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Tremere
Blood into will — warlocks of the Pyramid and after.
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Blood into will — warlocks of the Pyramid and after.
C L A N B O O K : Introduction: Enlightened By the Darkness Chapter One: The Price of Immortality Chapter Two: Inside the Pyramid Chapter Three: Stones of the Pyramid Clanbook: Tremere Enlightened By the Darkness Sometimes I feel caught between two distinct worlds — the one that we all see and agree to acknowledge, and the one that some lizardlike primordial portion of our brains understands only subconsciously. We move about through the common world and accept it as normal because peeling back the layers underneath would be too much to bear.
I spent much of my life reinforcing the common world: stage magic, sleight-of-hand, debunking paranormal phenomena and the like. Rational explanations exist for everything, I used to say, and I’d go to great lengths to find them. Of course, such an explanation may not be plausible, but we’re oh-so-sure of our ability to define our little world that we’ll gladly throw out sensibility in the interests of turning the unexplained into something that we can rationalize as “scientific” and “logical.” Occam’s Razor doesn’t support that notion, but people would rather believe anything far-fetched as long as it proves that they’re not insane and that the world works in terms they understand.
the following year after his castle was attacked by anarchs led by the Brujah Tyler, and the proposal seemed forgotten. Few knew institutions of mankind: politics, commerce and the Church.
THE END OF THE ORDER As the decades wore on and vis grew less and less plentiful, the old Houses of the Order of Hermes slowly disappeared. Some mages blamed the growth of Reason for the decline in magic, and they pointed to the Tremere as the cause of this. After all, the Tremere had openly supported univers
Histories
BLOOD BONDS VINCULI
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THE MOVE TO VIENNA
the following year after his castle was attacked by anarchs led by the Brujah Tyler, and the proposal seemed forgotten. Few knew institutions of mankind: politics, commerce and the Church. THE END OF THE ORDER As the decades wore on and vis grew less and less plentiful, the old
Figures of the Blood
Sarah Roark
for their lungs. Surprised these people haven’t all keeled over with plague,” Hermann muttered. “Come to that, some of them don’t look far off from it.”
Power Players
Dawn Nakada, Archon Background: Dawn was just a girl when her parents were sent to an internment camp for the crime of being Japanese-American during World War II. She hit puberty while in the camp, unfortunately attracting the eye of a lessthan-dutiful guard in the process. When she disappeared from the camp two months later, her family blamed the camp officials, even petitioning after the end of the war to have the culprit brought to justice. The guard in question was eventually tried and quietly sentenced. Nobody ever guessed that he had been an unwitting blind for Dawn’s true abductor, the vampire Julius Abrogard.
Magic Susceptibility
(2pt Flaw) You are susceptible to the magical rituals of the Tremere, as well as to spells of magi of other creeds and orders. All spells cast at you are -2 difficulty and have double effect on you.
Anatole
Perhaps it was mere chance; perhaps there was something more at work. There’s certainly ample argument for the hand of Providence — for how else could a poor French man-at-arms with some faith and little wisdom rise to become the Prophet of Gehenna?
Centuries of Growth
In the aftermath of the Renaissance, the Giovanni had all but paved their way to being the most cohesive clan to face the future. Unlike the other clans, the Giovanni operate not only with a reverence for the elders, but also with a merit-based structure. Think of it as functional, planned obsolescence. Here, I’ll show you.
Prime Chantry
(Vienna, Austria) For those steeped in the lore of the Kindred, the city of Vienna is synonymous with the Tremere for a key reason: The most advanced chantry house of Clan Tre mere is here. The Prime Chantry serves as the inargu able bastion of Tremere authority and activity, politi cally and Thaumaturgically. The phrase “called back to Vienna” instills dread in even the most stalwart of the Warlocks, for the Pyramid is not a loving institution.
See also Featured & Canon NPCs.