Toreador

Toreador
Pseudonyms	Artisans; Degenerates; Roses; Vanitas
Sect	Anarchs Camarilla
Disciplines	Auspex Celerity Presence
Bloodlines	Daughters of Cacophony Nephilim Volgirre
Rarity	Common

Clan Toreador is one of the oldest and most intricate of all the European clans. It is a haven for artists and socialites; its members are chosen from the ranks of the most talented artists and most beautiful mortals to be found in every age, making any gathering of the clan a dazzling collection of bejeweled butterflies and entrancing courtiers. A few Toreador are Embraced purely on the strength of their stunning beauty, but it is seldom that one of the clan does not have a talent worth immortalizing through the ages. As one of the founding members of the Camarilla, they are dedicated to its laws and traditions (although, like all Kindred, they're not above breaking the rules when there's an advantage in it). Almost all Toreador are concerned with the social connections and web-like politics that make up Kindred life; if there's something juicy to know about, they'll know it.

Strongholds

Clan Toreador's traditional power bases are usually in cities with the greatest tradition of arts and culture.

Clan Advantage and Weakness

Advantages

Because of their relations and environment being steeped so strongly in culture and high society, Toreador are exceptionally good at all things social. Even if they are not normally particularly good at the Academics, Crafts, Expression, Performance or Subterfuge skills, they can make credible enough social moves with them so that they seldom embarrass themselves. (Except when it comes to the judgment of other Toreador, of course.) Toreador are also easily loved and impressive to normal mortals, so they effectively have a little more blood at all times as a result of being more easily able to feed whenever necessary.

Disadvantages

Toreador are not just art lovers; they're mesmerized by all things artistically impressive. If they witness any credible piece of art or artistic performance, they are distracted and unable to function properly while they want to focus all their attention on the display before them. If a Toreador is confronted by a truly impressive artistic piece or performance (usually this means it was created by another Toreador, although exceptionally talented mortals and members of other clans can also occasionally achieve true greatness), they enter a trance-like state, oblivious to everything around them except for the beautiful art. They cannot function normally during this time and have no memory of anything but the art once the performance ends or the artwork is removed from their presence.

The Toreador in DC

If you ask any of the Toreador, it was their clan that originally invented Washington DC; it was Toreador visionaries and servants who traveled from France to design the city's layout and silently back the mortals pushing to create it as a new center of civilization in the New World. Unfortunately, the advent of the French Revolution caused so many complications for them that their plan to remake North America into a Toreador paradise was stalled, and by the time they could turn their attention back to DC, other clans (particularly the Ventrue) had already staked claims of their own. After centuries of bitter attempts to regain power in the city, the Toreador are more than a little disgruntled that the Prince is still of another clan - and a Lasombra, at that, as if any further insult needed to be added to their injury.

Toreador Player Characters

Angelique Stravinsky	Chas Voyager	Chason Wells

Circe	Cyro	Cyrus Cassidy	Evelyn Summerfield	Jack Hammer	Jacque Beaumont

Jason Blackthorn	Jean Claude Danut	Lesya Pervuchina	Lily McLeod	Maeve Glaistig	Michelle Blackthorn	Morrigan Wolfe
Octavius Sage	Paige Black	Richard Montague	Rosalina de Leon	Selene Sinclair	Shane O'Reilly	Spencer Nichols
Talia Villanova	Tatsuya Yukimura	Titus Marcius	Vanessa Keasley	Virgil Brooks	William September	Zhora Jones

See Also

Daughters of Cacophony
Nephilim
Toreador Antitribu
Volgirre