Psychology

[Worldview]

Clans | Paths | Supernaturals | Individuals

Clans

Old World Tzimisce:
"Why?  They trap themselves in dreams of the past and visions of some dank grandiose glory born of one too many gothic novels.  They plot and scheme and backstab and bide their time for decades - centuries! - all for some petty vengeance, some worthless power, some pale reflection of the life I would have lived a thousand times over by the time they catch up to me.  Wake up, clansmen.  A day of freedom is worth a millennium of what you call a worthy game."

Koldunism:
"Too lost in spirituality.  This body, this life may be a shell, a trifle, a passing glimmer - but how will you enjoy the empires you've built without it?"

Vicissitude:
"A tool.  A handy one, but merely a tool in the end.  Never become addicted and dependent on it.  The outer changes to match the inner - not the other way around.">

Lasombra:
"Some of my closest packmates have been young Lasombras.  But at the same time, the Elders of this Clan are as cobwebbed - if not more so - as the worst of my Old World clanmates."

Other Clans:
"Sometimes useful.  Sometimes useless.  Sometimes the best of allies.  Sometimes the worst of enemies.  Sometimes brilliant, sometimes insipid, sometimes magnificent, sometimes pathetic.  Just like anyone else." 

Paths

Path of the Feral Heart:
"I thought, for a while, that I had found my home among the Ferals.  It was a short white.  At the heart, they are much like the Old World Tzimisce - they don't seek the predator in themselves; they seek the past, a way to revert to some vague conception of the natural order.  Open your eyes.  The natural is passing away - the forests are dying, the planet's going to hell.  But the primitive, the instinct, the Id - it's here to stay.  We're the new incarnation.  We are the predators, my friends.  Stop clutching at the rotting breast of the earth for one moment, and you might understand..."

Path of Cathari:
"The path I call mine - for now.  One must live to satisfy oneself, after all, for that which satisfies the self answers the beckon of instinct."

Other Paths:
"Who am I to say my way is the only way?  It is merely the only way to survive the next great Culling, is all."

Supernaturals

Sabbat:
"My Sect; more importantly, my Sire's Sect.  To her I owe my present existence.  What she pledges her life to, then, so must I.  For now."

Camarilla:
"Poor fools.  Do they even realize they're nothing but the pawns of desperate Elders trapped in the past?  So paranoid, so strutting and proud - like peacocks in a gilded cage.  I might almost pity them - almost."

Independents:
"There's something to be said for the Independents.  Well, perhaps not the Setites or the Giovanni, or even the Assamites, for they all answer to too strict a hierarchy.  The Ravnos, however; I sometimes envy them their freedom.  Then again, they're almost all dead now, which serves to prove overindulgence of one's base desires is just as deadly as ignoring them."

Lupines:
"Powerful, yes.  Fanatical, yes.  Frightening, yes.  But in the end, a passing nuisance.  Do they really think they will win, when their forests are disappearing by the acres every second?  Doubly damned, they are as trapped in the past as the Camarilla, and as bound to a sinking ship as the Feral Hearts.  I have to say, I look forward to the day the last of their kind is crushed from this world."

Other Supernaturals:
"Sorcerers, saints, ghosts and Keebler elves - aren't you a little too old for fairy tales?"

Mortals:
"Prey.  Sometimes entertaining, sometimes even useful, but still prey in the end."

Individuals

Adrian:
"He and I often share the means, but never the ends.  What he does, he does out of a torturous mix of spite, hate, obsession and love.  He is a wastrel to bring down his sister because he wants her dead; yet time and again he gives all to aid her because he cannot bear for her to die.  Ultimately self-destructive...the Sect will one day move on without him, I think.  Still, he's fun for a night out on the town, now and again."

Constanta
"We do not often agree; we have not the same goals, and we do not view this so-called Curse the same way.  And yet, for her this predator would lay down his life.  I am told she inspires this sort of loyalty in many others.  I am not surprised, and I do not wonder why.  As long as a Sabbat is necessary to this world, she will be necessary to the Sabbat.  The Sect could use more of her kind, and less of Adrian's.  Less of mine, too, perhaps.

"Yet at the same time, she is too dedicated to her cause.  For that cause she would give all, and for that reason, I fear, she will not survive in the end.  But until that end, I will stand at her side."