- Dec 28, 2019
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So Templars are Rebirth's take on the Tremere, a clan of vampire thaumatugists. It's not that Tremere are looked at as charlatans in the source material so much as untrustworthy schemers. This is largely due to a combination of the Tremere's magical experimentation on and diablerization of other vampires in their early days during their climb to power as well as their being the most well organized, most hierarchical, and most tightly controlled of the vampire clans in the modern day.
Think vampire Illuminati. Other vampires only have to worry about possibly overly controlling sires and maybe grandsires. Young, and even elder Tremere have higher ranking vampires in their clan looking over their shoulder and giving them orders that may involve screwing others. There's also the issue that all newly made Tremere are forced to drink the blood of the Council of Seven so there's a partial enthrallment to the guys and gal at the top of the Tremere pyramid. All of this causes vampires from other clans to distrust the Tremere.
I'm glad that the author has differentiated his clan of vampire sorcerers from the inspirational material.
Think vampire Illuminati. Other vampires only have to worry about possibly overly controlling sires and maybe grandsires. Young, and even elder Tremere have higher ranking vampires in their clan looking over their shoulder and giving them orders that may involve screwing others. There's also the issue that all newly made Tremere are forced to drink the blood of the Council of Seven so there's a partial enthrallment to the guys and gal at the top of the Tremere pyramid. All of this causes vampires from other clans to distrust the Tremere.
I'm glad that the author has differentiated his clan of vampire sorcerers from the inspirational material.