The cursed blood of their clan has polutted their minds. Thses vampires are capable of great subtlety, and rarely show anyone a face other than the one they want people to see. When Gehenna comes no one can say for sure where the Malkavians will stand. None can say what exactly makes the lunitics so dangerous. Certainly their madness often frees them from fear of pain or Final Death. They are free from the confines of rationality. They also have an uncanny insight, a strange wisdom that can not be perceived by the sane. Malkavians posses a dark intellect that is often set to frightening purposes
Clan Disciplines:Auspex, Obfuscate, Dementation, (Dominate - prior to 1997)
Clan Weakness: Begins with one derangment from/at Emrabce.
Derangements
Obsessive Compulsive -A compulsion is an action
or set of actions that an individual is driven to preform
to sooth her anxieties. i.e. Placing objects in an exactorder.
Multiple Personalities - Each personality is
created to respond to certain emotional stimuli. In most casese
the personalities aren't aware of eachother. They surface
depending on conditions.
Schizophrenia - It manifests as a withdrawl
from reality, violent behavior changes, and hallucinations.
This classic derangement causes people to talk to walls,
imagine themself to be king, or recieving orders from pets
to murder people.
Paranoia - The victom of paranoia often creates vast and
intricate theories to explain who is tormenting them and why.
Anyone or anything perceived to be "one of them" is often
subjected to violence.
Megalomania - Obsessed with accumulating power and wealth
these individuals are arrogant and supremely sure of their abilities.
Any individual of equal or higher status in perceived to be
"competition."
Bulimia - A bulimic will eat tremendous amounts of food
when subjected to stress, then empties her stomach
through drastic measures so she can eat more. A
bulimic vampire may feed 4 or more times a night.
Hysteria - When stressed or feelin anxiety, the victom
has violent fits and severe mood swings, unable to control
her emotions.
Manic Depression - Kindred with this derangement are constantly
on a hair trigger. They suffer severe mood swings. When ever
they fail a task that have a chance to lapse into depression.
Fugue - Victoms suffer from 'black outs' and memory loss. Under
stress they begin a specific ridgid set of behaviors to remove
the stressfull symptoms.
Sanguinary Animism - A response to a vampires' deep-seated
guilt regarding the act of feeding on the blood of mortals. These
Kindred belive they not only feed on their blood, but on their souls
as well.