#old clan tzimisce

[merrillapologist]

A refsheet for my koldun 💚 She’s a witchtok influencer and the corrupt CEO of an essential oils mlm. Was actually being groomed for a Ventrue embrace, but a crotchety old dragon got there first.. and then she managed to alienate him as well by joining the anarchs and becoming best friends with one of those evil fleshcrafting fiends. Whoops.

[viamutationis]

XXI - The World

My contribution to the Gallery Noir discord server’s tarot project!! (up over on @vampemoqueen’s pinned, go take a look at the other cards!)

[ID: A digitally illustrated tarot card. In the foreground is a man with light brown skin and curly black hair. He wears gold jewelry and blue Byzantine-period robes patterned like the ocean. He is controlling a stream of water that flows behind him, and in the background is the ocean on a cloudy night. The card is painted with a blue/gold color palette.]

[room606sword]

>>Old Clan Tzimizce visitor getting griefed by a Tremere Regent

[girlnextvore]

Me every vtm game

[redratt]

a quick little sketch of Mila Danislav and Iphigenia "Griff" Obertus dancing, referenced from the first Beastars opening. Mila and Griff served the same Voivode, and they actually did dance as a form of entertainment for the Voivode and her associates. The Voivode especially liked to watch the rhythm of both bodies moving at once at something as complicated as dance.

Plus, having one of them be an Obertus was a little joke -- "look, an Obertus who can actually do something physical" more or less.

Even after Griff's embrace (as a deliberately-created Thinblood), she and Mila maintain a cordial relationship. They don't meet often, but when they do there's always warmth due to their mutual survival.

[pretend-pretend-vampire]

idc what they did, I am PRO modern tzimisce. I think they can and should do whatever they want, forever, ESPECIALLY prioritising vicissitude

[meatcrimes]

(walks into a true black hand meeting) uh hey i’ve got a snack for your Nagaraja in exchange for your Tzimisce doing reconstructive vicissitude. my main boundaries are soft tissue only, and i can’t look visibly injured when i leave

vampire: how the fuck did you get here and how the hell do you know so much about us

me: so is that a yes? 🥺

[merrillapologist]

My special princess Cyrus, a Black Sea kraina koldun I’m playing in a Constantinople game 💙

[ID: A half-body digital sketch of Cyrus, a man in his 20s with light brown skin and mid-length curly black hair. He has bright blue eyes and faded scars across his nose and lip. Cyrus wears a blue tunic with a darker cloak atop it, which is patterned with gold diamond shapes. He wears golden jewelry adorned with pearls, and behind him is an abstract background mimicking the sea.]

[probablybadrpgideas]

What kind of Internet Vibes do the different Vampire Clans have?

Assamites: The most impenetrable discourse you've ever seen in your life. The kind of callouts where you need 350 years of context and several PhDs to figure out what the person's actually being accused of. Despite the fact that maybe 10 non-vampires on earth know what any given post means, it still gets 80,000 notes worth of argument.

Brujah: An otherwise blank page that simply says "if you venmo $20 to this account I will eat your landlord no questions asked"

Followers Of Set: As a group of soulless immortal monsters dedicated to spreading wickedness in service of an ancient god of evil, the Followers Of Set's profiles sometimes make the top ten most fucked up things you've seen online today.

Gangrel: Extremely distressing furry art pages.

Giovanni: They reanimate dead memes and send them after you. More then one prince has been destroyed after having a LolCat captioned "I can has your soul?" myspaced to them.

Lasombra: The Lasombra don't show up on camera so instead of putting out content they just break into your house while you sleep.

Malkavian: Listen. Listen. You look me in the eyes and tell me you aren't following at least one blog obviously run by Malkavians right now.

Nosferatu: Monsterfuckers but the other way round.

Ravnos: Sadly if I continue White Wolf will delete my blog for bringing up that time they wrote the Ravnos.

Toreador: Toreadors have literally never experienced anything they have loved more then Instagram. The entire clan has gone feral, several elders have been killed over follower counts and the Toreador Antediluvian reentered torpor because it couldn't stop Instagram scrolling. It's a fucking bloodbath.

Tremere: You know those "occult safety" tumblrs that say things "don't use Ouija boards on Halloween"? The opposite of those. "Hey kids! Break a cursed doll over your head while yelling the true name of Satan! It'll be cool and fun!"

Tzimisce: Yet more unrealistic beauty standards for women.

Ventrue: Those weird focused group "cool tweets" designed to appeal to the youth, except the focus group is 1000 years old. Ever had a tweet show up in your feed "You know what's leet and unsus? The divine right of kings"? You're welcome!

[room606sword]

A tale as old as time, a Voivode and his Ghoul

[malicious-metal]

Couple more NPCs from my toolbox of weird little freaks to torture my friends with. Daciana (it/she) - Voivode Gilead's lieutenant-class of Szlachta, grafted to a suit of metal armour and pretty much nothing but muscle and teeth beneath. Fafnir (she/her) - Ancient Norse Tzimisce, beefed with Mithras during the Danelaw and got put in timeout for a thousand ears. Fish out of water if said fish was some fucked up shark. Oleg (he/him) - Romanian Voivode of the Old Clan, rival to Gilead. Their beef dates back to when they were both Revenants. Arsène (any) - Toreador Setite Initiate who's been wrapping a friend's PC around their finger for nefarious reasons.

Iele (any) - A strange little entity my players are yet to encounter. Is it some weird Tzimisce, Fae, something more sinister? They'll find out soon enough. Nadežda (she/her) - Ex Oprichniki Revenant, turned Gangrel headhunter. Has a bone to pick with uppity Revenants, particularly those with questionable loyalties. Anewa (any) - Local Nagaraja weirdo, making its lair in the Graveyard where it barters the wraiths of people's loved ones for important information. Those wraiths just taste better if they still got people who care about their souls. Kyle (he/they) - Samedi in some shady business, mostly organ harvesting and other black market dealings. Merc for hire with loyalties to whoever pays the highest.

[redratt]

Fangfest | Temperance

Yeah, I did the thing and drew Perry for the Temperance tarot. Perry is technically a Revenant, but whatever lol, the Tzimisce made her. Her full name is Temperance Zantosa, because some Tzimisce think they've got jokes.

Perry is employed -- along with her Pack -- by the Tal'mahe'ra. As a Zantosa, she has long learned how to use her body to get what the pack needs, or whatever her allies of the moment need. She's nonchalant about it, and it's hard to tell what bothers her and what doesn't. It's a rough life, even if she acts like it isn't. Perry's reliance on her packmates is what's gotten her through some nasty times, because while they're agents of the True Black Hand, they're still... just revenants. Still that status is enough to ensure they can get out of trouble fairly easily by asking for it.

[ryttu3k]

You may have answered this already but, what VTM clans would you asign to the dracula polycule?

Ohh, great question! Let's see!

I think for the sake of a more thorough analysis, I'm actually going to ignore VtM canon, since Dracula actually is a canon character who encouraged Bram Stoker to write a fictionalised version of his adventures. He has a signed first edition copy that Beckett sees. It's kinda hilarious.

In VtM canon, he's the 5th generation childe of Lambach Ruthven and has a host of disciplines at very high levels (seriously - Animalism 6, Auspex 5, Celerity 4, Dominate 5, Fortitude 5, Koldunic Sorcery 5 (with Earth, Fire, and Spirit all at 5), Potence 5, Protean 4, and Vicissitude 5). Hilariously, this means he actually doesn't have Mist Form, since that's Protean 5. Lucy and Mina are/were Tzimisce as well (Lucy dies, Mina survives to modern nights), Renfield was a ghoul. But let's adapt straight from the novel instead!

Dracula: I mean, obviously he's still Tzimisce, the clan is literally based on him. If we're just going off the novel, I see him more as Old Clan, the archetypal Voivode (also literally Voivode, that was Vlad Țepeș' literal title, he was Voivode of Wallachia - hilariously, he had no association with Transylvania other than being born in Sighișoara up until Stoker's book). He has the soil association, he clearly has Auspex and Animalism, and I feel he uses Dominate a fair bit, especially in the context of memory erasure, luring Lucy, et cetera. He also shows clear signs of Protean (Shape of the Beast bat and wolf forms, Mist Form), but, notably, not Vicissitude proper, and some alternate magical abilities, especially weather/fog manipulation, which can tie in with Koldunic sorcery, especially Way of Wind. So, a straight adaptation would be Old Clan Tzimisce with Koldunic sorcery and Protean. He also has the Folkloric Bane flaw where he takes agg damage from running water, and we'll ignore the sunlight thing XD;;

Jonathan: If we're directly adapting from the novel, then Dracula is the one who Embraces Jonathan, Mina, and Lucy. By default, that makes them all Tzimisce. Using my homebrew because I have no shame, his bane and connection to Home would be to Mina (yeah, he was having a rough time until their reunion). I do think Tzimisce could work well for him, he's a fairly fluid character and exemplifies Change more than any other character in the novel. Even if he was Embraced as technically Old Clan, I like the idea of spontaneous emergence of Vicissitude - and lo, a sudden change of hair colour!

Mina: Also Tzimisce; again, it's a fairly good fit. She and Jonathan share a mutual blood bond, too. Her Home is Jonathan, but she also has a secondary connection to trains and railways, and can avoid the aggravated Willpower damage by riding the rails. She would fit it well as well; like Jonathan, she's a fluid, adaptable character.

Lucy: Poor, poor Lucy! Definitely Embraced as Tzimisce, definitely not a great fit. I feel she'd be a much more natural fit for Toreador, with a love for beauty and a strong connection to humanity and people. She just wants to spend time with her coterie ;_;

Jack: Okay, two options here. One is Malkavian, often found in mental health settings - I'm thinking of Richard Dunham here specifically, but also Netchurch (even if the latter is more focused on physiology). He'd have a more subtle derangement, I think - possible OCD, definitely depression. The other option is Tremere, and I think that might be the better fit. He likes an Experiment. He would have so much fun with Thaumaturgy :D (Slightly terrified :D !)

Arthur: Man's one of the few valid Ventrue. Nobility? Check. Money? Check. He's quite aware of his privilege and considers it an honour and a duty to look after his coterie, even if he recognises that, lbr, Mina is really the one running the show. Also has out-of-clan Animalism so he can chat to his dogs, thanks to…

Quincey: Gangrel! Like yes he is absolutely playing up the Cowboy Thing to make Lucy smile so that could be a Toreador thing, but he does genuinely still fit it even after her death. He has an understanding with horses and bats, and bats do not act like that tyvm.

Van Helsing: He's Jack's sire (therefore Tremere) and Jack has never, ever gotten over the brief blood bond they shared. They have. A dynamic :D (No genuinely the sire-childe thing actually works really well here for their simultaneous familial and psychosexual relationship.)

Renfield: If we're going straight canon, he's a ghoul. If we actually give him a clan, there are also two possible options here! One is Malkavian - he's definitely got a derangement or two. The other, of course, is Nagaraja, although I'm actually feeling Malkavian here moreso than Nagaraja. He doesn't need to eat flesh, he just… has that fixation with it. Either way, I feel he has a blood bond to Dracula. Like that bit is 100% whether he's a ghoul or a Cainite. Hashtag Renfield deserves better!

[thelatexshapeshifter]

so a few formal versions for my tzimisce Sabrina, a formal Zulo form that she hates and only uses cos her grand sire keeps trying to show her off at tzimisce clan balls... (she views her human form as her perfected form as she made it herself as she learnt Vicissitude and formed her self to her dream transition goals) and a normal human formal look for mixed clan events. (old art) oh and a lore note for her, her grand sire is Vlad tepes aka Dracula tho in setting in modern nights all we know for sure is his nature (Penitent) and demeanor (Traditionalist) so we literally just run him as Alucard but with a bit more of his level zero vibe.

[thehollowprince]

I was cleaning out my desk the other day and came across some of my old character sheets for VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE and it took me back to my high school days when my friends and I came up with all of these ideas for a story that we never got to play.

So, in memory of my forgotten childhood...

Because Tumblr is weird and only gives you twelve options for these polls, the last three choices are Other. So, if you happen upon this poll and say, "Hey, why isn't (clan name) here?" That's why. So pick the Other option that works for you and leave a comment as to which one you picked (Caitiff, Thin-Blood, Salubri, etc.)

We also have the Kindred of the East (Kuei-Jin) and the African vampires, the Laibon, the latter of which has a number of Legacies to choose from.

I'd like to see the World of Darkness games get the same treatment that Dungeons & Dragons has gotten over the last decade.