Know Your Kindred – Las Hermanas Hambrientas

Name:  Las Hermanas Hambrientas (The Hungry Sisters)
Clan:  Blood Brothers
Generation:  Between 10th and 14th
Embraced:  1997

After the Tremere antitribu disappeared in the late 1990s, many of their experiments and thaumaturgical workings were left behind.  The Hungry Sisters are one of these experiments.

Blood Brothers were shock troops the Tremere antitribu and a few Tzimisce sorcerers had developed.  These “Frankensteins” were sometimes used to undermine the stability of a targeted city.  A few of Goratrix’s followers hoped to improve upon their design.  One such antitribu named Elena Mendoza Vasquez created a female Blood Brother capable of reproducing itself.

This female Frankenstein locks herself in a mutual feeding with her victim.  Their blood flows between them for 3 to 10 nights.  If all goes well the feeding ends and the sire and childer rise.  This artificial Embrace transforms the child into a physical duplicate of its sire and plugged into the hive mind of the circle.  The process leaves both vampires starved for blood.  Their vampiric metabolisms are so charged that they burn blood at a phenomenal rate.  It is not uncommon for the freshly risen sisters to consume the blood of 12 mortals before feeling sated.

Elena Vasquez never intended to let the three “sisters” she created loose in Mexico.  They were locked up in her Chantry until November of 2000, when the Harbinger of Skull known as La Viuda Blanca broke in to exhume Vasquez’s research.  One of the sisters escaped and fled into the night.

In her two years of freedom, she spawned again and again.  Whole neighborhoods were destroyed to feed their ravenous hunger of first one, then two, then 10 and now 20 Hungry Sisters.  They make their haven in the basement of a disused hacienda surrounded by a few shantytowns.  The large basement crawls with the Sisters and is littered with the bones of their victims.  The locals believe the Sisters are ghosts or saints out for vengeance.  A small cadre of men act as the Sisters’ eyes during the day and select victims to feed the brood.

The Sisters share thoughts as well as blood.  They know with each new Embrace their hunger grows stronger. Soon the shantytowns will not be enough for them.  The Sisters have a dozen or so ghouls, who help them keep the shantytown paralyzed with fear.

The Sisters are all identical, with long luxurious black hair and swarthy skin.  Much of the time the Sisters are beautiful, glowing with vitality.  But when their hunger sets in, they become horrific shrews, all pretense of humanity is lost to long fangs and animalistic rage.

– Source:  Mexico City by Night, pg. 69-70.