Fun fact about the Camarilla you can still follow the path of humanity and uphold the masquerade while still being a complete monster. Here is an example of a Tremere character who is in fact that James Brixton was born to a loving well off family in Victorian England. He would pursue a career in medicine becoming known in his community as "the good doctor" and is considered to be a pillar of society. James had one issue though. While he saved lives and was given all the emotional support he could ever want he found himself dead inside. The world was always completely grey to him as he felt no emotion other than boredom. He was fine with this existence though one day an old friend named Colin back from University started introducing him into the Occult. Norman agreed to this wondering if it could make him feel anything. Well the topic definitely interested him but he still felt hollow. Colin then would introduce him into a secret society called the Scarlet Chroniclers. He fit in well and impressed the cult leader with his vast knowledge of Occult Lore and within a very short span of time. The Cult leader then selected him to meet his sire Herman Weber who after ghouling him and educating him for years earned the right to embrace. Yet upon embrace he frenzied tearing violently into the prisoner the Tremere had for him. The prisoner turned out to be old friend Colin and upon feeling his close friends blood on his hands he realized he liked it. He remembered the screams the pain, the agony... and the blood. He felt the sense of betrayal and terror his friend felt and deep down loved his pain. The whole ordeal was a rush of emotion unlike anything James ever felt. The screams the agony it was all just felt to wrong yet... so right at the same time. For once in his life he felt the very stale emotion he lacked back when he was human. Feeling the beast take over he fell in love with his new monstrous nature. Despite lacking a heart beat he felt emotions of ecstasy, bliss, race and most importantly power. Feeling more alive than whenever he was human now he realized that his life was a prison but yet his moral upbringing tears at him from the inside realizing that he is evil. Though he tried to do good in life he realized that it made him feel nothing and that only by inflicting pain and suffering does he feel literally anything. Now is logical moral upbringing is in stark contrast as a monster both externally and internally. To feed his dark desires he befriended the local sheriff upon which he was given Sabbat and Anarch prisoners to do horrifying experiments to. He found an interest in the Brujah clan who he liked to do experiments because of his studies into the nature of the Beast and the effect of Humanity. Watching as they would quickly devolve into their frenzied he would iron bond them to a chair and bisect their brains just to see the effects frenzy had on the mind and what directly causes it. The local prince uses becoming James test subject as a threat and punishment to those who would dare defy the will of the Camarilla. James is fine with this because it allows him to torture people while understanding his own mental condition because of this he has actually made white a few allies within the Malkavian clan some of which he spends many nights just passing notes and discussing the state of the Camarilla. For this is closets friends are Malkavians while he views the ruling Ventrue as boring just do to their pure drive for power and nothing else. He does find the Toreador fun to hang out with just do to their perversion which he finds as a good break from the puritan society in which he lived in allow him to engage in more... perverse activities taking a fancy to both men and women alike with the occasional orgy here and there just because it does in fact makes him feel literally anything in which his mortal life completely lacked. Now he looks to aid the Camarilla in all it's struggles while engaging in his own personal sick pleasures along the way. He still follows the path of humanity just because there is some part of his mortal self that is holding back on the man he used to be as he feels just a tiny shred of guilt for the monster he has become but not enough to stop himself for his evil side is far more powerful than his good because at his core he is just a monster despite all attempts otherwise.
this was so educating and entertaining, thank you so much mate i'm playing a nephilim toreador camarilla for the very first time and I really needed this. Now I know which title to aim for and which title beareres to betray... I mean fuck... I mean make friends with
Im clan tremere and in my last game i became prince then the game ended. How i wouldve held the spot was i had primogen backing, i had telekinesis powers, i held and bound to myself a white oak stake that was warded and if you got thru the ward youd still be set on fire for touching, unlocked and created a sorcery that ANY stake that would hit me would break, and lastly i created a daylight ring and killed a kindred while they slept. I was called "Li Mochou of fire." (Li Mochou means red serpent)
apparently my dad was invited to a game (in '03) and I found out because he used the invitation he got as a bookmark in his House of Leaves book which I'm now reading
Nice Video! I bet one could make houres of content upon all these titles and not be done... I'm planing a Camarilla City for an (hopefully) upcomming V5-Cronicle. It helps, me at last, to give some "influences" to clans or persons. For example the tremere in my version of Cologne have influence over the big blood donation centre of the university. Part klischee, part not the expected. So they have a pretty good hand in the boon game, since they can supply rather many Kindred with bagged blood and have by that big political pull without having to many titles.
i run a game where there was a fake camarilla that was let ran by the real camarilla as a kind of experiment. this crubled beneath the players feet and now they had a meeting with the the new prins/prinses and she is hard and has a no new problems or you will feel my anger. now the players are scared they will also get covicted like the old leader. that is not what will happen but they are not tought the rules. so let the chronical commence.
Ran a game for my family. My dad’s character (venture) never fed and used his disciplines only once and ended up becoming prince 😂
That is one clever Ventrue
Him and my mothers toreador were a power couple. Wealth and business brains plus charm and political influence
My brothers character on the other hand ended up a white and killed by the inquisition 😢🤦♂️
@@LoreByNightVtM in the game of chess if the king has to move he’s probably losing the game.
Who needs disciplines if you got skills right.
A right specced vampire can talk their way out and in out everything.
Yup, welcome to the familie, now bow to EVERYBODY 2 minutes turned above you.
The Camarilla such a hunting ground for one with the wisdom of the serpent. Fun clip
I'm really enjoying this series. Thank you for sharing your views on "how to".
Fun fact about the Camarilla you can still follow the path of humanity and uphold the masquerade while still being a complete monster. Here is an example of a Tremere character who is in fact that
James Brixton was born to a loving well off family in Victorian England. He would pursue a career in medicine becoming known in his community as "the good doctor" and is considered to be a pillar of society. James had one issue though. While he saved lives and was given all the emotional support he could ever want he found himself dead inside. The world was always completely grey to him as he felt no emotion other than boredom. He was fine with this existence though one day an old friend named Colin back from University started introducing him into the Occult. Norman agreed to this wondering if it could make him feel anything. Well the topic definitely interested him but he still felt hollow. Colin then would introduce him into a secret society called the Scarlet Chroniclers. He fit in well and impressed the cult leader with his vast knowledge of Occult Lore and within a very short span of time. The Cult leader then selected him to meet his sire Herman Weber who after ghouling him and educating him for years earned the right to embrace. Yet upon embrace he frenzied tearing violently into the prisoner the Tremere had for him. The prisoner turned out to be old friend Colin and upon feeling his close friends blood on his hands he realized he liked it. He remembered the screams the pain, the agony... and the blood. He felt the sense of betrayal and terror his friend felt and deep down loved his pain. The whole ordeal was a rush of emotion unlike anything James ever felt. The screams the agony it was all just felt to wrong yet... so right at the same time. For once in his life he felt the very stale emotion he lacked back when he was human. Feeling the beast take over he fell in love with his new monstrous nature. Despite lacking a heart beat he felt emotions of ecstasy, bliss, race and most importantly power. Feeling more alive than whenever he was human now he realized that his life was a prison but yet his moral upbringing tears at him from the inside realizing that he is evil. Though he tried to do good in life he realized that it made him feel nothing and that only by inflicting pain and suffering does he feel literally anything. Now is logical moral upbringing is in stark contrast as a monster both externally and internally.
To feed his dark desires he befriended the local sheriff upon which he was given Sabbat and Anarch prisoners to do horrifying experiments to. He found an interest in the Brujah clan who he liked to do experiments because of his studies into the nature of the Beast and the effect of Humanity. Watching as they would quickly devolve into their frenzied he would iron bond them to a chair and bisect their brains just to see the effects frenzy had on the mind and what directly causes it. The local prince uses becoming James test subject as a threat and punishment to those who would dare defy the will of the Camarilla. James is fine with this because it allows him to torture people while understanding his own mental condition because of this he has actually made white a few allies within the Malkavian clan some of which he spends many nights just passing notes and discussing the state of the Camarilla. For this is closets friends are Malkavians while he views the ruling Ventrue as boring just do to their pure drive for power and nothing else. He does find the Toreador fun to hang out with just do to their perversion which he finds as a good break from the puritan society in which he lived in allow him to engage in more... perverse activities taking a fancy to both men and women alike with the occasional orgy here and there just because it does in fact makes him feel literally anything in which his mortal life completely lacked. Now he looks to aid the Camarilla in all it's struggles while engaging in his own personal sick pleasures along the way. He still follows the path of humanity just because there is some part of his mortal self that is holding back on the man he used to be as he feels just a tiny shred of guilt for the monster he has become but not enough to stop himself for his evil side is far more powerful than his good because at his core he is just a monster despite all attempts otherwise.
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I feel like the structure of the camarilla provides a handy framework for character design for storytellers.
this was so educating and entertaining, thank you so much mate
i'm playing a nephilim toreador camarilla for the very first time and I really needed this.
Now I know which title to aim for and which title beareres to betray... I mean fuck... I mean make friends with
Im clan tremere and in my last game i became prince then the game ended.
How i wouldve held the spot was i had primogen backing, i had telekinesis powers, i held and bound to myself a white oak stake that was warded and if you got thru the ward youd still be set on fire for touching, unlocked and created a sorcery that ANY stake that would hit me would break, and lastly i created a daylight ring and killed a kindred while they slept.
I was called "Li Mochou of fire."
(Li Mochou means red serpent)
Camarilla? I normally tell someone to place a stick vertically on a chair and have a seat....but your way works too.
apparently my dad was invited to a game (in '03) and I found out because he used the invitation he got as a bookmark in his House of Leaves book which I'm now reading
this isn't much of a surprise for me cause this is exactly something my dad would enjoy
Nice Video! I bet one could make houres of content upon all these titles and not be done...
I'm planing a Camarilla City for an (hopefully) upcomming V5-Cronicle. It helps, me at last, to give some "influences" to clans or persons. For example the tremere in my version of Cologne have influence over the big blood donation centre of the university. Part klischee, part not the expected. So they have a pretty good hand in the boon game, since they can supply rather many Kindred with bagged blood and have by that big political pull without having to many titles.
Camarilla? I barely knew 'er!
I love the new pfp of Lore by Night
i run a game where there was a fake camarilla that was let ran by the real camarilla as a kind of experiment. this crubled beneath the players feet and now they had a meeting with the the new prins/prinses and she is hard and has a no new problems or you will feel my anger. now the players are scared they will also get covicted like the old leader. that is not what will happen but they are not tought the rules. so let the chronical commence.
Until next time then.