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The Ravnos are a fictional clan of vampires, from White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games. Unlike most vampires, the Ravnos are associated with neither the Camarilla nor the Sabbat; much of the Ravnos symbology is Middle Eastern and Asian, and the organization is centered in India. In Europe, these vampires are associated with Gypsies. Their symbol is a pointed cross. Even when compared to other vampires, Ravnos are not especially honorable; they are often compulsive gamblers and liars. They are capable of causing magical illusions.
In the late 1990s, the Ravnos had been fighting a war with the Kindred of the East, siring large numbers of high-generation cannon fodder. The mass Embracings and Final Deaths of so many awakened the clan's slumbering Methuselahs, and in turn awakened Ravanna, the clan's Antideluvian founder.
In the Week of Nightmares, Ravanna's awakening caused many Kindred (especially Ravnos) to go mad. Ravanna caused a massive monsoon to block out the sun as he laid waste to Bangladesh. Three powerful Eastern Kindred fought him for three days and nights, until the Technocracy dropped a spirit nuke on him. The attack did not kill him, but it enraged him even farther. The Technocracy had to reflect the sun off three satellites onto Ravanna, burning through the cloud cover, in order to destroy him. In his death throes, Ravanna forced all of his progeny to engage in a brief self-destructive rampage. When their minds cleared, less than 100 Ravnos survived.
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