Related: Vampire: The Masquerade - Why You Should Try the Classic Tabletop RPG ButВ everything changed when the Second Inquisition destroyed the main Tremere's Main Chantry in Vienna in 2008, decapitating their Pyramid and unbinding most of the clan.

Smart neonates could climb the Pyramid and become Heads of Chantry. In the past, the Tremere had an extremely hierarchical, meritocratic structure, where newly embraced vampires were blood-bonded to their leaders, an act that guaranteed their loyalty to the clan. The Tremere are divided in houses (Tremere, Goratrix, Carna and Ipsissimus), but only House Tremere is firmly inside the Camarilla. However, they recovered quickly, becoming Thaumaturgy (Blood Magic) wielders, intellectual powerhouses and one of the pillars of the Camarilla.

This also earnedВ them many enemies in a short amount of time. The Tremere were never supposed to be vampires they were Mages that arrived at vampirism through a fumbled experiment to obtain eternal life. RELATED: An Anarch Returns in Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Nosferatu Their Disciplines are Auspex, to see the unseen and look into the future Obfuscate, which allows them to blend into their surroundings and Dominate, which they tend to use to make their enemies go mad with Dementation. Thanks to the Madness Network, Malkavians can peek into the future - although separating useful information from the mumblings of their clanmates can prove difficult. Most Malkavians are also highly intelligent, quite open-minded and extremely skilled researchers. One of the most interesting Malkavians, Alistair Grout, was a psychiatrist obsessed with finding a cure for his vampiric condition, and this obsession became the madness itself. They can have a double personality, be a neat freak orВ a mass murderer. Their mental impairments are as varied as the Ventrue's taste is wide. They are also mentally connected among all the members of their clan through the Madness Network. Malkavians have one of the hardest and most interesting Banes of all: they are mad as a Hatter. Their Bane is that they suffer in ugly environments, and, to top it off, they have the Compulsion of Beauty, which can enrapture them in place for a long time, possibly leading to death by dawn. Toreador Disciplines reflect this: they have Celerity, perfect for moving gracefully Auspex, which lets them Heighten their senses to perceive the smallest details, as well as to read the mind of an artist or access a more spiritual plane and Presence, like the Ventrue, which they tend to use to make entire rooms fall in love with them. RELATED: Vampire: The Masquerade - What You Need to Know About LA by Night They leave a trail of (literally and metaphorically) broken hearts behind. Toreadors are constantly looking for the creative spark that they lost when they were embraced and, ideally, to bond the next Frida Kahlo to them. While an older Toreador may be a patron of the arts, a recently embraced fledgling might find beauty in a perfectly curated Instagram timeline. They love art, beauty and those humans that are able to create it. Toreadors are the most seductive of vampires. Their Bane is their extremely refined palate, which reduces their prey to a very specific group of humans, usually related to what the Ventrue loved in their human life, from blue-eyed vegans to motorheads. Their Disciplines reflect this: they have Fortitude, which works as an over-powered armor that absorbs almost all damage directed at them Presence, which they can use to make everyone stand in awe or cower in fear and Dominate, which allows them to control the actions of others like the puppet masters they want to be. Ventrues were traditionally embracedВ by noble human families, but these days the Clan has opened up to successful entrepreneurs, industry leaders and tough-as-nails political organizers. They wield power and force their will on those they judge inferior either in blood or in class. Highly structured, ambitious, invested in their own history and in noblesse oblige, and self-styled as the clan that was the most loyal to their elders, Ventrue are unafraid to take charge. Ventrues are called the Clan of Kings, and, for a long time, they were the de-facto leaders of the Camarilla.

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