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VtM - Review: Clanbook: Tremere ; The Price of Eternity
from Children of the Inquisition. Also, the pictures themselves are some of the best that I have seen yet.
Although I must say that Nosferatu was better in the full page pictures.
The actuall book itself is very well done. A real credit to Keith Herber. Everything is documented and
written very well. Truly reflecting the Tremere clan. All of the steps of the Tremere Pyramid are
explained, as is the Tremer's rise to power and origins in the Order of Hermes. Much of the information
presented in Clanbook: Tremere is also very usefull to have for Mage: The Ascension.
While most of the Clanbooks gave either vague or overgeneralized information regarding the sterotypes
of the other factions, Tremere did not have this problem. Each of the numerous factions, and a few
others, where mentioned and elaborated on.
There is also more information on Thamaturgy (Of course.) and demons. The demon information was
very usefull to me.
The character templates in Tremere are far better than I had expected. While I was expecting a
reasonably boring group, the templates given show a lot of personality and style. Something that most
earlier writing on the Tremere lacked.
The NPC section of Tremere was deffinitley the best I have read. So far it has had the most NPCs of any
clanbook, as well as the best choice. While many of the NPCs from other clanbooks (Toreador and
Gangrel in particular) where nearly useless, the Tremere NPCs are all important to any Tremere
character, and should be feared by all. The entire Inner Circle of the Tremere is given, as is the leader of
the Tremere Antitribu, and the Antideluvian Tremere himself is listed.
Tremere is definitley worth the $10 I've spent on it.
Review by Nightshade (2 Jun 94)
ART: Pretty good. The interior art got the "magical" mood across very well but I still have one question,
what were all the little tattoo-like marks on the tremere foreheads? Are they some sort of ranking
system? They couldn't be the Anti-tribu markings, there were so many of them, it _was_ CB:Tr not
Clanbook: House Goratrix.
STORY/HISTORY: Not bad. (I didn't read it thouroughly, I'm a Malkavian) My pet peeve is that they're
still changing around the facts in the Tremere/Saulot thing, now stating that the Third Eye did not appear
until _after_ Saulot's Final Death. And the rumours section was great for scaring clan members and
outsiders alike.
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