The Tremere had a whole class of rituals that they cast on their servants to give powers of all sort, and somewhere along the line these were internalised by the Gargoyles into said Discipline. In those nights where ever Gargoyle was spawned from an application of the ritual At Our Command It Breathes (though it may not have been called that in the mind of Virstania herself), and NONE of them had Visceratika as a Discipline because such simply did not exist. However, the text of Lore of the Bloodlines doesn't make it at all clear. Beauty can be as terrible as ugliness.Īs for losing a Discipline 'specifically designed to make Gargoyles into better guards' line? It all comes from the notion that these 'breeds' are the same as the Embraced Gargoyles, which is incorrect.
'human shaped' robots, what it is that makes a CGI person look wrong). Think along the lines of the uncanny valley (e.g. As mentioned above, Appearance 0 need not mean ugliness so much as 'not right' in a viewer's eyes. Back in the nights of the Omen War between the Tremere and the Tzimisce, there were all kinds of Gargoyles and other servants created in the labs of Ceoris, but even Virstania's most lovely creations were still inhuman in appearance, no matter how perfect their horns and wings and freakish proportions were. The appearance thing IS worth comment, but know that 'inhuman' and 'ugly' are not the seam thing.
