Corvyn Fathom

### **General**

**Aliases:** possible birth-name Germaine Grundle, Prof. Corwin Moffat, Darwin Forthright (Passport), Cameron Adam (Passport), Tingling Lipschitz (Visa, American Express, Passport), (See also: Draconius Crowley)

**Clan:** Tremere

**Rank:** Apprentice

**Circle:** 8.5th+

**House:** Gryffindor

**House status:** Prefect

**Sect:** Camarilla

**Status:** 2 (Ancilla): Known, Loyal

**Merits/Flaws:** *Rising Star, Light Sensitive*

**Known Subordinates:** All the most interesting and troublesome Apprentices, including Vermouth Noir, Hans Bodkins, Aethyr 9teen, Bethanous Hexe, and The Grand Enigma

#### **Reputed Thaumaturgies**

* **Blood Sorcery**
	+ Claims to have "exceeded expectations in my A, AB, and B positive *and* negative, but had a bit of bother with the O-levels."
	+ I heard he makes his blood as strong as an Elder, and ganders about convincing the other Apprentice's acolytes he's a full Magister.
		- Got himself stuck in the 8th generation a few years back, and can't get all the way back to his original dilution anymore.
			* Why would he want to?
			* That's called *diablerie*, bro.
	+ Can distill a liter of blood into a drop of jelly the size of a cockerel's eye.
		- Down to the size of a dove's, now.
			* Finally got as small as a lark's!
				+ Come off it, what is this bird joke all about?
	+ Drinks blood through his skin.
		- But he has to use a Ritual.
		- It's because his *fangs* don't work right anymore iykwim
			* They're dentures, he had to pull his teeth out to use in a ritual.
				+ Yeah, for *this one;* he ground them up and mixed them into some nivea...
			* There's *nothing wrong* with his fangs, he did a more different ritual so he can't drink blood anymore, thereby to prevent blood bondage.
				+ Can't he just drink *vampire blood* through his skin?
					- Oh shit, he's going to be *so pissed*.
	+ Can separate plasma and platelets.
		- Ah yes, the second circle: *Via Centrifuge*
	+ *Paper Flesh*: it makes your blood seep out like you're a sponge.
		- *Who lives in a cubicle in the Chantryyyyyy?*
* **Path of Haven Defense**?
	+ q.v. *Rumors*
	+ Knows a ritual to protect the Chantry from incursion by Nosferatu, but somebody threw a punch in the showers the other week and now he has to wait another 50 years to cast it again.
		- That one also protects all the Usurpers inside from Kindred Disicplines...
	+ Put a magic door-knocker on the door he can possess and speak through.
		- Like *Magic Mouth?*
		- Like Jabba's Palace door...
		- He's not possessing it, you idiots, it's a *miniature gargoyle* he whipped up from spare Nosferatu.
	+ It's just *Consecration of the Sanctum*, you guys. Calm down.
		- It's *Hidden Haven*.
			* That's one hell of a raise there, *magister*. You just lost all the acolytes...
			* Yeah, okay I'll bite. wtf is that?
				+ It hides your haven.
* *Pass Through Walls*
	+ It's called *The Open Passage*, you philistine.
* *Cruciatus* Curse
	+ No but ha ha, it's not the Harry Potter thing *he can really do this*.
	+ He can cast it wandless.
		- No he can't, haven't you seen that umbrella he's always carrying around?
			* Not everybody's umbrella is a fucking magic wand, *Hagrid.*
		- His *Silent Spell* feat lets him ignore vocal components using a higher spell slot.
			* With *Fast Spell* he can also cast Rituals as a single-round action and Thaumaturgy as a free action or *re*action.
				+ Are you guys sure somebody didn't just happen to have a seizure *nearby?*
					- *I'm* going to have a seizure if they don't stop these nerd-jokes.
						* Quick, look around! Do you see Corvyn nearby, muttering?
* ***Path of Ecstasy*** (*is this a drugs joke?*)
	+ **House of Heisenberg** does not joke around.
* A ritual called *Step Sideways*, to travel beyond the Umbra
	+ The umbra of *what?*
* Something he refers to (resentfully? in my opinion) as ***"Rego Fun-house"***
	+ It might be this or something else the Acolytes refer to as *"Way of Making Neonates Hurl Vitae on The Regent's Shoes"*
		- Trivial blood sorcery and impeccable timing.
	+ That's just the *Haunted House* ritual, they used to do that every year for Halloween out at that big farm in East Clovis.
		- Why didn't they let the Giovanni host it?
			* Have you ever been to Giovanni Manor? I know you *haven't*, or you'd *know* why.
		- Why did they ever stop? I'd like to go some year...
			* Someone put Corvyn in charge of "doing the ghosts".
* *Spider Climb*
	+ I've seen licks do this without rituals, before.
		- Oh yeah? How many spiders could *they* climb?
* ***Road of the Five Elements***
	+ He claims he's up to the Sixth Element...
	+ Stole all he knows from **the Aurum Guild**.
	+ *"Path of Fire"* might be this, or something else?
		- That's the one he uses for fireballs and the likes.
			* And *Burning Hands*.
		- Probably one of these that lets him walk through bare flame.
			* And breathe fire.
	+ *Unquenchable Flame* ritual
	+ *Stone Slumber* ritual
		- Turned his *Heart to Stone*, too
* Talks to the other apprentices through ritually-attuned silver mirrors.
	+ *All* silver, mind; there's no glass, they just polish one side until it's clear...
	+ You've got it all wrong, *that's* the ritual they're using to *tune the Malkavians*.
		- This is true, man. It's not even like, psychic suggestion or sub-liminal telepathy, if you like, put your ear right next to their ear, you can literally hear someone whispering at all times.
			* Are you sure that wasn't *the Malkavian?*
		- What are you even *talking about?!*  "Tune" the Malkavians?
			* If you don't know, bro, well... ...
* **The Mystery of the Six Psychic Scents**
	+ Progressed from there to the Seven Sexy Secrets
		- ... guaranteed to DRIVE HIM WILD
	+ And the sixteen striking strictly-sterile stiff, soiled socks-soaking soap-stick samples.
		- *Sick.*
			* Stop.
* Can brew a salve to stop severed Kindred limbs from regenerating.
	+ What the hell *for?*
		- Same reason he knows the one to cause miscarriages. Because he's a bastard.
		- He's a **Daughter of the Crone**.
			* Oh fucking kill me.
* ***Improbable Summoning***
	+ Mastered the first level: inedible foods.
	+ Mastered the second level: negative angles.
	+ Mastered the third level: impossible morphologies.
	+ Mastered the fourth level: unimaginable forces.
	+ Working on: uncomfortable realities.
* *Continual Light*
	+ He can do a *Strobe Light* too, but he pretends he can't (except at Chantry Raves).
		- YOU GUYS GOTTA LET ME BACK ON CHANTRY DETAIL OR I'LL DIE
* *Rite of Introduction* and *Transubstantiation of the Seven*
* *At Our Command It Breathes*
	+ *#senttovienna*
* **Moving objects (with his mind).**
	+ *What's* that Path called again...?
		- Telekinesis.
		- *Mage Hand*
			* Yeah, mate, he's got two of that.
* Knows a spell to turn himself into a Real Dragon, but obviously he's not allowed
	+ That'd be trouble for at least the *big* Tradition, yeah...
	+ *Via Transmogrificarum*
		- **House Smorgasmorph**
* ***Path of Eros***
	+ More like *Path of Narcissus*
	+ *Rebirth of Mortal Vanity...*
	+ *Impressive Visage*
	+ More like *Foul Presence*...
		- You are all very funny, Acolytes; please return to your rooms.
			* *#senttovienna*
	+ Laugh all you want, but a phial of true love costs but a single silver groat...
		- Maybe we'd be more excited if anyone knew what a groat is, let alone had one.
	+ Do you mean *Path of Pleasure*?! Isn't that infernalism?
* **Black Hand necromancy**
	+ That's why the H&C had to affirm his loyalty before the Council. (q.v. *Rumors*)
	+ Those **House High Saturday** fellows are always a bit odd.
		- He's already skipped ahead to High Sunday.
			* Smoked himself backwards into *Friday.*
	+ So what, can he like *Raise the Dead*?
		- Sealed session, chum, I couldn't tell you.
		- *True Resurrection*
			* He's working on the reversal, now: *False Resurrection*
				+ Do you mean *Reincarnation?*
					- *Damn, Cloister.*
	+ It's not *Necromancy*, it's *Dark Thaumaturgy.*
		- whoa whoa whoa *who's* in charge around here
* *Escape to a True Friend,* but he'll have to make a friend before he can cast it.
* ***Ways of Wards***
	+ Fathom is **House of Weights and Measures**, that's why he does the Chantry defense.
		- What the hell does W&M have to do with warding?
			* It's in the seals he puts on the bodega scales.
	+ *vs. Kindred, Retainers, Lupines, Magi, Devils, Nosferatu,* and *Evil Spirits*
		- Oh *what?* Who can teach me the *Ward vs. Nosferatu?*
			* Corvyn, probably.
			* Typically, you have to buy it from the Nosferatu.
	+ not *vs. Ghosts*, evidently
		- You'd think *vs. Evil Spirits* would have covered them.
			* Well they're not *evil*: they're *justifiably pissed off*.
	+ *vs. Elders*
	+ It isn't vampires, ghouls, elders, and whatnot, it's just *vs. Vitae*
	+ *vs. Carbon-based Life Forms*
	+ *vs. Promotions*
		- Ouch, damn. Give him time, the Magister's dust hasn't even blown off the desk yet.
			* That's *Magisters'* already!
* Summoned himself a Familiar Spirit
	+ **House Humunculum**
	+ But it was a legged eel the size of a cat, and had his face, so he can't exactly send it round snooping on a body. He named it *"Nyvroc"*.
		- Did you know that's *"Corvyn"* backwards?
			* *Is* it?!
	+ I think he's incinerated Nyvroc, he's got a new one that's much better (it's got hands for feet, though).
		- Oh, that was just Vermouth.
		- Nyvroc 2?
			* Suoregnad 2 Nyvroc 2?
	+ He *definitely* incinerated the one that pissed all over his dorm.
		- That's just the smell of the meth baking...
		- That was *also* Vermouth.

#### **Nagging Rumors**

* Has at least a bit of *Dominate*; there are records of at least a couple of times he got harassed by anarchs and used it defensively against them.
	+ Has anyone heard of this *"**House Validus**"* nonsense?
		- It means he's the Magisters' fixer.
			* and wtf is *a fixers*
				+ OP thinks they're Tom Clancy
		- "Validus" means he's just like a Primogen, except loyal to the Clan instead of the Sect.
			* That's *certainly* treason...
			* He *has* filled in as Primogen, *hasn't he*, while the Magister's been away?
				+ Not in *Council meetings* he hasn't...
				+ Just because he's had Clan business with Nobbend does *not* mean he's going around laying claim to a *de facto* of his own.
				+ Word is they're making the Magister do it now...
					- Been nice knowing you, Kirk.
					- How many Magisters have they got left out there?
						* Well, there's Magister Lamp, and Magister Chair...
	+ Tambien I saw a Brujah frenzy one time when he tried to give this guy the old mal de ojo.
		- Your Tio should know better than to try to mean mug a Tremere. They're *all* packing silk.
			* #senttovienna
				+ I'm not a Tremere, dicklung.
	+ The acolytes say he Dominates Aethyr 9teen into sleeping with him occasionally.
		- Must be Dominating me to forget about it, then. These anonymous "Acolytes" are giant gossips.
			* Oh yes, he couldn't have the lofty and prestigious *intermediate powers*...
				+ Dominate Sex jokes still aren't funny, Vermouth.

* Nobody's said anything definitive, but everybody knows he's got some sort of special responsibility at their Sorcerer's Country Club or whatever? He's always having to schedule around his rota of domain defense and security, because he's got this special magic for it.
	+ I wonder if they draw straws to see which ones get fireballs, and which ones get the Path of Broom and Dustpan?
		- Is it *Animated Assistants*, I've heard of that!
			* He's not allowed to send the brooms to fetch the water anymore, though.
	+ Snicker all you want, haven't you seen their other Ancillae defer to him? He's not their *janitor*...
		- He's the one that gets sent to make arrangements with Bevis Nobbend when the low apprentices' power-struggles get away from them.
	+ I heard one of the Neonates say Fathom knows where *every item* in there is *at all times*.
		- Is that why they started hiding their freaky wizard porn outside?
			* IS THERE A RESEARCH SAMPLE ON FILE? FOR RESEARCH? AFAF
				+ YOU GUYS SUCK
* The reason they call him the "High Apprentice" is because he's dealing amphetamines to the try-hard preppies out there at Wizard University.
	+ He's in **House of the Rising Sun**.
	+ Gotta work hard, 25 hours a night!
		- LIFT BRO (with your mind)
		- *#braingains*
		- NO PAIN NO BRAINS
	+ I heard he was like some sort of arms dealer or something.

* There is an affidavit of his loyalty to the Camarilla on record with the Primogen Council. That's... not *usual*, is it?
	+ It's in the Council's minutes from one of the late 80's sessions, I believe?
	+ GHLP not just all of us can just crack open the 1987 Primogen Council meeting minutes...
		- Well if you're curious, his credentials were found to be *impeccable*.
		- *Oh my god,* you bureaucratic fuckwits actually keep *written records* of your *secret vampire clubhouse meetings?*
			* I mean, not on purpose. You gotta buy them from the Nosferatu.
* Have you seen him carrying around that ridiculous black parasol at night like a bat?
	+ Don't be ablist, he's got light sensitivity.
	+ Speaking of bats, though; did you know he can turn into one?
		- You moron, it's because of the magic parasol.
	+ He also has an enchanted knife that burns with ghost fire.
		- He used an ancient Ritual to trap an Assamite's spirit in its own blade, and now he can cast Assamite Sorcery.
			* What in the hell is *that dork* going to do with *Assamite Sorcery?*
				+ There's a couple of *Magisters missing* out the Chantry, aren't there?
	+ It's true though, one time them Bronzes shined a camping light on him coming out of the Prince's place, and the skin just boiled off his hand and part of his face.
		- No he didn't ever, he'd have been killed!
			* You got something to confess, Wizard?
		- Also, *nobody* invited Fathom to "the Prince's place".
* This is the guy that does Old Mad Erwin on Dawn Til Dusk.
	+ No, dude. Old Mad Erwin wears *glasses*..?
		- He takes them off when he transforms!
			* That doesn't make *any sense*, he wouldn't be able to *see!*
* He dabbled in some sort of esoteric metaphysical Kabbalah-ism or something for most of the 70's, if you're... into that?
	+ Did he give up on joining **House Hashem**, or did they eventually let him join?
		- He's still trying to learn Aramaic.
	+ It's not Kabbalah. But he *does* have an impressive collection of Hebrew-language scrolls.
	+ One time I asked him if he ever made a Golem and I was physically unable to set foot in his office at State for the rest of the school year.
* If you ask *no questions* Corvyn and his henchman Vermouth will buy dead peoples' wedding rings for better prices than you'd get at Dean's Coins.
	+ Those fools got the former Seneschal's house haunted by angry spouses, and that's why he had to move out...
		- You would too, if ectoplasmic sniping and passive aggressive poltergeists kept you awake all day, every day.
	+ The usual **House Spengler, Venkman, and Stantz** mischief...
	+ Sets off his own stupid alarms, now.
	+ This is something to do with a Candle of Haunting.
* One time, the Whip of Clan Nosferatu took one look at him and started screaming. He got really scared and ran away.
	+ What, just he R-U-N-N-O-F-T like a baby?
		- You ever heard her be *loud* before?
			* Yes. :(
	+ It's because ghosts.