Children of Tséntach

The Children of Tséntach is a relatively small, yet still (in)famous and highly influential vampire clan in Keldorn that almost every vampire has heard of before. Creepy children full of sadistic impulses and magical powers that empower them to act on said impulses, crazy wizard-scientists who seclude themselves in their observatories, seers who claim to have visions in the future yet speak only in riddles, in many ways, the Children of Tséntach are an antithesis to the Mystic, in spite of both clans being magic-oriented.

Sentiment
The Children of Tséntach constantly sit on a fragile balance between lunacy and brilliance. The Curse of Tséntach robs them of much of their emotions, but also empowers them to simultaneously use logic, as well as give in to their amoral impulses and act on their own interests. While other vampire clans will cling to some of their mortal morality, the Children of Tséntach shed such nonsense in favor of either logic and rationalism, or Social Darwinism and their own sadistic impulses. In spite of being a clan that prides themselves on using logic over emotion, they frequently develop an echo-chamber mentality, where their babbling sounds like nothing but riddles to everyone else.

Curse of Tséntach
The Children of Tséntach are a special kind of vampiric clan: when other vampires are well-satiated with blood, they will be able to warm their bodies up what one might expect from a human being's body, they will be able to appreciate the taste of good food and beverages, they will be able to age up to biological mature if turned before maturity, and they will even be able to reproduce sexually, like mortals - not so much with the Children of Tséntach, who upon being recruited into Tséntach's bloodline receive the Curse of Tséntach: they will remain children if turned before maturity, they shall lose all appetite for mortal food and beverages completely, their ability to reproduce, even all of their appetite for romance and sexuality.

All members of the clan are asexual, losing all of their libido upon turning. Not only are they sexually incapable, but romantically as well - the Curse of Tséntach significantly lowers their emotional intelligence, while raising their intelligence in every other field. Good at science and magic, bad at emotions. Many believe that the Curse of Tséntach is connected to the Aurora syndrome, as the founder of the clan himself had that condition as a mortal.

Magical Overload
The Children of Tséntach are a magical-oriented clan. Similar to the Mysticism of the Mystic, the Children of Tséntach have a passive power that empowers their magical abilities, increasing the power of their spells as well the amount of spells they can cast before they have to rest.

Sanguimancy
Blood Magic - or Hemomancy - is far from unique to the Chiildren of Tséntach, or even Vampires as a whole. Lots of darker-oriented magicians practice it. However, the Children of Tséntach have an innate ability that allows them to sacrifice their own blood for magical purposes, be it as mundane as converting blood to mana in order to cast other spells, or casting unique spells that would otherwise require someone else's blood in conventional Hemomancy.

Notable members

 * Tséntach