The Furores were a radical sect of disenfranchised Kindred in the Dark Ages that survives as a secret faction within Clan Brujah.
Overview[]
The Furores first figured as a distinct movement in 9th century Europe. During the end of the slow, centuries-long collapse of Roman civilization through war, sack, and plague, the prospects for the many dispossessed Kindred childer in major population centers were dismal, and were being exiled by their sires from their home domains in large numbers to mitigate the risks to their vulnerable kine populations of living among so many desperate vampires. After over a century of urban renewal across Europe, the survivors of the displacement had begun forming new communities of their own. As the eldest among them adopted their own domineering and abusive ways towards their childer, those who managed to escape from their accountancy started organizing into outlaw cells, calling themselves the Furores.
Operating as as outlaws and terrorists, the Furores of antiquity took a heavy-handed stance against authority and the traditions of their elders. Ideological rivals of a sort to the more deliberate and cerebral Prometheans, the average Furore was not concerned with recreating Carthage. They did not all necessarily believe that Kindred and kine are equal to one another; nor did they celebrate prototypical ideals of liberty. On the whole, they wanted freedom from the tyranny of elders above all else. Most Clans were tolerated within the movement to a certain extent, but the Tremere were distrusted and shunned almost completely, unless perhaps they could be blackmailed for diablerie.
Organizing themselves into guilds that associated with fringes of medieval European society, they were a force to be reckoned with in their time, if somewhat unfocused. While some Furores even managed to found radical communities, their collective inexperience as a whole almost always doomed them to defeat or to become catspaws for the benefit of their adversaries. Nevertheless, they were often an intractable issue for many Princes.
While the Furores and the Prometheans were both eclipsed after the First Inquisition by the big tent Anarch Movement and the Sabbat, individual Furores fared relatively better through the centuries, their cellular nature and varying ways of thought helping to sustain their remaining numbers into the 21st century; or at least within the confines of Clan Brujah. With the elder Tyler still popularly representing their legacy in modern nights, the true, clandestine Furore cause has found a new purpose in opposing the Hellene Brujah loyal to the Camarilla.
Known Furores[]
Medieval[]
- Tyler
- Robin Leeland
- Jeremy MacNeil
- Armin Brenner
- Hektor
- Antiochus
- Maureen
- Arnaud
- Josephus
- Eirik Longtooth
- Karl the Blue
- Ulfsdottir
Contemporary[]
References[]
- DAV: The Ashen Thief, p. 59-85
- DAV: Players Guide to Low Clans, p. 214-215
- VTM: Encyclopaedia Vampirica, p. 76
- VTM: Anarch (book), p. 195
- VTM: Chicago by Night 5th Edition, p. 93