the Cenotaph Path of Necromancy. This path allows the necromancer control and even reassignment of a wraith's fetter. Ghiberti have extensive experience dealing with wraiths from the Dark Kingdom of Ivory. Malkavian Another clan ostensibly led into the Ebony Kingdom by a self-made messiah known as "Arcus", they exist in scattered clusters, seeking the "lost secrets" of the Dark Continent. Ventrue The remnants of the Age of Colonization, some Ventrue have gone native, but still remain a clan. Their ancestry and outsider status limits their potential. Laibon bloodline When first introduced in Vampire: the Dark Ages, the Laibon were presented as a bloodline of wandering wise men and shaman from Africa. Since the publication of Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom, Laibon has become the blanket term for all African Kindred, who belong to one of several different lineages. Although the Laibon remain an option for Dark Ages game, they probably represent the wandering Akunanse Lineage. European and Islamic Cainites simply view the occasional visitors from Africa as a "mere" bloodline in their arrogance. Reception Backstab was critical of the game, saying that while it had a good concept, it was poorly implemented in the book, with information often being hard to find and embedded in pieces of short fiction, and compared it unfavorably to the earlier game Kindred of the East. In November 2004, Hindmarch's work on Victorian Age: Vampire and Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom led to him getting the position of line developer of White Wolf Publishing's then-flagship title Vampire: The Requiem, succeeding Achilli. References Justin Achilli et al., Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom, (White Wolf Game Studio, 2003, ) Robert Hatch et al., A World of Darkness (Second Edition), (White Wolf Game Studio, 1996, ) Vampire: The Masquerade Role-playing games introduced in 2003