Thank you! It seriously made my day to see people interested in my characters :) I'm still working on Mal's storyline, trying to figure out how to pace it out across the broader workings of the Sabbat within the plot, as well as the precise mechanics of what goes down. I've been way more focused on the Camarilla plotlines recently


On the subject of Tremere: I 100% agree with you. The way I've always seen it, you can teach Hermetic symbols, ritual preparation, and Latin vocabulary. What you *can't* teach is intelligence, ambition, drive, or loyalty. Get someone with the right personality, and you can indoctrinate them into the rest. Especially since not all Tremere are straight thaumaturgists anyway, anymore than all Giovanni are straight necromancers.