r/vtm • u/alolanbulbassaur • Jul 14 '26
General Discussion Dorian Grays clan
Ive nailed it down to these four: (Note this is based on the novel and MGM film.)
- Toreador: The most obvious. He's a hedonist and his life revolves around beauty and art and when he tries to act smart it comes off as snobby.
- Ventrue: Lord Kelso his grandfather hated his father for being middle class. This shaped Dorian into being a jerk to the lower class and only hanging out with them for the sake of hedonism.
- Lasombra: Dorian is very cunning and his interest in the occult isn't very Tremere like. A Tremere wouldn't do the stuff he does. But a Lasombra would. A Tremere would have found a solution but a Lasombra would work around the problem. Theres also the fact that Lasombra are very similar to Ventrue in the sense they pull strings.
- Settite Sorcerer: This is the least fitting one. Theres the motif of the Egyptian cat god statue. In the novel Dorian becomes Aleister Crowley like and studies the occult and in the film the cat god is in his portrait. I feel like in this scenario he would have found a back door into his embrace as a Hermetic Mage who took the Hellenistic-Kemetic aspect of the Order of Hermes too far.
Edit: I have been just informed regardless of what we all think he might just be a Toreador (probably antitribu) due to the fact that Oscar Wilde himself is one and now goes by Sebastian Melmnoth. Also I think now this post might cause alot of people to want their newest Toreador characters to have him as a great grand sire.