>From what I now understand, the PC magus and his parens would >effectively hand their sigils to the Roman exarch instead of the >senior magus of their line away in the Alps. They hand their sigil to the senior magus in the Alps, who then lends them to the Exarch of Rome. To get them back, they need to defeat the senior magus, not the Exarch. > Which reminds me, didn't I read that there are now (1220) no > Tremere left in the Alps? In 4th edition, this was true, yes. > We're playing about twenty years before then and there are a couple > still clinging to their Alpine status. Frankly, here we strike a bit of a difference in the editions. In ArM4, there was no sane response to the Tremere other than to watch them eternally, because they were the sort of world-dominating fascists who would tell you to your face that life would be better once they ruled the world. So, when I wrote the Alps book, I wrote the Alps (and Novgorod) as resisting Transylvanian expansionism. When I wrote the Tremere for HoH:TL, I wanted to step past the idea that Tremere are always megalomanical villans. The new house believes it is doing the right thing, and their morality lies close to medieval morality (and even closer to Classical Spartan thought). This makes the Alpine resistance to the Tremere less obviously the logical response, and more of a cultural thing. I know some people think I screwed around with them unnecessarily, but this was a great opportunity ot reimagine the House. I like how the Tremere have turned out. There are little things I've learned about Transyvania in period that, if I knew them back then, I'd have included, but I really do enjoy the added cultural bits, like the wolf banners and spidersilk cloaks. The balancing of creepy, "Transylvanian" elements with period beliefs and a desire not to be gothic was also a lot of fun. So, vampires, but not what you expect. Werewolves, but not how you expect. It was a lot of fun to think through.
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