more than simple stereotypes for characters to fall under.
When I played 14 years ago, the larps in my city were really sticky with " their " clan books. ( buy your own ) bunch of elitist snobs of gamers. But when I told them I was a hard core Gangrel and just want their clan's stereotype on gangrels and that all, then they were very happy to let me copy a " few " sentences from " their " book. I always play the country gangrel " wildling," which was a greatly mutated chimera of a beast. All my characters always has a couple or a few dots in Acting and Intimidation so every " fake " frenzy rage makes everyone around me think my character is Wasiling. Now where some other player's character makes a Spot roll and " notice " if my character is gaining a " new " animal appearance trait, they can tell my character if " Bluffing," or they should really start making a run for it.
Well, this somehow turned up in my recommendations, despite the fact my WoD lore knowledge is pretty small and I never actually played Vampire: The Masquerade, sticking mostly to D&D.... Can't say I am disappointed, subbed and liked and even wrote a lenghty comment to feed the algorithm gods. Thanks for covering interesting subjects in a comprehensive and indepth manner. I wish you the best of luck amassing an audience you deserve, and in the mean time, I'll be watching.
Thank you very much for checking out my stuff and I'm glad you enjoyed it! I hope there'll be plenty more content in the future for you to sink your fangs into!
Beckett is a perfect example of what a Gangrel character can be. Very intelligent, clearly in control of themselves, but also clearly capable of ripping you into pieces if he ever decides to loosen up that control. A stand up guy with strong moral backbone who wants to know the nature of his kind. Too many players make their characters walking stereotypes of their clans. Just bc your character is Gangrel doesn't mean he has to speak in grunts and sleep in a cave...
Great video; funny that I just picked up 'Beckett's Jyhad Diary' and its been some of the most inspiring writing for me to get back into running VtM; Becket is probably one of my favorites right next to Lucita de Arago and Sasha Vykos.
BJD is SUCH a good book! I was reading it last year at the airport while heading home from DragonMeet and back then I was still so rusty about the meta-plot. I really need to give it another readthrough!
Nice! I happen to be creating a childe of Beckett for a game I'm going to be in, so this was a very handy, not to mention timely, video! Thank you for providing this summation.
OK SO, two things First, amazing fucking video, as always, your narration always brings an extra layer to the story mate, like it differs from say someone just regurgitating facts about who the hell Becket is for example, your story telling is amazing, Second, why the fuk did no one tell me you stream CHANGELING THE LOST, I mean, ahhhhhhhhhhh this is the series that got me into your channel, and I just found that you stream it on Onyx path twitch, and I am falling in bloody love!!!
I'm glad you like it! :D And indeed, I do run a Changeling game! I have episodes here on my channel and The Onyx Path uploads to their RUclips every now and then as well, it's called Littlebrook Reunion
@@ThePrimogen Isn't the only place he 'died' at the end of the Gehenna novel? They retconned that when they changed Gehenna into a less severe, more cyclical event (and Beckett's Jyhad Diary is canonically after that novel and setting up plot teasers for V5 lore and with Okulos, Smiling Jack and other Kindred that were outright killed in the novel 'alive' and well in it..? )
@@margisama Yeah, I'm almost positive Beckett is still around as, like you said, that stuff was retconned. Even so, there's some stuff in BJD that was sorta retconned in V5 if I'm not mistaken, so it's possible BJD is a collection of What if's that White Wolf can pick from or discard. All that being said, I really can't see them kill off a beloved, long-time SPC like him.
I'm so glad I could provide it! I'm not sure at the moment, the End Times were retconned, but that doesn't mean they're not interesting! I still have loads of Vampire: the Masquerade content to cover, so I can't promise when that will be, but I find it very likely we'll get there eventually!
Thank you! I have not, unfortunately, which I'm a little upset about; I haven't had the time to dig into the novels unfortunately or I would have been able to cover that more.
The Gehenna books have since been declared non-canon with the continuation of the plot in V5 (and in Beckett's Jyhad Diary), so I thought it would be best not to go down that rabbit hole too much, but I did mention the Lasombra Antediluvian as a sort of hint at it.
I do realize though that I am including content that has since been retconned, afaik his relationship with Aristotle isn't nearly as bad in BJD as it was at the end of the Revised edition, which I can only assume is a retcon. It's hard to know exactly what is or isn't relevant anymore, we shall simply have to wait and see if there will be return of this beloved Gangrel.
I never was a fan of Caine being the first Vampire, but with World of Darkness being rebooted with V5 that is yet to be determined, but the whole lore of their beginnings is too Judeau Christian, and I prefer the first Vampire to be a mystery. That's what I like about Vampire the Requiem. The Vampires origins in new WOD is a mystery, less is more makes it more fascinating and scary. If I had to stick with the Abrahamic origins of Vampires, then I would prefer Lamashtu or Lilith rather than Caine. It makes more sense as a storytelling element to me rather than Caine. I would have preferred Caine being the first Werewolf, cause you can do more with that angle. Where he kills his brother during a full moon, and he used a heavy piece of silver ore to smash his brother's head in, and the mark he was cursed with transforms him into a werewolf during a full moon as part of his curse. They should have gone that route, but whatevs. Here is what they could do to make Caine's story more interesting if they ever want to reveal his true origins. Since Vampires can be paralyzed in the heart by being staked, that can be used as part of Caine's curse where Caine used a wooden stake to impale his brother's heart to murder him, and to make Caine's story more modern, they can reveal where Caine is not even his real name, it was one of the many names given to him throughout the passings of time. And he was never the first murderer. There were Humans that were murderers before him and he was not one of the original humans to ever live. he was just a hundred thousand-year-old caveman that did not descend from Adam and Eve but was a Homo Sapien descendent of Homo Erectus. His goal was that he wanted to live forever, and so he sacrificed his brother to a dark entity to obtain it. That could work. Or White Wolf could do a twist where Caine is not the original progenitor but it is actually Abel. Where Abel was murdered and his body became possessed by some entity that resurrects Abel back to life where he will forever hunger for the blood of his brother's children as revenge for what his brother did to him. Or here is another twist White Wolf could do. The characters that we come to know as Adam and Eve were never Human, but were actually the first Vampires and the Garden of Eden was meant for the Vampires, not Humans who were just apes that roamed outside of the Garden at the time. So the whole book of Genesis was a plagiarism of a lost Vampire myth that got twisted around favoring mankind and not Vampires, and they can even go with God being Vampiric in its nature. That would be interesting. Whatever the Vampires origins are I hope they move it out of the Abrahamic direction and into something new where it reveals that the World Of Darkness is far more ancient and more terrifying than we thought it would be.
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Simple answer: a man who you can trust
Long answer:the few Gangrel who seems to have his beast in check and if you're ever around him when he cuts loose, you may not be around after
100% Agreed. Say what you want about his personality, but Beckett does seem like a standup guy.
@@ThePrimogen ye,beckett may have his share of blood on his hands but the dude is surprisingly not a half bad bloke,and tbh it could be argued ironicly, becketts tendency to be a magnet for trouble may relate to inadvertently being a unknowing herald of gehenna,his very presence causing chaos
Beckett is so awesome- I like that he is kind of above the typical Gangrel stereotype of being a wildling. An excellent example that shows that clans are much more than simple stereotypes for characters to fall under.
I agree! It's always fun when they go against the grain, especially with clans that are easily stereotyped like the Gangrel.
When I played 14 years ago, the larps in my city were really sticky with " their " clan books.
( buy your own ) bunch of elitist snobs of gamers. But when I told them I was a hard core Gangrel and just want their clan's stereotype on gangrels and that all, then they were very happy to let me copy a " few " sentences from " their " book.
I always play the country gangrel " wildling," which was a greatly mutated chimera of a beast.
All my characters always has a couple or a few dots in Acting and Intimidation so every
" fake " frenzy rage makes everyone around me think my character is Wasiling.
Now where some other player's character makes a Spot roll and " notice " if my character is gaining a " new " animal appearance trait, they can tell my character if " Bluffing," or they should really start making a run for it.
Becket is truly one of the coolest characters in Vampire! One of the best the Gangrel have to offer.
Agreed, I love him! That snark though... ;)
A clear example of a vampire who can actually pull off the Glowing Eyes flaw with suceess!
Well, this somehow turned up in my recommendations, despite the fact my WoD lore knowledge is pretty small and I never actually played Vampire: The Masquerade, sticking mostly to D&D....
Can't say I am disappointed, subbed and liked and even wrote a lenghty comment to feed the algorithm gods.
Thanks for covering interesting subjects in a comprehensive and indepth manner. I wish you the best of luck amassing an audience you deserve, and in the mean time, I'll be watching.
Thank you very much for checking out my stuff and I'm glad you enjoyed it! I hope there'll be plenty more content in the future for you to sink your fangs into!
Beckett is a perfect example of what a Gangrel character can be. Very intelligent, clearly in control of themselves, but also clearly capable of ripping you into pieces if he ever decides to loosen up that control. A stand up guy with strong moral backbone who wants to know the nature of his kind.
Too many players make their characters walking stereotypes of their clans. Just bc your character is Gangrel doesn't mean he has to speak in grunts and sleep in a cave...
Heh, perfect timing that this vid appeared on my home page as Beckett is going to be played by Matt Mercer on LA by Night tonight!
He might have unintentionally freed Caine himself from his inadvertent imprisonment in Kaymakli in the Cappadocia Mountains
Great video; funny that I just picked up 'Beckett's Jyhad Diary' and its been some of the most inspiring writing for me to get back into running VtM; Becket is probably one of my favorites right next to Lucita de Arago and Sasha Vykos.
BJD is SUCH a good book! I was reading it last year at the airport while heading home from DragonMeet and back then I was still so rusty about the meta-plot. I really need to give it another readthrough!
@@ThePrimogen You do! I haven't been able to put it down and its inspiring my current V5 chronicle
Once again your eloquence does justice to one of V:TM's most beloved characters. Bravo Primogen, Bravo.....
Thank you so much! There's just so much about Beckett to cover, I was worried I wasn't going to do him justice
You just asked Fred Astaire to dance -Beckett when challenged to fight.
Words of wisdom.
Nice! I happen to be creating a childe of Beckett for a game I'm going to be in, so this was a very handy, not to mention timely, video! Thank you for providing this summation.
Hey, that's awesome! Glad to hear I could be of help, and that sounds like a cool concept to play!
OK SO, two things
First, amazing fucking video, as always, your narration always brings an extra layer to the story mate, like it differs from say someone just regurgitating facts about who the hell Becket is for example, your story telling is amazing,
Second, why the fuk did no one tell me you stream CHANGELING THE LOST, I mean, ahhhhhhhhhhh
this is the series that got me into your channel, and I just found that you stream it on Onyx path twitch, and I am falling in bloody love!!!
I'm glad you like it! :D And indeed, I do run a Changeling game! I have episodes here on my channel and The Onyx Path uploads to their RUclips every now and then as well, it's called Littlebrook Reunion
Amazing video about my favorite gangrel. Hoping we will get to see a video about lucita and anatole as well. Thanks again.
I can almost guarantee they will make an appearance, sooner or later. :)
Anatole is the bees knees.
Beckett my love! Thank you for making this!
Absolutely! But also thank Bambi Parsons who requested a video on him for her personal Patreon video! :)
The Primogen thanks Bambi!
I'm a simple woman, I see Beckett in the title of a video, I click video XD Here's to hoping we get a Beckett cameo in Bloodlines 2
I'm crossing all my fingers! I hope the reports of his death were highly exaggerated.
@@ThePrimogen Isn't the only place he 'died' at the end of the Gehenna novel? They retconned that when they changed Gehenna into a less severe, more cyclical event (and Beckett's Jyhad Diary is canonically after that novel and setting up plot teasers for V5 lore and with Okulos, Smiling Jack and other Kindred that were outright killed in the novel 'alive' and well in it..? )
@@margisama Yeah, I'm almost positive Beckett is still around as, like you said, that stuff was retconned. Even so, there's some stuff in BJD that was sorta retconned in V5 if I'm not mistaken, so it's possible BJD is a collection of What if's that White Wolf can pick from or discard.
All that being said, I really can't see them kill off a beloved, long-time SPC like him.
His greates achievement he never ever learned he managed to achieve, is to inspire Cain confront his children in the Gehenna chronicle.
RIP Gehenna
@@ThePrimogen yeah V5 doesn't need you, yet XD
@@Razamaniac One day I'll get there, but for now there's still plenty of lore to cover! :D
@@ThePrimogen just a reference ! no need to hurry . XD
Finally, the one Who's Who I've always wanted to see done. Will we ever get a video on the End Times books (and novel)?
I'm so glad I could provide it!
I'm not sure at the moment, the End Times were retconned, but that doesn't mean they're not interesting! I still have loads of Vampire: the Masquerade content to cover, so I can't promise when that will be, but I find it very likely we'll get there eventually!
another amazing video, keep it up Primogen
Thank you so much! I will! :D
Great character video Primogen. IMO Beckett is a really good example of out of the box Vampire character. 😊
Totally agree! He's a great character!
I already know who he is. My husband
Haha, nice!
My Fav. Kindred!!
Hope I did him justice! :D
Man, your videos are a treasure to me. I can't wait until you do Moncada 😁. Salute from the South Bay
Moncada... Hmm... who knows if he is still alive in these times? Only time will tell...
Was that you at the end? If it was that was a fantastic impression
A good summary of the character. Have you read about his Chicago-experiences in The year of the Scarab Trilogy?
Thank you! I have not, unfortunately, which I'm a little upset about; I haven't had the time to dig into the novels unfortunately or I would have been able to cover that more.
The Primogen I hope you will get the opportunity to read it in the future :) Keep up the good work.
I never knew he had an embarrassing freud phase...
YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
Our immortal Daddy
There's a Geheba novel in which there is a suggestion that Beckett traveled with Caine without knowing it, until the very end.
@@InconnuMontecristo WHERE?!
I realy expect you to make similar werewolf videos :P
Oh most assuredly :D
Yesssss my favourite VTMB character 🥰
I hope I did him justice!
@@ThePrimogen absolutely! I learned a lot 😊
what a lad
i want to meet that guy
I've heard he's quite the cool guy!
good vid
Thank you!
there is something like that for werewolf the apocalypse?
Like what? the Who's Who? I haven't really gotten to them yet, there's still plenty of people in the vampire society I need to cover first.
Wasn't Beckett wrong about everything?
No mention of his demise or traveling with Cain?
The Gehenna books have since been declared non-canon with the continuation of the plot in V5 (and in Beckett's Jyhad Diary), so I thought it would be best not to go down that rabbit hole too much, but I did mention the Lasombra Antediluvian as a sort of hint at it.
I do realize though that I am including content that has since been retconned, afaik his relationship with Aristotle isn't nearly as bad in BJD as it was at the end of the Revised edition, which I can only assume is a retcon. It's hard to know exactly what is or isn't relevant anymore, we shall simply have to wait and see if there will be return of this beloved Gangrel.
English? I'd read somewhere that Beckett was a Belgian.
I never was a fan of Caine being the first Vampire, but with World of Darkness being rebooted with V5 that is yet to be determined, but the whole lore of their beginnings is too Judeau Christian, and I prefer the first Vampire to be a mystery. That's what I like about Vampire the Requiem. The Vampires origins in new WOD is a mystery, less is more makes it more fascinating and scary. If I had to stick with the Abrahamic origins of Vampires, then I would prefer Lamashtu or Lilith rather than Caine. It makes more sense as a storytelling element to me rather than Caine. I would have preferred Caine being the first Werewolf, cause you can do more with that angle. Where he kills his brother during a full moon, and he used a heavy piece of silver ore to smash his brother's head in, and the mark he was cursed with transforms him into a werewolf during a full moon as part of his curse. They should have gone that route, but whatevs. Here is what they could do to make Caine's story more interesting if they ever want to reveal his true origins. Since Vampires can be paralyzed in the heart by being staked, that can be used as part of Caine's curse where Caine used a wooden stake to impale his brother's heart to murder him, and to make Caine's story more modern, they can reveal where Caine is not even his real name, it was one of the many names given to him throughout the passings of time. And he was never the first murderer. There were Humans that were murderers before him and he was not one of the original humans to ever live. he was just a hundred thousand-year-old caveman that did not descend from Adam and Eve but was a Homo Sapien descendent of Homo Erectus. His goal was that he wanted to live forever, and so he sacrificed his brother to a dark entity to obtain it. That could work. Or White Wolf could do a twist where Caine is not the original progenitor but it is actually Abel. Where Abel was murdered and his body became possessed by some entity that resurrects Abel back to life where he will forever hunger for the blood of his brother's children as revenge for what his brother did to him. Or here is another twist White Wolf could do. The characters that we come to know as Adam and Eve were never Human, but were actually the first Vampires and the Garden of Eden was meant for the Vampires, not Humans who were just apes that roamed outside of the Garden at the time. So the whole book of Genesis was a plagiarism of a lost Vampire myth that got twisted around favoring mankind and not Vampires, and they can even go with God being Vampiric in its nature. That would be interesting. Whatever the Vampires origins are I hope they move it out of the Abrahamic direction and into something new where it reveals that the World Of Darkness is far more ancient and more terrifying than we thought it would be.
FU bich