Editing Mahtmasi (section)

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Mahtmasi Vampires can be considered Ghouls and the other Strigoi options since they reproduce often and feed on meat and blood of everything, dead and living.

They are horrid to look at, being terribly emaciated and having the traits of insects from a chittering language to Bloodline-wide wings. Like their progenitor they have the strange ability to sneak almost anywhere undetected, which greatly helps their assassinations and attacks on settlements. Unique among the Bloodlines is that Mahtmasi have no individualistic streak, and the Vampires live very close as a true family. They are loyal above all to their Chief, who is loyal to Mahtmasi and travels to his cave when called. They celebrate often, gorging themselves and frolicking in corpse piles, feasting on insects like cockroaches and maggots, or dancing covered in viscera and swinging entrails. 
Those who still feel lust pleasure themselves using dismembered women, although a strange Bloodline trait that survives from Maatmeses's lifesstyle in Lahmia is some Mahtmasi being unable to harm any pre-menopausal woman or even willingly inconvenience them. The entire Bloodline also inherited Maatmeses's fear of Neferata, and the sight of cats terrifies them instinctually. Since they were never involved with Nagash they didn't suffer the same curse as the other Bloodlines, but instead suffer from a counting obsession, inability to enter someplace uninvited (bribery helps with this one), fire, and allergy to certain metals. They still fear religious symbols as well as sunlight and have no reflection.

Although they turn others into Vampires rarely, they do select the greatest warriors from groups they destroy as well as proud nobility to turn.

They spread themselves throughout lands where humans cannot survive and remain nomadic so no army can be sent to destroy them, feeding on each other to keep their strength up as needed once loyalty and camaraderie give way to survival instinct, while also maintaining secret presences in cities. Only four coastal cities of Araby are yet untouched by them, and in desperation the Sultan has sent for aid from the former enemies in the Old World including [[Bretonnia]] to save them.