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Over the years, we have developed a code by which we live - we do not teach. Gangrel are Kindred of impulse, of savage fury, in tune with the Beast Within. When you teach a Gangrel, you program them, denying our hunter's instinct. Naturally, because of our fundamental focus, we are not as pack or familial focused as other Gangrel clans. When we Armbrusters get together, we just tell stories. That way, we take from others experiences what we choose to take, or what we know to take, rather than what we are told to take. | Over the years, we have developed a code by which we live - we do not teach. Gangrel are Kindred of impulse, of savage fury, in tune with the Beast Within. When you teach a Gangrel, you program them, denying our hunter's instinct. Naturally, because of our fundamental focus, we are not as pack or familial focused as other Gangrel clans. When we Armbrusters get together, we just tell stories. That way, we take from others experiences what we choose to take, or what we know to take, rather than what we are told to take. | ||
In order to remind ourselves and, more importantly, others that we are not a bloodline or clan in the traditional sense, we call ourselves a Line. | In order to remind ourselves and, more importantly, others that we are not a bloodline or clan in the traditional sense, we call ourselves a Line. | ||
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| + | ==How This Works in Practice== | ||
| + | Some families have intricate sigils and elaborate practices. With the Armbrusters, a family reunion consists of sitting down and telling stories. | ||
| + | A story can relate more than | ||
==Family== | ==Family== | ||
| − | + | *Tomas Armbruster (German national, embraced in the Balkans, Progenitor) | |
| − | + | **Andreja (Slovene Huntress, Hound of Actaeon) | |
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Time Passes ... | Time Passes ... | ||
| − | + | ***SDC David Bradshaw (Australian Detective, Embraced 1993) | |
==Bloodlines== | ==Bloodlines== | ||
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==Covenants== | ==Covenants== | ||
| − | + | The focus on the choice of one's path, in addition to the notion of learning not from direct teaching, but from taking lessons from stories, has led more than some to adhere to the tenets of the Lancea Sanctum. | |
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| + | The emphasis on personal freedom also lends itself towards membership of the Carthian Movement and the continued improvement that underlies the Ordo Dracul. | ||
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| + | However, as the line has a focus on self-determination and personal strength and impulse, we really don't care which covenant you join, as long as you remember you were a Gangrel before you were... whatever you became. | ||
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If you are interested in joining the bloodline/lineage, feel free to contact [[Michael| ky0dar@hotmail.com]], the brains behind this whole malarky. | If you are interested in joining the bloodline/lineage, feel free to contact [[Michael| ky0dar@hotmail.com]], the brains behind this whole malarky. | ||
Revision as of 05:29, 20 February 2013
Placeholder Page for The Armbruster Line
Summary
Hat: You can't teach a vampire how to be one.
History
Tomas Armbruster was a German national embraced without permission in (some medieval time here). In order to save his childe's life, his sire, whose name we've forgotten deliberately, banished him from his city, which we've also forgotten deliberately, but was probably somewhere in Eastern Europe, possibly the Balkans. We think. But don't care. He moved to a new city and established his own little rule, making things up as he went along, based on what it made sense to do. When the time came to sire a childe, Armbruster had no idea how to instruct his offspring, so he took the girl aside and said "I don't know how to teach, so I won't. If you survive, that's great, and I'll be proud of you. If not, then that's your fault." He then told her to leave the city and come back in a year.
Over the years, we have developed a code by which we live - we do not teach. Gangrel are Kindred of impulse, of savage fury, in tune with the Beast Within. When you teach a Gangrel, you program them, denying our hunter's instinct. Naturally, because of our fundamental focus, we are not as pack or familial focused as other Gangrel clans. When we Armbrusters get together, we just tell stories. That way, we take from others experiences what we choose to take, or what we know to take, rather than what we are told to take. In order to remind ourselves and, more importantly, others that we are not a bloodline or clan in the traditional sense, we call ourselves a Line.
How This Works in Practice
Some families have intricate sigils and elaborate practices. With the Armbrusters, a family reunion consists of sitting down and telling stories. A story can relate more than
Family
- Tomas Armbruster (German national, embraced in the Balkans, Progenitor)
- Andreja (Slovene Huntress, Hound of Actaeon)
... ... ... Time Passes ...
- SDC David Bradshaw (Australian Detective, Embraced 1993)
Bloodlines
Andreja, Tomas' first childe, was enthusiastic to get in touch with her inner hunter. It's not known from whom, but she refined her bloodline to become one of the Hounds of Actaeon. However, because of our "make your own dang self", the Line has had Kindred pursue many bloodlines over the years.
Covenants
The focus on the choice of one's path, in addition to the notion of learning not from direct teaching, but from taking lessons from stories, has led more than some to adhere to the tenets of the Lancea Sanctum.
The emphasis on personal freedom also lends itself towards membership of the Carthian Movement and the continued improvement that underlies the Ordo Dracul.
However, as the line has a focus on self-determination and personal strength and impulse, we really don't care which covenant you join, as long as you remember you were a Gangrel before you were... whatever you became.
If you are interested in joining the bloodline/lineage, feel free to contact ky0dar@hotmail.com, the brains behind this whole malarky.