Toreador (World of Darkness)

The Toreador typically have an obsession with anything artistic, exquisite or (superficially) beautiful. As expectable, the Toreador find the Nosferatu to be especially revolting, and vice versa. Their attraction to beauty is so strong that they have to force themselves not to stop at the sight of an aesthetically appealing work.

It is said that the Toreador are the closest of the Kindred to human sensibilities.

Their Antediluvian founder was believed to be an artist in the first city (Enoch) named Arikel, or possibly Ishtar. At Caine's request she created a beautiful mural which showed the vampires' eternal struggle with the beast and unveiled it before him and one of his childer. In his fury at the depiction, Caine and his childe never saw the final panel which showed how she believed that vampires could live at peace with their beast. Caine destroyed the mural and ordered his childe to drain Arikel dry. As he looked down at the dying artist he cursed her to forever be distracted by beauty and ordered his childe to embrace her. His power was such that his curse lingers in the blood of all Toreador.

The Daeva can be seen as their successor in Vampire: The Requiem, and indeed they live on as a bloodline of that clan.

Disciplines:

• Auspex - Enhanced Senses
  
• Celerity - Superhuman Speed
  
• Presence - Superhuman Charisma
  

Toreador of Note

• Victoria Ash, Prominent member of the Church of the Guardian
• Dennis, Elder protector of Wilmington
• Laecanus, Prince of Las Vegas
• Mordwyr, former Prince of Paris and Toreador primogen of New Orleans
• Isabelle la Fey, consort to Mordwyr
• Michael of Constantinople
• Chretien of the Blazing Noon, sire of Mordwyr, grandchilde of Michael of Constantinople
• Marcus Tertius, the Roman centurion of remarkable faith featured in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke
• Giulietta D'avena, consort to Marcus Tertius
• Edward Monroe, of St. Petersburg
• François Villon, Prince of Paris

References

• Vampire: The Masquerade (3rd Edition) by White Wolf (1998).
• Vampire: The Dark Ages (2nd Edition) by White Wolf (2002).

Links

• Vampire NPC gallery NPC (non-player character) gallery with examples of Toreador characters