The Ascetics of the Dark is a bloodline of the Lasombra which is an Abyssal Bloodline with an anxious longing spiralling through their veins. These apophatic Kindred descend from a group of unknown methuselahs, accounts of which tell that they were Ascetics who believed they could become tutelary deities via abstinence from light and warmth. Some accounts claim that they were the direct Embrace of the Antediluvian, and that they were told by him to make pilgrimage to the Ādima Tamaḥ, the Primordial Dark. Those that descend from these Ascetics find a similar pull in their blood, eventually making their own Pilgrimage.