Editing Vampire: The Masquerade (section)

===The Embrace===
Vampires create more of themselves by draining a human to the point of death and then feeding the victim some of their blood, in an act known as ''the Embrace''. The creator vampire is known as a ''sire'' and the newly created vampire a ''childe''. Very little vitae is required to trigger the metamorphosis but the victim must be freshly dead (no more than a few minutes old). A vampire's relative power is limited by their ''[[Generation#Familial generation|generation]]'', which is their relative distance from the race's mythical founder, [[Cain|Caine]]. A ninth generation Kindred is eight steps removed from Caine by descent; their own progeny would always be nine steps removed, and hence of the tenth generation.<ref name="V:tM20" />{{RP|28}} Characters can only lower their generation by committing ''diablerie''—the consumption of the soul of a vampire of lower generation. Most Kindred see diablerie as a criminal act.<ref name="V:tM20" />{{RP|24, 28}}

In some sects, such as the Camarilla, the creation of new Kindred is tightly controlled.<ref name="V:tM20" />{{RP|22-23}} Among the Sabbat or the Anarchs, the norms are much looser.<ref name="V:tM20" />{{RP|19}} Individual clans, especially the ''independent clans'', have different norms, rituals and restrictions surrounding the Embrace.<ref name="V:tM20" />{{RP|64}}<ref name="V:tM20" />{{RP|47, 56-57}}