Clan Malkavian

Nickname: Kooks
Clan Disciplines: Auspex,     Dominate,      Obfuscate
Weakness: The members of this clan have some sort of Derangement.
Clan Symbol:        

Stereotypes:

Nosferatu: The are the most amusing of all the clans and prehaps the most honest.
Brujah:      They have a vision, but in their fanaticism they are as blind as the rest.
Tremere:   They perceive what we perceive, but hide from it. They still strive to avoid that which is                       inevitable.
Ventrue:    They are the most fun to play games with, for they take it all so very seriously.
Toreador:  Such gleeful hedonists- it is not a life they live, but an everlasting death. But should they ever                       comperhend that, their party would end.
Gangrel:     They are different from the rest, as are we, but they are even more lonely.



To put it simply these vampires are crazy! They feel that the mind and reality are as supple and malleable as clay- and just as much fun to play with. As the sentient creaure shapes its mind, it shapes reality. But too many people mold their minds into a cookie cutter form tht mimics what they see of reality, place that form into the kiln of absolutism, and scorch their minds into rigid, in elastic, brittle terra cotta. The petrified brain in turn affects the external world, calcifying reality into a similar form.

An old Malkavian saying urges, "If you find you are falling into madness- dive. " The blood of Malkavian courses throughout the Malkavian vampire and loosens the restraints placed on the mind by a lifetime of societal conditioning. This results in deep, magical insight and great, magical powers. To accept the new way of seeing, a Malkavian must give up his attachment to his old world image, which many accomplish, and to his own self-image, which many cannot accomplish. For this reason, the most common symbol of the Malkavian is a broken mirror.

Those who do break the mirror of their body-image, world-image and god-image find a whole new world of possibilites. They take charge of their perceptions and seek new ways to shake up their remaining fixed notions. They don't have to, but it helps if they do it routinely, devastate their minds, leaving them to pick up the pieces and to try assembling coherent thoughts.

Malkavian Explanation

"Bust up your reality tunnel! Be in charge of your own mind! Reclaim your glandular system, and reclaim your pineal gland! Program your own bio-computer, and reprogram the Main Frame! Boldly go into yourown enigmas! And do it quick, because the light at the other end of your reality tunnel is heading toward you at a high rateof speed!"