In a board game about vampires, they talked about the Sultan Ramzan and the bloodsucker clans in Chechnya. The authors apologized, the game studio was disbanded

And Kadyrov, it seems, has nothing to do with it!

Vampire: The Masquarade is one of the most popular board role -playing games in the world. In it you need to play for vampires that exist in the universe, very similar to ours - the game has a lot of references to history and the modern state of affairs in the world. Among the advantages of Vampire: The Masquarade is called the detailed elaboration of the universe - a whole book with a legend is attached to the set.

In the new release of the game, part of the book is dedicated to “Chechnya” - supposedly the only territory on the ground controlled by vampires. “This is a terrible place for mortal people - and the most delightful eastern garden of pleasure for people like us,” Kommersant quotes the book, which the first among the Russian media outlets drew attention to this story.

Vampire: The Masquarade says that Chechnya nominally controls the Sultan Ramzan, mentions the “Personal Guard of Kadyrov” and really existing teips. In Chechnya from the game universe, people are required to donate blood for vampires - for this there are special places that are disguised as sports halls.

Separately, Vampire: The Masquarade mentions the pursuit of LGBT in the republic : it is supposedly an operation to take the eyes to hide the truth about vampires.

As a result, the game was criticized by reviewers and representatives of the LGBT community: they considered it inappropriate jokes in a situation where they continue to persecute gays in the republic. The Chechen authorities did not like the game either. “This is a continuation of the campaign to line up Russia and Chechnya,” said Alvi Karimov, press secretary of Ramzan Kadyrov, Kadzan Kadyrov.

White Wolf, which came up with the Vampire universe: The Masquarade, first apologized to Facebook , and on November 16 released a appeal to readers on the site. It says that the company decided to completely remove the chapter on Chechnya from the book. In addition, White Wolf will cease to exist as a separate company: its developers will pour into Paradox Interactive, which owns White Wolf.

“Real evil exists, and we cannot justify criminals or belittle the suffering of victims. <...> We had to pay attention to this either during the creation of the game or when editing. This did not happen. For this we apologize, ”the appeal says.

Alexander Polivanov