Victorian Age: Vampire is a setting for Vampire: The Masquerade that many felt was an obvious choice: the Gothic Victorian period. The Victorian era gave birth to many of the modern tropes that the World of Darkness draws from (gentlemen vampires, man-made monsters, ghosts, faeries), so it was a natural choice. It was a first for White Wolf and the World of Darkness, in that it was the first time a game line had been given two distinct historical eras (the first being the Dark Medieval).