Tzimisce

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Tzimisce

Example of a Tzimisce performing shapeshift into it's Zulo form

Tzimisce is a Clan of vampires known for their fleshcraft powers which are the original natives of the Carpathian mountains; honorable warriors that inspired the Gangrel to join with them against the Tremere are little if at all evidenced in Redemption's version of events. That is not to say that the officious, bombastic, cruel Tzimisce which can be seen in the Council Proclamation scrolls and the Orsi International factory of flesh are not an accurate reflection of them, though. Tzimice's brutal practices brand them as "Fiends", and are a major reason for average vampire on the street to hate and fear the Sabbat which is largerly supported and ruled by Tzimisces and cleave to the Camarilla as a lesser of two evils.

Tzimisce average enemies in Vampire:The Masquerade - Redemption have Animalism, Potence, and Hands of Destruction as Disciplines and none of them in single or multiplayer use weapons having all 15 Aggravated hand damage. They can be given weapons; most melee enemies can use all weapon types proficiently, but even if Tzimice can, it runs very counter to their ethos and their model which has a tentacle-gristle spike appendage and probably does not fit their animation either.

Elders can make Szlachta appear to serve them with Beckoning.

There are no friendly Tzimisce vampires in the storyline unless counting the Named Ghouls

Tzimice Fiends

Vicissitude

Vicissitude is the signature Discipline for which Tzimisce are most known and most feared and consists in fleshcrafting. The slaves of the Tzimice that were such a large part of the storyline of Redemption were mostly bound for their experimentation in this art, but they also Fleshcraft themselves.

Vicissitude fleshcraft is mentioned in the storyline but not implemented as a usable Discipline.

The germ of the idea for Fleshcrafting could well have originated with HR Giger, whose Alien designs are a little better known than his organic, bone and sinew architecture designs for the same film. Doom's 1993 Hell levels are a direct precursor, with flesh walls that were unequivocally pulsing with life. TSR was the first to put assemblages of living beings in a roleplaying game, with the Pillar of Skulls' appearance in the Manual of the Planes first edition dating from 1987, and in a computer game, in 1999, put the Pillar of Skulls in Planescape: Torment.

Fleshcrafting is compelling in part because it pushes boundaries in different directions; body horror and torture, to be sure, but also body modification; Tzimice sculpt themselves as well.

Hands of Destruction

Hands of Destruction tomes and the use of the abilities both require low Humanity.

Hands of Destruction tome is found in Vysehrad Castle on the second level, the second room on the left. Atrophy debuffs Attack and Defense, by means of lowering Strength and Dexterity.

Vukodlak

Main article: Vysehrad Castle

Main article: Cathedral of Flesh

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Bad or Neutral Ending cutscene

Fleshcrafting himself into a Zulo

Anezka at Vysehrad

Vukodlak's Casket at Vysehrad Castle

Casket detail

Zulo

Revenant

Tzimisce are among the oldest living vampire communities and have always had close ties with the human communities from which their ghouls come. They were first to create Revenants. Ghouls that remain of child bearing age, living on vampire blood for long enough, become able to pass on the characteristics they received from their vampire patrons, to their human progeny. These Revenants even become capable of synthesizing the vampire blood in their own bodies, becoming self sufficient and almost immortal, although they do still age slowly.

Reventants use Common Disciplines

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Named Ghoul

Anezka

Main article: Anezka

"Anezka may be prisoner of the Tzimice. We must fly to Vysehrad Castle"

Anezka, in a pattern that is repeated in the Cathedral of Flesh, relies entirely on Christof's faith in her, and makes every effort to convince her captors of her subservience to them.

Libussa

• Libussa can be met on the Prague streets.
• Libussa Report #1 through #4. In #4, Anezka is referred to as usurping Libussa's influence with Vukodlak, and a troublesome interloper whose "defilement is not even complete"
• Libussa is possessed by Vukodlak and he speaks through her to Christof before the fall of Vysehrad
• Libussa can be met on the upper level of the Cathedral of Flesh and she gives Vukodlak's warning
• Libussa is met a final time on the lower levels of the Cathedral, and briefly helps the party before she is once again plunged into the madness of the Antediluvian Fiend.

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Libussa literally dances like a puppet

Under Vukodlak's control

Szlachta

Bonn Silver Mines, Vysehrad Castle, Orsi International

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Factory: Two Szlachta, each casting Potence

War Ghoul

Although the Vozhd and Cathedral are more pronounced examples of the fusion of multiple creatures into one tortured flesh being, War Ghouls too can on close examination be seen to be composed of multiple faces and body parts.

War Ghouls use Common Disciplines, and Potence

Bonn Silver Mines, Vysehrad Castle, Orsi International

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First encounter with a War Ghoul, in the Bonn Silver Mines: Alerted to intruders

Bonn Silver Mines; dead

Factory: Casting animation for Potence is particularly wide radius

Bonn Silver Mines attack sequence:

Factory: Close look at Vicissitude's victims' faces

The savage uppercut that can send its enemies flying up into the air-Factory

Vozhd

Vozhd at the Cathedral of Flesh

The Vozhd boss has a one-hit-kill attack of picking you up and snacking on your head, and for once, the concept of Hit Points makes sense: the Vozhd is so big all you could do to kill it would be smash away at it like tearing down a house.

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Vozhd

Christof gains Animalism after the Vozhd is sufficiently punctured. The Hellhound Brujah's can summon will be available for other such enemies, where each blow is a deathblow. With Erik gone, and Christof's Animalism inconveniently waiting until after the Vozhd, Serena is the only hope for more expendable members of the team to receive the killing blows. No, not Serena, why would you think that. Her Summon Soul is expensive, but it might even last two or more hits.

The Vozhd can use Blood Healing

Bonn Silver Mines

Name	Health	Blood	XP	Type	ID	Damage	Bash	Lethal	Aggrav	Notes
Ghoul Rat	20	80	10	Ghoul, animal
Ghoul Rat (big)	30	80	20	Ghoul, animal
Szlachta	80	45	20	Tzi ghoul
Szlachta (advanced)				Tzi ghoul
Szlachta (boss)	90	45	40	Tzi ghoul
War Ghoul	120	60	60	Tzi ghoul						Formidable enemy in Silver Mines; later versions are relatively tame, despite being enhanced
Ahzra	150	100	200	Tzimisce boss	5 Aggr					Always drops Exquisite Dagger

Vysehrad Castle

Main article: Vysehrad Castle

Either the developers or the White Wolf wikia spelled Vysehrad wrong.

The coterie returns from Vienna to find Prague alight with and ablaze from the torches of enraged citizens taking up arms against the Tzimice in the nearby castle. "We have won!" exhults Ecaterina the Wise.

Josef Zvi champion of the poor in the Jewish Quarter, is the one who rallies forces to the death of Rudolf Brandl and, with his allies, assumes control of Prague.[1] Cosmas dies in the Riots, as Wilhem later tells Christof.

There are special, tougher enemies here, as well as the Vozhd boss. It is the first time that Tzimice are encountered, and the first glimpse of their Wolf companions.

Council of Voivodes

Council Proclamation #1 through #4, introducing the charm of the simultaneously bombastic and officious Council of Voivodes proclaiming their way out of the Vukodlak problem. They are like Vogons crossed with Protoss

See Society of Leopold#Data Printout for a more concise and informative view of this subject, of which the Council's arbitration is only part.

Creatures

Name	Health	Blood	XP	Type	ID	Damage	Bash	Lethal	Aggrav	Notes
Tzimisce	120	100	70	Tzimisce
Vozhd	500	80	550	Tzimisce ghoul boss
War Ghoul (Vysherad)				Tzi ghoul
Wolf	120	80	20	Animal

New York City

Orsi International

Creatures

Name	Health	Blood	XP	Type	ID	Damage	Bash	Lethal	Aggrav	Notes
Ventrue	150	130	100	Ventrue
War Ghoul (advanced)				Tzi ghoul						The whole of the Factory is designed for the tail end of the single player game to be a challenge for Methuselahs, but this enemy in particular is ill suited for beginning characters that attempt the Leaves of Three scenario

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Factory: Tzimice Elders mostly cast spells, notably Drawing Out the Beast

Factory: Staggered by a blow

Factory: Blue light of Potence fading

Factory: Characteristic walk with elbows held high, perhaps an in joke by the developers about the crest on their head and neck looking like a cockerel

Fire Storm on an Elder in the Factory

Cathedral of Flesh

Creatures

Main article: Cathedral of Flesh

Name	Health	Blood	XP	Type	ID	Damage	Bash	Lethal	Aggrav	Notes
Hellhound
Vukodlak	2000	200	1000	Tzimisce boss
Zulo	3000	200	2000	Tzimisce boss

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Hell Hound, black type, in the Cathedral of Flesh