Gorgo's Nest

Gorgo's Nest, also known as the Children of Gorgo, the Daughters of Gorgo, or simply the Gorgons, are a Blood Cult in modern nights. They have pursued a path of eliminating tyrants, murderers, rapists, and monsters for centuries. They only have one restriction on whom they target: they are the slayers of men.

Overview

Gorgo's Nest formed around the stories of the Nosferatu Methuselah who may have been the Medusa of Greek legend or the famed Queen of Sparta, who was killed by a mortal hunter or the Nosferatu Antediluvian when he tried to eradicate his childer in a fit of rage. Whatever the genesis, Gorgo no longer exists, but her followers, not all of whom are Nosferatu, believe sincerely in avenging her and using their immortality to prevent men like Perseus, Absimiliard, and even Caine from visiting harm on others.

There is no compassion among the vampires of Gorgo's Nest. They have never attempted to save, aid, or care for victims of abuse. The vampires of this cult are almost all of a low Humanity and disconnected from Touchstones, pursuing the kill above all else. Their crusade continues even when they become wights, with Gorgo's Nest staking members who have fallen to the Beast, only to release them when they can be placed in a location rife with male targets. Most Kindred believe Gorgo's Nest possesses a firebrand agenda, which is misplaced, misguided, and ultimately destructive. This view isn't exclusive to male vampires, as Gorgo's Nest dispatches killers to slay vampires guilty of the Embrace, overfeeding, or maintaining a retainer for too long, making their standards for elimination highly subjective.

Vampires in Gorgo's Nest detest comparisons to the Bahari. They maintain they are not Lilin, and in fact, their view of the Bahari is aggressive to the point of frenzy. They hate sharing a space with the Lilin and commonly war with the cult whenever they share a domain. These battles have gone on for centuries, and Gorgo's Nest is the cult that has taken the most grievous injuries in the contest. These nights, Gorgo's Nest is a shadow of its former self. The reasons behind the conflict between Gorgo's Nest and the Bahari aren't widely known, but they consume the Gorgons' modern agenda. In truth, the cult split off from the Bahari three centuries ago due to a bloody, personal feud between a Gorgon (one of the Nest's high priests) and a matron of the Bahari. The feud spread to their followers, their companions, and eventually, their wider cults. Since then, all because of a disagreement over whether a mortal under the Bahari's protection should be pushed into an arranged marriage to a powerful nobleman, the cults have been at war.

Gorgo's Nest has lost sight of its initial, murderous objective, and now persists in sabotaging Ba'ham Gardens. Vampires join the cult because they're already rage-filled, so the cult directs them against the Bahari some nights and against men the rest of the time. When not delivering death, the sorority of the cult seeks to stabilize members at risk of succumbing permanently to the Beast, but this is sadly a lesser concern these nights. To compound matters, the resurgent Lamia also go by the title "the Gorgons" and take pleasure in sabotaging this cult whenever they can.

References

• VTM: Cults of the Blood Gods, p. 119