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Vozhd are rarely used in this age of media and Mas- tates unless they are truly desperate. This is not out of
querade. When they are deployed, they are treated as fear — Bratovitches look up to Sabbat Cainites as “big,
walking bombs: Sabbat point them at their targets, nasty uncles†of a sort — but rather out of disgust.
then run for cover. Vozhd are omnivorous, eating any-
thing in their path. Other ghouls are as tasty as mortals Cross a stereotypical back-country hill clan with a
or vampires. Tzimisce, and season with a liberal amount of pure Ne-
anderthal hunt-kill-mate mentality, and you’ll have a
Physical: Strength 8, Dexterity 2, Stamina 6 good representation of a Bratovitch. The family pri-
marily lairs in the North American wilderness, though
Social: All Attributes 0 a handful of outposts can be found in South America,
and the family’s ancestral estate in Poland is still a re-
Mental: Perception 1, Intelligence 1, Wits 2 spectably sized holding.
Virtues: n/a Disciplines: Animalism, Fortitude, Vicissitude
Humanity: n/a Weakness: Bratovitches are easily angered — some
would say psychotic. They make all rolls to resist frenzy
Disciplines: Fortitude 4, Potence 6 at +2 difficulty, and do not get along well with normal
mortals.
Revenant Families
Ducheski
For untold centuries, the Tzimisce have practiced
the art of selective breeding on their most trusted (or What little the Ducheski allow others to know about
at least most useful) servants. In the early Middle Ages, them indicates a history of treachery. Like most of the
certain elders of the Clan undertook a long-term ex- revenant bloodlines, the Ducheski claim to have once
periment studying the effects of regular vitae infusion served the hoary Tzimisce of the Old World. Since
into the blood of several Eastern European noble fami- those nights, however, something caused them to turn
lies. The eventual result, a handful of generations later, their backs on their erstwhile masters and throw their
was the creation of their revenant families. fates in with the Tremere. Needless to say, this has not
earned them any favor with the Fiends.
A millennium ago, over a dozen distinct revenant
lines served the Tzimisce. However, several were ex- Ducheski revenants are rare, indeed, and some say
terminated during the Inquisition and the Anarch Re- the line is dying out after severing its connections with
volt, and others were absorbed into surviving families the Tzimisce who bred them so long ago. Rumors at-
through intermarriage. It is rumored that others have tribute a few crumbling manses to the family’s holdings,
broken away from the Tzimisce and now serve other mostly spread through Europe. It is here that they serve
masters, a distinctly dangerous proposition. The rev- their new masters, the Tremere. Although a few Duch-
enant families that have survived to the modern nights eski sometimes receive the Embrace into the Clan, the
are universally wretched and disturbing specimens by Tremere generally prefer to keep them in roles of subser-
any “normal†standard. Incest, pedophilia, cannibal- vience. A few prominent Warlocks maintain Ducheski
ism, bestiality, substance abuse, and fringe-movement ghouls in their libraries, sanctums, and thaumaturgical
political activism are among the more tame hobbies laboratories, but by and large the family remains a well-
practiced by the revenant families. Such behavior ren- guarded secret even among the ranks of the Tremere.
ders them all the more amusing to their masters, who
watch these depraved antics with a twisted glee. The true genius of the Ducheski manifests in their
talent with machines and contraptions. They are mas-
Bratovitch ters of mechanical devices, sometimes devising works of
Da Vinci-like brilliance, though the purposes to which
The Bratovitches mainly keep to their isolated rural these machines are turned are almost always grim. To
estates, breeding hellhounds and other unsavory beasts. those elders who know of them, a Ducheski torture de-
They emerge only to hunt Lupines and other creatures vice or system of alembics is a sign of status, much like
of the night, to kidnap brides and studs, or to serve owning a piece of original artwork. To the Ducheski, it
as trackers for nomadic Sabbat packs. Members of this is the price for which they have sold their souls to escape
family are, as a general rule, more subhuman than most the talons of the Tzimisce, a burden they silently bear.
other revenants, and they delight in their perversity
and savagery. Most Sabbat tend to avoid Bratovitch es- Disciplines: Auspex, Dominate, Thaumaturgy
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