Games - Tremere

	Games - Tremere

The Tremere are a fictional clan of vampires, from White Wolf Game Studio's books and role-playing games set in the World of Darkness (Vampire: The Masquerade
and Vampire: The Dark Ages
).

The Tremere are a clan of tightly-knit magicians. In comparison to the other vampiric clans, the Tremere are especially loyal to their hierarchy. Their symbol is a square surrounded by a circle; with an isosceles right triangle drawn at 60°, where the hypotenuse is a tangent to the circle.

While in the Dark Ages the Tremere were a minor clan, considered mere upstarts, they soon grew powerful, and later became associated with the Camarilla.

Vampire: Dark Ages

The Tremere were originally a group of human mages from House Tremere of the Order of Hermes. When they found their magical life-extending elixirs started failing due to the growing lack of belief in magic, they started looking elsewhere. They captured vampires of the Tzimisce clan and conducted experiments on their bodies and blood, and discovered how to turn mortals into vampires without the blood bond. Tremere and his six most loyal followers crafted potions of vampirism and consumed them.

Almost immediately after their transformation, the Tremere were beset with enemies on all sides: the Tzimisce wanted revenge, the Order outlawed them, and their awakened Avatars left them on the transition to death, taking their magic with them. Tremere crafted the art of blood magic, Thaumaturgy, and they defended themselves. Wanting more power for his bloodline, Tremere found the resting place of Saulot, the Antediluvian founder of clan Salubri, and diablerized him, consuming his very essence and gaining his power. Tremere declared his bloodline a full clan, and started spreading rumours that the Salubri were soul-stealers, and managed to hunt them to near-extinction; it is believed that no more than eight Salubri survive into the Final Nights.

Vampire: The Masquerade

Originally from Eastern Europe, the Tremere were organized in chantries. These were almost completely destroyed in the war against the Tzimisce. Only the fortified Ceoris, in the southern Transylvanian Alps, survived, but the Tremere soon spread again and founded strongholds in Prague and Vienna (the latter was to become their main center of power), with smaller chantries elsewhere (such as the one in Perugia, in central Italy).

When the Camarilla was organized, the Tremere were one of the group's strongest defenders, although the Gangrel and Nosferatu clans harbour deep resentment toward the Tremere due to their use of Gangrel and Nosferatu blood to create their Gargoyle servants.

The Tremere have a strict formal hierarchical structure called the Pyramid. The heads of the Pyramids insure the loyalty of their subjects by having each childe presented to the elders and forced to drink their blood, thus bringing them closer to a blood bond. All Tremere are expected to respect and obey their superiors, or else risk being harshly punished.

Vampire: Requiem and the 'New' World of Darkness

In the current World of Darkness, the Tremere are no longer vampires but are a Left-Handed (tainted) legacy of mages, who are the resulting descendants of a group of vampire wizards who perished in a magical ritual gone wrong. These liches now feed upon the souls of sleeping humans.

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