Beliefs

Beliefs Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. Shakespeare, Hamlet Sifting through the rubble of Malkavian history in search of a coherent pattern has driven the sanest Camarilla scholars to the brink of madness. Do the Malkavians have a purpose? Do their frenzied rages and ravings point in some important direction?Or are they an evolutionary dead enda twisted branch of Caine’s family tree that has not yet dried out sufficiently to fall off? Though most Kindred doubt that the Malkavians have any purposes greater than fanciful caprice or violent reactions to mental anguish, the elders are not so sure. Though most elders would be hard pressed to determine what the Malkavian mission is, they hedge their bets, and assume the mad clan has one. They just can’t figure out what it is. And they are right. According to the most secret of Malkavian legends, the mad Kindred do have a greater purpose, though most Malkavians are not aware of it, and their involvement in the matter is unclear. Their legends paint a picture of a family of vampires playing a game of defining and redefining the universe through hyperconscious participation with it. They are in the process of “becoming.” And what the Malkavians become will influence the development of humanity, vampire and all reality. MalkavianCwe Beliefs I haw had a most rare vision, . . . past the wit of any man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. - Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night’s Dream Malkavian legends diverge wildly and paint startlingly contradictory pictures of the secret purposes of the lunatic clan. The legends include tales explaining the clan’s greater goal as global iconoclasm and anarchy, personal illumination, infectious insanity, the degradationof all moral authority, magical utopia, the hegemony of absolute chaos, material detachment, divine connection, artisticreflectionofsociety’s madness, rampant hedonism, creative ignorance, ascension of personal Will, pleasure through cruelty, cosmic salvation, and absolute nihilism. And some legends say that the Malkavians have absolutely no higher purpose, and that all attempts to explain Malkavian motivations are clever lies concocted by madmen to obfuscate the fact that the Malkavians have absolutely no core purpose. *$!!I