The funnest part of inducting someone into a new fandom is when they inevitably run into the fandom’s quirks that nobody outside of it knows about, and you get the fun of explaining it.
Like when I started a VTM campaign and my players eventually asked “hey, how do you pronounce ‘Tzimisce’?”
and I got to tell them that nobody, in this thirty-year-old fandom, actually knows. It’s just. a little VTM fandom thing. The fandom is thirty years old, and nobody knows. nobody.
Zim-iss-see? Shah-may-say? zim-esk-kay?
Somewhere, out there, is the person who came up with the whole concept of the Tzimisce. The person who named them. The person who poured their life into them. Someone who knows the answer.
And they have kept their mouth shut and watched us all suffer for their own twisted entertainment.
And honestly, if you know anything about the Tzimisce at all, that’s peak Tzimisce.
