- See also: Clanbook: Tremere Revised
Clanbook: Tremere is a sourcebook for Clan Tremere. Like all Clanbooks, it was later updated with a revised edition.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- Majesty and mystery – the two words are synonymous with the word "Tremere." Born of murder and greed, created for power and destruction, they are the most feared of the Camarilla clans. they are also the clan with the most to fear, for their enemies are everywhere, especially within their own ranks.
- Clanbook: Tremere includes:
- The dark history of the clan, and rumors of its even darker future
- Ten sample characters suitable for players and Storytellers
- In-depth information on the powerful Discipline of Thaumaturgy
Contents[]
Chapter One: The Beginning[]
Intro fiction detailing an apprentice telling the Code of Tremere.
Chapter Two: The Tremere Chronicles[]
The history of the Clan from its time as House Tremere to its current position within the Camarilla.
Chapter Three: Inside the Tremere[]
A look inside the Pyramid, including its numerous secret societies and secrets about Thaumaturgy.
- Tremere Rituals
- Scent of the Garou's Passing - Level One
- The Open Passage - Level Two
- Rutor's Hands - Level Three
- Soul of the Homunculi - Level Four
- Umbral Walk - Level Five
Chapter Four: Tremere Templates[]
Templates for the quick generation of Tremere characters within a chronicle.
- Child of the Tremere
- Conspiracy Expert
- Cultist
- Explorer
- Nexus
- The Politico
- Professional Witch
- Psych Major
- Pyramid Climber
- The Underestimated
Appendix: The Tremere Hierarchy[]
Details about the current Inner Council of Seven.
Background Information[]
- Word From the White Wolf Game Studio discusses that they have run out of quotes to use for their books and wants people to send in their own suggestions. And if they use the ones sent in, that they will definitely credit you.
Memorable Quotes[]
From end to end with labor keen;
Ad here, poor fool, with all my love
I stand no wiser than before.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
A crumpled future in your fist
The killing streak ascends sun-kissed
And the firestarter from within
Pokes out from fever-blistered grin
- Siouxsie & the Banshees, "Burn Up"
Witchcraft is so enduring that it admits of no remedy by human operation.
- St. Thomas Aquinas, Sententiae
The mighty pyramids of stone
That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,
When nearer seen, and better known,
Are but gigantic flights of stairs.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Ladder of St. Augustine"
Magicians are those who are commonly called evil -doers on account of the enormity of their crimes. They stir up the elements disturb men's minds and, without any poisonous potion, they destroy by the mere force of incantation."
- Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
But the abominable, and murderes, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolators, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
- Revelations 21:8, The King James Bible
Characters[]
- The Tremere Hierarchy
- Tremere - Founder of the Hermetic House and Leader of the Clan.
- Etrius- Clan Administrator and watcher of Tremere's torpor body. In Charge of Eastern Europe.
- Grimgroth - Replaced Goratrix in France and Central Europe. Now in Charge of Western Europe, including British Isles and Australia.
- Meerlinda - Originally in charge of the British Isles. Now in charge of North America.
- Xavier de Cincao - Originally in charge of Spain. Now in charge of South America.
- Abetorius - Resides in Istanbul, In charge of Western Asia.
- Thomas Wyncham - In charge of the Far East. Once had a chantry in Hong Kong. Second Inner Council member with this region.
- Elaine de Calinot - In charge of Africa. Third member of the Inner Council to do so. Chantry in Algiers.
- Goratrix - Founder of House Goratrix and traitor to the House and Clan. Joined the Anarch Revolt that became the Sabbat. Originally in charge of France and Central Europe.
- Dr. John Dee - Advisor to Queen Elizabeth
- John Diamond - North American Pontifex of Industry and Commerce.
- Peter Dorfman - North American Pontifex for Government
- Gatlin - Rebecca Thompson's Sire and Professor of Anthropology
- Metrere - 11th Generation, Specialist in Psychology
- Abe Powell - Pontifex of Western North America.
- Rebecca Thompson - Neonate recently embraced into the House and Clan.
- Tyler - Brujah
- Saulot - Founder of the Salubri clan, diablerized by Tremere.
- Rafael de Corazon - Toreador
- Tzimisce Antediluvian
- Hardestadt - Ventrue
- Omar Khavam Ravenhurst - Anarch who wrote the Grand Compendium of Discordian Regurgitals, a secret pamphlet about Ant-Rituals
- St. Germain, enigmatic figure. Not to be confused with Count Germaine, a Brujah.
Terminology[]
Al Azif (Book by Abd al-Azrad), Anti-Rituals, Arcanum, Austria, Blood Bond, Ceoris, Chantry, Clan Structure: Apprentice, Regent, Lord/Pontifex, Councilor, The Inner Council of Seven; Code of Hermes, Code of Tremere, Garou, Grand Compendium of Discordian Regurgitals by Omar Khayam Ravenhurst (Pamphlet), House Diedne, House Goratrix, House Tremere; Minions of the Tremere: Gargoyles, Homunculi, The Flyer, The Slug, The Hooper, The Demon-Bound, Corpse Minions; Oath of Tremere, Order of Hermes, Political and Underground Orders: Traditionalists, Transitionalists; Praeco, Secret Orders: Brothers of the Absinthe, The Guardians of Tradition, Order of Naturists, Humanus League, Children of the Pyramid, Illuminated Brotherhood, The Golden Path of Harmony, The Elite, The Astors, Eye of the Serpent, Order of the Wyrm, The Order of Quaesitori; Thaumaturgy, The Travels of Fedoso (Tome by a Order of Hermes Mage), Tribunal, Umbra, Vienna,
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