One of the lesser-known constructs fabricated by the Tremere is a creature known as the blood imp. Similar to the homunculi, a blood imp is a small construct formed of the creator’s blood and flesh. It is somewhat more intelligent than a homunculus, and capable of speech and simple reasoning. A blood imp is also far more loyal, and less likely to cause trouble at its master’s

expense. It is a humanoid creature, covered in reddish, armadillo-like plates. The experiments which led to the blood imp’s creation were based around the properties in Tzimisce blood which allow for physical metamorphosis and liquefaction; the blood imp manifests this propensity through its ability to gelatinously shape its form into a perfect copy of any animal or small creature it has studied.

A blood imp has three health levels and two dots in each Physical Attribute. It is intelligent, self-willed, and (as it is fashioned of its creator’s blood) wholly blood bound to the one who created it. A blood imp has three points of Willpower; by spending a point of Willpower, it may gelatinously alter its shape to match that of any other creature in its size-range. A blood imp must be fed two blood points each week, lest it wither and die. (For more information, see p. 29.)