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Corpse Minion
You who all things spurn
And wound, when death shall come,
Even the wolves will scorn
Your cadaver, starved and numb.
-Paul Verlaine, "Grotesques"


D'habi Revenant
The ghouls are used as both
researchers and subjects.  They are also
essential for certain rites that require
something other than blood but cannot
be left to the uninitiated.
Azaneal, Baali


Faithful Servant
Like a child to her mother
I have flown to you.
-Sappho


Fortune Teller
Women excel in the manifestation of certain
qualities which are associated with mystery...
-Charles Godfrey Leland, Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling


Guiseppe, Gravedigger
I've longed to dig myself a good deep grave
There to stretch my old bones at ease...
-Baudelaire, "The Gladly Dead"


Homunculus
A pile of bones in a skin bag,
a deflated balloon; a hideous bundle.
-R. Chetwynn Hayes, "Looking For Something To Suck"


Murder of Crows
In cold and gray and mournful weather
Scatter, hover, dive together!
-Rimbaud, "Crows"


Razor Bat
But as I approached the window, this... winged rat
erupted in a tempest of chittering and flapping,
alerting the Tremere and scratching at my back.
Christianus Lionel, Nosferatu antitribu


Resplendent Protector
Graunt that no Hobgoblins fright me,
No hungrie devils rise up and bite me.
-John Day, 17th c. prayer


Shade
Yet even your darkest shade a canvas forms
Whereon my eye must multiply in swarms
Familiar looks of shapes no longer there.
-Baudelaire, "Obsession"


Stone Dog
Be on your guard against a silent dog
and still water.
Latin proverb


Wolf Companion (VTES)
From deep inside, he sang a song
to the wolves' god, the moon.
-Bruce Elliot, Wolves Don't Cry


Wolf Companion (Sabbat)
It was even thou, my companion:
my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
-Psalms 55:14