Tremere the Founder

One of the Founders of the Order of Hermes, who founded House Tremere. Since his presentation in Second Edition he has always been the younger filius of Tytalus the Founder under Guorna the Fetid. He nearly dominated the early Order but was rebuffed by the Sundering, and is seen as a somewhat sinister figure in the modern Order.

He is the only Founder that is known to have been prosecuted for a violation of his Hermetic Oath. The second meeting of the First Tribunal in 773 AD found him innocent. See the sidebar on proxy voting in Houses of Hermes at page 48.

References

Fifth Edition

Direct Fifth Edition treatments can be found in Houses of Hermes: True Lineages, particularly the Tremere section. The House Guernicus section, however, gives the first decent explanation for why the House is allowed to have parens hold the sigils of filii as well as touching on some background a tribunal ruling on certamen that furthered Tremere's plans. The section on House Tytalus in Houses of Hermes: Societates touches a little more on the death of Guorna the Fetid, including Tremere's role. The House Jerbiton also touches, again lightly, on Tremere's activities in the Theban Tribunal and the course of his plans prior to and after Jerbiton's death.

Likely the sourcebook Against the Dark provides more information of the Founder's involvement in that tribunal, and thus his involvement in critical periods of the development of his house.

Prior editions

As with the other founders and houses, the Second Edition sourcebook Order of Hermes provided the first real detail on the house and the founder. Houses of Hermes copied Order of Hermes outright, as far as the house founder himself was concerned.