The Clan

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Clan Disciplines:Animalism, Vicissitude, Auspex
Weakness: The Tzimisce must sleep in at least two handfuls of native soil.

Stereotypes:

Lasombra: They are but empty shadows that flit across the stage we have constructed. Allow the shadow-puppets to direct our shadow-play, but, if necessary, do not hesitate to lift the curtain and dispel them.
Assamite: These Ottoman jackals have mastered the art of slaying. Were they to focus their efforts on mastering the rest of existence, they might be truly dangerous.
Ravnos: Irritating vermin with no respect for another's privacy. When they annoy, remind them of a simple truism -it is very hard to filch when one has no fingers.
Camarilla: So transparently ridiculous it frightens me. This sect is either the flimsiest of screens for the Antediluvians or an intricate Chinese box beyond even our capacity to unlock..
Giovanni: Another bastardized line, but far more formidable. The Tremere are naught but rapists, while the Giovanni seem instead to be the products of a deliberate and unholy spawning.

Tzimisce are the quintessential vampires. While other vampires desperately try to retain their human nature, Tzimisce actively seek to divorce themselves from it. This attitude has colored Tzimisce culture and society. Accordingly, the clan has fostered some of the most bizare, alien and (from a mortal perspective) horrific practices known among vampires.

Given that the clan as a whole holds the tradition of the Progeny in contempt, Tzimisce are notoriously selective about whom they embrace. Tzimisce are not human, do not wish to be human, and seek to embrace people who have in some way deviat ed from their species -socially, mentally or emotionally. Such deviation however, must not preclude adherence to the clan's precepts of the capacity for wit, honor and charm. Tzimisce infinitely perfer a Hannibal Lecter to a Jeffrey Dahmer.

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