When the hordes of the Inquisition and the Anarch
legions had surrounded the disparate, divided and
indecisive childer of the clans, the brilliant voice
of Rafeal de Corazon, fifth generation Toreador and
childe of Callisti y Castillo, rose above the
omnipresent noise and united the Kindred. de Corazon
urged the elders in his famous speech before the
founding assembly to "give up their direct ties to
the mortal world and retreat forever into shadows
and nightmares," and thus he may be called the
intellectual father of the Masquerade.
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