The lowest neonate and mightiest elder are the same before the Dark Mother. Bahari avoid initiatory degrees and don’t string along adherents with promises of greater secrets once they “prove themselves worthy.” Bahari don’t reject social hierarchies out of hand but favor intuitive, pragmatic ways of organizing. An elder Ba’ham deserves respect because she survived and studied for centuries, not because she holds a title. Modern Bahari who integrate recent feminist thinking may use some form of consensus decision-making, but most simply honor superior knowledge.

Bahari often claim this makes them capable of greater social harmony than “Cainites” who battle each other over title and influence, but the vampires who revere Lilith are still predators. The Dark Mother’s children may not deeply care about who gets to be Harpy on the next Camarilla deep cover mission, but they can still compete with remarkable subtlety and savagery.