Kindred of the Fourteenth and fifteenth generations have thin blood, and so almost none of them have proven able to sire childer.

 

The Ninth and Tenth Generations
   While these proven vampires, sometimes refferred to as Ancillae are more able to walk among the Elders than their progeny, but still seem to associate with the younger generations. Most are products of the modern age, but some do hail from longer ago. They are responsible in many ways for bridging the social and political gap between the younger neonates and their Elders.
 
The Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Generations
   Many princes hail from these generations, though those who rule European cities are more likely to be closer to Caine than their American equals. These Kindred also rule the Camarilla, at least nominally, and remain very active in vampiric society.
   These Kindred will have become powerful in the use of their disciplines, and perhaps because of their creation in bygone eras, are considered to be elders.
 
The Fourth and Fifth Generations
   These Methuselahs are powerful and secretive Kindred, and as such are most useful pawns in the Jyhad. The unfortunate result of this, many have been destroyed or forced into hiding. Some have chosen to join the Inconnu for protection from the warring Antideluvians.
 
The Third Generation
   It is believed that only seven Kindred of this generation remain. Two may be called Mekhet and Lucian. These Antideluvians (those before the flood) are thought to be the founders of the 13 clans.
Instead of warring openly, these masters of the Jyhad battle through subterfuge, influence, politics and deceit.
   While the obvious beasts that plague Kindred may be the source of the Jyhad, it is believed that a number of other causes are more likely. The Antideluvians may be warring over holdings and status, but these seem such shallow subjects of contention for ancient Kindred of the Third Generation. Perhaps some of them have reached fabled Golconda and are trying to guide others, while their brothers resist and struggling to hold onto worldly powers. Perhaps they are so powerful, that only one of their own is sufficient to end them. If so, they must be playing to see who will be the last Antideluvian.
 
Caine and the Second Generation
   Known fragments of the Book of Nod suggest that only three Second Generation ancients ever existed, and that they lived in the city of Enoch with Caine, the Biblical slayer of his brother Abel and Sire of All Kindred.
   While none claim to know any of these mighty beings, were any of the Second Generation to walk among us today, they would be as mighty as the Gods of old. And though many claim Caine to be a myth, and none can truly claim to have any proof, those who have any reason to believe in him know him to be mighty beyond imagination, and of a mind alien to any but his first Childer.
Also of note is a fact that skeptics have brought forth into the argument. If the Generations are structured so, then these childer of Caine should be the First Generation, as Caine can hardly be one step removed from himself, and thus the First Generation. Who might these First Generation be?