Tagged Tzimisce
Know Your Kindred – Ana Rita Montana
Name: Ana Rita Montana
Clan: Tzimisce
Generation: 9th
Embrace: 1813
Ana Rita Montana believes herself to be a manifestation of the Virgin Mary, albeit a failed manifestation. Her sanity is unstable due to a terrible illness that brought on fever-induced hallucinations while she lived as a nun in a deplorable Mexican convent. She was raped by a groundskeeper while ill, but believed he was the Holy Ghost visiting her. She became pregnant, but the child was stillborn and Ana went from delusional to psychotic.
The other nuns feared if Ana’s condition was discovered the government would shut them down, so they dumped her into a shallow grave. It was there a Tzimisce and his dogs found her still alive and he Embraced her. She spent her early nights learning from him and the two became lovers. The two eventually parted ways with Ana still believing herself a Barren Virgin for the death of her child.
Ana maintains a haven in the apartment of a defrocked mortal nun. She appears before the other nuns as a divine vision and has collected a small cult of worshipers. Ana encourages self mortification and whips her worshipers with her flail-like fingers.
Ana appears as an imperfect Virgin Mary. She usually wears simple robes and her face is sculpted like a timeworn statue with small minute cracks and plaster hue. Additionally, she distends her fingers to the point each is three feet in length, like a chain. Ana spends most of her time Obfuscated unless it serves her to better move among the shadows.
– Source: Mexico City by Night, pg. 66-67
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.
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