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Toreador
The Toreador are called many things — “degenerates,”
“artistes,” “poseurs,” and “hedonists” being but a few. But any
such mass categorization does the clan a disservice. Depend-ing
on the individual and her mood, Toreador are alternately
elegant and flamboyant, brilliant and ludicrous, visionary and
dissipated. Perhaps the only truism that can be applied to the
clan is its members’ aesthetic zeal. Whatever a Toreador does,
she does with passion. Whatever a Toreador is, she is with
passion.
To the Toreador, eternal life is to be savored. Many
Toreador were artists, musicians or poets in life; many more
have spent frustrating centuries producing laughable attempts
at art, music or poetry. Toreador share the Ventrue’s love of
high society, though not for them the tedium of actually
running things — that’s what functionaries are for, darling.
Toreador know that their place is to captivate and inspire —
through their witty speech, graceful deeds, and simple, scintil-lating
existence.
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