What the Eldest originally was is open to debate, although only marginal interest - the Tzimisce consider humans to be clay at best, and the Eldest's mortal existence would be a trivial prelude to a far more important undead career. Far more than their Darwinist Lasombra brethren, the Tzimisce are a clan of tradition and history, and while the founder may be dead, its ideals and quests still capture the minds of the Fiends. History Early History While is presumed dead at the fangs of Lugoj, the Tzimisce clan still holds their deceased founder in some reverence. However on closer inspection it becomes clear that this is simply a mask hiding something alien and monstrous. Polite, intelligent and inquisitive they seem a stark contrast to the howling Sabbat mobs or even the apparently more humane Brujah or Nosferatu. At a casual glance or a brief conversation a Tzimisce appears to be one of the more pleasant vampires. The Tzimisce have left the human condition behind gladly, and now focus on transcending the limitations of the vampiric state. Basics Name: Tzimisce Plural: Tzimisce Pronunciation: tzuh-mee'-see, zhi-mee'-shee Nicknames: Fiends Antediluvian: Faction: Sabbat Disciplines: Vicissitude, Animalism, Auspex If you described a Tzimisce as inhuman and sadistic, it would probably commend you for your perspicacity on the inhumanity, and then demonstrate that your mortal definition of sadism was laughably inadequate.