
Before you begin your afterlife in Seattle, one of the first choices you'll make in Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 is which one of the Bloodlines 2 clans your protagonist Phyre comes from. As factions in RPGs often work, each vampire clan has a very different personality and goal and which one you choose will change your combat style and how other vamps treat you in conversations.
There's a whole backlog of lore from the Vampire: The Masquerade tabletop RPG including even more clans, sects, and other vampire hierarchy minutia, but I'll focus on what you need to know to choose which lunch table you're doing to sit at in Bloodlines 2 including combat style, abilities, and clan persona.