Katayama

The youngest of the revenant families. Only recently to have bred true.

Overview

The Katayama family is the youngest revenant family, having only recently reached a third generation of revenants who’ve been bred true. So far, there are less than a dozen Katayamas in all, including mortal and revenant members. Their development is being carefully monitored under strictly controlled conditions by Dr. Douglas Netchurch and, more recently, by his childe Dr. Nancy Reage.

Though the Malkavian scientists had been trying to experiment with ghouls and revenants for some time, the real breakthrough in their research came when they were “loaned” a Ducheski assistant by a distant colleague of theirs, Dr. Mortius, a Tremere scholar in Milwaukee. The Ducheski revenant was interviewed first, examined thoroughly, and then added to the revenants’ eugenics program. Dr. Netchurch claims that revenants are an enhanced species, and refuses to believe that so-called blood magic had anything to do with his ability to create them.

Two of the Katayamas have recently been sent to London to work with yet another college of Netchurch’s, Dr. Willum Timothy, a well-respected Malkavian advisor to Queen Anne. The psychologist has pledged to monitor the development of his new charges as they assist him in his own experiments regarding the Kindred psyche. Additionally, Dr. Reage is hoping to eventually cross-breed the Katayamas with the Ducheski and the Servants of Anushin-Rawan.

As much interest as the Doctor has in the revenant condition, she feels that only the families which serve her fellow Kindred are worth considering as viable for this next stage of experimentation.

References

VTM: Ghouls & Revenants, p. 113