Dire Postulations of the Dread Vampyr Since its first nights the Tzimisce has been a scholarly clan. Just as the Ventrue and Lasombra clans have traditionally led the Kindred through their trials, and the Toreador clan has crafted diversions to make unlife bearable, so the Tzimisce clan has sought answers to the riddles, underlying vampiric existence. Accordingly, Tzimisce are among the greatest Cainite scientists, alchemists, historians and metaphysicians.

However, Tzimisce are not content to sit and think. They are experimenters moreso than philosophers, and the world - particularly the mortal world - is their laboratory.

To purify their thought and detach themselves from human subjectivity, Tzimisce either founded or developed the various Sabbat Paths of Enlightenement. The clan was also instrumental in creating the Sabbat's various Auctoritas and Ignoblis Ritae. These beliefs and rituals serve diverse purposes: engendering solidarity among vampires, providing new habits to replace human-learned ones, and fostering an understandingof what it means to be a vampire. Some Lasombra whisper that perhaps the words and gestures of the Ritae serve other, more sinister functions: worship of forbidden beings, for example, or distraction from the clan's true aims. The Tzimisce, of course, deny such allegations. Many Tzimisce beliefs have been subsumed into the machinery of the Sabbat, but some remain unique to the clan.
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