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| Clan Novel: Tzimisce | 
 enlarge | Author: Eric Griffin
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 488034
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 273
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Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 1565048024
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
UPC: 099379111011
EAN: 9781565048027
ASIN: 1565048024
Publication Date: April 1, 1999
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Product Description
For hundreds of years Camarilla vampires have preserved the Masquerade -- an intricate dance of deception, misdirection and manipulation that conceals their nocturnal predations from mortal eyes. Now the Sabbat are about to crash their party. The Clan Novel series takes a sinister turn as the dread Tzimisce emerge from their macabre dungeons and laboratories to take a decidedly unhealthy interest in events. Amid the rising nightmare, charismatic Sascha Vykos -- an Old World monster with a New World agenda -- brings both scourge and velvet glove to rally the fractious Sabbat forces. A great reckoning awaits the complacent Camarilla -- if only Vykos can preserve the volatile alliance and keep the Sabbat serpent from devouring its own tail. This series is a monumental, 13-novel exploration of the forbidden world of the Kindred. What began in Clan Novel: Toreador continues here, and its ending will determine the fate of every human -- and inhuman -- being in the world.
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 Marvelous May 21, 2007
As you may already know conveying cruelty, malignant insight, torture methods and other Tzimisce characteristics is quite hard to do in a chronicle, but this book does such things with style: the characters are awesome, the story is balanced and for those with a Sabbat agenda the book reveals the ''I'm your best friend but I still have the right to flesh-craft you whenever I want'' relationship between the Tzimisce and Lasombra. A must have for those who want to read something ''different''.
 Tolerably well-written. December 20, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a passable action-based, hack-and-slash story with very little else to recommend it. Detailing the bloody war between two factions of vampires, one of which is merely cruel, manipulative, bloodthirsty (in both the literal and figurative meanings of the word) and soulless, the other of which is actually the bad guys, the story also suffers from a lack of beginning or end, being as it is merely the second in a thirteen-novel storyarc. (The Tzimisce of the title are one of the "clans" or bloodlines, of the more vicious of the two factions, and are themselves vile and sadistic (to say nothing of psychotic) enough to make "normal" vampires seem mild by comparison.)
Makes you wonder why we love the Angel of Caine February 7, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Sascha, Sascha, Sascha. Twisted, demented, perverse, and outright evil to the core...but you have to love her, oh, his, um, I mean its personality. This is the book that truely gives WOD fans an inside look at the workings of the Sabbat and a glimpse into the mind of its spiritual core. Griffin does a wonderful job of carrying the overall metaplot of the clan novels throughout the book while also making Tzimisce a unique stand alone experience. Even vampire fans who aren't familiar with White Wolf's World of Darkness can stil appreciate the subtle innuendos and blatant brutality that bleed throughout this book.
Molders of Flesh December 9, 2004
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
While the Sabbat isn't noted for pleasantness, the Tzimisce are one of the grimmer clans. Specialists in the modification of flesh, they are feared for their whimsical cruelty and delight is creating pain and horror that is condemned to live changed forever (or until the next whim). Getting in a disagreement with a Tzimisce is an existence-limiting move. Sascha Vykos is from the hard old line of the European vampires and has been sent to the Sabbat council meetings about the future of Atlanta as the representative of Cardinal Moncada whose ambitions are great. Her presence is an offence to the New World Sabbat members, and all are quickly embroiled in the dense politics of the vampire world.
While Sascha gets her share of this novel, the story is really about the wider conflict, giving us our first glimpse of the world of the Sabbat. It is a place where even the faint respect for rules that mark the vampires of The Masquerade is completely missing. Fear and subterfuge are the means for power. Sometimes it is subtle and sometimes sudden but almost always cruel. Vykos and her Tzimisce have come to pursue a master agenda and both Sabbat and Camarilla have cause to worry.
The focus shifts from Sabbat to Camarilla, as what is to become a complete turnabout in New World vampire politics unfolds. Tzimisce, LaSombra, Settite and even Assamite assassins take their parts. Even Victoria Ash enters, obviously intended to be a key character.
The detailing is drawn fine, and you get a real flavor of what it feels like to be a vampire within the confines of the game. Eric Griffin is a more of an action writer than others in this series, and the story moves along at a good clip, replete with ghoulish moments. If you like horror, politics, and exquisite torment then enter the darkness here.
Tzimisce are NASTY! June 13, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Eric Griffin should be commended. As a writer, he did the best thing possible, which was to tell an engaging story with some interesting characters. Seeing that this is the second book of a thirteen book series, there was again, as in the first Clan Novel, a great deal of necessary set-up for the meta-plot. However, Griffin, gave the main character, Sascha Vykos, a powerful purpose and made it one of the most disturbing and hideous creations in horror literature. The Tzimisce are one nasty clan of vampires! The infighting between the two Sabbat clans was also quite fascinating to read. I'll be interested in seeing what happens in CN:Lasombra.Excellent characterization, easy reading and overtly disturbing, Clan Novel #2 - Tzimisce, is a very good read and highly recommended!
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