Brujah

History
Scratch the surface of a brujah thug, and these days you are more than likely to find a brujah thug underneath. However, the clan is a fallen clan, still mourning the death of their Carthaginian paradise and decaying from their era of warrior-scholars to the petty rebels common today.

Early History
Little consistent is known about the Brujah Antediluvian because the stories may confuse two individuals. The original [Brujah] and his diablerist, Troile.

According to most records, [Brujah] was a callous and fiercely logical creature. Dispassionate in the extreme, the Antediluvian sired a clan of equally dispassionate childer. Among these, however, was a less controlled whelp - Troile the rebel. What events caused the of [Brujah] are unknown, but clan history holds that Troile diablerized his/her sire and claimed the clan as his/her own. A small bloodline, the True Brujah, hold this grievance close to their dead hearts.

Following the death of [Brujah] in unrecorded history, the clan's next major moment is also its greatest moment. The Brujah built or co-opted a Phoenician colony, Carthage, for a grand experiment. The Brujah say that Carthage was a utopia - a city where Kindred and Kine lived in harmony, and where justice reigned.

Other clans, and history, tell the story somewhat differently. The Carthaginians were cowed by their gods, offering their children to the flames of Moloch; and, apparently if the blood of sacrifices should flow down the gullet of a Methuselah, Moloch apparently didn't mind. Exactly what happened in Carthage is dependent on who speaks of it - the Brujah claim paradise, the other clans claim Baali and sacrifice. Some Brujah who were there, however, admit and acknowledge the truth.

Carthage fell during the Third Punic War, when Scipio Aemilianus, aided by the Malkavians and Ventrue of Rome crushed the shell of a city hollowed out by two previous wars. The earth was salted (preventing those Kindred who had melded with the earth from rising), the land was plowed and the Brujah experiment ended.