Throw your blood at people with the Tremere, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's second clan
The Chinese Room has given us an incredibly brief look at the second of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's four launch clans. After showing off the Brujah last week, we're now getting a glimpse of the Tremere, Bloodlines' gothy blood mages.
Like the Brujah reveal, The Chinese Room isn't giving much away, making me wish these reveals would have been left until the studio was up for giving us more details about the game itself. The teaser, above, gives us a taste of their blood magic, weaponising said blood and flinging it at enemies, while the accompanying blog offers some idea of how they play.
As a mage, you aren't going to be a frontline fighter, with the Tremere playstyle favouring those who are happy to keep their distance, «making enemies scream in agony as you boil their blood, shaping your own vitae into projectiles, or even ripping the blood from their veins». They sound like a right laugh.
In Bloodlines 2, the Tremere are licking their wounds after an attack on their main chantry (what the Tremere call their secret havens), and that's about all we know about them so far, at least in regards to their situation in the game.
It's an interesting clan, though. Unlike the other clans, the Tremere's origin story does not involve them being born from an Antediluvian (a vampire from before the Biblical flood)—at least not in the conventional way. Originally, they were a group of powerful human mages seeking immortality, and in the Early Medieval era they stole the blood of an Antediluvian to achieve their goal of eternal life, a side effect of which was losing their human magic.
None of the vampire clans really trust one another—it's a society full of capricious outsiders—but the Tremere also have to contend
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