"The years that followed have been dubbed the Dark Ages, and so they were - but are vampires not creatures of the dark? Rome's proud hegemony disintegrated into a patchwork of wattle huts and crude stockades. We walked the night as we would, openly tearing apart peasants' hovels and drinking them dry, or abducting them for later use. Even so-called 'invaders' - Huns, Magyars, Bulgars and the like - drifted through our lands as plankton through the whale's teeth. Our needs thus assuaged, we turned our attention to our destiny. For kine, and for vampires who depended on the civilization of the kine, the Dark Ages were a time of chaos and ignorance; for Tzimisce, they were a golden age of progress and experimentation."
— Vampire: The Masquerade - Clanbook: Tzimisce
"Between the far away past history of the world, and that which lies near to us; in the time when the wisdom of the ancient times was dead and had passed away, and our own days of light had not yet come, there lay a great black gulf in human history, a gulf of ignorance, of superstition, of cruelty, and of wickedness.
That time we call the dark or middle ages.
Few records remain to us of that dreadful period in our world’s history, and we only know of it through broken and disjointed fragments that have been handed down to us through the generations."
That time we call the dark or middle ages.
Few records remain to us of that dreadful period in our world’s history, and we only know of it through broken and disjointed fragments that have been handed down to us through the generations."
