Gargoyle Lore

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.