Some Fluff I Wrote About a Possible Toreador Bloodline

######The Curious Case of Oxford Toreadors

######by Lord Timothy Becket.

######True Bloods and Antitribu

Since shortly after the dawn of the Sabbat there have been two major bloodline for each of our Camarilla clans. The clan proper, within the Camarilla, and the Antitribu, the sick perversion of the clan which resides with the Lasombra and Tzimisce. Now naturally both halves of the clans tend to show clear hostility, for example, while the core Nosferatu lament about the tragic short straw they've drawn in unlife, the antitribu believe that their deformity was a gift from Caine, showing them the true nature of the beast within. The competition between the Lasombra and their Masquerade keeping cousins is also a heated battle which I may muse on another time. However, there is one clan which has, for centuries, broken the mould by holding little to no hostilities between the true clan and their Sabbat cousins; Clan Toreador.

######Oxford

Now no group better exemplifies the unity of the bloodlines than the Oxford Toreadors. Established at the height of the renaissance, the Oxford Toreadors where originally a group of Toreadors made up of those kindred of the blood of Arikel living in Oxford who wished to reunite the fractured clan for good. In order to do this, they devised a way to create a new bloodline, one which encompassed the critical eye of a True Toreador and the Exotic passions of an Antitribu. To do this, they indulged in a “cooperative embrace”, more crudely known as the “Oxford Circle-Jerk” to their detractors.

######The Circle-jerk

The cooperative embrace was a ritual which involved between 3 and 9 kindred of the same generation. As an exercise, Oxford Toreadors would be paired up by generation, with one Artist to every Pervert. Before the embrace, a prestigious Toreador would be picked to mentor the neonate and act as his “sire”. A young man would be selected among the Oxford elite for his artistic prowess and taken from his quarters in the middle of the night. The process would begin by heavily inebriating the young man with opium and wine, before stripping him completely naked and having him perform... unusual.... sexual acts. When the would be sire was satisfied with that the preperations where ready, he would give the boy the kiss until he was completely dry while the set of pairs would simultaneously spill blood into a cup. Once the boy was completley dry and the cup was filled, the antitribu would each light a candle. The candles purified the blood of any blood born diseases. If the embrace was successful, an Oxford Toreador was born.

######The Result

An Oxford would now experience the life of both an antitribu and a true blood, becoming a deviant fetishist with an eye for beauty. They would leave the brood as their time at the college would expire, going on to work for whichever faction they wished. In later years it became customary for the adoptive sire to take his charge on a tour, to meet other successful Oxfords, once the neonate had graduated.

######Among us

And so, the Oxfords spread among various Anarch, Sabbat and Camarilla communities, adopting the masquerade of the relevant bloodline. If any Toreador you know was embraced in Oxford or attended Oxford University, if your Harpy has an unusual predisposition to public humiliation. or the pervert applying your tattoo has a particular fascination with Rennaissance art, you may be rubbing shoulders with an Oxford Toreador.