Andeleon

Rumored to be the true founder of the modern Tzimisce clan and who was destroyed for doing so. An theory proposed by the True Black hand claims that orginally the Tzimisce had no vicissitude and that Andeleon in a failed venture into the Umbra or the Shadow was attacked by a morbid form-shifting creature. Andeleon bit the creature in self-defence and was infected with a symbiotic supernatural life-form. The Black Hand explained this force to be an vampiric development from the same source that creates the Magus Nephandi and the once human formori. Vissicitude begins symbiotic but eats its way through the body which it slowly deforms as it is used to changeshape. Slowly it becomes parasitic know as souleater when the host loses its humanity,it's "moral soul" and give in to the flesh. If a vampire with vissicitude becomes wight, the souleater takes over and preserve intelligence with the soul purpose of spreading the desease. Andeleons childer was the first vissicitude using tzimisce and he and the entire orginal family was destroyed.

Some forumites have pointed out the similarity with Andeleon and the souleaters with the Salubri and the Niktoko. The background with Andeleon together with the true black hand has been edited out of the old world of darkness by later suppliments and considered optional.