You may call me cruel, but in the end I realized she was not a true artist, but an imitator. She was unworthy. I don't think I have ever recovered. The members of this clan are known for their hedonism, though that is a misinterpre- tation of what they truly are. They are proud and regal Kindred, highly excitable, and they cultivate expensive tastes - but hedonism is going a bit too far.
Artists are always so misunderstood.
The Toreador are the most sophisticated of the clans. They are concerned with beauty in a way no mortal can fathom. They use the rarefied senses and tastes given to them by the Embrace to become as consumed and impassioned as possible. Ideally, to a Toreador, nothing matters as much as beauty, though in many cases the search for beauty is over- whelmed by the search for pleasure, and the Toreador becomes little more than a sensualist. Like all true artists, they search for a truth beyond an existence they fear to be meaningless.