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VtM - WhiteWolf: Genealogy -- Tremere
Genealogy of the Tremere
References
One of the Camarilla Clans [VtM1] [VtM2] [VtM3] [PG1] [PG2] and in Dark Ages. Described in
a clanbook.
"Shaitan" in Arabia.
History
The Tremere was a powerful House of sorcerers of the Order of Hermes (see Mage: the Ascension
and Ars Magica), based in Transylvania and lead by its founder, Tremere, already many centuries
old. At the dawn of the Age of Reason, as Magic became more rare in the world, the old Sorcerers
found it every day harder to perform their rituals, let alone to extend their unnaturally long lifespans.
Suddenly, Immortality, something they already took for granted, was escaping their grasp.
Desperately seeking ways to avoid the long-denied death, those Mages look upon other
Immortals: the denizens of the night known as Vampires. They started taking them down for
observation and experimentation. Being the Tzimisce the most common Clan of the region, it was
only incidental that it were members of that Clan the main victims of the Tremere depredations.
But with their lives at stake, the Tremere were not about to let that stop them.
Suddenly, one night, the answer came to Goratrix, the favored disciple of the Tremere. He found
the means to perform a ritual that will allow them to become Immortals as the Vampires
WITHOUT the Embrace. Tremere himself, Goratrix and six other mighty Sorcerers of the Order
performed the ritual. But something went unexpectedly wrong and, even when lacking the
common weakness linked with the Vampire Clans while sharing their Immortality, the Tremere
had all the other flaws of the Damned, including the inability to perform True Magic! Hence, they
had to "develop" (rediscover actually) the discipline of Blood-Magic or Thaumaturgy.
Those were hard years for the Tremere. The Tzimisce became their mortal enemies, along with
the Gangrel and the Nosferatu (whose member also where victims of the Tremere in their attempts
to create the Gargoyle Bloodline of servants). Tremere realized they would never survive unless
they could somehow become a formal Clan. Hence, he decided to become an Antediluvian
HIMSELF.
Aided by mighty sorcery, the Tremere were able to locate the resting places of ancient vampires
in Torpor, including several Antediluvians. Tremere and his disciples went through the list,
lowering their generations down to the 4th. Finally, there was only one step to fulfill the quest:
Tremere had to consume the soul of an Antediluvian.
Saulot became the victim of choice since his haven was the less protected. There, and with the
ancient being thought unconscious, Tremere drank all of his blood and then his soul. It's said that
when Tremere finally ended his foul action, he realized that the mystic third eye of Saulot was
open, looking at him coldly...
The following years were of turmoil. Many tried to bring the Tremere down, some claiming that
they had just destroyed the most noble of their kind. But the Tremere survived, and eventually
found a place in the Cainite community. Weren't they now a Clan by their own right? Did they not
have a founder of the Third generation?
But the Tzimisce never forgot that it was through the raping of their kind that he Usurpers
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