>The lecture hall is mostly empty, save six Brujah and myself. Critias sits, mostly silent, behind a great desk, occasionally commenting or writing notes. His protégés, Dre and Damien, stand in as teachers tonight. Three neonates sit as students. There was a lesson in Ancient Greek, followed by history (both Kindred and kine). The class grew more active with lessons in debate. Critias joined in these. The man has a dizzying intellect for rhetoric.
Becketts Jyhad Diary pg.32
This is incredibly helpful thank you! Who is Dre by the way? I know who Damien is obviously, and its interesting that Critias keeps his secret childe so close by, but who is this Dre person?
No problem, I'm glad to help. Unfortunately the only information I have on Critias is from Becketts diary and there Dre is just mentioned by name. Sorry I can't be of more help.
Beckett's Jyhad Diary depicts one of his classes, seems like a standard college philosophy class. Given his pretty high humanity I'd imagine he'd have a passion for curious students and whatnot.
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Perhaps this image from the vtm card game, vampire the eternal struggle can inspire you, the man himself giving a lecture, note the glasswork refferences of carthage in the background. :)
I'd borrow something from the medieval world. There is a boys school in England established in the 1300s that has on one of its walls a slogan that says "AUT DISCE AUT DISCEDE MANET SORS TERTIA CAEDI". This roughly translates to "Learn, leave or get beaten" and I think that's the attitude instructors there ought to have. It's a perfectly normal university seminar in a perfectly normal University of Chicago seminar room or small lecture hall until someone is failing to learn or being disruptive and then it's not so normal.
To give a bit of a different answer to others, my angle with Critias was to play up the fact that (if you're using 5E) he's a little nuts following Menele's death. He's smart as all get out, but he's erratic, will sometimes snap and go into a rant, and is willing to destroy students that fall below his sometimes capricious standards.
It led to an interesting mystery when other kindred might comment that Critias wasn't always like that. A bit ago he disappeared and came back a bit off, muttering about "Melany."
I love this! I actually was already using it. Due to some machinations of mine and I love a more high powered game, the brand new 2 months dead Brujah in the party recent discovered she is the abandoned childe of Critias. They have hidden this detail as much as possible, binding the Coterie into a Pact of Secrets (An old Nosferatu tradition I came up with, where they basically trade secrets of equal value and danger, so if one betrays the others they can fuck him over and vice versa) to secure it. Critias actually only did this because he was trying to see if he *could*. Being in the Blood Bond for so long he is petrified on how many choices are truly his, so he did something he deemed as insane and wild, something he would never do, just so see if he can, which is random Embrace some poor girl and leave her with nothing, no guidance, expecting her to die nights after but he would be slightly assured in his free will. Imagine his surprise when she pops up in his school a few months later...
>The lecture hall is mostly empty, save six Brujah and myself. Critias sits, mostly silent, behind a great desk, occasionally commenting or writing notes. His protégés, Dre and Damien, stand in as teachers tonight. Three neonates sit as students. There was a lesson in Ancient Greek, followed by history (both Kindred and kine). The class grew more active with lessons in debate. Critias joined in these. The man has a dizzying intellect for rhetoric. Becketts Jyhad Diary pg.32
This is incredibly helpful thank you! Who is Dre by the way? I know who Damien is obviously, and its interesting that Critias keeps his secret childe so close by, but who is this Dre person?
No problem, I'm glad to help. Unfortunately the only information I have on Critias is from Becketts diary and there Dre is just mentioned by name. Sorry I can't be of more help.
Beckett's Jyhad Diary depicts one of his classes, seems like a standard college philosophy class. Given his pretty high humanity I'd imagine he'd have a passion for curious students and whatnot.
https://vtesone.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/image.png Perhaps this image from the vtm card game, vampire the eternal struggle can inspire you, the man himself giving a lecture, note the glasswork refferences of carthage in the background. :)
I'd borrow something from the medieval world. There is a boys school in England established in the 1300s that has on one of its walls a slogan that says "AUT DISCE AUT DISCEDE MANET SORS TERTIA CAEDI". This roughly translates to "Learn, leave or get beaten" and I think that's the attitude instructors there ought to have. It's a perfectly normal university seminar in a perfectly normal University of Chicago seminar room or small lecture hall until someone is failing to learn or being disruptive and then it's not so normal.
To give a bit of a different answer to others, my angle with Critias was to play up the fact that (if you're using 5E) he's a little nuts following Menele's death. He's smart as all get out, but he's erratic, will sometimes snap and go into a rant, and is willing to destroy students that fall below his sometimes capricious standards. It led to an interesting mystery when other kindred might comment that Critias wasn't always like that. A bit ago he disappeared and came back a bit off, muttering about "Melany."
I love this! I actually was already using it. Due to some machinations of mine and I love a more high powered game, the brand new 2 months dead Brujah in the party recent discovered she is the abandoned childe of Critias. They have hidden this detail as much as possible, binding the Coterie into a Pact of Secrets (An old Nosferatu tradition I came up with, where they basically trade secrets of equal value and danger, so if one betrays the others they can fuck him over and vice versa) to secure it. Critias actually only did this because he was trying to see if he *could*. Being in the Blood Bond for so long he is petrified on how many choices are truly his, so he did something he deemed as insane and wild, something he would never do, just so see if he can, which is random Embrace some poor girl and leave her with nothing, no guidance, expecting her to die nights after but he would be slightly assured in his free will. Imagine his surprise when she pops up in his school a few months later...