The Tremere of Paris 1900

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The Tremere in Paris are at the Nonisis Chantrey at Meudon, south and west of the city.

Once the second Clan in number and power in Paris, the Clan Tremere made the mistake of overestimating its own power, as well as underestimating the power of the Toreador.

At first, the attempts from the Clan to create a Chantry near Paris were subtles, with great caution. It was decided Meudon would be a great spot, as there was there a Node of Vis that was still an active source. But soon, as the other sources of the known world, this source was disminished. Still, the Chantry of Nonisis (Meudon) remained, too far from Paris to take an active part to Paris' intrigue (and thus, far enough to be overseen by parisian Kindred), and still near enough to gather useful information.

The Chantry of Saint Louis was created by secret Intrigue from Vienna. Having discovered from a parisian Mage, who had been Embraced, that the Order of Hermes were searching for a fabulous Node somewhere in Paris, the Clan sent Klawer, a 6th Generation Tremere, to Paris with the mission to find the source, and to build a chantry there. Due to his high Auspex, outranging the detecting powers of the mortal Mages, he swiftly found that the source was... In the Seine!

Next the Ile de la Cité, tiny islands were the only possible construction spot near the source. So Klawer, always impressed by the great roman works, imagined the creation of an island over the tiny islands, and on the spot where the Node's emanations were discovered, the construction of a powerful Chantry. The Node, as well as the occult past of Paris, would make the parisian Chantry one of the most important in the world, if not the most important behind Vienna itself!

His intrigue, involving the architect Marie, as well as a subtle Domination of Richelieu, minister of King Louis the 13th, used the problems with the italian and the french rebellious Princes to divert attentions from the creation of the Ile Saint Louis. By 1645, the island was completed, and the Chantry's construction was finished. Then Vienna sent Tremere Kindred to Paris asking Beatrix the right to install themselves in Paris. At first, she suspected nothing, as the Tremere were not the only ones to install themselves in Paris. Then, information from Villon and Ivan unhearted the secret: A magical fortress of the Tremere had been constructed in the middle of Paris, just under their nose!

Beatrix' reaction was to intrigue to weaken the resources of the Tremere of Paris, be it money, influence, herd, retainers. Vienna disliked this and, as no compromise was found, war erupted between France and Austria. France lost, and by such, the Tremere Chantry of Paris was accorded the right to exist as such, without fear of future attack from the Toreador in 1686.

Klawer, now official Regent of the powerful Chantry of Saint Louis, and Lord of the Chantries of the Ile de France (region around Paris, that was the first french territory, in the early Capetian era), dug an undergound complex and discovered the center of the Node was... nothing but empty air! He called Vienna for help. Lady Laureen, a former Mage embraced in england was chosen to second him in his research, because of her enormous theorical thaumaturgical knowledge. Becoming the Regent of the Chantry of Nonisis, making her the second Tremere of Paris, she started to work at once.

Another war, in 1748, started for different purposes, was another try to win against the Tremere, and so resume the aggression against the Chantry. But in 1756, a surprising change in the alliances in the view point of mortals, can be easily explained by the freezing relations with Mithras, the Prince of London. In the same time, the Tremere and the Toreador agree to make peace: Elle and Villon went to Vienna and signed a treaty of coorperation: The Tremere will keep a low profile in Paris, never challenging of endangering the Toreador domination of France. The Tremere wins by such the right to continue the study of the Node by being given the Saint Louis island. This new cooperation will permit the Tremere Clan to grow in numbers and in power and to become the second most powerful Clan of Paris, helping by their knowledge, the Prince of Paris over occult phenomena.

The 1789 Revolution will weaken the Tremere as much as any other Clan: Klawer will be guillotined by night. Gustacio, his ambitious second in command will take the power, and will keep it at the return of Laureen. She finally discovers the reasons behind the apparent source of Vis but keeps them to herself, continuing her research. Silian, a Tremere Magus and Pontifex of France, went to Paris to inspect the Chantries. He suspected something was amiss, but the appearance of the Veilleurs, with a strange and alien thaumaturgy visibly inspired by ancient egyptian magic diverted him from the study of Laureen's work. Still, he wondered why she didn't spent all her time in Saint Louis' Chantry.

Prussia attacks Austria in 1866, and France in 1870, thus weakening the Tremere and the Toreador. If the Tremere Chantry of Saint Louis was untouched by the 1871 Commune, the Order of Hermes attacks against it will endanger the very existance of the Clan in Paris. Gustacio, in his rightful (and stupid) wrath, will counterattack. In 1894 the war will grow in scale, and few days after, the Mage Traditions, led by the outraged Hermetic Mages, are at war against the Camarilla Kindred, helping their fellow Tremere. Soon after, the Inquisition knows about it. It is a major crisis in Paris, as Justicars threaten to come to the city to investigate.

Villon's forces are gathered: The Masques will protect parisian Kindred and the Masquerade, while the Veilleurs will investigate the sources of this war and try to start a non-agression pact with the second most powerful Mage Tradition in Paris, the Sons of Ether. The pact is signed, as the veilleurs discover Technocracy's intrigues to weaken both the living and unliving mages. This will be the end of the greatness of the parisian Tremere and parisian Hermetic Mages: Until 1918, the Chantry of Saint Louis will be abandoned by all Tremere Kindred (The Chantry of Nonisis is not part of this decision, as it wasn't involved in the Wars of Traditions).



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