Paradox Interactive brings back the Clan of the Rose, Clan Toreador, "creators of art and beauty." Toreador's is one of the oldest and most influential of the vampire families. This clan is one of the largest clans in the city, with beauty-obsessed Seattleites artists, architects, poets, and songwriters among their Kindred. The clan has been in Seattle since the early days, and its members can be found in art exhibits, nightclubs, and between the people with social, political or cultural power.
If you decide to become part of the Clan Toreador in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, Presence and Celerity Disciplines are your forte. One will "turn a crowd into an audience," and use distraction into garner attention, or you can turn "aggression into adoration." The Celerity discipline will allow you to "push your bodies to incredible speeds." Presence gives you a couple of very interesting skills that can be used without fear of breaking the Masquerade, something that can be very valuable. First of those is Awe, that will let you strike a pose and freeze all before you in adoring wonder, keeping them oblivious of anything else but you for a short while. Your other skill will be Entrance, that will form a group of admirers around you. They will follow you potentially distracting anyone close. The Clan Toreador shares the Celerity discipline with the Brujah. Although they are not as strong as the Brujah they still can pose a huge threat due to their uncanny speed. They can use Unseen Storm and Accelerate to move at incredible speed in combat, so fast that it will look that time has stopped around them. But they will have to be careful because the use of supernatural speed before mortals is seen as a Masquerade Violation and it would get them in trouble.
There are only a couple of vampire clans more to be revealed, but we can already get a pretty accurate picture of how they mingle with human society without being detected. It´s yet to be seen how important your role and your story will be in the rather complicated relations between the different vampire clans, as each of them has very particular interests and objectives, making it all even more interesting. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will appear sometime next year for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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