Editing Vampire: The Masquerade (section)

===[[Gargoyles]]===
*'''Antediluvian - None''' (Humans), '''Various''', mainly '''Absimiliard''', '''Ennoia''' and '''Tzimisce''' (Kindred)
*'''Signature Discipline - Visceratika''' (Stone Powers, cumulating in being able to tank the sun all day long when not moving)
*'''Sect - Mostly Camarilla, some rebels are Independent'''
*'''Clan Weakness:''' Looking like gargoyles makes them walking Masquerade breaches, are also susceptible to mind control.
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Once again back in the good olde days just after Tremere (the guy, not the Clan) had Diablerized Saulot and were making up plans to play "Surprise Genocide" with his Clan; the Tzimisce got the Gangrel and Nosferatu on board with declaring war against the Usurpers who had stolen immortality by Diablerizing one of the most important characters in Vampire History as well as kidnapping a Tzimisce Elder from his haven to experiment upon. 

Naturally, the Tremere was one small Bloodline at this point against three now very angry major Clans. And just after getting the Mages equally pissed who disowned the warlocks; so they had to play their cards VERY carefully and VERY cleverly, there was no room for fucking up a second time. Being squiggly little pansies who saw more value in being able to count in the Dark Ages than they saw to being able to put up a good fight, they started kidnapping innocent civilians and buying slaves(We are looking at you, Vienna Ventrue), and random Kindred (a VERY bad move considering Clan loyalty trumped factions back then) and use their fancy Blood Magic into turning them into Gargoyles to do all that frontal fighting nonsense for them as loyal and mindless servants of the Usurpers. 

The good news is, this worked; the Tremere survived until they helped the Ventrue form the Camarilla and thus got an entire sect backing them so they could work in peace to the powerful Clan they are today. The bad news is that the Gargoyles weren't quite as mindless as the Tremere originally intended and some of them started to violently break out of the Chantries and form rebel groups focused on freeing their brothers and sisters from Tremere bondage or just leave off somewhere isolated to live out eternity without a collar around their necks; either way the Tremere aren't happy about that and that's enough for most. 

Unlike most, the Gargoyles aren't usually considered much of a Bloodline by most because most don't realize they are, in fact, Vampires; understandable enough given that they are walking blocks of stone. They cannot interact with mortals on much of any level whatsoever and are walking Masquerade breaches should they show off that they are more than just a statue.

Tremere made an apologetic pact with the clans they used for gargoyles in modern ages: no new gargoyles are to be made, and those that were slaves are given a choice to leave: most left, some stayed because maybe living standards were a-OK. Still, who knows what's out there (You get to see one in Bloodlines)...