Since its first nights, the Tzimisce has been a scholarly clan: just as the Ventrue and Lasombra have traditionally led the Kindred through their trials, and the Toreador clan has crafted diversions to make unlife bearable, so the Tzimisce clan has sought answers to the riddles underlying vampiric existence. Accordingly, Tzimisce are among the greatest Cainite scientists, alchemists, historians and metaphysicians.
However, Tzimisce are not content to sit and think: they are experimenters moreso than philosophers, and the world - particularly the mortal world - is their laboratory.
— Vampire: The Masquerade - Clanbook: Tzimisce
Nostradamus: What is she?
The Doctor: A Poldegon. I've never seen one so far from home. Studious types, tend to keep themselves to themselves. [...] Secretive, too: their homeworld's like visiting a library where everything's kept in the restricted section.
Nefritis: Most elves spend their lives in pursuit of research. Not for any ends, just to satisfy their own curiosity. And they record their research in books.
Jade: Knowledge accumulated over time beyond human imagining... our one desire to leave that behind us. The books in the library are a repository of those elves' knowledge. These books are not to be read. Their purpose is to be preserved for all time. The library is only opened when an elf dies... such is our tradition.
Jade: Knowledge accumulated over time beyond human imagining... our one desire to leave that behind us. The books in the library are a repository of those elves' knowledge. These books are not to be read. Their purpose is to be preserved for all time. The library is only opened when an elf dies... such is our tradition.
