Gargoyles
“If we cannot have justice, then at least we will have revenge.”— Harlequin
Nickname: Grotesques
Disciplines: Fortitude, Potence, Visceratika
The Tremere created the much-maligned Gargoyles during the course of the sorcerous clan’s darkest experiments. Created from the blood and flesh of kidnapped Tzimisce, Nosferatu, and Gangrel vampires, a Gargoyle is an amalgam of parts fused into a single creature with no memory of its conjoined past. In the beginning, they were slaves to the Tremere, acting without sentience, intelligence, or will. Only after a revolt did Gargoyles find freedom; they were forcibly freed by members of other clans.
The monstrous Gargoyles are a constant reminder of a darker age. They revile Clan Tremere utterly and with furnace-like hatred, always looking for ways to exact vengeance upon their creators. Modern Gargoyles are Embraced, not created, but the process still eradicates all tracesof the vampire’s memory, rendering each new Gargoyle a blank slate. Still, older Gargoyles teach their childer the story of the bloodline’s enslavement, ensuring that each generation knows the atrocities suffered at the hands of the Tremere.
With their hideous appearance, Gargoyles are a threat to the Masquerade. They must always keep themselves hidden from mortal eyes. This bloodline often befriends Nosferatu, Gangrel, or Tzimisce, feeling drawn to these clans as if by some primitive memory of blood.
Bloodline Weakness: Gargoyles are monstrous in appearance and cannot pass for human without supernatural aid, such as Obfuscate. In addition, the Tremere created the Gargoyles to be slaves and, as a result, they have a -2 penalty to Mental test pools to resist Dominate powers, including Dominate-based techniques.
Clan Merits: Gargoyles can purchase any of the following Gargoyle-only merits.
- Flight (1 point merit): You have functional wings. These wings allow you to fly as fast as you can walk.
- Dark Statue (3 point merit): You can use your standard action to transform into a statue of yourself, seemingly carved from solid stone.
Gargoyle Slaves
After the revolt, the Tremere were forced to release all Gargoyles. Those few slaves which are still kept (in dark and secret places) are ruthlessly Dominated, prevented from retaining any memories or intelligence from day to day. They are mere golems, brutes with no personality or ability to reason; they are less than animals and treated with callous abuse. Such creatures are not appropriate player-characters.
