BRUJAH VAMPIRE CLAN

The Brujah originated with a vampire of the third generation who lived in the First City created by the original vampire Khayyin. Brujah lived through the flood that destroyed the First City and participated in the building of the Second City. Some blame him for the torment that caused the third generation to turn on the second generation. In the end, Brujah was killed by one of his own progeny, named Troile, who drank his parent's blood. Afterwards he wandered the world, possibly out of fear from the others of the third generation. He finally settled in what today is Tunisia and his progeny built the city state of Carthage. They saw their work as creating what the Second City could have been. Here they lived openly, and the other clans, especially the Ventrue, seeing the tradition of keeping a protective cover between vampires and humans thwarted, united against the Brujah. The Brujah lost and their city was put to flames. Troile has not been seen since.

Whilst the Brujah nominally joined the Camarilla, the coalition of the clans that formed in the fifteenth century in reaction to the Inquisition, they have ever been the Anarchs, with little use for organisation. In the presence of blood they tend to frenzy, when the madness of the beast nature temporarily takes over. Other clans fear them and think of them as berserk.

There are three main factions among the Brujah: the Idealists, the most conservative traditionalists; the Iconoclasts, the most complete Anarchs; and the Individualists, who combine the best of the two other factions. These latter factions have propelled the clan into leadership in some areas and to dominate in those small areas of Greece, Switzerland and Italy which the Brujah control today.

In America, the Brujah helped torment the rebellion against England at the end of the eighteenth century and many travelled to the new country after the Revolutionary War. In the 1940's, one of their number, Jeremy MacNeil, became the catalyst in driving the princes from the cities along the American West Coast and the setting up of the Anarch Free States out of a coalition of the Brujah, the Rabnos, the Nosferatu and the Gangrel. MacNeil is still the leading Anarch in Los Angeles.

Organisationally, the Brujah tend to be faddish, and their meetings largely celebrate their independence. They will gather occasionally for what is termed a rant. The rant provides an opportunity to share information and acknowledge accomplishments and failures. The clan has few rules but does demand that members not violate the Masquerade that keeps their presence hidden from mortal society, and do nothing to endanger the clan. Those accused are tried and judged at a rant. There being little organisation, the Brujah leadership is exercised by power individuals.