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'''Introduction:''' The Zantosas don’t really seem to have a reason for
continued existence. In fact, if the average Sabbat
vampire was asked her opinion of them (assuming she
had even heard of revenant families), she would likely
reply with a blank look. The Zantosa family appears
to have outlived its usefulness, and exists primarily to
continue its members’ decadent, self-indulgent life-styles, and to provide entertainment for the Toreador
''antitribu'', Serpents of the Light, and Tzimisce.

Once the cream of Eastern Europe’s social elite,
the Zantosas have curdled and withdrawn, forsaking
long-term socio-political manipulation for short-term
gratification. The primary family pursuits these nights
include petty crime, vice, black marketeering, and
pushing the boundaries of sensation. Indeed, the only
apparent reason the Zantosas haven’t been wiped out
by a Black Hand-led pogrom already is that the end results wouldn’t be worth the effort expended to cleanse
their penthouses, nightclubs, and movie studios.

Recently, an internal purge rocked the Zantosa family
estate in New York. No less than two dozen family members, most with previously impeccable reputations (as
Zantosa reputations go), were put to death in sudden and
grisly fashion by household elders. Sabbat inquiries were
notably cursory (“let them kill themselves off” seems to
have been the general attitude), and were met with responses that the destroyed parties had been caught
dabbling in dark sorcery — a response that, curiously enough,
did not warrant an Inquisition investigation.

The truth, known only to the Zantosa family’s upper-most echelon, is far more ominous. For the past several
centuries, the Zantosa family has guarded a torporous
form believed to be a Tzimisce vampire of great age. A
year or so ago, the crypt in which the body in question
lay was found empty with no prior warning and no evidence. No explanation has yet been forthcoming.

'''Disciplines:''' [[Auspex]], [[Presence]], [[Vicissitude]]

'''Weakness:''' Zantosas are rather weak-willed when it
comes to resisting temptation. Accordingly, whenever
a Zantosa is exposed to a particularly pleasurable experience, she must make a Willpower roll (difficulty
determined by the Storyteller, depending on the experience in question). Failure indicates that the Zantosa
is now obsessed with or addicted to that particular sensation (which can be anything from doing a new drug,
to performing a particular sexual position, to enjoying
a sumptuous wine, to the act of being fed upon), and
will do damn near anything to experience it again.

Zantosas are also unable to spend Willpower to resist
any supernatural power that entices them toward a new
source of pleasure, and many have met untimely ends
at the hands of Cainites, fae, and stranger creatures.

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