The Giovanni

The Cappedocian vampires where en tuned with that of the angel of Death, and wanted to understand the secrets of the great beyond, nicknamed grave robbers for they practiced a discipline called Mortis that allowed them to manipulate the dead like marionettes, and make them do their bidding.  Cappadocius the clan founder wanting to understand the limits of life and death even more, asked for a Necromancer, and so Augustus Giovanni was embraced as a Cappadocian kindred, Giovanni wanted all the power and leadership of Cappadocius so he Diablerized him. The act of draining another vampire of all of its blood and his essences, by this the kindred can obtain part of his power and so Giovanni was now head of the Cappadocians and him and his family hunted down every Cappadocian sending the clan into the Abyss.

And so Clan Giovanni was born, by diablerizing and exterminating all of the remaining Cappadocians the Giovanni consolidated their power as a new clan, the curse that Giovanni carry was not handed down by Cain like the other clans but still they carry a curse, the bite of a Giovanni is extremely painful and so embracing childer is no easy task, many die from the excruciating pain of the kiss of Cain. The nickname for clan Giovanni is Necromancers for they still hold true to a corruption of the Mortis discipline and gave way to Necromancy. The Necromancy discipline allows a vampire to imprison souls, to make a living being to wither and feel the effects of old age, call upon wraiths and so on.
Most of the clan are related so all stays in "THE FAMILY" the Giovanni are experts smugglers and providers of contraband. The goal of the Giovanni is to bring the dead to the living, corrupting them by tearing down the  shroud that separates the realm of death with that of the living.
The Giovanni are a highly organized clan, consisting of a network of interrelated families who share a common culture and fealty to the ancestral Giovanni family. As a result, despite popular conception, not all Giovanni are Italian, Clan Giovanni is the only clan that is not associated with either the Camarilla nor the Sabbat and most kindred avoid all Giovanni for when being around a Giovanni vampire there is always an unnatural feel of things, the taste for the morbid is something no kindred could get used to. The Giovanni are the only clan that knows the joy of life, the dark twilight of unlife and the bitter ashes of true death.