Why she betrayed Ravnos? According to the book because she is a child of Lillith and so not accustomed to follow any man. No idea what is more idiotic, the fact that they state that the power to create illusions was taught by a gypsy girl who only had the power of clairvoyance or the stupid story of Ennoia's betrayal where Ennoia apparently did not even consider said girl's powers and so of course her betrayal would fail. And if this is Caine (the 1st generation vampire) and he embraced Ravnos, wouldn't that mean that Ravnos belongs to the second generation and therefore we have a canon break here? Not only did these 'Romani' willingly accept a stranger into their midst who admits to be a murderer and to be Caine (and the first one openly) but now their blood even has power. Not only was I convinced (after reading this stuff about uncorrupted Romani language) that this is heavily based on Jan Yoors, but all this talk about Ravnos being persecuted (chapter 2 is literally called 'the persecuted') even though the narrator himself stated that most of what he knows are lies.Īnd when we got to the origins of the Ravnos it was getting more and more hilarious: now we have Egyptian werewolves with the gypsies and that stranger is Caine. Shortly afterwards I predicted that I would either find this totally annoying, or laugh my ass off at the ridiculousness of it all. ' And come on, they had to copy the picture of that Jewish boy with his raised hands? As I progressed I was like 'Yep, someone copied Jan Yoors. When reading this, right from the start, I asked myself whether they copy Jan Yoor’s books ever since I read that the fictitious narrator first met gypsies as a child in Belgium. Translation: We wanted to use some stereotypes. For this reason, certain liberties have been taken in the presentation of these enigmatic people, including the continuation of some of these misconceptions.

Clanbook Ravnos by Robert Hatch