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| Every family has its secrets. The True Brujah have borne one such secret for centuries. Sagacious and erudite, the Elois are the scholars the Brujah often aspire to be, ensconced in their studies as firmly as iron rods set in stone. Sage philosophers that they are, the True Brujah bear a legacy of bitterness as well. It is the claim of the Elois that the founder of their blood was slain by its childe ages ago, and that those who claim the name Brujah are no more than the bastard childer of that ancient diablerist. Carthage, they say, the city so lauded and lamented by their cousins was, in fact, the pinnacle of their achievements, where they strode godlike over the night. As timeless as the Kindred themselves, the Elois's resentment for their fractious kin festers into these nights. For all their claims of once-shared blood, the True Brujah hold none of their cousins' passion. Cold and imperturbable, the Elois pursue ancient lore and discourse with serpentlike detachment. Indeed their Blood does seem to deaden the spirit as it preserves the flesh, immutable as stone. And for all their vaunted mastery of Temporis, time itself bears hard upon them, each descending into anachronism as the present climbs swiftly from the past, unable to muster warmth enough to thaw their glacial ways. Events of recent nights have struck hard again at the Elois. As with the Nagaraja, the True Brujah found shelter and collaboration in the Black Hand cult. Since the destruction of that order and some of the eldest of their blood along with it, the Elois have sought allies where they may, particularly with their African neighbors, the Followers of Set. Though they do not share philosophies, there is some common ground between them. Each seeks hidden knowledge though to different ends, and in these nights, when safe haven is a scarce commodity, that much is more than enough. |
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| Roleplaying Hints: Passion is the haven of the ignorant, emotion the crutch of mediocrity. You are of the true blood and lifted far above such things. All things are yours to observe and understand. Calm is the tool of the learned. Be calm. Disdain the ignorant and the unrestrained. Be patient and wise. When time at last runs out, you alone will remain to watch a universe die. Most True Brujah adhere to Humanity, though elders sometimes espouse the ideals of Paths of Enlightenment unique to them alone. There are even the infrequent followers of the Path ofTyphon among those True Brujah who have dealings with the Setites. |
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Advantage: The True Brujah are academics without peer. They typically devote their long unlives to obscure and esoteric pursuits, gathering vast pools of knowledge over uncountable subjects. As a result, each True Brujah receives one Academics Ability at no cost and may choose an additional Ability in any one Lore for no cost as well. While solitary by nature, the Elois do value discourse and intellectual debate very highly. To this end, the clan meets twice each century to discuss current developments and argue the finer points of philosophy. Some small cells continue this contact between the larger meetings and occasionally assist their brethren in scholastic pursuits.
Disadvantage: Even as it lends vigor to their long-dead flesh, so does the blood of the Elois smother their emotions. This decaying passion draws them further and further from the living world, washing away over centuries of study all semblance of human warmth. In the end, though they might debate the concepts of morality in great depth, they can no longer feel what is right and what is wrong. Those that can take up the Paths of vampiric morality. Those that cannot are consumed, the vast knowledge they've amassed forever lost to the ravages of the Beast. As nights go on it grows ever more difficult for the True Brujah to maintain their connection to their Humanity. Elois wishing to increase their Morality or Virtue traits must pay double the standard experience point costs. On all Conscience and Conviction challenges, True Brujah must bid two extra Traits or automatically lose the bid.
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