Daughters of Cacophony
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| Name: | Daughter of Cacophony |
| Plural: | Daughters of Cacophony |
| Pronounciation: | daw'-turs uv cah-coff'-uh-nee |
| Nicknames: | Sirens |
| Founder: | Dr. Reiner Stotschka and unknown Toreador |
| Faction: | Independent, nominally Camarilla |
| Disciplines: | Fortitude, Melpominee, Presence |
| Parent clan: | Malkavian and/or Toreador |
The Daughters of Cacophony are a bloodline of unknown origin (although the most common guesses are Toreador or Malkavian). Currently composed entirely of women (before a mysterious "accident", the Daughters included some male members), the Daughters practice Melpominee, a discipline which allows the Daughters to invoke strange effects through singing. The Daughters are the choralistes par excellence of the undead, and hosting a gathering of them is worth high prestige for the Toreador.
Believed to have origins in both the Malkavian and the Toreador clans, the Daughters are very few in number and reject association with either the Camarilla or the Sabbat. As their nickname "Sirens" suggests, the Daughters are known for their ability to deliver emotions through a form of song. They have a unique discipline called Melpominee (after Melpomene, muse of music) that does just that.
Only female vampires number among the Daughters of Cacophony. In nights past, there were male members of this bloodline, variously called Sons of Cacophony, Baritones, and (lately) Brothers of Discord. Recently, all males, including transgendered members and castrati, were purged from the bloodline by the Daughters for reasons that have not been revealed.
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[edit] History
[edit] Victorian Age
| Nicknames: | Chanteuse |
The bloodline was apparently founded by the Malkavian Dr. Reiner Stotschka and his Gentlemen's Society for the Rational Investigation of Super-Natural Matters. They experiemented on Kindred to determine whether common clan traits such as weaknesses and affinities for certain Disciplines were psychological in nature. However, the experiments drove their subjects quite mad.
One of their charges was a Toreador woman, who found the only way to lessen her own pain was to share it with others. And to do this, she sang. (VAV: Victorian Age: Vampire Rulebook, pp 157-158)
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[edit] Sons of Discord
Contrary to popular belief, the Sons of Discord are an apocryphal fan creation. The Daughters are an entirely female bloodline, so it wasn't long before fandom started discussing the all-male offshoot of the Daughters, the Sons of Discord. It got to the point where most fans assumed they were official.
The only official mention of anything resembling the Sons of Discord came with Vampire Revised's Vampire: The Masquerade Storytellers Companion. The writeup of the Daughters therein mentioned that the bloodline had recently purged all male members from the bloodline, thus removing the Sons from the picture permanently.
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