- See also: Clanbook: Toreador Revised
Clanbook: Toreador is a sourcebook for the Toreador clan for Vampire: The Masquerade Second Edition.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- Potentially the mightiest of the vampire clans, Toreador is also the most divided clan, paralyzed by bitter infighting. For millennia, their world-shaking battles within the clan have been just as intense as their relentless struggles against other Kindred. No other clan has had such an effect on the world of mortals. No other clan can match the effect of the Toreador.
- Clanbook: Toreador includes:
- The history of the clan and the roles it has played in both human and vampiric culture
- Ten sample characters suitable for players and Storytellers
- The secrets of how the Toreador use their arts to destroy their enemies
Contents[]
Introduction[]
The story of Clarissa and her search for her missing, possibly deceased, sire, Emily.
Chapter One: The Despised and Adored[]
A brief history and legends of the Toreador and a quick overview of the clan throughout the world.
Chapter Two: Unlife Among the Beautiful Undead[]
This chapter shows the structure the clan. The difference between Artiste and Poseur, Toreador Guilds, and what the Toreador do.
Chapter Three: Playing the Toreador[]
Information about how to create Art in Game Mechanics. This Chapter has some Elder Disciplines as well as some Toreador inspired Merits and Flaws.
- Toreador Only Trait
- Creativity
- Disciplines
- Insight of the Talespinner - Level 6 Auspex
- What People Want to Hear - Level 6 Auspex
- Personality Metamorph - Level 7 Auspex
- Aire of Elation - Level 6 Presence
- Capture Reality - Level 6 Presence
- Intensification - Level 6 Presence
- Star Magnetism - Level 6 Presence
- Siren's Song - Level 6 Presence
- Two-Tiered Communication - Level 6 Presence
- Merits and Flaws
- Controllable Thirst (1 pt. Merit)
- Eye for Beauty (1 pt. Merit)
- Mortal Double (2 pt. Merit)
- Refined (2 pt. Merit)
- Blasé (3 pt. Merit)
- "Gifted" (3 pt. Merit)
- Greater Colors (3 pt. Merit)
- Vampire Spouse (5 pt. Merit)
- Powerful Ghoul (5 pt. Merit)
- Poor Taste (1 pt. Flaw)
- Rival (1 pt. Flaw)
- Tortured Artist (1 pt. Flaw)
- Vulgar (1 pt. Flaw)
- Artistically Inept (2 pt. Flaw)
- Social Outcast (3 pt. Flaw)
Chapter Four: Toreador Templates[]
- The Burnout
- Comic Book Celebrity
- The Cult Leader
- The Horror Writer
- The Idol of Millions
- The Martial Artist
- The Outcast
- The Plastic Surgeon
- The Speed Metal Guitarist
- The Televangelist
Appendix: Toreador of Note[]
Background Information[]
- Seventh Generation - Rumored to be a group of powerful ancilla of Poseur Toreador that defile art.
- Word from the White Wolf Game Studio mentions Ian Lemke and Mike Tinney of Night Owl Productions becoming part of White Wolf to work on Mind Eye's Theatre releases.
Memorable Quotes[]
And under this carnival disguise, the heart of an old youngster who is still waiting to give his all. But how to be recognized under this mask? This is what they call a fine career.
- Jean Anouilh, The Waltz of the Toreadors
What happens when the intoxication of success has evaporated?
- Bauhaus, "Silent Hedges"
Don't mock the faith ... to hell with the the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing upon anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial ... The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
- Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh
The Devil whispered behind the leavers, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
- Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops
Her heart is racing... you can't keep up
The night is bleeding like a cut
Between the horses of love and lust
We are trampled underfoot.
- U2, "So Cruel"
There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.
- Virginia Woolf
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
-Carrie Fisher
Oh we're pretty, we're so pretty vacant.
- Sex Pistols, "Pretty Vacant"
It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
- Mick Jagger
Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.
- Winston Churchill, Report to House of Commons
Won't you come and dance with the beautiful dead?
- Killing Joke, "The Beautiful Dead"
Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Give me a minute to talk away my face, and I can seduce the Queen of France.
- Voltaire
It is the Gory and good of Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine, at least.
- Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book.
If you want to know a man, travel with him.
- English proverb
It is of great consequence to disguise your inclination, and to play the hypocrite well.
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
But if you could just see the beauty
These things I can never describe.
- Joy Division, "Isolation"
If I could stay ... then the night would give you up
Stay, and the day would keep its trust
Stay, and the night would be enough.
- U2, "Stay"
Love is the distance between reality and pain.
- Robin Hitchcock, "One Long Pair of Eyes" (spoken Word Version)
Love will save you from the black night and the lightning and the ghost
And Love will save you from your misery, then tie you to the bloody post
And love will save you from the hands that pull you down beneath the sea
Love may save all you people, but it will never save me.
-Swans, "Love Will Save you"
...when you have extinguished his soul in this world and placed him where the ray of hope is blown out as in the darkness of the damned, are you quite sure that the demon you have roused will not turn and rend you?
- Abraham Lincoln, speech at Edwardsville, Illinois
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
- Attributed to Vince Lombardi
How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?
-Paul McCartney, "Baby You're a Rich Man"
This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
- Bette Davis
It's a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
- Tom Lehrer, 1968: That was the Year that Was
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then who are you?
- Fanny Brice
Its horror and its beauty are divine.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci"
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
- Walter Pater, Appreciation
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain
- The Police, "King of Pain"
Bite me, Fanboy!
- Lobo
It's not enough merely to worship a god. You've got to know which one's in charge. And Heaven help you if you mess around on the wrong turf.
- Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories
My business took over my life - by choice.
- Riva Yares
I have never quite understood this sex symbol business, but if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it be sex than some of the other things they've got symbols for.
- Marilyn Monroe
The combat deepens. On, ye brave,
Who rush to glory, or the grave!
- Thomas Campbell, "Hohenlinden"
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
- Dolores Ibatturi, speech in Paris
I often say a great doctor kills more people than a great general.
- Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, vol. V
And I ain't in it for the power
And I ain't init for my health
I ain't in it for the glory of anything at all
And I sure ain't init for the wealth
But I'm in it 'til it's over and I just can't stop
If you wanna get it done
You gotta fight for yourself
And I like my music like I like my life
Everything louder than everything else!
-Meatloaf, "Everything Louder than everything else"
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
- Ann Landers
Make way for your betters.
- Latin Proverb
In the room, the women come and go,
Talking of Michelangelo
- T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Characters[]
- Toreador of Note
- Derrick Zeel, Kindred porn star, secretly an alias for the elder Iontius
- Geneviève Orseau, a changeling turned Kindred art tutor
- Alexandria, notorious art thief and Prince of Buenos Aires; alias "Red Ludwig" and, possibly, Callisti y Castillo
- Arikel - Toreador Founder of the clan
- Malkav - Twin Brother of Arikel
- Nosferatu Founder - Possible lover of Arikel and vice versa.
- Clarissa - Toreador. Seen Also in Vampire: The Masquerade
- Mandy - Clarissa's Stepdaughter, Human
- Annabelle - Toreador, Elder of Chicago
- Portia - Toreador
- Bret Stryker - Toreador
- Darian - Toreador
- Emily - Toreador, Clarissa's Sire who is Missing, possibly destroyed.
- Michael Paine, Toreador destroyed by Lupines. (Mentioned)
- Balthazar, Sheriff of Chicago (Mentioned)
- Lodin
- Shawnda Dorrit, A Sabbat member of New York City, known to Annabelle (Mentioned)
- Rafael de Corazon - who writes a letter about the history of the Toreador.
- Ian C. Roper, Malkavian friend of Clarissa (Mentioned)
- Peter, Ghoul to Clarissa
- Jacob, Ghoul to Clarissa, Former Police Detective
- Bill, Ghoul to Clarissa
Terminology[]
Blood Cults, Factions/Groups: Artiste, Poseurs; Guild, Seventh Generation,
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