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* They prefer urban environments instead of wilderness. | * They prefer urban environments instead of wilderness. | ||
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* Credit to their creation is often given to a mysterious Warlock named Goratrix. | * Credit to their creation is often given to a mysterious Warlock named Goratrix. | ||
* Some Gargoyles have served as Archons, while others have served as Templars, but open ruler-ship is very rare. | * Some Gargoyles have served as Archons, while others have served as Templars, but open ruler-ship is very rare. | ||
− | * Gargoyle are without peer when it comes to aerial combat, accomplishing feats others | + | * Gargoyle are without peer when it comes to aerial combat, accomplishing feats others cannot. |
* It is suspected that the majority joined the Ivory Tower to flaunt their freedom at their former masters. | * It is suspected that the majority joined the Ivory Tower to flaunt their freedom at their former masters. | ||
* Gargoyles first gathered as free creatures in Paris, at the end of the 14th century. | * Gargoyles first gathered as free creatures in Paris, at the end of the 14th century. |
Latest revision as of 22:22, 11 March 2014
Classic WoD: | Vampire: The Masquerade | Clans (Masquerade) | Sects | Coteries
Gargoyle Lore 1
- Gargoyles exist as a bloodline of Vampires.
- They can fly.
- Most of the Bloodline are members of the Camarilla, but several are in the Sabbat, and a few stand apart.
- They tend to be hard-hitting, and harder to kill.
- Their twisted forms are unmistakeably inhuman.
- Their history starts sometime in the Dark Ages.
- They prefer urban environments instead of wilderness.
- They are rumoured to reproduce by laying eggs.
- Some say that the first Gargoyles were created, not embraced.
Gargoyle Lore 2
- Their ability to fly is innate, and not a teachable Discipline.
- They have an uncanny ability to both go undetected and to see the undetectable.
- The trauma of becoming a Gargoyle wipes almost all prior history from the subject's mind.
- The Tremere are somehow responsible for their existence.
- They were used as shock troops against the Tzimisce during wars between the two clans.
- They eventually revolted against their former masters.
- Their preference for cities has to do with their Bloodline's discipline, involving processed stone.
- There is no confirmed evidence that they do, in fact, lay eggs.
- The oldest of the Gargoyles were transformed via foul Thaumaturgical magics using other vampires as components.
Gargoyle Lore 3
- The birthplace of the Bloodline is Ceoris, a notorious Tremere stronghold, though you are unsure where that is.
- Credit to their creation is often given to a mysterious Warlock named Goratrix.
- Some Gargoyles have served as Archons, while others have served as Templars, but open ruler-ship is very rare.
- Gargoyle are without peer when it comes to aerial combat, accomplishing feats others cannot.
- It is suspected that the majority joined the Ivory Tower to flaunt their freedom at their former masters.
- Gargoyles first gathered as free creatures in Paris, at the end of the 14th century.
- You have heard of the legends of the Bloodline (Any PC or NPC with Sect status 9+)
- Created Gargoyles appear to have an aversion to the Clans they were created from.
Gargoyle Lore 4
- Gargoyles were present at the creation of both the Camarilla and the Sabbat.
- Knowledge of Visceratika from Basic to Advanced levels.
- The three Clans used to create the Bloodline were the Gangrel, Nosferatu, & Tzimisce.
- The Ritual that the Tremere used to create the first Gargoyles is lost.
- You know the gist of what occurred in 1167.
- You have heard of the paragons of the Bloodline (Any PC or NPC with Sect status 6+)
- The eldest Gargoyles speak in shuddering reverence of two entities: Virstania and Alvusia.
Gargoyle Lore 5
- Some Gargoyles are still secretly enslaved by the Warlocks.
- Gargoyles are forbidden membership in the secretive sub-cult known as the Black Hand.
- The Tremere are forbidden to create any more Gargoyles. Proof that they have would be very damaging.
- Knowledge of the powers of Visceratika reserved for the Eldest of their kind.
- Full details of the creation history of the Gargoyles.