Tzimisce (Background)

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Background
The Ordo Dracul is responsible for a great many things. Coils were their crowning achievement and propelled them leagues above their peers, eventually becoming a fully fledged Covenant. It was their mastery over the vampiric condition that gave them their status and power. But where power and success go, hubris quickly follows. This hubris would come to fruition when a secret group with the Ordo Dracul would attempt something no kindred had ever before.

A small order within the Draconists wished the ultimate control over vampires - the artificial creation of a new vampire. This order, calling themselves the Dragons, locked themselves away in their shadowy keeps along with the ancient grimoire Tremier deep within the Carpathian mountains. They would sever all contact with the outside world and with that of their Covenant. Years went by - then decades. Many assumed they had perished or simply fallen into torpor.

Questions began to rise over the fate of the Dragons, and in the 9th century these questions would be answered. The Tzimisce flooded forth from their castles of flesh and bone and began to lay waste to the Hungarian countryside. Not content to merely rule over Hungary and Wallachia, the Tzimisce hordes then set their sides on Europe. Fleshcrafted abominations marched alongside their horrific masters. They attacked any and all who dared not submit; mortal, kindred, mage - it did not matter. It wasn't until the combined efforts of the Camarilla, Anarchs, Free Council, and various Forsaken tribes that the Tzimisce onslaught was defeated. Their malformed edifices of bone and endocrine were burnt to the ground, and the Dragons were pushed to the brink.

Upon arrival at the Tzimisce's capital within the Carpathian Mountains the anti-Tzimisce forces found it lightly defended. However deep inside the bowels of the castle they found The Elder; a mass of writhing flesh that was once the six Dragons. Within this fleshy chamber they encountered Tzicath, the acamoth responsible for the Tzimisce's ability to shape flesh and bone. A battle ensued and ultimately both Tzicath and The Elder were imprisoned.