Ah, yes, the Great Prank. The six Malkavian Methuselahs who partook in the ritual were Addemar, the Black Hag, Brude, the Dionysian, Unmada, and Tryphosa herself.
Hm, the fall of the Malkavians from their previous exalted position may have been far sooner than the advent of the Camarilla.
The seeds were already present in the time of Rome when the childer of Malkav were at their height. While they were held close as oracles, viziers, and advisors, they may have been blamed for the insanity of the later Roman Emperors.
In the wake of Rome’s collapse, well, the Malkavians were scattered and lost. Regrettably, perhaps more and more of them were no longer able to maintain a balance of their unique mindsets and perspectives, to glean wisdom and foresight while preserving some form of discipline and self-control. Instead, they became lost in the typhoon of their derangements.
In the Dark Ages, there were still the Ordos that sought to preserve the old ways when the Malkavians were still oracles and wise advisors, even when they had already been branded one of the Low Clans. Alas, by the Modern and Final Nights, it seems to have been in vain.
Malkav, childe of Enoch, childe of Caine. To imagine the original heights of his line. It was Tryphosa, a 5th Generation Malkavian prophet, who guided and advised Camilla of Rome to finally assault Carthage and wipe away the corruption of the Baali.
It was Prince Alchias of Syracuse whose aid proved vital in destroying the Baali taint that was Carthage. Alchias hosted both Arikel herself and Artemis Orthia, childe of the Ventrue Antediluvian.
Speaking of Carthage, the seeds of the Brujah’s degeneration and fall had already been sown even then. To think that their own Antediluvian progenitor, Troile, would take Moloch as a lover. Moloch, one of the three 4th Generation founders of the wretched Baali. Is it any wonder that Carthage became corrupted to the core as a haven for the depravity and monstrosity of the Baali?
Even less wonder that the Brujah have fallen so far from their lofty heights of eld, no longer a High Clan, degenerating from warrior-poets and philosopher-kings to the Rabble. Some of them, elders and ancients like Meneleus and Critias, still remember and adhere to the mold of yore as the Learned Clan, but all too many of the others are indeed nothing more than Rabble.
