Know Your Kindred – Demdemeh

Name:  Demdemeh
Clan:  Tzimisce
Generation:  4th
Embraced:  Unknown

Little is known about the African Tzimisce (or eggun).  They prefer to keep to themselves and are ashamed of their non-African counterparts.

Demdemeh was a warrior discovered by the Tzimisce Antediluvian along the African coast.   As the first African it had ever met, Demdemeh confused and puzzled the ancient vampire.  The Antediluvian tried to inflict every injury and harm he could to Demdemeh, but the warrior did not flinch and remained calm throughout.

Finally Tzimisce turned Demdemeh inside out, with his organs on the outside and his eyes looking into his head.   When Tzimisce asked him what he thought of the view, Demdemeh calmly replied it was nothing special, as all wise men are able to look into themselves.  Impressed with his strong mind, Demdemeh was Embraced and left to wonder the jungle.  Demdemeh walked across the continent and gathered many followers until he had one of the largest tribes.

To further aid his rule of north Africa, Demdemeh ghouled marshland crocodiles and baboons as his servants.  He built the great city of Khamissa to humble the Egyptians.

Over the years Demdemeh no longer hungered for blood, but now feasted on banquets of flesh and became strange and alien to his own people.  A row of gills covered his face like a grill, and he no longer had eyes, nose or a mouth.  Only his childer understood the whispered, incoherent sentences that he spoke.

Eventually the desert winds spread and the African swamplands dried up.  Demdemeh retreated from the world, his ghouled creatures vanished into the night, and Khamissa was abandoned by its people.

Today Demdemeh sleeps at the bottom of a lake deep beneath the Ahaggar Mountains.   In his absence, his preeminent childe, the witch Sycorax led the remaining eggun south.

– Sources:  Clanbook: Tzimisce (Revised) pg 11, 33-34