Know Your Kindred – Szechenyi Jolán, Mother of Horrors
Name: Szechenyi Jolán, Mother of Horrors
Clan: Tzimisce
Generation: 6th
Embrace: 1150
Jolán is one of the most loyal defenders of the Tzimisce clan. She will defend it on any matter no matter what. She does this because she is ashamed of her lineage. She comes from the Vlaszy family – Hungarian revenants who rebelled and were destroyed. Ever since her kin’s destruction Jolán has strived to prove herself to the Sabbat and her clan.
She is one of the most knowledgeable experts of Tzimisce history and tradition. She is nicknamed the Mother of Horrors because she helped develop a purely discipline-based method of generating the terrible vozhd war ghouls.
Jolán supervises the breeding of Mexico City’s revenants. But her great work is collecting children born with major birth defects. She brings them to a tiny hamlet in the mountains southeast of Mexico City. There are about 60 of these deformed adoptees there, subjected to her blood bond. She corrects the deformities of some of the adoptees so they can farm and support the others. The strongest and healthiest grow up to become her ghoul bodyguards. On rare occasions she will Embrace one of them. These childer are her coven and she will destroy any Canite who enters her village. Jolán protects her children and her children protect her.
She collects these deformed children out of a belief that they are the best candidates to produce revenants, which would posses a greater potential for Vicissitude. She hopes to one day capture a werewolf or other shapeshifter and breed it into her flock, so it will unlock the secret of changing the human form into the perfect mutability. Jolán believes this achievement will establish her as a paragon of her clan.
Jolán prefers to look young and beautiful. Mostly human, but with some differences. Her body has avian wings and the legs of a harpy. Her hair often has a snake-like Medusa appearance. She seldom wears more than a simple white robe. Jolán also keeps a half-dozen ghoul bodyguards nearby, which she reshapes to look like Greek-god icons of masculine beauty, or semi-human mythological creatures.
– Source: Mexico City By Night, pg. 59-60.