"You’re either part of the family or you’re food. I know we ain’t kin, so where does that leave you?"
Most vampires haunt cities, making the urban landscape their hunting grounds. Few are willing to dwell outside metropolitan areas. Not only are the dangers abroad unseen and untold, but the feeding is meager.
The vampires of the Oberloch bloodline purposefully choose to stay away from cities and suburban sprawls. This choice is made partly out of ignorance (only a few Oberloch kin are even aware that other vampires exist, let alone in cities), but it’s also a strategic choice. The “Brood” opts to spend the Requiem in towns far from city lights, existing only in small burgs and hamlets many miles from any highway. They’re selfmade rulers of these places, for such rural towns provide wide-open territory